‘Celebrating
Dance’ to offer variety, live music
By Ruth Estrada
On-line Forty-Niner
For
the first time the Department of Dance will
be performing a greatest hits ensemble at
the grand Carpenter Performing Arts Center
Friday and Saturday at Cal State Long Beach.
This year’s recital “Celebrating Dance 2002”
will be one of its biggest concerts of all
time. It has a collection of six choreographed
dances, 50 dancers, two guest choreographers
and four CSULB faculty choreographers.
The program includes performances such as
“Just a Little Ol’ Thang,” “Nine Person
Precision Ball Passing,” “Flood,” “In The
Company of Men,” “Blue Horses” and “Breath
of Fire” that will be performed by undergraduate
and graduate students in the dance department
on campus.
The two guest choreographers include Laura
Dean and Charles Moulton. The CSULB faculty
choreographers include Douglas Nielson,
director of “Celebrating Dance 2002,” Keith
Johnson, Susan McLain and Andrew Vaca.
Nielson said that all of the dances that
will be performed have been done in the
past at CSULB. He felt that it was important
to give the public a second chance to experience
some of their best pieces.
“You see a painting hang on a wall, but
a dance is gone in the “blink of an eye,”
Neilson said. “If you are not there to see
the performance it is gone forever.”
“Flood” will be the only performances that
will contain live music. The music is arranged
by Carl Czerny and is transcribed for four
pianos by Mark Uranker. Pianists Yoshimi
Gurwell, Yolanda Rodriguez, Mark Uranker
and Althea Waites will play the four grand
pianos on stage.
Nielson said that tickets are selling out
quickly. The concert starts at 8 p.m.
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