The SUNY Brockport Department of Dance is now streaming this year’s Virtual DANSCORE. The concert is available on an on-demand basis through December 26. Though the event is free, patrons must register online at fineartstix.brockport.edu to receive the link to view the performance. Donations will also be accepted at the ticketing site. Patrons may contact the Tower Fine Arts Center box office for guidance at 395-2787.
The concert includes five pieces involving the department’s faculty. The works include Jim Hansen’s “Fault Lines,” “Dundun Fare” by Jenise Akilah Anthony, and “Hill Sky,” conceived and created by Mariah Maloney. There will also be a new work from Tammy Carrasco, “Momentary Landing,” choreographed by guest artist Janessa Clark, and featuring a performance by Brockport associate professor Stevie Oakes.
Given the parameters the pandemic has set on teaching and performing dance (and many other performing arts), Maloney – for one – took to the outdoors. For “Hill Sky,” she had ten dancers engage in an improvisational practice as they responded to their natural environment. They would follow Maloney’s prompts, such as “run along the shadows on the grass like a serpentine.” They explored the texture of the trees, the light, and shadows cast on the hill, and then explored what it felt like to free fall and run down a hill.
“Dundun Fare” is another expression of how Anthony explores the African Diaspora in her work. She set the work against the traditional music of “Dundunba,” as played by the Griot Drum Ensemble. Anthony’s dances are a way for her to “prioritize cultural exchange and passionately focus much of my work on providing equitable, inclusive spaces for the community to engage in shared cultural experiences through movement.”
More information about the Fine Arts Series at SUNY Brockport can be found at brockport.edu/academics/fine_arts or on Facebook.
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