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Show Di2 it Lake Tribune ARTS Sunday April 7, 2002 Marina Harris’ Impressive Dance ‘Résume’ T honors ongtime SLC choreographer Somepieces d others just BY BRANDON GRIGGS rris’ quirky ich eventu. strict ballet ilities under dance degree from ah and taughtbal: Beth pitino! found ajob of Balle DT in 197 costume design er. Then a Cali fornia friend asked her to cho- Utah Utah Op Sundance Children’s The atre and the reograph a piece for Santa Barbara Ballet Theatre. Harris did and loved it By the early Salt 1980s, she was choreographing pieces for RDT a her com: panies Like the cannot connect, or the solitariness ured her oeuvre for her fa- s. It wasn't “What can I stand to resurrect?” she wondered. Theresulting choices make for an ening, performed by RDT’s nine-member company plus RDT alum Stephen Brown, RDT instructor choreographi somepeople feel even when not alone. Its dancers perform much of the piece in orderly rows, as if, says Harris, they “have been planted in a vegetable garden.” @ At Rose Wagner Repertory Dance Theatre will stage “Résumé” Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m. at the Rose Wagner Performing Except for its intermission, the show will unfold without curtain breaks. Harris hopes audiences will Arts Center, 138 W. Broadway Lisa Moran and even Smith, who anc ed with RDTits first season in RDT 2 4. rector Linda C. Smith. \ sudden She Angela Banchero-Kelleher in 1981's “Saint Rose t : many eographers, ah appeals to individual strengths, room to express ho ike‘about me dance is of w spec beginning Th Titled a “Résumé it depres "i difference betw bines 14 dances Skin Wa an aggressive dance by four omen; 1986's “Bubble Gum,” in whic! a trio of gum-chewing 5 blow ibbles andl nea other s us e Dying Swan. Y 3 piece which reu! Brown. mith and a shopping cart; and “Couple (Room416),” a poignant duet from 3 ople onstage use the dan are $16, with di counts for stu: available dents and senior unfol tools in the chorec 1998's full-length “Hot Normal" about twolovers at the endof their relationship. Space being approached by Smith about The evening's centerpiece work is “The through ArtTix, 355- 787. forgive its episodic nature. “It's not a narrative evening,” she says. “But I hope it has somesort of | | performances byfour companydanccompany. It was inspired by an original score by Bradley Bernstein, a Bay area composer whom Harris met during the 1980s at the SundanceInstitute. Bernstein will play a toy piano onstage. Set to Bernstein's austere score and bittersweet for Smith, who will miss the talents of her departing dancers while anticipating how new ones might energize future performances. “You just have to smile, wish them well and carry on,” she says. “It'll be the distance between interesting to see the newchemistry.” new, 15-minute aboutloneliness.Its title could refer to performed by entire ers: Nathan Balser, Rebecca Keene Forde, Ruping Wang and 13-year veteran Jim Moreno. RDT already has held auditions for their replacements. Losing half her companyat once is performed by dancers minimally costumed in black unitards, “The Space Between” is a somewhat formal piece Between the coherence.” RDT's last concert of the season, “Résumé” also marks the farewell people who. From Cedar to SLC, Modern Dance Kicks Into High Gearat Colleges BY SCOTT € MORGAN & DanceTicket Dance Compa ance Com usion in its dance , International i s pione kolai ci ork pio ne dance club and mart with con temyx \ ocabularfusion style. Dou forma C company Randall L. n Cedar City through Saturday and A to 20 at 7 a) p.m. Tickets are $8. Call i 7878. Dancer: Compan performs “In at the Richards Building Dance Stu Hal Look Bacharach, his unique style enjoy samp! i different movement languages the same way a DJ would,” Elkins said during a tele phone interview from New York Duringhis time in Salt Lake, Elkins choreographed a new work for PDC called “Sag Paneer,” which took its influences from British dance club Bhangra music. Elkins was impressed with the of the professionalism dancers and their willingness different things We were playing | to try movement games with certain jokes on Bolly woot films and Indian wn dance by addingreferen Theatre, Brigham Young niversity in Provo Thursday through Saturday at 7-30 p.m p.m. matinee on SaturTicketsare $7 and $5 with 378-4322. UID. Call (801 Geber said about the unusuallocation for “Inside Out.” “Sarais still investi gating the piece, and she was excited at the offer to see it on another group of dancers would and come what challenges in adapting proscenium theater PDC’s it for a spring concert includes con- tributions by U. faculty members Stephen Koester (who is resetting “Shore Line 74") and Donna White, and two pieces by second-year gradu- vaguing’ styles,” Elkins si nid. Worked with an New York pher, Sara who was a soloist in Twyla ate students Lucie Madonnaof France and Chai-Chi Chiang of Taiwan. Ma: donna’s work plays this week; ‘s company before she started Chiang’'s work plays n company in the 1970s. For ©, Rudner was invited to restage er Faculty Dance Time to Dance site-specific, nine-woman work “Inside Out,” originally performed at Manhattan's South Street Seaport in 1983. “Sarahas beeninterested for many in breaking the traditional Tourth wall of the proscenium,” said PDC co-artistic director Pamela Ge ber, who wasoneof the piece's ¢ nal dancers “In the 1970s [Rudner] was part of movement of artists who were ques tioning traditional theatrical rules,” April 18 to20. Time for Limon: Shauna Mendin the associate chairwoman of theater arts and dance at Southern Utah Uni versity, was searching for ways to bring the pioneering work of Jose Limon (1908-1972) to Cedar City Thanks to a grant programfrom the National College Choreography Ini tiative, which awards $10,000 to one college in each of the 50 states, SUU acquired excerpts ic “There ture in the from Limén's 1956 hime” as the main dance department's fac ulty concert “A Time to Dance.” Paul Fraughton/The Salt Lake Tribune Dancers for the University of Utah's Performing Dance Company rehearse fortheir Spring Concert. A collection of choreographed meditations drawn from the Book of Ecclesiastes, “ThereIs a Time”is also notable for composer Norman Dello Joio’s score “Meditations on Ecclesiastes,” which won the Pulitzer Prize for music in 1957 Former Limén dancer, Julliard in structor and dance historian Risa Steinberg reconstructed Limén’s ‘classic choreography on SUU's dancers. “I knew Steinberg was a quality teacher and that it would be a good match for our students,” Mendini said. “A lot of peoplein Southern Utah are not familiar with Jose Limon’s work. This will introduce the quality and show the humanism of Limon, and | think people will be touched deeply by the choreography.” “A Time to Dance” also features works by SUU faculty members Kay Anderson, Gwen Grimes, Edward ‘Truitt and Wendy Turner. Early influence: At Brigham Young University, the BYU Dancers’ Com pany concert “Imaginaire” includes a classic work by Nikolais (1910-1993) called “Sanctum.” The BYU rights to perform“Sanctum”run out this year (BYU first acquired it in 2000), so Dancers’ Company artistic director Caroline Prohosky invited Nikolais Foundation choreographer Alberto Vel Saz to reset it on this year's is. “When I was a student at UCLA in the 1970s and '80s, the Nikolais company performed, and I was mesmer- ized by everything they did,” said Prohosky, who took a particular lik- ing to “Sanctum” with its dazzling colors and odd shapes created by the dancers’ costumes. “When I received notice that Nikolais’ pieces were being offered to colleges, I jumped on the chance to bring his work to BYU. It all has a very unique look and nooneis choreographing likethis at BYU.” % " also features works by Prohosky and Erin Hatch —— “Students need to be many different kinds of monee dance,” Prohosky said, stressing the importance of classic works alongside newer ones. { POOR |