Coker College’s Dance Program is hosting the Faculty and Guest Artist Dance Concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday, Feb. 26 and 27, with a final performance at 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 28 in Watson Theater of the Elizabeth Boatwright Coker Performing Arts Center.
Tickets are available at the door and are $10 for adults and $5 for senior adults and students. Admission is free with Coker ID.
“The Faculty and Guest Artist Concert is an exciting performance that presents various choreographic points of view,” said assistant professor of dance Meredith Sims. “This concert allows our students to experience diverse approaches to choreography and dance while developing their performance skills. The audience will see an eclectic evening of dance that investigates universal ideas through movement with poignancy, humor, and depth.”
The concert includes the following works by faculty artists: “Billy Pilgrim,” choreographed by Sims, explores adventurers traveling across new surfaces towards a desired destination; “Inconsequential Reverence,” choreographed by associate professor of dance and chair of dance and music Angela Gallo, explores the portrayal of women in society, the various stereotypes in existence and the ways women relate to each other; “Fragments from the Painted Sea,” choreographed by assistant professor of dance Kristin Hapke, is a physical investigation of loss and confusion while navigating the charted waters of life; “Fleet,” choreographed by adjunct faculty member Heather Watkins, is a high energy contemporary work exploring the whirlwind of modern life while depicting a journey requiring assistance, endurance and ability.
Coker’s Repertory Dance Company will perform “Co si Comincia,” choreographed by guest artist Meg Schriffen, assistant professor of dance and program director of dance from Winthrop University. Schriffen’s work was inspired by her summer visits to the Sorrento region of Italy.
“Path,” choreographed by guest artist and internationally acclaimed Sean Curran of the Sean Curran Company, is a transcendent piece in which the dancers embody the tones, qualities, and ever-changing relationships of vocalists from Talbot’s “Leon.” A member of Curran’s company, Rebecca Arends, came to Coker’s campus to reset this piece for Coker students who then performed with the company during their concert last fall.
