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2008-09 Cornell Dance Series Announced |
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Leslie Morris
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Friday, 02 May 2008 |
The 2008-09 Cornell Dance Series kicks off with a one-evening-only performance of Trajal Harrell: Quartet for the End of Time. A cutting edge choreographer and dancer, Harrell probes the antagonism between sincerity and irony in this contemporary dance work set to Olivier Messiaen's "Quartet for the End of Time." This famous music was first composed and performed by prisoners in a Nazi war camp. This touring company will perform October 2.
"Quartet for the End of Time" by cutting edge choreographer and dancer Trajal Harrell
In the spring Cornell dance faculty members Byron Suber and Jumay Chu collaborate to present the original work Glory and Rue: Street Dances. They will explore the public and private spaces of streets and buildings. From the open cafes of Paris, to the luminous canals of Venice, to the nervous nonchalance of Cornell's College Avenue traffic circle, what defines the behavorial boundary between strangers and friends crossing the same sidewalks? Dance Concert 2009 will be performed March 5-8.
The dance series concludes with a one-evening-only performance by international touring troupe Kongo Ba Teria/Baker & Tarpaga Dance Project on March 10. The hottest contemporary dance companies out of West Africa team up for a highly physical and imaginative new work about identity called DUNA. Choreographer/dancers Lacina Coulibaly and Olivier Tarpaga search for truth and freedom when faced with the unknown.
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