A contemporary dance set to “playful, Parisian café music” will headline the University of Kansas Dance Company’s Spring Concert, featuring works that “examine the notion of insider/outsider.”
That piece, “Tessellations,” is choreographed by Gabrielle Lamb, a New York City-based Guggenheim Fellow, according to a news release from KU’s Department of Theatre and Dance.
The choreographers’ “modern/contemporary, hip-hop and ballet works explore the complexities of how the binary of inclusion and exclusion is constructed and the ways it shapes lives,” the release states.
In addition, “Ashley Brittingham, a KU lecturer in dance, will present ‘Behind Closed Doors,’ a contemporary ballet exploring invisible struggles dancers face, as well as fear and insecurity, set to music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,” according to the release.
Other works include “AT THE TABLE,” presented by Tristian Griffin; “The Red Shoes,” a hip-hop work presented by Maya Tillman-Rayton; and “An Encounter with Blackness,” a piece using Afro-Jamaican folk dance forms, by Webster McDonald. McDonald’s piece “examines one critical question: What happens when non-Black bodies are granted permission to embody an aspect of Blackness?” according to the release.
Performances will be at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, March 25 and 26, and at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, March 27 at Murphy Hall. Friday and Sunday performances will be available to view via livestream. Tickets to the in-person performances are available at dance.ku.edu, by calling 785-864-3982, or in person at the box office from noon to 5 p.m. weekdays or one hour prior to showtime.
Read more about the show and see a full list of cast members at this link.
Don’t miss a beat … Click here to sign up for our email newsletters
Check our community calendar for more:
Latest Lawrence news:
Douglas County/Contributed photo
In KU exhibit, Kansas quilt artists piece together story of racial violence from Emmett Till to today
A pair of exhibits at the Spencer Museum of Art in Lawrence are inspired by the life and death of Emmett Till, which helped launch the civil rights movement. The work of area textile artists helps connect the 1955 killing to contemporary violence against Black people.
Lawrence Historic Resources Commission defers decision on markers memorializing Tiger Dowdell, Nick Rice
Nearly four years after the conversation began to memorialize two teenagers killed by Lawrence police in 1970, the Historic Resources Commission on Thursday deferred a decision on the design and language of markers that would be placed near the scenes of the killings.
