MURFREESBORO — MTSU Dance Theatre will celebrate a
fresh new season with its Spring Dance Concert, scheduled for Thursday, April 24,
through Saturday, April 26, in the university’s Tucker Theatre.
Performances are set
at 7:30 each evening. General-admission tickets for the Spring Dance Concert
are $10 for adults and $5 for K-12 students and MTSU staff. MTSU students will
be admitted free with a valid student ID.
Directed by Professor
Marsha Barsky, the 2014 Spring Dance Concert will highlight original
choreographic works from MTSU dance faculty and selected students alongside
dances created by visiting guest artists Teena Marie Custer and Jesse
Zaritt.
Custer and Zaritt
shared their creative processes with MTSU Dance Theatre students during their
weeklong campus residencies this semester.
Custer’s “Turn on the
Black Light,” which is part of the Spring Dance Concert, features nine MTSU
dancers performing street dance styles they learned during Custer’s residency. Zaritt’s
work “Garden Party” presents new and exciting compositional structures for 12
dancers.
“Dance is how we experience
the world and communicate expression,” Zaritt told the students during his
residency at MTSU. “I believe that people should have access to the expressive
power of their body. That is how we experience conflict, trauma, joy — it all
lands in the body. It is important to use the body expressively, not just
functionally.”
The concert also will
feature seven pieces that display the scope of MTSU’s dance training and the
talents of the university’s dance faculty in contemporary ballet, jazz and
modern dance.
Tickets can be
purchased online at http://www.showclix.com/events/18277
or at the door. The Tucker Theatre Box Office will
open one hour before each performance for ticket purchases.
For more information
about the performance, visit http://www.mtsu.edu/dance.
You also can call the Tucker Theatre Box Office at 615-494-8810.
A searchable campus
map with parking details is available at http://tinyurl.com/MTSUParkingMap13-14.
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