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Oct. 4, 2005
Contact: Gordon Ovenshine;
gordon.ovenshine@sru.edu
OCT. 25 DANCE FACULTY CONCERT AT SRU TO
FEATURE JAZZ,
MODERN, INDIAN DANCE; PERFORMANCE BY SRU
JAZZ BAND
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – Slippery
Rock University’s dance faculty will share the stage with
alumni and guest artists during the department’s annual
Faculty and Guest Artist’s Dance Concert at 8 p.m. Oct. 25 in
Miller Auditorium. The SRU Jazz Ensemble will provide live
music.
“Our
dance faculty usually perform off campus, in New York City,
Pittsburgh and as far away as Scotland,” Ursula Payne,
associate professor of dance, said. “This is a chance for
students and the community to see the faculty in performance and
dance students performing faculty and guest artist
choreography."
Jennifer Keller
and Payne, both associate professors of dance; Nola Nolen and
Melissa Teodoro, both assistant professors of dance; Jaya Mani,
instructor of dance; and SRU alumna and visiting instructor Teena
Custer will perform original choreography. The concert will include
a variety of dance styles, including contemporary ballet, jazz,
modern dance, as well as Mani performing classical Indian
dance.
This
year's concert includes a performance featuring 23 SRU
dance majors as well. They will perform Jose Limon's
"Choreographic Offering (1964)" reconstructed by Pablo Ruvalcabo
and directed by Payne.
Curtain is 8
p.m. Tickets will be available at 7:30 p.m. at Miller Auditorium
and are $5 for general admission; $3 for SRU students. Proceeds
benefit The Lucy Isacco Sack Dance Scholarship, named in honor of
Sack, SRU’s former dance chair and professor
emeritus.
Jazz
band
SRU’s Jazz Ensemble, with Mike
Tomaro, director of jazz studies at Duquesne University, will
perform from 7:30 to 8 p.m. and during the first section of the
concert. “3am-Lonely City,” choreographed by dance
department chairperson Nora Ambrosio, will be performed by senior
dance major Nicolyn Lonzo to live music played by the SRU Jazz
Ensemble under the direction of Dr. Stephen Hawk, professor of
music.
The music
is part of the trilogy “Nightowl Suite,” written by
Tomaro. The entire piece, with additional choreography by dance
faculty members Payne and Custer, will be presented in its entirety
when the Three Rivers Jazz Orchestra and the SRU dance department
collaborate for a winter performance at Butler County Community
College.
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