The College at Brockport’s Department of Dance is presenting DANCE/Hartwell featuring MFA thesis work choreographed by Heather Acomb, Kirstin Howard, and Melinda Planey. Performance will be Thursday through Saturday, March 5th to 7th at 7:30 pm in the Hartwell Dance Theater, Kenyon Street, on SUNY Brockport campus. The pieces include:
- Heather Acomb’s thesis piece examines the movement qualities of the legendary Doris Humphrey and how they connect to current aesthetics. Acomb was elected graduate student representative for the Student Dance Organization and secretary for Brockport's National Dance Education Organization (NDEO) student chapter. She also received the Pylyshenko-Strasser Graduate Dance Award for demonstrating a high level of academic achievement and two full-tuition summer study scholarships to attend the Limón Dance Company Summer Workshops.
- Kirstin Howard’s dance uses the sculptures created by Mitch Messina, chairperson of the Department of Art at Nazareth College, to establish a relationship between dance and art.
- Melinda Planey has choreographed a piece inspired by the movement, personality traits and relationships of birds. She is the editor of the Friends of Brockport Dance Newsletter.
Other works in this concert are newly created modern dance pieces by graduate and undergraduate choreographers selected by an adjudication committee which included students and faculty coordinators James Hansen and Juanita Suarez. In choosing pieces, the committee looked for original ideas, inventive movement vocabulary and diverse approaches to modern dance.
Tickets are $12 (general admission), $10 (seniors, College at Brockport faculty and staff) and $8 (students) and are available by phone at (585) 395-ARTS or at the Tower Fine Arts Center Box Office, 180 Holley Street, Brockport. Tickets may also be available at the Box Office in Hartwell Hall one hour prior to each performance.
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