Abstract :
Choreography Dallo Fall Jamoral means “listening to each other” and is at the heart of the relationship between the dancers and the drummers and between the audience and the performers. The dances you see tonight are traditional to the Diola people; the ethnicity and culture in Senegal that Dallo Fall comes from. Tickets at Worner
Full Message :
Mobilities Colorado College’s annual dance performance Colorado College’s Department of Theatre and Dance presents Mobilities, our 2017 mainstage dance performance, March 9-11, at 7:30 pm in the Kathryn Mohrman Theatre. The program is comprised of six works that span dance and music traditions from Senegal to Cuba and innovations in dance that reflect on questions of visual focus, the physics of organic movement processes, consumerism and the relationship of mobility to brain injury. Mobilities brings together six choreographers, over twenty student dancers, two guest dancers and five drummers. Three guest choreographers, Parijat Desai, Dallo Fall and Laura Hymers Treglia, join Colorado College dance faculty members/choreographers Patrizia Herminjard, Debra Mercer and Shawn Womack. MORE ABOUT THE PROGRAM Optic, a collaboratively devised dance by Patrizia Herminjard and Laura Treglia Hymers, was conceived by the desire to understand and explore the notion of focus from a performer and observer’s point of view. Ballet artist and instructor, Debra Mercer, staged Huapango, choreographed in 1965 by Enrique Martinez. Originally from Cuba, Mr. Martinez emigrated to the United States, became a U.S. citizen and went on to become ballet master at American Ballet Theatre (ABT) and the director of the Denver Civic Ballet. Huapango is a Mexican dance and the music, composed by Juan Pablo Moncayo is one of the most beloved pieces in Mexico; often played as the finale at symphonic concerts. Guest dancer, Peter Strand, joins the student cast. Mr. Strand has danced with the Oakland ballet, the Minnesota Ballet and Les Ballet Trocadero de Monte Carlo among others. In an age of ever-increasing mass production and consumerism, ongoing abundance of enormous quantities of goods has become a standard of our culture. Millions & Millions, created by Patrizia Herminjard for ten student dancers, serves as a metaphor for our insatiable consumer appetite and the cyclical nature of throwaway culture. Never Not Falling, choreographed by Shawn Womack with seven students, grew out of a series of workshops at BrainCare, an organization that provides daily support for individuals with acquired or traumatic brain injury. Ten workshops were conducted at BrainCare that paired CC dancers with Braincare participants to move together and to converse with one another around topics of mutual concern, such as care giving and receiving, care management, loss, limitations and self-determination. This dance isn’t a scientific examination of mobility and the brain, nor do the dancers—who include, Paul Ashby, a workshop participant from BrainCare—represent people with acquired or traumatic brain injuries. The dance attempts to build an empathetic connection with them by exploring physically demanding situations analogous to experiences resulting from brain injuries. Guest choreographer Parijat Desai created Charged, an original work for seven student dancers. Ms. Desai is a contemporary choreographer that fuses vocabularies from her background in Bharata Natyam dance, a classical Indian dance form, with Western contemporary dance practices. The choreographic processes for Charged are informed by organic movement at the sub-atomic level. Closing the program is Jamoral, a West African drum and dance performance directed by Dallo Fall, a Colorado Springs dancer and drummer from Senegal. Ms. Fall and the student dancers are joined by five drummers from the Springs community. Jamoral means “listening to each other” and is at the heart of the relationship between the dancers and the drummers and between the audience and the performers. The dance is traditionally practiced by the Diola people; the ethnicity and culture that Dallo Fall is rooted in. Tickets are available at the Worner Student Center or at the door. Free with a CC I.D., $5 for the general public. For more information call the Theatre and Dance Department at 719-389-6637 or email Squinn@coloradocollege.edu.