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 Calendar of Events:
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Annual Faculty Dance Concert
A reconstruction of Susan Marshall's
"Most Dangerous Room in the House" will be featured as part of the annual faculty dance concert. It explores the need to ascertain control in one's life and to protect ourselves as well as those closest to us.
New works by Penny Hutchinson and Richard Merrill will also premiere in the May concert, which will include special appearances by WWU Dance faculty members Kraig Patterson, Susan Haines, and Richard Merrill.
Nolan Dennett, Artistic Director of WWU's Dance Faculty, said the message of the concert is powerful and universal. "I have a vision of dance as an integration of music and drama and movement - a vision of an art that is capable of documenting man's inherent grief as well as his sublime ecstasy. For this reason, I invite artists to work with our students who can compose works that reveal the basic tragedy, as well as the grandeur of the soul that is at the core of the human experience."
May 8th, 9th & 10th, 2008 at 7:30pm
May 11th at 2:00pm
$10 Students, $12 Seniors and Faculty/Staff, $15 general
PAC Main stage
Tickets available at the door and at WWU Box Office 360.650.6146; Village Books, Community Food Co-op and online at http://www.tickets.wwu.edu.
The reconstruction of "The Most Dangerous Room in the House" is made possible by American Masterpieces: Dance, a program of the National Endowment for the Arts , which is administered by the New England Foundation for the Arts with Dance/USA.
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BFA Capstone Project
Featuring the work of the Dance Program’s
Bachelor of Fine Arts candidates for Performance and Choreography.
June 5th, 6th, & 7th, 2008
Please check back for Times and
Ticket Prices!
Ving! dance studio
311 E. Holly Street
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Ticket Information
For tickets to all PAC events, contact the WWU box office:
Monday-Friday 12pm-6pm
(360) 650-6146 or (800) 998-2372
When a performance is scheduled outside these hours, the Box Office windows will be open at least one hour before the performance.
For tickets to all ...Ving! Dance Lab events, contact the WWU box office at
(360) 650-6146. Tickets will also be available at the door, however, seating is limited
and advance purchase is recommended. All Dance Lab events are at 311 E. Holly St, kitty-corner from the Food Co-op OR in PAC Room 16.
Tickets for PAC events are also available online at: WWU Box Office Online
Community Dance Events
To learn more about dance performances and events in the community, please visit the following web sites:
Firehouse Performing Arts
Dance Gallery
Bellingham Repertory Dance Company
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2007-08 Previous Performances
2007 Summer Dance Concert
The annual summer dance concert follows our six week summer dance intensive. The concert will feature original choreography by Western dance faculty and students, and visiting faculty members Kathy Casey of Montreal Danse and Sylvain Lafortune.
August 2, 3 and 4 at 7:30pm
$8 Students $9 seniors and staff & $11 general
PAC Main stage
Tickets available at the door and at WWU Box Office 360.650.6146
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Dance Lab Concert Series:
The first concert in the annual Dance Lab Concert Series! Artistic Director and Choreographer Cheronne Wong brings her latest work to Bellingham...
sub-Rosa is inspired by The Conet Project, which involves recordings of “shortwave numbers stations” rumored to be used by international intelligence agencies to transmit secret messages.
October 12th, 13th at 7:30pm
October 14th at 2:00pm
$7/students and $12/general
Location:
311 E. Holly Street
Tickets available at the door and at WWU Box Office 360.650.6146
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Dance Lab Concert Series:
The second concert in the annual Dance Lab Concert Series! Dance Makers, Western’s K-5 creative movement outreach program, will premiere its 2008 school tour performance The Scientific Method through Movement! Parents, teachers and school arts administrators encouraged to attend! Book a performance assembly for your school!
November 16 and 17, 2007
8:00PM
$5/students and $8/general
311 E. Holly Street
Tickets available at the door and at WWU Box Office 360.650.6146
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Fall Into Dance 2007
The Dance program’s annual concert (previously titled Dance Works) featuring original choreography by students of Western’s advanced choreography class.
December 6, 7 and 8th at 7:30pm, 2008
$8/students, $9/seniors & staff, $11/general
PAC Main stage
Tickets available at the door and at WWU Box Office 360.650.6146
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Vaudeville Cabaret -Bring Me Dance
Celebrations of experimentation, spontaneity, and collaboration in the area of performance.
February 2, 2008 at 8pm
Admission by donation
Ving! dance studio
located on
311 E. Holly Street
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New Music New Dance
New Music New Dance is an annual collaboration between dancers and musicians culminating in an evening length performance. The choreography and compositions are all new, and often innovative. Student organized, created, and performed, New Music New Dance strives to
showcase the talent of Western's upcoming artists.
February 9th, 2008 at 7:30pm
$4 students & seniors, $5 general
PAC Concert Hall
Tickets available at the door and at WWU Box Office 360.650.6146
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Cabaret Ving!
Features the works of Western Dance Program choreography students. Join us as these up and coming artists explore their voices!
March 15, 2008 at 8pm
Admission by donation
Ving! dance studio
located on 311 E. Holly Street
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The 2008 Montreal Danse Residency!
The WWU Dance Program is proud to announce the second Montréal Danse Residency at Western from April 1-13, featuring performances, lecture-demonstrations, master classes, and open rehearsals. We sincerely hope you will join us for these exciting events!
Montréal Danse is a French Canadian dance
company known internationally for its captivating repertory and for its exceptional dancers! Montréal Danse has brought its broad conception of
contemporary dance to cities in Canada, South America, the United States, Europe, Asia and Central America!
Montréal Danse will be staging six performances in the Western Art Gallery framed within a visual environment by photographer Dianne Kornberg. Presenting the "FURIES Alpha 1/24", Montreal Danse's "pulsing" range of passions will be played out against the structural complexity of the exquisite photographs resonating with order and chaos, control and lack of control. WWU Visual Art students will also arrange an exhibition in response to the themes of "Furies" and Kornberg's photographs.
All performances, lecture, demon-strations, and rehearsals are open
to the public. For ticketed events, seats are limited, so reserve early. Tickets available at Village Books, Community Food Co-op, http://tickets.wwu.edu, and WWU Box Office 360.650.6146.
PERFORMANCES:
April 4th & 5th, 11th & 12th at 8pm
April 6th & 13th at 2pm
$10/students, $15/Faculty & Staff, $25/General
Western Gallery; no late seating due to the nature of the performance
RESIDENCY ACTIVITIES & OPEN FORUMS:
Free events @ Western Gallery
April 8th
12 noon - "Dance as a Weapon/Art as Social Commentary"
Lecture to be given by Montréal Danse Artistic Director Kathy Casey and Sarah Clark Langager, Western Gallery Director. Visual images will be shared during this hour long exhange as well as video excerpts of dances addressing societal concerns. "What is the role of an artist and how does art respond to current and past world tragedies to provoke action, reflection and discussion?" will be questions at the heart of this commentary.
April 9th & 10th
2-5pm - Open Rehearsal
Montreal Danse will be rehearsing their touring repertory.
April 10th
12 noon - Visual Dialogs
Open Forum with Sharon Antholt, Dianne Kornberg, and Kathy Casey to discuss parallels between visual art and movement art.
PHOTO: FURIES Alpha 1/24. Photographer: Rolline Laporte. Dancers: Maryse Carrier, Elinor Fueter, Annik Hamel, Benoit Leduc, Peter Trosztmer.
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