The Gallim Dance Company, a relatively new, but already respected force in physical performance, will be performing I Can See Myself in Your Pupil on Wednesday through Friday, September 23th through 25th, 2009 in concerts beginning at 7:30 pm in the Rose L. Strasser Studio of Hartwell Hall, Kenyon Street, on the campus of The College at Brockport.
Among Gallim Dance’s company members is SUNY Brockport alumnus Dan Walczak. Walczak is originally from Buffalo, New York, and received his BFA in dance from SUNY Brockport. There, he worked closely with many artists including Bill Evans, James Hansen, and Mariah Maloney.
Dan has had the opportunity to perform at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, ACDF, ADF, the Bates Dance Festival, the International Dance Festival, as well as several venues at SUNY Brockport and in Rochester, NY. Upon moving to New York City, Dan began working with Coriolis Dance Inc., as well as Keith A. Thompson's dance Tactics Performance Group. He joined Gallim Dance in 2008.
Gallim Dance burst onto the New York dance scene in 2007. Their debut performance at the Joyce SoHo caught the attention of the New York City dance community, bringing momentum to the burgeoning group of artists, brought together by artistic director and choreographer Andrea Miller. Miller’s works are simultaneously kinetic and intimate expressions of the self and its inner mosaic of weakness, desires and struggles. According to The New York Times, Gallim’s “dancers are excellent, the movement is inventive, and Ms. Miller's way of weaving groups together and teasing them into smaller units is often impressive.” I Can See Myself in Your Pupil is a suite of dances, set to the colorful music of the Israeli band, Balkan Beat Box. In bundles of outrageously combustive energy the dance exposes the accursed but ever-present awkwardness of attempting physical intimacy.
Tickets for the performances are $12 General, $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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