PCC Dance performs Signature Selections Dec. 13-14

 

From: Carder, Carol [mailto:ccarder@pima.edu]
Subject: press release: Pima Community College Dance performs Signature Selections Dec. 13-14

 

 

November 19, 2013
 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Pima Community College Dance performs to a diverse mix of choreography and music in Signature Selections

what: Pima Community College Dance concert Signature Selections
where: PCC Center for the Arts Proscenium Theatre, West Campus, 2202 West Anklam Road, Tucson, AZ 85709-0225
when: Dec. 13-14, Fri. at 7:30 p.m., Sat. at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
tickets: $10 with discounts available
information: 520-206-6986, www.pima.edu/cfa
 
Tucson, Arizona-- Pima Community College performing arts department presents the PCC Dance concert Signature Selections, under the direction of Aurora Gonçalves-Shaner. The dynamic program features faculty and student choreographed pieces inspired by a variety of movement processes distinctive of each choreographer, highlighting hip-hop, jazz, modern/contemporary and ballet styles.

 

Selections include “Carcará” a Brazillian dance choreographed by Gonçalves-Shaner, who pulls from her roots to illustrate the story of the carcará, a native desert bird of prey. The dance captures the movement of stuggle with capoeira in the fighting scene. The vocal sounds of “Baianá” by Barbatuques and the use of fierce tribal makeup heightens the tension in the movements of the dancers. A student choreographed piece uses the music from “Titanic” in which she creates small vignettes of ocean life that blends different styles of movement in one cohesive and beautiful dance. A nod is give to Bob Fosse’s unmistakeable style in the dance piece “All That Jazz.” Faculty Nichol Mason creates a modern dance piece based on the quote, "Surrender to what is. Let go of what was. Have faith in what will be." The dance is a visceral journey through human vulnerability, abandonment, trust and acceptance. Another piece by Mason is a highly energetic, fiery jazz dance to the song, "Kill of the Night" by Gin Wigmore that blends classic jazz and thrash-jazz with a hint of burlesque. The finale brings humor and playfulness into the concert with “Crazy Bus.” A hip-hip dance of audacious scenes in which the dancers move in, out and around a school bus to the music “Cagado” by Bonde do Rolê.

 

Director Gonçalves-Shaner describes the dance selections in this way, “The movement created by the choreographers represent and express their signature movement styles.”

 

Pima Community College Center for the Arts is located on the West Campus just west of downtown and I-10 on St. Mary’s Rd, which turns into Anklam Rd. Box office hours are Tuesday-Friday, noon to 5 p.m. and one hour prior to performance.

 

 

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