Dance
students to present works at CPAC
By Monica Levette Clark
On-line Forty-Niner
New
graduate candidates to the Cal State Long
Beach dance department will present self-choreographed
solo works at the Fall 2002 MFA Dance Concert
next week.
“Fall Back, Rush Forward, Die Trying,” the
title of the concert, featuring seven dances,
will be performed at the Martha Knoebel
Dance Theatre on campus.
The new MFA candidates include Heather Ahern,
Filip Condeescu, Amanda Lipsey, Rogelio
Lopez G. and Shana Menaker.
“The five candidates will present their
non-thesis work,” said Doug Nielsen, graduate
adviser to the dance department.
“This is a great way to show the community
who they are,” Nielsen said.
The candidates are taking risks by choreographing
works that they have not performed before
and they are willing to be vulnerable in
this way, he said.
Condeescu, who is a foreign exchange student
from Romania, titled his solo, “for the
Blood…”
“It is strange and very personal,” Condescu
said. “It’s almost like you have a
look into my brain.”
“Angelitos de Dios,” is about a woman from
Mexico who recovers unwanted babies after
their mothers have thrown them away, Lopez
G. said.
Menaker will present “In Shoes In Shadow,”
a work that she said is a character study
on human beings.
The candidates devoted hours of time to
practice and rehearse their solos over the
summer break at the dance studios located
in the dance center on campus where they
choreographed their works.
“The wonderful thing about the candidates
is that they all have different personalities,
different backgrounds and different points
of view,” Nielsen said. “We are going to
embrace that and allow them to find their
own voice, even beyond what they’ve already
brought with them,” he said.
The concert will also feature two group
works choreographed by returning graduate
students, Sue Hogan and Erin Mitchell.
Ticket prices for the concert are $14 for
general admission and $8 for students and
faculty. For more information on this and
other dance performances, call the box office
at (562) 985-7000.
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