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Celebrating Spring with Dance Press Release

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  • May 3, 2013 at 2:30pm to May 5, 2013 at 9:30am
  • Location: Dorothy Jemison Day Theater
  • Latest Activity: Oct 22, 2020
The ASFA Dance Department will present Celebrating Spring with Dance at 7:30 p.m. May 3 & 4 and at 2:30 p.m. May 5th. The program will include several works of mostly original choreography and feature pieces by two guest artists.Choreographer Joey Doucette has produced high quality Las Vegas style performances across the United States, Latin America, Asia and Europe. He visited ASFA in February to work with dancers and create a piece of vintage style choreography called “A Touch of Fosse.” This jazz piece emulates the work of acclaimed choreographer Bob Fosse whose movie musicals Sweet Charity, All that Jazz and Chicago inspired Mr. Doucette.Germaul Barnes, a New York choreographer-dancer, has danced many years for Bill T. Jones and has set Jones’ work around the country. Barnes visited ASFA in March and reworked with one of his own pieces and ASFA dancers to create “Distinct Destiny with an Open Fist.” Barnes was originally commissioned to choreograph this work for Southern Dance Works, a local modern dance company for which ASFA Dance faculty member Teri Weksler is artistic director. “Barnes’ piece is about approaching life with strength and vulnerability,” Weksler said.The program will also include new works by dance department faculty members Martha Faesi and Teri Weksler. Weksler has created a modern dance work to the music of California composer Lou Harrison. Faesi’s choreography is set to music by French composer Claude Debussy for the younger ballet students.The department will repeat Anthony Tudor’s “Little Improvisations,” which is based upon the imagination of two children interpreted in nine movements to piano works by Robert Schumann. Filling out the program are excerpts from the Romantic comic ballet Coppéliaand an extended version of La stravaganza to music by Italian Baroque composer Antonio Vivaldi.These performances will take place at the Dorothy Jemison Day Theater, located at800 19th Street N., Birmingham, AL 35203. A reception will follow the Saturday performance.Parking is available curbside, under the interstate, and in the Boutwell Auditorium Parking Deck directly across the street.Tickets are $10 General Admission and $5 Students. They may be reserved atjkilgore@asfa.k12.al.usor by calling 205.252.9241, extension 2233.For more information on Alabama School of Fine Arts , please call 205.252.9241.
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