DANCE RESIDENCIES, 2011-2012
Urban Bush Women
February 13 - March 2.
Urban Bush Women
Guest artist performance.
March 2, 5:00 p.m.
Wagner/Bundgaard Studio One in Dittmann Center
This performance is free and open to the public but TICKETS ARE REQUIRED. Tickets may be picked up in the Dance Main Office, Dittmann 200, after February 19. This site will be updated if all the tickets are gone. You may also call the main office for more information: 507-786-3248.
Cultural Expression as a Catalyst for Social Change
A Performance Ensemble: After moving to New York City in 1980, choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar founded Urban Bush Women (UBW) in 1984 as a performance ensemble dedicated to exploring the use of cultural expression as a catalyst for social change.
Multi-Disciplinary: UBW weaves contemporary dance, music and text with the history, culture, and spiritual traditions of African Americans and the African Diaspora, exploring the transformation of struggle and suffering into the bittersweet joy of survival.
Community-Centered: UBW engages in extensive community-based programming, encouraging cultural activity as an inherent part of community life.
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Joe Chvala and the Flying Foot Forum
Flying Foot Forum is a vibrant and bold percussive dance/theater company that fuses percussion and percussive dances with many other forms of music, dance and theater, telling unusual tales, creating a wild variety of characters, and exploring universal ideas in inventive and exciting new ways.
FLYING FEET---THE PERCUSSION PROJECT
September 24 at 7:30 p.m. and September 25 at 2:00 p.m.
Wagner/Bundgaard Studio One in Dittmann Center
A mesmerizing blend of percussion and percussive dance, “The Percussion Project” is an evening of work by collaborators, Joe Chvala, Mary Ellen Childs, Karla Grotting and Peter O’Gorman. Rhythmically complex and compelling, this program highlights the skills of Chvala, Grotting, O’Gorman, and company member Charles Robison as they beat out their own intricate, breathtaking accompaniment while executing elaborate dances to brain-dizzying perfection. Crazy chefs, madcap vaudevillians, tricky baseball umpires, and ghostly Victorians reciting eerie poetry all grace the stage stirring up a percussive whirlwind of flying feet, hands, pots, pans and basically anything they can get their hands on including each other. The percussive instruments are sometimes simple and elegant, sometimes hand held, struck, or swung while dancing, and sometimes nothing but the performers’ bodies. The interplay of light, instruments, movement and sound creates a dynamic evening that will delight audiences of all ages.