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Dance Downtown

November 14 - November 15, 2014
5:00AM - 5:00AM
Capitol Theatre, Riffe Center, 77 S. High St.

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Add to Calendar 2014-11-14 05:00:00 2014-11-15 05:00:00 Dance Downtown Event Host: The Department of Dance The Ohio State University’s Department of Dance presents Dance Downtown: Solace and Mirth Friday, Nov. 14 and Saturday, Nov. 15 at the Riffe Center’s Capitol Theatre, 77 South High St. Performance times are: 10:30 a.m. Friday (young people’s concert) and 8 p.m. Friday. On Saturday, a 7 p.m. conversation with the choreographers will be followed by an 8 p.m. performance. Solace and Mirth showcases the creative research of professors and visiting artists and features undergraduate and graduate dance majors. This year’s dance works are vibrant, soulful and playful, a reflection of the four featured choreographers: Danish guest choreographer and street dancer Tine Salling stretches the boundaries of how urban dance can be seen on the contemporary concert stage. In The Steadfast Tinder Soldier, Salling makes commentary on loneliness and the efforts of constantly searching for love or physical connections as affected by online, social networking and internet dating. Guest artist and internationally known choreographer and author Susan Rethorst brings her musings on human behavior to the stage in the highly detailed, nuanced, rambunctious and slightly irreverent post-modern piece New Lucy. In this work dancers toss themselves and others about in a non-narrative series of scenes. Resident artist and faculty member Michael Kelly Bruce re-creates an older work, inspired in large part by the 16th century chorale work of Josquin Des Prez and drawing from an older Latin hymn by Thomas Aquinas. The large cast moves in powerful formations to conjure a sense of a mysterious journey to another time and place. Ann Sofie Clemmensen, resident artist from Denmark, creates a new work for her cast of undergraduate dance majors inspired by the physicality found in outdoor games from the 1940-1970s and the ever-changing imaginary world of a child. In Name of the Game, Clemmensen explores playfulness and humor through rhythm, voice and vigorous movement phrase work. DANCE DOWNTOWN 2014 - SOLACE & MIRTH from Department of Dance, OSU on Vimeo. For ticket information, visit the Department of Dance website or call OSU Box Office at (614) 292-2295. Photo: Stephanie Matthews Dancer: Asha Whitfield (BFA 2016) Video: Elijah Aaron Palnik Capitol Theatre, Riffe Center, 77 S. High St. College of Arts and Sciences asccomm@osu.edu America/New_York public
Event Host: The Department of Dance


The Ohio State University’s Department of Dance presents Dance Downtown: Solace and Mirth Friday, Nov. 14 and Saturday, Nov. 15 at the Riffe Center’s Capitol Theatre, 77 South High St. Performance times are: 10:30 a.m. Friday (young people’s concert) and 8 p.m. Friday. On Saturday, a 7 p.m. conversation with the choreographers will be followed by an 8 p.m. performance.

Solace and Mirth showcases the creative research of professors and visiting artists and features undergraduate and graduate dance majors. This year’s dance works are vibrant, soulful and playful, a reflection of the four featured choreographers:

  • Danish guest choreographer and street dancer Tine Salling stretches the boundaries of how urban dance can be seen on the contemporary concert stage. In The Steadfast Tinder Soldier, Salling makes commentary on loneliness and the efforts of constantly searching for love or physical connections as affected by online, social networking and internet dating.
  • Guest artist and internationally known choreographer and author Susan Rethorst brings her musings on human behavior to the stage in the highly detailed, nuanced, rambunctious and slightly irreverent post-modern piece New Lucy. In this work dancers toss themselves and others about in a non-narrative series of scenes.
  • Resident artist and faculty member Michael Kelly Bruce re-creates an older work, inspired in large part by the 16th century chorale work of Josquin Des Prez and drawing from an older Latin hymn by Thomas Aquinas. The large cast moves in powerful formations to conjure a sense of a mysterious journey to another time and place.
  • Ann Sofie Clemmensen, resident artist from Denmark, creates a new work for her cast of undergraduate dance majors inspired by the physicality found in outdoor games from the 1940-1970s and the ever-changing imaginary world of a child. In Name of the Game, Clemmensen explores playfulness and humor through rhythm, voice and vigorous movement phrase work.

DANCE DOWNTOWN 2014 - SOLACE & MIRTH from Department of Dance, OSU on Vimeo.


For ticket information, visit the Department of Dance website or call OSU Box Office at (614) 292-2295.

Photo: Stephanie Matthews

Dancer: Asha Whitfield (BFA 2016)

Video: Elijah Aaron Palnik

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