Department of Dance presents 'Moving Resiliency, Live Performance I'

Denison University’s Department of Dance presents “Moving Resiliency, Live Performance I and II” May 6-8, 2021 in the Sharon Martin Hall at the Michael D. Eisner Center for the Performing Arts.

“Live Performance I” is presented Thursday, May 6, at 8 p.m. and Saturday, May 8 at 6 p.m. and 8 p.m.                                                          This program opens with “Keep. Capture. Continue.” created by Wynn Reed’s ’21 as part of her Senior Research obligation in the Department of Dance; then shares two solos, the first the “Sugar Plum Fairy Variation” reconstructed after Petipa, performed by Noelle Boyages, facilitated by Professor Gill Wright Miller and the second “Contradictions in Grace” created and performed by Sebastian Goodman ’23 as part of his Choreographic Investigations coursework. The program concludes with “selves we disguised as sunlight,” a septet choreographed by Assistant Professor Molly Shanahan with students from Contemporary Dance and Performance course.

“Live Performance II” is presented Friday, May 7, at 6 p.m. and 8 p.m.                                                                                                                 

This program features “No Sitting on the Sidelines,” work by Associate Professor Ojeya Cruz Banks with student collaborators and Creative Assistant Gaquise Jones ’21.