Calendar of events 2009-2010
September
Sept. 26, 7:30pm
Community Concert
940 Dance Company performs an evening of varied and exciting works from the repertory, including artistic director Susan Rieger latest works The Gleaners and Resilence.
Baker Arts Center
Liberal, Kansas
September 27, 3:00pm
Outdoor Performance, relating to Rita Blitt show, “Fear of War”
5.4.7. Arts Center
Greensburg, Kansas
October
October 9, 9:00-10:30am
Bill Evans Master Class
With special thanks to the University of Kansas Dance Department who are sponsoring the October Bill Evans residency to set a work for their November University Dance Company concert. Additionally Evans will appear Sunday, October 4, at 7:00pm in a Solo Tap Performance in the Arts Center Theater.
Lawrence Arts Center, Studio 208, Lawrence, Kansas
Late October/Early November, Exact schedule TBA
Preschool Workshops in Lawrence and area
Susan Rieger, Artistic Director and Candi Baker, Founding Director Emeritis, will present a teachers’ workshop and approximately 20 preschool workshops in creative dance and related to the children’s concert performed by the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange at the Lied Center in November.
November
November 6-8, 2009
Regional Choreography Festival
Exciting three-day event includes workshops, panel discussions, master classes and two performances of the best of regional choreography. The full weekend is designed for professional choreographers, dance companies and advanced dancers from throughout the region to gather, present exciting concerts, share ideas and network for advancing the quality and access to dance from throughout the region.
Major performances for the weekend and open to anyone:
Nov. 6, 7:30 pm: Formal Showcase with invited regional companies
Nov. 7, 3:30 pm: Open Informal Showcase with emerging and experienced regional choreographers
Lawrence Arts Center
Also, during the weekend, participants will attend
Nov. 7, 7:30 pm: Liz Lerman Dance Co Performance of “Genome: Ferocious Beauty”
Kansas University Lied Center, Lawrence, Kansas
December
December 11, 12, 18, 19, 7:30pm
December 13 & 20, 2:00 pm Sunday matinee
A Kansas Nutcracker
940 Dance Company members join other professional and community actors and dancers to present this uniquely Kansan version of this magical Holiday Ballet. Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, Kansas
January
January 15, 2010, 1 pm
Kansas City Young Audience performance-Inside Dance
Rushton Elementary, Kansas City, Kansas
January 26, 2010, 7:00pm
First Step at Lakeview Concert—Transformations
The 940 Dance Company, Lawrence’s professional, contemporary dance company, will present Transformations, a concert for healing self and community, on Tuesday, January 26th at 7 pm at the Lawrence Arts Center. The tickets will be $5 for all ages. The residents and staff of First Step House will be special guests at the performance. First Step House is a half-way house for women recovering from drug or alcohol addiction.
The program will include new and old works. Artistic Director Susan Rieger will premiere Mood Swings, a dance in seven segments that traverses many emotions. Mood Swings will be accompanied by digital media from artist Andrea Fuhrman. In addition, Fuhrman will have other works on exhibit in the Arts Center lobby. Guest choreographer Cathy Patterson’s solo The Widow’s Chair will be performed by soloist Ashley Trullinger. LAC Choreographer Deborah Bettinger will explore the role of enabler in a butoh-like trio.
Old favorites on the program include Five Chapters, from Stories of Addiction, choreographed by Candi Baker, to an evocative poem by Portia Nelson about recovery. Disability Romp also uses text, by playwright Frankie Kranz, questioning who really is “crazy” in today’s world. The Gleaners begins with three women in long dresses, picking up the remnants left behind after harvest and ends with a dumpster-diving scenario. Resilience, a powerful quintet by Rieger, is performed to traditional Balinese flute and vocals and was inspired by the sculpture Standing Figures by Magdalena Abakanowicz. The program will close with Prismatica, performed in the dark with the dancers carrying lights and the audience donning refractive glasses to see the world in a different light.
For more information, please contact Susan Rieger, Artistic Director, 940 Dance Company at (785)843-2787.
- 940 Dance Company presents Transformations
- Tuesday, January 26th at 7 pm
- Lawrence Arts Center
- Tickets will be $5 for all ages
February
Pilobulous Master Class
Wednesday, Feb. 3rd, 10 am
940 Concerts for Youth of All Ages
Lawrence Arts Center
Thursday, Friday 11th, 10 am Preschool performance
February 13 & 14, 2010, 2 pm
This concert introduces students to contemporary dance, as well as reinforces literacy goals for K-5th grade. Girl Scouts workshops will follow up show, taught by 940 company members. Workshops/performance will fulfill requirements to earn dance badge.
Salina, KS Residency
February 25 & 26, 2010
-2 weekdays in schools-performances and workshops
March
Wonderscope Children’s Museum
March 19 (Friday), 2010, 10:30 am
Guest Artist EE Balcos
March 30 (Tuesday) – April 3 (Saturday)
Setting duet Forward/Rewind on two dancers
April
Earth Day Community Performance
South Park, Lawrence
April 17, 2010, Time TBA
New Works Concert and Audition
Lawrence Arts Center
April 31/May 1, 2010 7:30pm, May 2, 2-4pm Audition
Annual concert of new works by artistic director, guest artists and company members.
May
Dance of the Rings Site Specific Performance
May 2, Sunset, Clinton Lake, near Clinton Lake Museum
Rain date: May 7th, Sunset
Collaboration with Joan Stone and KU Dance Dept.
Marvelous Mother’s Day History Tour
May 8th, 2010
Fundraiser brunch and home tours