Apr 21 - 29 2017
Days of Dance

Days of Dance

Presented by School of Dance at FSU at Nancy Smith Fichter Dance Theatre

Tallahassee, FL – March 28, 2017. As the year’s performance season comes to a close, the School of Dance prepares to showcase their talent in its annual Days of Dance concert series. The concert features a variety of pieces by faculty, visiting artists, and both graduate and undergraduate students.

Rick McCullough, Artistic Director for this year’s concert, is one of the faculty members presenting a work. McCullough joined the School of Dance in 2004 and is retiring at the end of this semester. His new work is titled Voices and uses acapella traditional and contemporary Bulgarian folk music by award-winning Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares (The Mystery of Bulgarian Voices).

Jawole Zollar has restaged excerpts from her Bessie Award winning piece, Walking with Pearl…Southern Diaries, on the students. Originally performed by Zollar’s company Urban Bush Women in 2005, the work includes original choreography by Pearl Primus staged by Kim Bears, as well as choreography by Zollar. Zollar restaged the work for FSU students with rehearsal assistance from current Visiting Guest Artist and FSU alumnus Darrell Jones and current graduate student Cheri Stokes.

Working collaboratively with her dancers, Ilana Goldman created Cello Counterpoint set to music by Steve Reich. Composed for eight cellos, each of the seven dancers represent one of the recorded cellos. School of Music professor Greg Sauer will perform the eighth cello live. Goldman says each dancer “demonstrate[s] how various voices can work simultaneously to create a larger complex sound while still maintaining their individual statements.”

During her time-in-residence at the School of Dance this Spring, Visiting Artist pearl ubungen, a widely-acclaimed interdisciplinary artist, developed a work inspired by her mentor Ed Mock. Mock was known for his use of improvisation and love of music. ubungen and students also created an outdoor site-specific pre-show work.

Days of Dance runs as two separate full-length programs: Program A, April 21 & 29 at 8:00 pm, and April 22 at 2:00 pm.; Program B, April 28 & 22 at 8:00 pm and April 29 at 2:00 pm. The outdoor pre-show work begins 45 minutes before each show. All performances are at FSU’s Montgomery Hall in the Nancy Smith Fichter Dance Theatre.

 

Admission Info

Tickets range between $5-$15. To purchase, contact the Fine Arts Ticket Office at 850-644-6500, or online at www.tickets.fsu.edu. For more information, visit dance.fsu.edu. or call 850-645-2449. The School of Dance is within the College of Fine Arts at Florida State University.

Phone: 850-644-6500

Dates & Times

2017/04/21 - 2017/04/29

Additional time info:

PROGRAM ORDER:

Program A:
April 21st at 8 pm, April 22nd at 2 pm, April 29th at 8 pm
pearl ubungen- Padmadakini (Pre-Show on Landis Green)
Rick McCullough- Voices
Sydney Parker- Do(o)med
LaQuan Anderson- Exodus
Julie Opiel- Diving into the Wreck
Jawole Zollar- Southern Diaries
(Intermission)
Ilana Goldman- All at Once
pearl ubungen- Tight Like That
Mikaela Ware- Second-Hand Truths
Sarah Rose- Arms in a Field of Daisies

Program B:
April 22nd at 8 pm, April 28th at 8 pm, April 29th at 2 pm
pearl ubungen- Padmadakini (Pre-Show on Landis Green)
Rick McCullough- Voices
Elizabeth Kessler- Stasis
Jacqueline Cannon- Flag
Kayla McClellan- Encounter, Expose
Jawole Zollar- Southern Diaries
(Intermission)
Brooke Rucker- In These Clothes
Carly Dishman- Fancy Colors
Samantha Scioneaux- Divine Interspace
Ryan McMullen- shift

Location Info

Nancy Smith Fichter Dance Theatre

130 Collegiate Loop, Tallahassee, FL 32306