Princeton University students rehearse for the Spring Dance Festival.
The Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Dance is set to present the Spring Dance Festival.
The annual dance concert showcases more than 50 students performing in repertory by distinguished, internationally renowned choreographers.
This year’s performance features choreography by Kyle Abraham, Bill T. Jones and Doug Varone, a premiere by Princeton Hodder Fellow Pam Tanowitz, and new dances created by faculty members Tina Fehlandt and Rebecca Lazier.
Excerpts from Love Re-Defined by Bill T. Jones have been staged by former company member Stuart Singer. Inspired by Love Defined, a 1992 commission for the Lyon Opera Ballet, Love Re-Defined is an ensemble work that embodies Jones’ distinct and poetic style, drawing freely from both classical and modern movement vocabularies.
Continuous Relation by recent MacArthur “Genius” Award-winner Kyle Abraham features music by Pan Sonic. Abraham describes the piece as a driving thrill ride of uniquely physical and personal movement invention blending street and classic modern dance influences.
An excerpt from Doug Varone’s Chapters from a Broken Novel, staged by Eddie Taketa with an original score by David Van Tieghem, is inspired by Varone’s collection of quotes from books, films and overheard conversations — some humorous, some dramatic, some purely physical.
Pam Tanowitz, a 2013-14 Hodder Fellow at Princeton, created a dance that draws from previous choreographic works with her New York company. Passagen is set to a score by John Zorn and explores the tension created between traditional dance forms filtered through a new lens.
Rebecca Lazier is set to present Matters, a new work set to Caroline Shaw’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Courante from Partita for 8 Voices, recorded by the vocal ensemble Room Full of Teeth. The recording won this year’s Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance.
Faculty member Tina Fehlandt choreographed a new ballet for eleven dancers, To the Third Power. The dance program’s resident music director, Vince di Mura, composed the first two movements of the score and his 19-year-old son, rock guitarist Dre Di Mura, composed the third movement. Performed live, and premiering at Spring Dance Festival, the score includes electric guitars, keyboards, drums, and bass.
Spring Dance Festival is scheduled for 8 p.m. Feb. 21; 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Feb. 22; 1 p.m. Feb.y 23 at Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center, 91 University Place, Princeton.
Tickets are $15 for general admission and $10 for students and seniors.
More information is online at arts.princeton.edu.
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