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Open Dance Company Class with Jennifer Nugent and Paul Matteson
Where: Melcer Dance Studio, Nazarian CenterWhen: August 27th - 31st, 10:00 AM - 11:30 PM
Rhode Island College Dance Company October Concert with Nugent and Matteson Dance
Where: The Auditorium in Roberts HallWhen: October 12th, 8:00 PM
 Photo: Sue Rees |
Nugent+Matteson Dance first appeared at RIC in 2005, and their performance
included the critically acclaimed duet, Fare Well, described by Jennifer Dunning
of The New York Times as " . . . that rare work that lives up to its advance
billing... conjuring up two imperfectly messy lives and two ordinary human
beings who just might find themselves some new place if they only stay the
course . . . a delight".
The 2007 October Concert will be made up of five precarious dances. The opener is a condensed version of Fare Well that highlights the synchronistic partnering of Nugent and Matteson within Edmund Mooney's richly atmospheric sound score. Next Block Idol, a solo by Matteson with music by Michael Krassner, layers bittersweet coming-of-age narratives with impossible physical challenges. The third piece, Semi-Formal, a solo by Nugent with live music by violinist Heather Somerland, is a hip circling ceremony of ballroom dance fantasies. Nugent strips away all that seems familiar with hopes of re-experiencing the first time again. Fourth is Saints Smother Swans, an intricately technical new duet for Nugent and Matteson choreographed by Terry Creach. Erika Kinetz from The New York Times writes, "Terry Creach's curiosity about what the human body itself might reveal about human beings is timeless." The final work is Cozy Up, an intensely physical new group work choreographed by Nugent and Matteson in collaboration with Rhode Island College dancers. General Admission: $12** |
Rhode Island College Dance Company Annual Mini-Concert Series for Rhode Island School Children*
Where: Sapinsley Hall, Nazarian CenterWhen: October 24th - 26th, 10:00 AM, Daily
 Photo: Nikki Carrara |
Rhode Island school children will be treated to the RIC Dance Company's Annual Mini-Concert Series in morning concerts October 24-26 in Sapinsley Hall in the Nazarian Center. Repertory selections will include works by Nathan Andary (Providence, RI), Jackie Henderson (Newport, RI), Jennifer Nugent and Paul Matteson (NYC), and Drika Overton (Maine). Offered free to all school children in Rhode Island and nearby Massachusetts since the 1960s, these concerts provide young audiences with an informative and enjoyable introduction to contemporary dance forms. Lastly, Rhode Island community dancers are invited to participate in open Dance Company classes with visiting choreographers in August and November. |
College Dance Invitational: A Showcase of College and University Dance Companies Sponsored by the Department of Music, Theatre, and Dance
Where: Sapinsley Hall, Nazarian CenterWhen: October 26th, 8:00 PM
 Photo: Nikki Carrara |
New for fall 2007 will be a College Dance Invitational on Friday, October 26
in Sapinsley Hall sponsored by the Department of Music, Theatre, and Dance.
Celebrating the rich creativity and productivity of our local-area dance
programs, the College Dance Invitational will provide a showcase Rhode Island
and nearby Connecticut and Massachusetts college dance companies. Don't miss
this opportunity to experience the past, present, and future of American
dance. General Admission: $10** |
Open Dance Company Class with Art Bridgman and Myrna Packer
Where: Melcer Dance Studio, Nazarian CenterWhen: November 5th - 7th & 9th, 4:30 - 6:00 PM
November 10th, 10:00 - 11:30 AM
| The RIC Dance Company is very pleased to be collaborating once again with
Bridgman/Packer Dance in a fall 2007 residency and performance project.
The dance company has previously hosted residency/performance projects with
Bridgman/Packer Dance in 2002, 1994, and 1984 and we hosted a
choreographic residency project in 1992. Admission: $8 per class |
Rhode Island College Dance Company Winter Concert with Bridgman/Packer Dance
Where: Sapinsley Hall, Nazarian CenterWhen: November 30th, 8:00 PM
 Photo: Kelly Gottesman |
 The Bridgman/Packer Dance residency/performance project is funded in part
by a grant from the New England Foundation for the Arts Expeditions program with
support form the National Endowment for the Arts Regional Touring Program, the
six New England state arts agencies, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the
Argosy Foundation.Art Bridgman and Myrna Packer create work around the dilemma of finding meaning and connections in a time and world where everything seems to be transient and at risk. Their exploration of the duet form nearly exhausts the possibilities for partnering, pairing, and coupling - with all of the inherent pros and cons of this enduring and endlessly persistent human preoccupation. Elizabeth Zimmer of The Village Voice has written of their work that "Art Bridgman and Myrna Packer have raised the duet to a pinnacle of clarity and craft." Bridgman and Packer are determined humanists is a contemporary dance scene that can often seem preoccupied with form. Their work since the turn of the century has had a decidedly interdisciplinary focus, and they consistently attract significant music and video artists for collaborative projects. Their critically acclaimed dance and video trilogy, Seductive Reasoning, Under The Skin, Memory Bank, explores new ground in the interaction and interweaving of dance and video to disrupt and to inform our received understanding of the unified and predictable human and his/her partnering tendencies. General Admission: $12** |
Open Dance Company Class with Douglas Dunn
Where: Melcer Dance Studio, Nazarian CenterWhen: January 7th - 11th, 10:00 - 11:30 AM
Open Dance Company Class with Andrea Woods
Where: Melcer Dance Studio, Nazarian CenterWhen: January 15th - 19th, 10:00 - 11:30 AM
49th Annual Spring Concert Series
RIC Dance Company
General Admission $10
Where: Auditorium in Roberts HallWhen: February 28, 29 and March 1, 8:00 PM
March 2, 2:00 PM
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Faculty & Alumni Concert featuring Melody Ward & Kelly Ann Lynch
RIC Dance Company
Sponsored by the RIC Department of Music, Theatre & Dance
General Admission $12
Where: Forman Theatre in the Nazarian CenterWhen: March 27 & 28, 8:00 PM
Student Choreography Showcase
RIC Dance Company
General Admission $8
Where: Forman Theatre in the Nazarian CenterWhen: April 24 & 25, 8:00 PM
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* = Free Admission
** = Admission discounts for seniors, groups, and students
Page last updated: Friday, November 9, 2007