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Spring Forward

May 3-6, 2007 « return to list
Coger Theatre
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Spring Forward

Faculty Choreographers — Ruth Barnes, Kelly Bixby, Sara Brummel, Rebecca Bryant, Rhythm McCarthy
Student Choreographer — Sandra Paola Lopez
Guest Choreographers — Rebecca Enghauser, Ian Spink
Reconstructed Work By — Samuel Beckett
Concert Coordinator — Kelly Bixby
Stage Manager — Matthew Wilson



CAST

A Great Big Hope
i. Herself, Forgotten
ii. Touchstone
iii. The Sun Was Shining
Choreographer –Rebecca Enghauser
Music –Bill Frisell, Yann Tiersen
Costumes –Sara Brummel and Rebecca Enghauser
Lighting Design –Michael Foster
Dancers –Ashley Ann Hendrix, Courtney Jones, Shana Kinder, Sandra Paola Lopez,
Sarah Martin, Rebecca Rasch, Teresa Roosman

Interlude
Choreographer –Sara Brummel
Music –Don Nichols
Costumes –Sara Brummel
Lighting Design –Felicia Hall
Dancers –Mackenzie Huley, Emily Miller

Conversaciones Entre Ellas
Choreographer –Rhythm McCarthy
Music –Heitor Villa Lobos
Costumes –Rhythm McCarthy and Cynthia Winstead
Lighting Design –Darren Levin
Dancers –Lauren Cram, Ashley Ann Hendrix, Elizabeth Henry, Lauren Kenney, Shana
Kinder, Rachel Lampert, Sandra Paola Lopez, Mary K. McEntee

Content With Content
Concept –Andrew Wass
Sound Score –Andrew Wass
Costume –Andrew Wass
Lighting Design –Michael Foster
Improvisation –Rebecca Bryant
Choreographer/Improviser Rebecca Bryant collaborates with dancers, musicians, actors and visual artists on works that combine
movement, sound, text and visuals. A recent transplant to Missouri, she is co-founder of the past)(modern performance duo (dance/
percussion) and a core artist of the Lower Left Performance Collective (dance theater). www.pmpd.org
Dancer/Improviser/Video artist Andrew Wass is a member of Lower Left Performance Collective and currently lives in San Francisco.
His video and dance works have been shown at various venues around the country, such as REDCAT Theater (LA), ODC and CounterPULSE
(SF), the Museum of Contemporary Art (San Diego) and Dance Theater Workshop (New York). www.andrewwass.com

Bachelor Blues
Choreographer –Kelly Anne Bixby
Music –Medeski, Martin & Wood
Costumes –Kelly Anne Bixby and the dancers
Lighting Design –Timothy Hart
Dancers –Krista Berg, Dustin Brown, Lindsey Haney, Ashley Ann Hendrix, Shana
Kinder, Rachel Lampert, Sarah Martin, Mary K. McEntee, Anna Shoaf, Evan White

Quad (1981)
Written by –Samuel Beckett
Directed by –Don Nichols
Costumes –Jonathan Starr
Lighting –adapted by Felicia Hall
Dancers –Lindsey Haney, Regina Harris, Mackenzie Huley, Avalon Jay, Amelia Keller, Sandra Paola Lopez, Sarah Martin, Megan Starrett
Author, playwright and Nobel laureate Samuel Beckett was one of the most influential writers of 20th century drama. Originally made for TV, Quad presents a wordless “geometric ballet” that unites sound and movement. The performers are all students in the course Music Resources for Dance.

Inertia Notebooks
Choreographer –Sara Brummel
Sound Score –Sara Brummel and the dancers
Costumes –Sara Brummel and the dancers
Lighting Design –Timothy Hart
Dancers –Liz Arnold, Timothy Bibb, Brian Brown, Ashley Ann Hendrix, Elizabeth Henry, Justin Hundley, Courtney Jones, Shana Kinder, Sandra Paola Lopez, Sarah Martin, Mary K. McEntee, Lindsey Preston, Rebecca Rasch, Teresa Roosman, Sarah Roth

ZARaBandA
Choreographer –Ian Spink
Music –Bach
Lighting Design –Ian Spink, reconstructed by Felicia Hall
Dancer –Ruth Barnes
Australian-born Ian Spink has worked as a choreographer and director in the United Kingdom for almost 30 years. A founding director of the London-based dance company Second Stride, he currently is Artistic Director of citymoves Dance Space in Aberdeen. ZARaBandA uses various spatial grids and planes on which the dancer spells the title –on a cube grid, “painted” on the floor, or as letters formed with the body.

Seductive Melancholy
Choreographer –Sandra Paola Lopez
Music –Astor Piazzolla
Costumes –Sandra Paola Lopez
Lighting Design –Darren Levin
Dancers –Dustin Brown, Ashley Ann Hendrix, Shana Kinder, Sandra Paola Lopez, Sarah Martin, Lindsey Preston, Teresa Roosman

Solace
Choreographer –Ruth Barnes
Music –Shostakovich
Costumes –coordinated by Ruth Barnes
Video –Ruth Barnes
Lighting Design –Felicia Hall
Assistant –Amelia Keller
Dancers –Liz Arnold, Brian Brown, Stephanie Brown, Angela Hancock, Lindsey Haney, Elizabeth Henry, Justin Hundley, Lauren Kenney, Lisa Monaco, Jessica Morgan, Nicki Mulvey, Sean Powell, Janell Rinne, Teresa Roosman, Julia Wiegert
The first version of Solace was choreographed in 2005, after the Indian Ocean tsunami decimated much of the South Pacific Rim. The current
version adds video images to create a representation of past and present, layering memory and meaning through live and video dance.




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