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The UNC Charlotte Department of Dance will present a concert on September 9 featuring works created or performed by three faculty members: E.E. Balcos, Kim Jones, and Sybil Huskey. The program will be danced entirely by professional dancers. The performance is offered as part of the Arts & Science Council Cultural Free for All, and tickets are free.
Kim Jones will premiere two works: TheCenterCannotHold and Trio. TheCenterCannotHold is choreographed and performed in partnership with Duane Cyrus, associate professor of dance at UNC Greensboro. Both Jones and Cyrus are Native New Yorkers and former dancers with the Martha Graham Dance Company. “As first-hand witnesses to the 9/11 disaster in New York City--a moment in history that affected the entire world---we created TheCenterCannotHold about the unanswerable confusion and fear during that time,” says Jones, “as well as to address the humanity that emerged in the moments following such large scale, inhumane destruction.” Trio is a new piece inspired by three British pop musicians and three American dancers who fuse traditional modern dance and contemporary movement. Trio is danced by Kim Jones, Katie Matter, and Bridget Morris.
E.E. Balcos will offer two works created in collaboration with UNC Charlotte professor and composer John Allemeier. Poor Ellen is inspired by the North Carolina murder ballad “Poor Ellen Smith,” which describes the real events of Ellen Smith’s murder in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in the 1880s. The music composition is written for string quartet. Unencumbered Like Gravity reflects a sense of freeing oneself from the confines of expectation and allowing one’s personal expression to be open and clear. The music is scored for marimba, clarinet, violin, and cello. Both works will be performed by an ensemble of four dancers: E.E. Balcos, Audrey Ipapo Baran, Melissa Jesse, and Katie Matter.
Sybil Huskey will contribute a videodance entitled Busy Signals. Videodance is a distinct form of film which reveals movement from unique perspectives, using editing tools to play with time, space and energy. The choreography, created by former Merce Cunningham Dance Company member Sandra Neels, is performed by Huskey and Mickie Geller, Professor of Dance at Ohio University. John Bohuslawsky created the video.
For more information, call 704-687-1849 or visit www.performances.uncc.edu.
About the Department of Dance
Housed in the College of Arts + Architecture, the Department of Dance offers the Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in Dance and the Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in Dance Education. Enrollment averages at 80 majors divided evenly across the two degrees, plus some 40 minors in any given semester. Students are instructed by eight fulltime and four to six adjunct faculty. In addition to the Faculty Dance Concert, the Department of Dance produces two major student concerts a year, featuring choreography by faculty as well as guest artists. In addition to original work, the department also stages modern dance masterworks and ballets from the classical ballet repertoire and participates in a collaborative digital dance project called “Dance. Draw.”
About the College of Arts + Architecture
Established in 2008, the College of Arts + Architecture represents 1200 students and nearly 100 full-time faculty members in five creative disciplines: art and art history, architecture, dance, music, and theatre. Dedicated to interdisciplinary conversation, collaboration, and innovation, the College of Arts + Architecture demonstrates UNC Charlotte’s commitment to arts and culture on campus and in the broader community. The College presents exhibitions, lectures, and nearly 100 performances each year. For more information, visit www.coaa.uncc.edu.
