The College at Brockport’s Department of Dance is presenting DANSCORE, a showcase of faculty choreography and student and faculty performances of newly choreographed and re-staged pieces November 18–21, 2009, at 7:30 pm in the Hartwell Dance Theater, Hartwell Hall, Kenyon Street on the Brockport campus. 
Darwin Prioleau, artistic director for the concert, feels that the concert is “a virtual feast of contemporary dance.” Each piece, expertly choreographed by the nationally renowned dance faculty, demonstrates the technical and performance virtuosity of the students in the department:
- James Hansen’s new piece, The Switching Yard, combines movement inspired by social dance forms and techno Latin music by Gotan Project to create complex partnering sequences and athletic movement phrases.
- Mariah Maloney’s DANSCORE 2009 premiere is a Mozart inspired sextet danced by six women. Maloney brings her dancers into direct dialogue with Mozart’s piano trio, Divertimento for Nine. Her creative process invites a reflective and sensitive collaboration between herself, dancers and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s sonata musical structures of exposition, development and recapitulation. Irish Solo: Turas ("thruss") also choreographed by new faculty member Mariah Maloney, creates a vibrant solo dance infused with the mood, rhythms and textures of traditional Irish music played by Lad Lane.
- Bill Evans’ PLANETARY SECRETS, originally choreographed for Winnipeg's Contemporary Dancers in Canada is a contemporary dance piece for five women to haunting instrumental and vocal music by Lisa Gerrard and Pieter Bourke, based on the Space Harmony theories of Rudolf Laban. It depicts spatial pulls and counter pulls, spatial tensions and constantly changing relationships to several geometric forms. The piece creates a mood of spacious serenity.
- Bill Evans, Suzanne Oliver and Kevin Warner will perform Love Story. The dance, set to music by Vivaldi, Chopin, and John Williams, follows the fate of two lovers through courtship, marriage and dissolution.
- BODY, also choreographed by Suzanne Oliver, but developed in collaboration with the dancers, springs from sensation, impression and biological fact to weave imaginative representations of “Bones,” “Blood,” and “Breath.”
- Darwin Prioleau’s Trilogy, Part I explores the personal development of an individual as she finds her own voice in a new culture and is inspired by music composer/musician Dave Rivello’s Chorale.
- Finally, no DANSCORE concert would be complete without a Bill Evan’s tap piece. Evans presents, YES, INDEED!, a light-hearted and entertaining rhythm tap work for nine women. The dancers create their own music with their feet, hands and voices.
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