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Purdue Contemporary Dance Company
Spring Works 2024 Dance ConcertPurdue Contemporary Dance Company
Friday, April 26 - 7:30pm
Saturday, April 27 - 2:30pm & 7:30pm
$16.00 adults - $12.00 students – $8.00 Child 12 & under
Additional donations to PCDC are welcome! https://connect.purdue.edu/s/givenow
Purdue Campus Box Office – 765.494.3933
Please contact Sally Wallace at 765.494.5993 or rueffdance@groups.purdue.edu for more information
The Purdue Contemporary Dance Company, housed in the Patti and Rusty Rueff School of Design, Art, and Performance in Yue-Kong Pao Hall, presents new works by two dance faculty, three select student artists and a Guest Artist from the Purdue Black Cultural Center. The Division of Dance and Theatre Department faculty and students collaborate intensively to create original art on the stage, and to prepare students for careers in these performative disciplines. Original movement is created in the studio for each work over the course of the entire semester. All works are accompanied by original music/sound created specifically for these dances by students in the Theatre Department’s Sound Design program in collaboration with choreographers. Rueff School light-design students work with choreographers to craft special light designs on the Hansen Theatre stage.
Commune is a new dance from Joshua L. Ishmon, Dancer and Resident Choreographer for Chicago’s Deeply Rooted Dance Theater, Co-Founder and Director of Production:COLORS, as well as the Artist in Residence for the Purdue Black Cultural Center’s Jahari Dance Ensemble. This new work was developed with the PCDC dancers to explore the imperative need for people to support, trust and breathe with others to ensure some semblance of progress, especially in times of challenge and fatigue.
e-mail – joshualishmon@gmail.com phone – available by request hometown – Gary, IN 46403/Chicago, IL 60637
Cosmic Elements is the third work student choreographer Kendalyn Fruehauf has created on PCDC. This piece explores the different energies and textures of fire, water, earth, air, void, and consciousness. Fruehauf is a senior majoring in data science and statistics.
e-mail –kfruehau@purdue.edu phone – 269.598.1361 hometown – Kalamazoo, MI 49087
Faculty choreographer Kathleen Hickey plunges into the idea of memories and how we hold onto the movement of them in her new work Evocative Upsurges of Nostalgia. Working with a cast of thirteen dancers, Hickey moves them through the space with ease utilizing dynamic patterns, robust jumps, and spiral movement that creates community.
e-mail hickey7@purdue.edu phone – 708.203.6825) hometown – West Lafayette, IN 47906
Dawn of Time, created by student choreographer Sarah Wagler, explores the well-known story of the historical creatures known as dinosaurs. Wagler’s work researches the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods, to bring to life these ancient creatures in a stage space. Sarah is a graduating senior majoring in Computer Science and minoring in Dance.
e-mail – sawagler@purdue.edu phone – 812.709.2662 hometown – Loogootee, IN 47553
Caitlin Davis’ new work In the Wake explores people coping with the deviation and loss that occurs in the aftermath of disaster. Davis is a senior majoring in Political Science and Communications.
e-mail – davi1428@purdue.edu phone – 847.778.4333 hometown – Gilberts, IL 60136
Faculty member Holly Jaycox is premiering her work Rites of Change. Jaycox uses movement as a lens to investigate multiple approaches to how we encounter and respond to change. Ten dancers worked with her highly improvisational process to create this set choreographic work.
e-mail –hollyj@purdue.edu phone – 765.490.0784 hometown – Lafayette, IN 47901
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XWorks Performance
February 23-24, 2024