The second special performance coming up is the Fifth annual Bill Evans & Friends: An Intimate Evening of Contemporary Dance, which will take place on Saturday, July 11th at 8:00 p.m. in the Strasser Studio, Hartwell Hall, Kenyon Street south of Monroe Avenue and west of Utica Street, The College at Brockport, State University of New York.
Tickets for this performance are $10 general admission, $5 college and secondary school students. Tickets are available at the door only, after 7:00 p.m. on July 11th. The performance will be approximately two hours, with one intermission.
This evening will provide a relaxed and close-up view of a wide variety of contemporary dance styles and moods, set to a wide array of musical styles. Choreographers sharing works in this concert are:
- Bill Evans and Don Halquist, both internationally-acclaimed performers and both professors at The College of Brockport, who will perform the jointly-choreographed duet, Stand By Your Man, which depicts a light-hearted version of their 25-year personal/ professional relationship to music by Patsy Cline.
- Kista Tucker, nationally-known choreographer and teacher, who will share a work performed by members of her Rochester-based Kista Tucker Dance Company.
- Missy Pfohl Smith, who began her impressive professional career in New York City-based modern dance companies. She will share a work performed by members of her Rochester-based contemporary dance company BIODANCE.
- Deborah Birrane, accomplished solo artist from Seattle, who will give her premier performance of Under the Moon, By the River by acclaimed New Mexico choreographer Debra Knapp.
- Joanna Cashman, director of Wild Grace Arts in Olympia, Washington, who will perform her yoga/modern solo Samskara.
- Denise Purvis, MFA in dance alumna from The College of Brockport Department of Dance, who now directs a performing arts high school dance program in Midlothian, Virginia, will perform a new solo work.
- Gabrielle Brigida, Hobart William Smith Colleges dance major from Syracuse, who will share the premier performance of a self-choreograhed solo.
- Andrea Vazquez, from Mexico City, and Kathleen Reagan, from Oklahoma City, both MFA candidates in the Brockport Department of Dance, who will perform a collaboratively-choreographed exploration of the Japanese Butoh style.
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