Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Dance Concert: The Size of Darkness - VIM VIGOR (October 22, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87797 87797-21646059@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 22, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Dance Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

The Size of Darkness aka The Light We Cannot See - VIM VIGOR DANCE
and an excerpt from the work to be performed by students at the Power Center in 2022.

VIM VIGOR, founded and directed by U-M Department of Dance associate professor Shannon Gillen, presents a work-in-progress showing of their latest research, THE SIZE OF DARKNESS.

As audiences and performers re-enter the intimacy of theater spaces, a place where our expectations and opinions are exposed to new and freshly realized experience, we are again cohabitating the unknown. THE SIZE OF DARKNESS dives headlong into states of unknowing, catapulting performers through wild physicality and heroic abandon. Audiences will ride with three performers on a journey of becoming, as the ephemeral nature of dance swallows the past and flows into the future. This work will be set to an original electronic score by Marshall Chadbourne, where sounds of lightness and darkness, density and nothingness, effort and release converge.

With daredevil physicality, VIM VIGOR communicates the complexity of human relationships through their signature dance-theater aesthetic, bodies will flare, emotions will flood, and the sharp urgency of our deepest feelings will rocket through space.

Concept, Direction: Shannon Gillen
Choreography: Shannon Gillen and Jason Cianciulli
Choreographic Collaborators: Kiley Dolaway, Logan Hernandez
Performance: Jason Cianciulli, Kiley Dolaway, Logan Hernandez
Sound Score: Marshall Chadbourne
Costume Design: VIM VIGOR DANCE COMPANY

attend in person or watch livestream at https://myumi.ch/R5gQM

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Performance Fri, 22 Oct 2021 18:15:13 -0400 2021-10-22T19:00:00-04:00 Dance Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Dance Concert: The Size of Darkness - VIM VIGOR
Crush Depth (November 18, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87795 87795-21646055@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 18, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Dance Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Senior dance students Zach Morris, Daniel Niewoit, and Jenna Segal present their choreography as they near completion of the Bachelor of Fine Arts program in Dance.

The Saturday night performance will be livestreamed at https://myumi.ch/DanceWatch

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Performance Sat, 20 Nov 2021 18:15:12 -0500 2021-11-18T20:00:00-05:00 Dance Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Crush Depth
Crush Depth (November 19, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87795 87795-21646056@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 19, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Dance Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Senior dance students Zach Morris, Daniel Niewoit, and Jenna Segal present their choreography as they near completion of the Bachelor of Fine Arts program in Dance.

The Saturday night performance will be livestreamed at https://myumi.ch/DanceWatch

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Performance Sat, 20 Nov 2021 18:15:12 -0500 2021-11-19T20:00:00-05:00 Dance Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Crush Depth
Crush Depth (November 20, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87795 87795-21646057@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 20, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Dance Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Senior dance students Zach Morris, Daniel Niewoit, and Jenna Segal present their choreography as they near completion of the Bachelor of Fine Arts program in Dance.

The Saturday night performance will be livestreamed at https://myumi.ch/DanceWatch

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Performance Sat, 20 Nov 2021 18:15:12 -0500 2021-11-20T20:00:00-05:00 Dance Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Crush Depth
also known as (December 2, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88728 88728-21657053@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 2, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Dance Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

This performance features creative and performance work from Alexa Guidotti, Kristin Hanson, and Alexa Miller, all senior BFA dance majors in the Department of Dance, as they near completion of their time in the program. Each senior performs a solo and presents a group dance featuring additional dance majors.


The Saturday night performance will be livestreamed at https://myumi.ch/DanceWatch

Now situated on U-M's North Campus in a new state-of-the-art facility, the Department of Dance welcomes you to this event, which is among the first performances held in the building and in the performance studio theatre.

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Performance Fri, 03 Dec 2021 18:15:15 -0500 2021-12-02T20:00:00-05:00 Dance Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance also known as
also known as (December 3, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88728 88728-21657853@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 3, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Dance Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

This performance features creative and performance work from Alexa Guidotti, Kristin Hanson, and Alexa Miller, all senior BFA dance majors in the Department of Dance, as they near completion of their time in the program. Each senior performs a solo and presents a group dance featuring additional dance majors.


The Saturday night performance will be livestreamed at https://myumi.ch/DanceWatch

Now situated on U-M's North Campus in a new state-of-the-art facility, the Department of Dance welcomes you to this event, which is among the first performances held in the building and in the performance studio theatre.

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Performance Fri, 03 Dec 2021 18:15:15 -0500 2021-12-03T20:00:00-05:00 Dance Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance also known as
also known as (December 4, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88728 88728-21657854@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 4, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Dance Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

This performance features creative and performance work from Alexa Guidotti, Kristin Hanson, and Alexa Miller, all senior BFA dance majors in the Department of Dance, as they near completion of their time in the program. Each senior performs a solo and presents a group dance featuring additional dance majors.


The Saturday night performance will be livestreamed at https://myumi.ch/DanceWatch

Now situated on U-M's North Campus in a new state-of-the-art facility, the Department of Dance welcomes you to this event, which is among the first performances held in the building and in the performance studio theatre.

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Performance Fri, 03 Dec 2021 18:15:15 -0500 2021-12-04T20:00:00-05:00 Dance Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance also known as
Dance Performance Improvisation and Performance Practice/ Dance (December 5, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88828 88828-21658609@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 5, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Dance Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Dance Performance Improvisation & Performance Practice classes present their end of semester showings. Please join Professor Amy Chavasse, Department of Dance, and students in Performance Improvisation and Performance Practice classes.

Performance Improvisation— 4:00-4:50
Performance Practice— 5:10-6:00pm.

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Performance Mon, 01 Nov 2021 12:15:15 -0400 2021-12-05T16:00:00-05:00 Dance Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Dance Performance Improvisation and Performance Practice/ Dance
Dance Performance Improvisation and Performance Practice/ Dance (December 5, 2021 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88828 88828-21658610@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 5, 2021 5:10pm
Location: Dance Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Dance Performance Improvisation & Performance Practice classes present their end of semester showings. Please join Professor Amy Chavasse, Department of Dance, and students in Performance Improvisation and Performance Practice classes.

Performance Improvisation— 4:00-4:50
Performance Practice— 5:10-6:00pm.

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Performance Mon, 01 Nov 2021 12:15:15 -0400 2021-12-05T17:10:00-05:00 Dance Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Dance Performance Improvisation and Performance Practice/ Dance
Dance Composition Class Showing (December 7, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89281 89281-21661736@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 7, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Dance Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Work from first and second year composition students.

Faculty: Fangfei Miao and Melissa Brading

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Performance Mon, 15 Nov 2021 18:15:18 -0500 2021-12-07T14:00:00-05:00 Dance Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Dance Composition Class Showing
An Unmasking of Thyself (March 25, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93552 93552-21705386@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 25, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Dance Building
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Friday, March 25, 2022
7:00 - 9:30 PM
Dance Building, Studio 1
1000 Baits Dr.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Center for World Performance Studies (CWPS) Capstone Presentation, The Imani Talk.

Join us for a night of screen dance films, movement, and reflections.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Mar 2022 19:05:07 -0400 2022-03-25T19:00:00-04:00 2022-03-25T21:30:00-04:00 Dance Building Center for World Performance Studies Lecture / Discussion Unmasking of Thyself
It steals into the night with the wind to nourish everything (March 31, 2022 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92190 92190-21687770@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 31, 2022 8:00pm
Location: Dance Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

This concert includes the interdisciplinary thesis performance projects of Master of Fine Arts in Dance candidates Duoduo Wang and J'Sun Howard.

Duoduo Wang’s work, entitled "A thread in blood", investigates different orientation strategies of the Chinese diasporic identity and culture in the United States. The work carries lifelong memories and experiences of an old lady who immigrated 40 years ago to Manhattan's Chinatown. The cast of Asian American dancers contribute memories of their own cultural-identical strategies in different chapters of life (Birth, Family, Love, Living, and Death) and also explore the unique boundaries between performance and public spaces. Within a public performance, Wang aims to create an open, protected space in which everyone can express their identity, ethnicity, acculturation strategies, and body statements through physical expression.

​​J’Sun Howard’s "A Particular Embraced Affinity of Veering" is an exploration in understanding how to embody Black Fugitivity, which is radical ways in which Black people subvert time, race, gender, and family history to refuse and flee what society puts on us to navigate systematic racism and injustice. By using movement strategies such as the hold/embrace, circularity, and the fragment, "A Particular Embraced Affinity of Veering" captures the quiet urgency and complexity of deciding to refuse and flee.

This thesis concert is being held in partial fulfillment of the Department of Dance Master of Fine Arts degree requirements. The research for this event is funded in part by the University of Michigan Department of Dance, and the Center for World Performance Studies.

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Performance Fri, 01 Apr 2022 18:15:22 -0400 2022-03-31T20:00:00-04:00 Dance Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance It steals into the night with the wind to nourish everything
It steals into the night with the wind to nourish everything (April 1, 2022 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92190 92190-21687771@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 1, 2022 8:00pm
Location: Dance Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

This concert includes the interdisciplinary thesis performance projects of Master of Fine Arts in Dance candidates Duoduo Wang and J'Sun Howard.

Duoduo Wang’s work, entitled "A thread in blood", investigates different orientation strategies of the Chinese diasporic identity and culture in the United States. The work carries lifelong memories and experiences of an old lady who immigrated 40 years ago to Manhattan's Chinatown. The cast of Asian American dancers contribute memories of their own cultural-identical strategies in different chapters of life (Birth, Family, Love, Living, and Death) and also explore the unique boundaries between performance and public spaces. Within a public performance, Wang aims to create an open, protected space in which everyone can express their identity, ethnicity, acculturation strategies, and body statements through physical expression.

​​J’Sun Howard’s "A Particular Embraced Affinity of Veering" is an exploration in understanding how to embody Black Fugitivity, which is radical ways in which Black people subvert time, race, gender, and family history to refuse and flee what society puts on us to navigate systematic racism and injustice. By using movement strategies such as the hold/embrace, circularity, and the fragment, "A Particular Embraced Affinity of Veering" captures the quiet urgency and complexity of deciding to refuse and flee.

This thesis concert is being held in partial fulfillment of the Department of Dance Master of Fine Arts degree requirements. The research for this event is funded in part by the University of Michigan Department of Dance, and the Center for World Performance Studies.

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Performance Fri, 01 Apr 2022 18:15:22 -0400 2022-04-01T20:00:00-04:00 Dance Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance It steals into the night with the wind to nourish everything
It steals into the night with the wind to nourish everything (April 2, 2022 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92190 92190-21687772@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 2, 2022 8:00pm
Location: Dance Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

This concert includes the interdisciplinary thesis performance projects of Master of Fine Arts in Dance candidates Duoduo Wang and J'Sun Howard.

Duoduo Wang’s work, entitled "A thread in blood", investigates different orientation strategies of the Chinese diasporic identity and culture in the United States. The work carries lifelong memories and experiences of an old lady who immigrated 40 years ago to Manhattan's Chinatown. The cast of Asian American dancers contribute memories of their own cultural-identical strategies in different chapters of life (Birth, Family, Love, Living, and Death) and also explore the unique boundaries between performance and public spaces. Within a public performance, Wang aims to create an open, protected space in which everyone can express their identity, ethnicity, acculturation strategies, and body statements through physical expression.

​​J’Sun Howard’s "A Particular Embraced Affinity of Veering" is an exploration in understanding how to embody Black Fugitivity, which is radical ways in which Black people subvert time, race, gender, and family history to refuse and flee what society puts on us to navigate systematic racism and injustice. By using movement strategies such as the hold/embrace, circularity, and the fragment, "A Particular Embraced Affinity of Veering" captures the quiet urgency and complexity of deciding to refuse and flee.

This thesis concert is being held in partial fulfillment of the Department of Dance Master of Fine Arts degree requirements. The research for this event is funded in part by the University of Michigan Department of Dance, and the Center for World Performance Studies.

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Performance Fri, 01 Apr 2022 18:15:22 -0400 2022-04-02T20:00:00-04:00 Dance Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance It steals into the night with the wind to nourish everything
Smiling Cowards Folding Cards (April 7, 2022 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92189 92189-21687767@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 7, 2022 8:00pm
Location: Dance Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Content Advisory: Parts of this show are created for adults only. Viewer discretion is advised due to themes, audio, and images of natural disaster impacts, explicit violence, death, suicide, racism, sexism, sex, prostitution, and drugs.

This performance features the choreography and performance work of Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance seniors as they near completion of their degree. Lydia Dunn, Stephanie Gennusa, Rowan Janusiak, Mariah Stevens, Kevin Wang, and Sasha Yakovenko will each present a solo and a group dance, featuring additional dance majors.

Stephanie Gennusa examines and challenges the capitalistic urge to attach self-value to one’s labor and productivity in their group work, we all fake it till we die. Gennusa’s solo, Have We Met Before?, utilizes multimedia techniques to explore the multitude of different ways to view one body in time and space.

Rowan Janusiak shares their journey of body reclamation and dissonance in their solo, frangible virility. They investigate what it means to be perceived by the world when you don't want to be perceived at all. Janusiak’s group, the motive behind the game is self-protection, grapples with the phenomenon of how closely pleasure and violence exist in our bodies: questioning ideologies society has created around pleasure, specifically the stigmitization of sex and how pleasure can be reclaimed as a force for transformative activism.

Tal Ayala Kamin explores the intersection of tradition, community, and individuality in Echad Mi Yodea, a group work defining the importance of knowing where you come from in order to know where you are going. Her solo, Yes, focuses on the evolution of self, through the use of spoken word and media projection.

Mariah Stevens’ work, Unity within Diversity, is an afrobeat hip hop fusion dance celebration, woven with hints of contemporary, vogue, and street dance. It emphasizes the power of togetherness, as individual differences join forces to create something amazing. Her solo investigates themes of healing, restoration, and contentment.

Kevin Wang’s solo, a space to call my own, explores the purpose of personal space and examines how much space we have. Wang’s group, I am us, investigates the relationship between a person and their respective communities in order to answer the question: Who do we represent?

Sasha Yakovenko’s two dances can be conceptualized as an analysis of his own mind and experiences. His solo, The Fool on the Hill Stares to Kilimanjaro, is centered around ideas of loss and failure due to one’s own folly and imperfections. Yakovenko’s group, Burning Down the House, presents a dark, satirical perspective on American culture; where sexuality and white-goodness are presented in various forms of media to distract from the darkness that forms the foundation of societal stability and rots away at the core of the world.

The Friday night concert will be available for livestreamed at https://myumi.ch/DanceWatch

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Performance Mon, 07 Mar 2022 18:15:19 -0500 2022-04-07T20:00:00-04:00 Dance Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance
Smiling Cowards Folding Cards (April 8, 2022 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92189 92189-21687768@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 8, 2022 8:00pm
Location: Dance Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Content Advisory: Parts of this show are created for adults only. Viewer discretion is advised due to themes, audio, and images of natural disaster impacts, explicit violence, death, suicide, racism, sexism, sex, prostitution, and drugs.

This performance features the choreography and performance work of Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance seniors as they near completion of their degree. Lydia Dunn, Stephanie Gennusa, Rowan Janusiak, Mariah Stevens, Kevin Wang, and Sasha Yakovenko will each present a solo and a group dance, featuring additional dance majors.

Stephanie Gennusa examines and challenges the capitalistic urge to attach self-value to one’s labor and productivity in their group work, we all fake it till we die. Gennusa’s solo, Have We Met Before?, utilizes multimedia techniques to explore the multitude of different ways to view one body in time and space.

Rowan Janusiak shares their journey of body reclamation and dissonance in their solo, frangible virility. They investigate what it means to be perceived by the world when you don't want to be perceived at all. Janusiak’s group, the motive behind the game is self-protection, grapples with the phenomenon of how closely pleasure and violence exist in our bodies: questioning ideologies society has created around pleasure, specifically the stigmitization of sex and how pleasure can be reclaimed as a force for transformative activism.

Tal Ayala Kamin explores the intersection of tradition, community, and individuality in Echad Mi Yodea, a group work defining the importance of knowing where you come from in order to know where you are going. Her solo, Yes, focuses on the evolution of self, through the use of spoken word and media projection.

Mariah Stevens’ work, Unity within Diversity, is an afrobeat hip hop fusion dance celebration, woven with hints of contemporary, vogue, and street dance. It emphasizes the power of togetherness, as individual differences join forces to create something amazing. Her solo investigates themes of healing, restoration, and contentment.

Kevin Wang’s solo, a space to call my own, explores the purpose of personal space and examines how much space we have. Wang’s group, I am us, investigates the relationship between a person and their respective communities in order to answer the question: Who do we represent?

Sasha Yakovenko’s two dances can be conceptualized as an analysis of his own mind and experiences. His solo, The Fool on the Hill Stares to Kilimanjaro, is centered around ideas of loss and failure due to one’s own folly and imperfections. Yakovenko’s group, Burning Down the House, presents a dark, satirical perspective on American culture; where sexuality and white-goodness are presented in various forms of media to distract from the darkness that forms the foundation of societal stability and rots away at the core of the world.

The Friday night concert will be available for livestreamed at https://myumi.ch/DanceWatch

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Performance Mon, 07 Mar 2022 18:15:19 -0500 2022-04-08T20:00:00-04:00 Dance Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance
Smiling Cowards Folding Cards (April 9, 2022 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92189 92189-21687769@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 9, 2022 8:00pm
Location: Dance Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Content Advisory: Parts of this show are created for adults only. Viewer discretion is advised due to themes, audio, and images of natural disaster impacts, explicit violence, death, suicide, racism, sexism, sex, prostitution, and drugs.

This performance features the choreography and performance work of Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance seniors as they near completion of their degree. Lydia Dunn, Stephanie Gennusa, Rowan Janusiak, Mariah Stevens, Kevin Wang, and Sasha Yakovenko will each present a solo and a group dance, featuring additional dance majors.

Stephanie Gennusa examines and challenges the capitalistic urge to attach self-value to one’s labor and productivity in their group work, we all fake it till we die. Gennusa’s solo, Have We Met Before?, utilizes multimedia techniques to explore the multitude of different ways to view one body in time and space.

Rowan Janusiak shares their journey of body reclamation and dissonance in their solo, frangible virility. They investigate what it means to be perceived by the world when you don't want to be perceived at all. Janusiak’s group, the motive behind the game is self-protection, grapples with the phenomenon of how closely pleasure and violence exist in our bodies: questioning ideologies society has created around pleasure, specifically the stigmitization of sex and how pleasure can be reclaimed as a force for transformative activism.

Tal Ayala Kamin explores the intersection of tradition, community, and individuality in Echad Mi Yodea, a group work defining the importance of knowing where you come from in order to know where you are going. Her solo, Yes, focuses on the evolution of self, through the use of spoken word and media projection.

Mariah Stevens’ work, Unity within Diversity, is an afrobeat hip hop fusion dance celebration, woven with hints of contemporary, vogue, and street dance. It emphasizes the power of togetherness, as individual differences join forces to create something amazing. Her solo investigates themes of healing, restoration, and contentment.

Kevin Wang’s solo, a space to call my own, explores the purpose of personal space and examines how much space we have. Wang’s group, I am us, investigates the relationship between a person and their respective communities in order to answer the question: Who do we represent?

Sasha Yakovenko’s two dances can be conceptualized as an analysis of his own mind and experiences. His solo, The Fool on the Hill Stares to Kilimanjaro, is centered around ideas of loss and failure due to one’s own folly and imperfections. Yakovenko’s group, Burning Down the House, presents a dark, satirical perspective on American culture; where sexuality and white-goodness are presented in various forms of media to distract from the darkness that forms the foundation of societal stability and rots away at the core of the world.

The Friday night concert will be available for livestreamed at https://myumi.ch/DanceWatch

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Performance Mon, 07 Mar 2022 18:15:19 -0500 2022-04-09T20:00:00-04:00 Dance Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance
Flights of Fancy (April 14, 2022 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92191 92191-21687773@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 14, 2022 8:00pm
Location: Dance Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

This performance features the choreography and performance work of Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance seniors as they near completion of their degree. ElleAnna Casterline, Olivia Johnson, Tal Kamin, Sarah Madnick, Abby Niemi and Arianna Stadler will each present a solo and a group dance, featuring additional dance majors.

ElleAnna Casterline’s group and solo dances portray the dichotomy between vulnerability and isolation through the empowerment of the internal self and the deception of the external. This work curates collaborations between screen dance, music production, and performance, demonstrating the multifaceted experience of mental and emotional awareness after loss.

Lydia Dunn’s group explores the state of daydreaming; elegant choreography pairs with an airy and uplifting setting that is beyond reality. Dunn’s solo, In The Cold Light of Day, feels intimately personal as a quieter, darker setting accompanies movement created out of a practice of introspection and finding new approaches.

Olivia Johnson showcases how addiction creates tension in a family and thrives through fakery in A Scoop of Neapolitan. Her interactive and interdisciplinary solo, Inevitable but Voluntary, dives into the belief that in a broad sense of life, fate and free will work together to create reality.

Sarah Madnick’s solo evokes the empty stress of her quaint hometown as a place to find quiet space to unpack the unavoidable and overwhelming emotional pile-up of everyday life. Madnick's group explores the rollercoaster of feeling misplaced and the complicated dynamics of returning to your childhood home after you no longer live there.

While experimenting with jazz-funk and sensual choreography, Abby Niemi and her dancers spread messages of self-worth, positivity, and affirmations through songs by Anderson .Paak and Rihanna.

In her group work, Arianna Stadler explores the naivety of young love and the excitement of possibility while juxtaposing this with a mature disillusioned relationship. Stadler investigates the lengths to which grief and extreme misery can be expressed through satire in her solo.

The Friday night concert will be available for livestreamed at https://myumi.ch/DanceWatch

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Performance Mon, 07 Mar 2022 18:15:19 -0500 2022-04-14T20:00:00-04:00 Dance Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance