The Department of Dance at SUNY Brockport presents performances of DANCE/Hartwell on Thursday, October 27, through Saturday, October 29, at the Hartwell Dance Theater in Hartwell Hall on the Brockport campus. All performances begin at 7:30 p.m. Ticket prices for all performances are $17/general, $12/seniors, SUNY Brockport alumni, faculty, and staff, and $9/students and are available online at fineartstix.brockport.edu, by phone at 585-395-2787 or at the Tower Fine Arts Center Box Office, 180 Holley Street, Brockport. SUNY Brockport’s current COVID-19 prevention guidelines can be found on the ticketing site.
Co-Artistic directors and faculty members, Kaley Pruitt and Emma Scholl, have curated a program of innovative work by up-and-coming choreographers within the undergraduate and graduate programs. This year’s DANCE/Hartwell features works from an array of student voices from within the dance department, where themes of togetherness and communal joy are the common threads weaving through the evening’s works. In particular, undergraduates Emma Holynski and Georgia Merritt have worked collaboratively to present a duet that conjures both nostalgia and presence at the same time. Their work, “the sound,” explores the closeness and distance of friendships as we age, while artfully crafting gestural movement themes. Also on the program is “Dance ‘til Dawn,” choreographed by Ayla Haik. This piece transports the audience to a whimsical and mysterious room where the performers are taken over by infectious dancing and are unable to find the exit. The dance suspends our sense of reality by blending theatrical vignettes with energetic, full-body movement. Additionally, choreography by Kalli Jhané Donald, Rachel Greene, Carly Lenzi, Becca Pickering, Katrina Trueworthy, and Anna White will also be showcased in the concert.
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