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Show ARTS&ENTERTAINMENT Wednesday, October 25,2006 Page 6 Narcissism, intimacy and loss Select U modern dance students perform faculty, guest choreography Wednesday, Oct. 25 Crcssa Perloft* Vie Daily Utah Chronicle & Have you ever jumped for joy? Ever cringed in a scary movie? That's because humans are feeling-movers. For dancers and choreographers, this is a concept that informs movement and helps make it human. It is this humanity that draws us in as viewers. And it is this humanity that inspired the faculty and guest choreographers for the U modern dance department's fall Performing Dance Company, debuting this Thursday. The performance confronts the human characteristics of narcissism, intimacy and loss. The evening will comprise pieces by Martha Graham, Cynthia Oliver and faculty members Abby Fiat, Eric Handman and Satu Hummasti. The Graham piece, titled "Panorama," was directed by guest artist Susan Kikuchi and modern dance faculty Kaye Richards. Its performance here was made possible by a prestigious grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. The piece consists of 33 women and is characterized by Graham's traditional geometric, direct movement. The original program of its debut in 1935 stated that "Panorama" is largely about "the people and their awakening social consciousness in the contemporary scene." Oliver, a guest artist from the University of Illinois at Urbana- Pop concert • Evanescence $27 > 7 p.m. Salcair (12408 W. Salt Air Drive, Magna) Conference/Exhibition 'Humanities Conference: Helt and Its Afterlife Tree 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Alumni House Lectures CHRISTOPHER J'l-DDFCOKD/ViW',;)/!' CCJ), G Members of the Performing Dance Company rehearse "Panorama" by Martha Graham at the Marriott Center for Dance in preparation for the fall show opening Thursday. Champaign, restaged her piece, "Beseeching on Your Own Behalf," with five modern dance students and one understudy. Her work aims to "get dirty, acknowledge demons, hail the angels, tell secrets and celebrate conflicted, complicated, glorious lives fully lived," she said. Her piece involves gestures and verbal beseeching and draws from Afro-Caribbean, modern dance and theatrical influences. Fiat's piece, "A Piece of Paper, a Song, a Memory..." focuses on the concept of personal loss. The 20-minute piece involves dancers' own "personal movement score" to their own text, Fiat said. For example, in the piece, modern dance graduate Sarah Franco dances to her own voice, saying, "I feel your absence more than I ever felt your presence." Handman choreographed "Alone in This Together," complete with music by Radiohead, projected video and live dance. The multimedia work explores narcissism and the sustenance and devastation inherent in a codependent relationship. "Together/aparT," choreographed by Hummasti, debuted in New York City and now comes home. Performed by graduates of the U's modern dance undergraduate and grad departments, it is a duet about relating to one another through the language of dance, which for Hummasti includes stillness, pedestrian movement and awkwardness. The Performing Dance Company's fall performances are at 7:30 p.m., Thursdays through Saturdays, Oct. 26 through 28 and Nov. 2 through 4 at the Marriott Center for Dance, across from the U Bookstore parking lot and the Marriott Library. Tickets are $10 for the general public and $7 for students, seniors and U faculty/staff, and are available at the door one hour prior to the performance, or by calling 581-7100. c.perloff@chronicle.utah.edu Pulitzer winner performs at U THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Yehudi Wyner visits campus this week and will perform tonight at 7:30 p.m. U students and faculty have a chance to learn from Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Yehudi Wyner. Wyner is on campus as part of the Maurice Abravanel Visiting Distinguished Composers Series, which is dedicated to bringing more contemporary music to the U and allowing students to work directly with professional composers. "Students get really excited to be able to speak with a distinguished composer," said Marina Hart, administrative associate for Morris Rosenzweig, an organizer and conductor for the event. The public is invited to attend a lecture and a concert today as part of Wyner's visit. "Connected Paths" is the topic of the lecture, which will be held in Room 306 in David P. Gardner Hall at 2 p.m. The Abravanel Series is a great opportunity for students to get Wyner's perspective on music and composition, Hart said. Wyner will perform a short collection of his piano works and local artists will perform contemporary music by John Zorn and Malcolm Goldstein tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the Dumke Recital Hall. The lecture and the performance are free. Wyner received the Pulitzer Prize in 2006 for his piano concerto "Chiavi in Mano." He has composed more than 60 works for solo instrument, ensemble, orchestra and theater. "Cat O' Nine Tails" by Zorn promises to give audiences 51 moments of inspiration in 15 minutes, and Goldstein's "Configurations in Darkness" will feature the rarely used cimbalon. The composer seriess occurs twice each year. "I've been to the concerts, and I love them." Hart said. Katie Trieu gHe LGBT Resource Center .Jfrhe ASUU Pfeseiiter's' Offic|'have come together to put on Another big show1 for Pride Wefek. ' ;-;:;. Singer-songwriter,; - Fiona Apple will be performing at the*Huntsman Center tonight playing jbijuio aj demonstrated n R;fpwr yea&mter.i 'le^r: j ;^ to. recOrd^d^nos ofler spn^s* ^;She wd£ Slgned°tp :S'9ny';iii •get" to seeSiis ^Jih^pf^&p:^! 1^1^95 and tn^<)96 releaseGlr'he^v i s ^ r tJiisyfin#u|ifc^ ; C M ^ fedebut aJb^r^;. Tidq}. ^ & J K ^ ^ • ' -' '*':• 'J-'* r.:'r':i:%'.'.-'..".:'j£i-. 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