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Join Dance at Illinois student choreographers in an eclectic evening of dance works.
eight dances, three floors down
DRK, Level 2, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
Friday, December 6: 7:30pm
Saturday, December 7: 7:30pm
How many times have you passed Krannert Center and wondered… what happens deep underground, beneath the sprawling, parquet lobby? Concert co-directors, Sojung Lim and Samuel Hanson are excited to help showcase the work DAI students have produced, running a collaborative laboratory leading to an evening of self-produced work. Emphasizing experimentation, this year’s choreographers find themselves synthesizing what they’ve learned here at the University with passions they brought with them when they arrived at DAI or found along the way — heels, improv comedy, inquiry into the self, questions about the relationship between dance and martial arts, and more.
Khiari Everett’s In Progress: T.E.H.B (trauma ends healing begins) picks up on themes of resilience, moving on in trauma’s wake. Damiyah Williams’ new solo, An Ode To Me, explores her own progression as a dancer and human being, striving through self-consciousness, and showcasing her skills in multiple dance forms.
Several of the pieces explore how time can distort, creating magic in performance. First year Graduate student, Chelsea Wahrdendorf’s Pooling, explores spatial relationships while fellow graduate student Ethan Pak Rome’s Recursion explores innate human drives and how they shape and limit how we come together to form a society. Alexandria Brown’s La Vida Continúa explores human life cycles, how youth gives way to adulthood, aging and whatever comes next.
Themes of playfulness and desire are another theme in the concert. Takashe Fulce’s Tainted, investigates the dynamic between two people who feel completely different about each other, yet find themselves in a relationship. Jeremiah Jordan’s insatiable is a tightly crafted dance in heels, leaving the audience wanting more. In Jade Lajeune’s Last Dance, we see a campy, groovy dramatization of the final hours of a girl’s night out, set to the inimitable music of Donna Summer.