The Hamilton College Department of Dance and Movement Studies will present
its annual Spring Dance Concert on Friday, March 2, and Saturday, March 3, at 7:30 p.m., in
Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and Performing Arts on the Hamilton campus. The
performance will feature Hamilton student dancers and choreography by Hamilton faculty
Sandra Stanton-Cotter, Bruce Walczyk and Paris Wilcox, Hamilton College seniors Kate Gwydir
and Victoria Slack, in addition to guest choreographer John Castagna.
John Castagna, a choreographer from Los Angeles, creates a new work
UpDown exploring the
extreme range of movement and emotions. Nine Hamilton College ballet dancers will perform
to a new score commissioned from composer Thomas Schoenberger, inspired by a theme of
Beethoven.
Hamilton College seniors Katherine Gwydir and Victoria Slack will perform their choreographed
piece
Ripe and Ruin set to the music Interlude I by Alt-J.
Sandra Stanton-Cotter is a lecturer in dance and movement studies at Hamilton. She will present
La Follia set by Antonio Vivaldi. A new dance work, also titled
La Follia, explores the delicate
balance, fleeting beauty and possible chaos between the 5 elements (Earth, Metal, Water, Wood
and Fire).
"Sarawak...," choreographed by Professor Bruce Walczyk, will present a piece based on his
experience and research in Southeast Asia that blends ideas of east meets west.
At Adau, a band
from Kuching, East Malaysia provides the soundtrack.
Hamilton alumnus Paris Wilcox is a lecturer in dance and movement studies at Hamilton. He
will present
In/Between an aspect of his MFA in dance thesis work on "The Aesthetics of Labor"
set to Richard Lloyd's piano score;
A Reflection set to the music of George Frideric Handel's
Largo. Wilcox will also give an artist talk at 4:30 p.m. in The Red Pit in Kirner Johnson at 4:30
p.m. on March 2, about his journey as a performing and teaching dance artist.
Tickets for this event are $5 for adults/ $3 for senior citizens and students. For more information
call:
(315) 859-4331 or visit:
www.hamiltonpa.org.
