Tonight, seven seniors will finally have the chance to steal the show and the spotlight as the School of Dance presents the Senior Dance Concert.
“The (concert) highlights the works of emerging artists,” said Megan Preston, a senior performing in tonight’s show and the event’s publicist. “Each choreographer is making their mark as future contributors to the field of dance and through our capstone project, we finally have the opportunity to present our efforts.”
The Senior Dance Concert is organized and choreographed entirely by seniors within the School of Dance as part of their degree requirements.
“We have all developed very unique choreographic styles that come across in each of our pieces,” said Preston. “In this concert, we as choreographers have each captured a small glimpse of the various ways a performer can reveal these qualities on stage.”
Pieces reflect each senior and the style they have developed throughout the past few years while depicting stories through movement, selected music and costumes.
“This is an opportunity for the audience to view art that celebrates the potential of the human body,” said Preston. “(Each) dance combines athletic physicality with the beauty of technical training and human personality.”
Megan Nickols, a senior choreographer for the concert, said she and her peers felt the push to think outside the box when arranging their pieces.
“I worked with different movements and experimented using different tools,” said Nickols. “It is a basis of an accumulation of movement focusing on reality or even on the abstract.”
The concert is dedicated to Gloria Dawes, a former student in the School of Dance who recently passed away in a car accident.
Admission is free for any Ohio University student and $6 for general admission. The concert will open tonight at 7 p.m. with a repeat performance at 9 p.m. The performance will have the same show times Friday and Saturday as well.
All performances will be held in the Shirley Wimmer Dance Theatre in Putnam Hall.
“The audience should expect to see an unusual stimulation they might otherwise never see of highly trained and skilled dancers,” said Mickie Geller, a professor in the School of Dance. ”They will be entertained and their perception might be challenged or even changed as they enter a world and have an experience unlike any other.”
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IF YOU GO:
WHAT: Senior Dance Concert
WHEN: 7 and 9 p.m. Nov. 3-5
WHERE: Shirley Wimmer Dance Theatre, Putnam Hall
ADMISSION: Free for students, $6 general admission
