Due to weather forecasts related to Hurricane Ian, both performances have been cancelled. An archival video of a dress rehearsal will be made available to the dancers and their families once it has been edited.
Director’s Note
Welcome to Dancing in the Landscape!
Opening for the Elon University Performing Arts Production Season, Dancing in the Landscape invites the audience to meet outside Lindner Hall and travel through the Lambert Academic Village to experience Site-Specific dance performances in the beautiful landscape. This free event features original and experimental choreography by Faculty and Student BFA Majors, and we are also excited to highlight our first-year dancers in their debut performance within the Dance Program, supported by the Department of Performing Arts. Come join us during Parent’s weekend on Elon’s campus to enjoy fresh air, good music, and beautiful movers who are ready to perform for you.
~Jasmine Powell
Special Thanks
Will Roberson, Dance Program, Performing Arts Department, Sydney Dye, Alexa Lowey, Cultural Programs, Native American Student Association, Scott Stevens, Steven Whitsitt, Miranda Ferrante, Choreographers, Elon Dance Program Students and Families!
Production Team
| Artistic Director | Jasmine Powell |
| Assistant to Artistic Director | Gaby Cataldo |
| Costume Coordinator | Heidi Jo Schiemer |
| Front-of-House Coordinator | David McGraw |
| House Manager | Jack Morrill |
| Poster Design | Sydney Dye |
Pieces
Special Presentation by Rachel Dietert, President of the Native American Student Association (NASA) – Elon University Student Organization
Forbes20Tour “Walk With Me”
Choreographer: Brianna Forbes
“Walk With Me” is a movement reflection that aims to create a space where individuals can ponder the importance of building a healthy community and its role in loving people back to life. This piece also builds upon my personal passion for the homeless community of Greensboro, NC, their need for visibility and the need for the community to walk with them to love them back to life. This work is a movement response to the questions: Who do we need most in life right now, and what do we need most in life right now to flourish and come back to life? It emphasizes the importance of CHOICE. Choosing to embrace our own weaknesses as well as the strengths of others as they choose to walk with us and build us up in life. This piece also builds on personal reflections of how we should aim to grow in our own focus of becoming someone others can walk with and trust in their times of vulnerability. “Walk With Me” is remembering and acknowledging the value of one’s own weaknesses and strengths, community, healthy relationships, and the slow accumulation of regained strength through unity and visibility to empower each individual within a community, no matter their status to become their best whole self. My hope for everyone reading this is that you receive the strength to begin again however you need, and in whatever area you need, in this life. That you would embrace your weaknesses and allow others in to walk with you in this life. From my heart to yours, know that you are valued, appreciated, and here on this earth for a reason. Sending you love, hope, and strength for your journey to begin again and continue life with strength and hope for the future.
Music Credit: Drum Skat by Marlon D
Costume Design: Brianna Forbes
Dancers: Parker MacIntyre, Gaby Minionis, Khairi Morrow, Katey O’Connell
Understudy: Gia Nguyen
Sonder
Choreographer: Eileena Boyce
Movement Invention: sonder n. the profound feeling of realizing that everyone, including strangers passing in the street, has a life as complex as one’s own, which they are constantly living despite one’s lack of awareness of it.
Music Credit: We all Knew by Labrinth, Imagination by Labrinth
Costume Design: Eileena Boyce
Dancers: Lauren Jacobbe, Emma Morris, Isabella Piccirilli
Don’t Go, Come Home
Choreographer: Kate Shugar
Music Credit: Mother by John Lennon
Costume Design: Kate Shugar
Dancers: Pheriby Bryan, Riley Campbell, Anna Iglesias, Mia Johnson, Sarah Rothacker, Kayla Spalding
Understudy: Maggie Adams
Stand Your Ground
Choreographer: Maggie Addams
Movement Invention: Collaboration wtih Gabby Cataldo, and Isabella Sessa/ “Stand up for yourself like you would stand up for someone you love”
Music Credit: Easy by Son Lux, and A Moment Apart by ODESZA” by Sun Glitters
Costume Design: Maggie Addams
Dancer: Isabella Sessa
Understudy: Meredith Peck
Alerte aux Splash
Choreographer: Jiwon Ha in collaboration with dancers
Movement Invention: “Alerte aux Splash” is a contemporary dance piece that reflects on our daily emotions and conflicts with one another. This piece was inspired by French Impressionism composer Joseph Maurice Ravel. It’s been a great joy to work with our freshman students, rehearsal assistant Emma Stenger, and Professor Jasmine Powell. I’m thrilled to share this work with our audience.
Music Credit: Ravel: String Quartet In F Major, M.35: 2. Assez vif. Très rythmé by Dover Quartet & Brooklyn Classical
Costume Design: Heidi Jo Schiemer
Dancers: Natalie Dixon, Brooke Goldstein, Elizabeth Kennedy, Camryn Lowry, Amy Palmer, Lilly Sears, Lila Snodgrass
Rehearsal Assistant: Emma Stenger
DELTA S
Choreographer: Parker MacIntyre
Music Invention: entropy: lack of order or predictability; gradual decline into disorder
Music Credit: It’s Been a Long, Long Time by Harry James, Enter Sandman by Metallica, IV. Sweatpants by Childish Gambino, I. Crawl by Childish Gambino, Pleasant by SebastiAn and Charlotte GainsbourgA Passover Haggadah”
Costume Design: Alexandra Strouse
Dancers: Haley Asbury, Madi Boyer, Hannah Burnett, Caroline Irmscher, Makayla Kanerviko, Olivia Lanter, Rachel Rightmyer, Maya Simmons
Just becoming
Choreographer: Jessica Werfel
Music Credit: Imagine by Drehz; Carry You by Novo Amor
Costume Design: Jessica Werfel
Dancer: Gabby Cataldo
Enshrined
Choreographer: Jasmine Powell
Movement Invention: “There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow, so today is the right day to love, believe, do and mostly live.” Dalai Lama Dedicated to the First Year BFA Dance Majors.
Music Credit: Poem by David Whyte, Read by George Wilkerson Jr, Hello From Earth by Hyume and Alex Serra
Costume Design: Jasmine Powell
Dancers: Anaya Agard, Lindsey Goldstein, Evelyn Ealey, Aleah Newman, Aleah Newman, Sophie Seitchik
Rehearsal Assistant: Emma Morris
