2008 Dancers in Action Spring Dance Concert

Release date: April 16, 2008 |

The 2008 Dancers in Action Spring Dance Concert on Friday, April 25, and Saturday, April 26, will feature Goucher students performing works by guest artists Alan Hineline and Gabriel Masson.

Both days' events will take place at 8 p.m. in Kraushaar Auditorium and are open to the public. Call 410-337-6333 for tickets, $15 general admission, $8 students and senior citizens. Goucher OneCards will also be accepted.

Alan Hineline, Goucher's ballet guest artist and the resident choreographer for the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, choreographed "de l’innocence" for Goucher students to perform.

Gabriel Masson, Goucher's modern guest artist and the artistic director of Gabriel Masson Dance, has set a work, "Harbinger," on nine Goucher dancers to new music by composer David Lang.

Fourteen women and one man perform the 12-minute ballet to Franz Schubert's 16 German Dances.

Four students will also début works at the concert.

Senior Mckenzie Shanahan's work, "Between [us]," focuses on a struggle between two dancers who are isolated in a spotlight. One of the dancers is caught between wanting to leave to join a new group and staying with her partner. As the dance progresses, the dancer briefly joins the ensemble group, but she eventually rejoins her original partner.

In her work "'Pataphysique," senior Melissa Talleda introduces the audience to 'pataphysics, the science of imaginary solutions developed by Alfred Jarry in the late 1800s. In her choreography, Talleda tried to exemplify Jarry’s ideas of absurdity, as well as his obsession with bicycles.

Senior Katherine Muise's "Antediluvian" is a contemporary ballet in two movements set to music by Hans Zimmer. The work is loosely based on the ideas of the elements earth, fire, air, and water.

Sophomore Annalise Woller created her version of the ballet "Le Corsaire." All modern productions of the work have their roots in the revivals staged by the ballet master Marius Petipa for the Imperial Ballet of St. Petersburg in 1868 and 1899.