The Department of Dance at Case Western Reserve University is pleased to announce this spring’s production of MaDaCol (Mather Dance Collective) presented on April 18 and 19 at 8:00 p.m. and April 20 at 7:00 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Performances will feature new dance works by graduate students Brandon Gregoire and Yuting Zhao, undergraduate Amanda Lindamood, and the return of a work by CWRU alumna Ziying Cui.
MaDaCol, one of the university’s oldest undergraduate student organizations, offers an important creative outlet for CWRU graduate and undergraduate students, faculty, staff, and the greater Cleveland community members.
About the Works:
Set to a dramatic composition by Silvestre Revueltas, Yuting Zhao’s Vicissitudes looks into the past to shed light on moments when a group of people interact with each other. There is solidarity, but also exclusion, and manipulation. Though you never know, by the end of the day, how much or how little is within control.
Brandon Gregoire’s new work, HELLION, explores dynamics shifts within a group of people. Within this group emerges an individual with a mischievous personality and selfish agenda to make the group partake in a different movement quality. Little does this individual know, the group will morph and change as one, leaving the ‘hellion’ to fall behind and be forgotten.
Resonance is a quintet choreographed by Amanda Lindamood for her senior creative capstone project in dance, set to music by composer Gyorgy Ligeti. This is an abstract work in three sections featuring a solo done by the choreographer.
Returning to the MaDaCol stage, CWRU alumna Ziying Cui’s Poem of “Drum” is set to a percussion composition by Hok-Man Yim wherein drumbeats represent spiritual guidance and the strong and intense beat in our hearts.
Tickets and Location:
All performances take place at Mather Dance Center located at 11201 Bellflower Road, on the Case Western Reserve University campus. All tickets are $7 and may be purchased at Mather Dance Center prior to each performance. Only cash or check are accepted upon purchase. Early arrival is suggested due to limited seating. No reservations and no advance sales will be made.