Preview of Canción del Cuerpo (Song of the Body)
Artistic Director: Lyn C. Wiltshire
Co-Artistic Director: Yacov Sharir
Performances: December 4 & 5 at 8:00 PM
B. Iden Payne Theatre
Free Admission
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Synopsis:
Our award'winning student dance company invites you to watch a sneak preview in this informal showing of what will be fully staged by members of DRT this spring in Canción del Cuerpo (Song of the Body).
Artistic Director: Lyn C. Wiltshire
Lyn Wiltshire was touched by dance at a very young age growing up in New York City, and her career fits the model of passion and fervor surpassing credentials. She has trained and performed with many notable teachers and dance companies, including the Dance Theatre of Harlem and toured nationally and internationally with The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre. To her credit she has performed in film, television and with symphony orchestras around the country. Her path to academia has been by way of “the school without walls”, choreographing and teaching until finally her reputation preceded her. As an Associate Professor of Dance at the University of Texas she is a dance educator, administrator and artistic director.
Read more about Lyn C. Wiltshire.
Co-Artistic Director: Yacov Sharir
After graduation from the Bezalel Academy of Arts, Professor Sharir studied at the Jerusalem Academy of Music, the Bat-Sheva Dance Company School, the Stuttgart Ballet, and the Ballet Theatre Contemporaine in Paris. He has performed under the direction of Martha Graham, Jerome Robbins, Jose Limon and Anna Sokolow, among others.
Choreographers: Andrea Beckham, José Luis Bustamante, Chell Parkins, Alvin Rangel, Yacov Sharir, Lyn C. Wiltshire
Featured Choreography Selections:
MY SHADOW IS CROOKED / SHADOWPLAY
Originally conceived of and performed as a solo, MY SHADOW IS CROOKED / SHADOWPLAY based on a desire to promote compelling performance from within. It incorporates ideas from Carl Jung regarding the shadow self (unconscious, undeveloped, repressed, denied aspects of self) and from The Pregnant Virgin – A Process of Psychological Transformation by Marion Woodman. There is also a nod to Robert Bly (The Little Book of The Shadow) in the image of the body bag sculpture… The long bag we drag behind us.
- Choreographer
- Andrea Beckham
- Music
- portions of “Angel Fragments” by Laurie Anderson
- Text
- portions of “The Play” by Anne Sexton
- Technical Assistance with the Score
- Taylor Kirk
- Scene Design
- John Christensen
- Lighting Design
- Alexandra Lagunas
- Costume Assistance
- Polly Veltchev
- Performers
- Lisa Kobdish, J. Elissa Marshall, Shelby Smith,
Krystal Wigfield
- Lisa Kobdish, J. Elissa Marshall, Shelby Smith,
THREE TANGOS
A suite of dances choreographed to Tango music
- Choreographer
- José Luis Bustamante
- Music
- Damián Bolotín, A. G. Villoldo, E. S. Discepolo, Marambio Catán, Pablo Ortíz
THE WELL
THE WELL is the story of a woman who struggles to be a part of the community while fighting the urge to perform a social taboo. This community survives on well water that has to be drawn from and carried to town in buckets. It is the only source of water for these people. This piece explores what happens when an individual in such a community puts her own desires (to use the well for her own needs), before the needs of the community.
- Choreographer
- Alvin Rangel
- Photographs
- Susan Harbage Page
BORDER MEMORIES
The piece will explore the themes and emotions brought forth in the photographs of Susan Harbage Page, who currently teaches Studio Art and Women's Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In her photos, Susan portrays the possessions left behind my individuals crossing the US-Mexico border along the Rio Grande. The choreography will depict how these photographed objects are encumbered with stories of struggle, courage and sacrifice. As the photographer describes, “These objects become relics or symbols not only of a changing culture, but also of homes that are left behind…”
- Choreographer
- Chell Parkins
- Music
- Tom Benton
- Roxanne Baker
- Matthew Bunker
- Angie Busch
- Aly Del Cueto
- Yvonne Ferrufino
- Elizabeth Flagg
- Mariclaire Gamble
- Lisa Kobdish
- Allyson Maranitch
- J Elissa Marshall
- Kara Newton
- Chelsea Pierce
- Caitlin Poulton
- Shelby Smith
- Allison Wardwell
- Krystal Wigfield
