Category: Dance
Dancers Evoke Life in the City
Dance majors Ashley Adams and Sara Buttine will present their senior concert, “A City of … ,“ at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 11 and Saturday, Feb. 12 in the upper dance studio at Babcock Fine Arts Center. The choreography “embraces all aspects of the city,” Buttine said. “Shining light, tapping toes, powerful poetry and crowded [...]
Bridgman/Packer’s Artful Collision
Art Bridgman and Myrna Packer’s “Memory Bank” uses custom time-delay software to make recorded images interact with the live dancers in a way that, according to Bridgman/Packer Dance, creates an “alchemy of living form and virtual image.” As their real and recorded selves are “mixing, swirling, interfering and colliding with each other,” past and present [...]
Seniors Present ‘Flux’ Dance Concert
Sweet Briar College senior dance and psychology majors Meagan Oliphant and Betsy Saccenti will host their senior dance concert at 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 3 and Saturday, Dec. 4 in the upper dance studio at Babcock Fine Arts Center. As Oliphant and Saccenti begin to transition into the next chapter of their lives, they are [...]
Choreographers Mix it Up in Sweet Briar’s Fall Dance Concert
A quick poll of the students and faculty members choreographing Sweet Briar College’s Fall Dance Concert suggests a colorful program tailored for those who like a little tradition with their modern dance. It includes instructor Mari Mori’s classical ballet in which she sets four dancers to music by Johann Pachelbel and a lively Irish step [...]
Spring Dance Concert Features Usual Suspects and Wannabe Tree
A couple of years ago, with a semester of Ballet 101 under his belt, Sweet Briar College Chaplain Adam White started pestering dance professor Mark Magruder about performing in one of his upcoming dance concerts.
Dance Majors Perform Feb. 13 and 14
Senior dance majors Emily Brown, Nikki Pham and Mary Susan Sinclair-Kuenning will perform at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Feb. 13 and 14 in the Upper Dance Studio in Babcock Fine Arts Center. Admission is free, and according to dance professor Mark Magruder, seating is BYOP or “bring your own pillow.”
Dance Weekend Concludes with Professor’s Solo ‘Kinetic Playground’
Sweet Briar’s Fall Dance Concert will be held at 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 7 and Saturday, Nov. 8 in Murchison Lane Auditorium. A third performance, a solo concert by Sweet Briar dance program director Mark Magruder, will be held at 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 9. Magruder’s solo concert, “Kinetic Playground,” features his original sculpture, choreography [...]
Babcock Season opens with Indian dancer
Sweet Briar College’s 2008-09 Babcock Season opens Monday, Sept. 15 with classical Indian dancer Padmarani Rasiah Cantu. The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Murchison Lane Auditorium at Babcock Fine Arts Center. A complimentary reception will follow.
Sweet Briar’s Spring Dance Concert Puts Accent on Music
Sweet Briar College will present its Spring Dance Concert at 8 p.m. Friday, April 4 and Saturday, April 5 in Murchison Lane Auditorium. Admission is free and the public is welcome.
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