UB Theatre and Dance Presents: POWER: the preservation of order

UB Theatre and Dance Presents:
POWER:
the preservation of order

Directed by Trebien Pollard
April 12-14, 2019

Part of the UB Department of Theatre and Dance 2018 – 2019 Season

Buffalo, NY— UB Department of Theatre and Dance and Director Trebien Pollard will present an evening of dance that showcases new and emerging works by UB faculty, guest artists, and UB undergraduate/graduate students on April 12– 14 at 7 p.m.and 2 p.m. in the Black Box Theatre, University at Buffalo, North Campus. In its inaugural season, Choreolab is a performance and choreographic research laboratory dedicated to fostering a diverse, creative environment to explore choreographic innovation, interdisciplinary, and project-based approaches to developing performance. ChoreoLab reflects contemporary trends, while supporting the artist and their role within society and culture. Each work will demonstrate a rigorous investigation in art making, performance and physical practice.

This evening, entitled POWER: the preservation of order, will include individual and collaborative works that blend contemporary and cultural dance styles with text, projection and voice to create a multi-media tapestry of visual theatre. The concert will open with a pre-show Gallery Performance Installation choreographed by Jo Davila. Davila’s work, Once More, with Feeling uses choreographic motifs to expose the facades of humanity while also revealing the honesty of experience and feeling. The Poetics of Relation, a new work presented by Trebien Pollard, ruminates on how space and place are not merely broad frames of a geographical location, but also a reality to be understood through the lived body. This work explores the interplay between being and belonging within the accounts of enclosures.

Graduate students Dahye Lee and Mary Grace Sullivan are crafting a new work entitled Be Alone and Together at the Same Time. The work is an intimate look at what it means to be alone while remaining in social proximity and soft connections to others. These women will explore the question of how to be fully of desires, hopes, memories, and love while reckoning with aloneness.

Others works on the program will include, a new work byAurora Hastings, inspired by her passion for jazz dance and the movement and qualities of jazz legends Ron Lewis and Luigi. Hastings has created a living archive of tradition, form, history and legacy. Moriah Markowitz uses an oversized T-shirt as a metaphor for collective communal power. By the manipulation and transformation of the shirt, Markowitz’s No Longer Apologetic strives to expose the rawness of individuality within a collective design. Olivia Lovsin and Kat Bark team up to investigate the concept of darkness and people’s fear of the unknown. Guest artist Aimee Rials has been investigating identity for a number or years. Her work, The Quiet We Keep, continuing down this path, investigates how the expectation of community can influence the parts of ourselves we allow others to see. Both, Carly Kleinman and Nitya Seshadri Vedantam explore cultural rituals and customs. Kleinman’s Tōna Kaha draws inspiration from the dances and movement qualities of the Maori tribe in New Zealand, while Seshadri Vedantam explores widowhood in India and poses question of empathy and representation. Can empathy and experience be shared by bodies across borders of time, space, place and race? Can we comment and critique without erasing histories?

ChoreoLab is UB’s creative research lab for faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, and guest artists while honoring the rich 20 year history of Zodiaque Dance Ensemble. Alongside Zodiaque Dance Company, ChoreoLab will provide versatile training and performance opportunities to UB students and reflect the current dance landscape.

GENERAL INFO:

DATES & TIMES:

April 12 and 13 at 7:30 p.m.

April 13 and 14 at 2 p.m.

With gallery performance installation beginning prior to curtain (1:30 p.m. & 7 p.m.)

LOCATION:

UB Center for the Arts

Black Box Theatre

University at Buffalo, North Campus

Buffalo, NY, 14260

TICKETS:

$20.00 General Public

$10.00 Student/Senior Admission

CFA Box Office: 

(716) 645-2787

Groups Sales:

(716) 645-0611

Charge by phone:

1-877-987-6487

ubcfa.org/tickets    

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MEDIA CONTACT:

Trebien Pollard
ChoreoLab Director
Phone: (716) 645-0588
Email: tpollard@buffalo.edu

Karen Dunn
Communications, Center for the Arts
College of Arts and Sciences
Phone: (716) 645-6771
Email: kdunn2@buffalo.edu

GENERAL INFORMATION:
(716) 645-6897

CFA Website:
ubcfa.org

Department Website:
theatredance.buffalo.edu