Baltimore Dance Project
Saturday, February 9, 2013 · 8 - 10 PM
Baltimore Dance Project
Thursday - Saturday, February 7-9
8:00 p.m. each evening
Performing Arts and Humanities Building Theatre
Baltimore Dance Project celebrates 30 years of exciting dance in UMBC's beautiful new theatre with a visual feast of new and repertory work by directors Doug Hamby and Carol Hess. Expanding dance with visually stunning, interdisciplinary and collaborative works, and a riveting performance by award-winning dancer Sandra Lacy, the company brings together dancers, visual arts and live musicians, and features dances with interactive sound, video and spoken text.
Program will include:
- "If I Told Him," premiere. A dancer creates a compelling theatrical event as he dances, recites poetry by Gertrude Stein and manipulates a rope stretched across the stage.
- "Common Axis," premiere , created in collaboration with artist Timothy Nohe. In celebration of the company's 30th anniversary, Hamby, Hess and Nohe blend movement with video images of notable Baltimore Dance Project works of the past.
- "Construction #2," created by Hamby in honor of American composer, John Cage's centennial year, is a dance set to the music of Cage, performed live by percussionist Tom Goldstein and UMBC Department of Music alumni.
- Hamby's "Past/Forward," is a visually stunning work where today's dancers perform with beautiful silent dance films from the 1950's, originally created by choreographer Helen McGehee, with a musical score by Ferdinand Maisel.
- “Once Again,” Sandra Lacy shares the stage with 50 white balloons. A surreal journey into the haunting interior life of a performer, “Once Again” is performed in three sections — “Driven,” “On Display” and “Downward Spiral”– set to the music of Elvis Presley and to the text of Tom Waits.
- “Out to Play,” choreographed and performed by Sandra Lacy and Adrienne Clancy. A fanciful and fun-loving duet that celebrates the ability to play, take risks and indulge in whimsy, with music composed and performed by Hazmat Modine.
$20 general admission, $10 students and seniors, $7 UMBC students. Purchase advanced tickets online through MissionTix.com.
Photo, Marlayna Demond for UMBC