Program
PushBack: wake-work #9
Choreography: Nia Love
Music: Fog Horn Sound scape, Life saving Drill plus combat swimmer stroke, Dustin O’Halloran We Move Lightly, Christina Sharpe excerpt from In The Wake: On Blackness and Being, S20 Hepatic extract, Donny Hathaway I Love You More Than You’ll Ever Know(live)
Cast: Saroya Corbett, Hannah Fegurson, Crystal Ruelas, Bella Stenvall, Nia Love
Looking to explore the effect of the oceanic and the cybernetic as sites that destablize space and identity.
The weight of nothing[ ]...specters of the
Atlantic displacement
5-7-5
Choreography: Ros Warby
Music Ryoji Ikeda. Data Anatomy 19 (Civic); Headphonics
Cast: Chantal Cherry, Levi Gonzales, Pearl Marill, Sheridan Slaterbeck, Sage LaCroix, DaEun Jung
5-7-5 addresses notions of hierarchy within society and the self. This work is a collection of material developed over the past couple of years, and within our process together this spring, that will continue to develop into more extended solo and ensemble works.
The dancers are acting as both performer and choreographer simultaneously, juggling multiple attentions at once, not prioritizing any single moment over another. As they work, they are choreographing themselves, the relationship between one another, and the space they are dancing in.
Thank you to the dancers for their curiosity, questioning, insight and perceptiveness.
And to Arsenio for his exceptional work in framing and elevating our dances year after year, and Mark for his support with sound editing.
Sega
Choreography: Kyle Abraham
Rehearsal Director: Tula Strong
Music: ‘Ra’ by Jlin, ‘Never Created, Never Destroyed’ by Jlin, and ‘Challange To Be Continued’ by Jlin
Cast: Hannah Clarke, Sadie Wilking, Courtney Goffney, Amanda Adams, Stephanie Hing, Anna Weideman, Michelle May, Grace Tankersley, Maya Kell-Abrams, Mizuki Sako,
This work was created in collaboration with the performers through movement phrases and ideologies presented during my first AIM repertory course taught in the winter quarter.
I N T E R M I S S I O N
Throwing Face
Choreography: Cheng-Chieh Yu
Music: Ryoji Ikeda: Headphonics & +/-, Maya Beiser; Lisa Moore; Steven Schick; Robert Black; Mark Stewart: The Manufacture of Tangled Ivory, and Text by the cast members
Media Technical Director: Francesca Albrezzi
Cast: Darrian O’Reilly, Kelsey Manes, Mizuki Sako, Claudia Mayoss, Charles Han
Throwing Face explores qualities of human exchange, physical humor, language and the disembodied voice. Media tools are used to foreground a dichotomy of spoken conditions, against relational-body choreography. Questions such as, when does language become symbol liberated from both situation and an embodied intent?
Throwing Face will be live-streamed on Facebook as part of the work. It is an opportunity to experience the extended kinesphere, from the live dance mediated by your personal devise. If you are interested in doing so, please sign on to the WACD Department’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/UCLAWACD/. You can also look for “The Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance” on your Facebook App. If you don't have a Facebook account, please view it with your neighbors.
House of to be
Choreography: Gracie Whyte
Music: amiina, Susumu Yokota, Oneohtrix Point Never, Huerco S., Nicolas Jaar
Cast: Isabela Kimmel, Rian Alcid, Marissa Perez, Kelsey Manes, Delilah Gamson-Levy, Sadie Wilking, Cecelia Montalvo, Stephanie Hing, Grace Tankersly, Maya Kell-Abrams, Hannah Clarke, Anna Weideman, Anna Dickson, Ally Wade, Charles Han
The house is where you come from but will no longer go. Where a new grief sparks the older griefs you thought were sturdy. The griefs that were your foundation, layers first then walls and doors, an attic, a shed. Time, human limits, and memory. A changing identity and the illusion of a stable one. Here is an exploration that resists narrative, the discovery of a shifting identity through sensitivity of movement.
The Birds & The We’s: Simulations In Love (2018)
Choreography: Nina Flagg
Music: J Cole, Kendrick Lamar, Chloe x Halle, Dntel, The Supremes, Distant People, Louie Vega
Cast: Tabitha Bond, Cherie Gendron, Courtney Goffney, Yingru Huang, Alexis Iritani, Scarlett Leon, Miguel Madrid, Aubrey Mamaid, Giulia Marsella, Madeline Nobida, Crystal Ruelas, Sabina Schaffer, Willie Scott IV, Raphael Smith, Isi Tuifua
This work addresses the varied emotions we experience when choosing to engage in the practice of love. These emotions may range from self-discovery, compassion and jealousy to adoration, empowerment and joy. When we examine love relationships as a series of simulations, we recognize our own agency in choosing our experience. Love becomes a choosing rather than a happening.
Thank you
Thank you to the First Hand choreographic cohort! The Faculty of WACD celebrates the unique visions that these choreographers have shared with our dance students. The whole WACD community is indebted to Arsenio, Mark, Ginger and the production team for their wonderful, unconditional support for First Hand.
Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance
Production Staff
Faculty Producer: Cheng-Chieh Yu
Production Manager: Ginger Holguin
Technical Director: Arsenio Apillanes
Lighting Designer: Arsenio Apillanes
Sound Engineer: Mark Goebel
Board Operator: Michele Barnes
Production Crew: Sabrina Mullen, Lissette Argoud
Production Assistant: Chantal Cherry
Graphic Design: Stefanie Tam
Photographer: Tim Richards
WACD Administrative staff
Departmental Chair: Lionel Popkin
General Manager: Marcia Argolo
Assistant to the Chair: Lynn Tatum
Fund Manager: Lisa Park
Academic Personnel Officer:Tiffany Long
Student Affairs Officers: Hayley Safonov and Megan Weitzel
Video Lab Manager: Will O’Loughlen
Administrative Coordinator: Erica Angarano
Upcoming Events in World Arts and Cultures/Dance
SOAA Commencement
Saturday June 16, 4pm
Dickson Court North
WACD High School Dance/Performing Arts Summer Institute
June 23 to July 1
Culmination performance: July 1, 2pm
Glorya Kaufman Dance Theater
For more info on WACD Summer Sessions and all our summer activities: http://www.summer.ucla.edu/
Many thanks go to Friends of WACD, alums, faculty, parents, corporate and foundation organizations for their generosity and support for the department’s programs and students; many of them are in this event.
Please consider making a donation to support the unique programs in this department. Your gift (at any level) will make a real difference in the lives of students today and in the future. Visit our department’s website, www.wacd.ucla.edu and link to “Giving to WACD” or go directly to: https://giving.ucla.edu/Standard/NetDonate.aspx?SiteNum=37
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