The Department of Dance at Case Western Reserve University will host this spring’s production of MaDaCol (Mather Dance Collective) April 18 and 19 at 8 p.m. and April 20 at 7 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. at Mather Dance Center. Performances will feature new dance works by graduate students Brandon Gregoire and Yuting Zhao, undergraduate Amanda Lindamood and the return of a work by alumna Ziying Cui.
MaDaCol, one of the university’s oldest undergraduate student organizations, offers a creative outlet for CWRU graduate and undergraduate students, faculty, staff, and greater Cleveland community members.
About the works
Set to a dramatic composition by Silvestre Revueltas, Yuting Zhao’s Vicissitudes looks into the past to shed light on moments when a group of people interacts with each other. There is solidarity, but also exclusion and manipulation. Though you never know, by the end of the day, how much or how little is within control.
Brandon Gregoire’s new work, HELLION, explores dynamics shifts within a group of people. Within this group emerges an individual with a mischievous personality and selfish agenda to make the group partake in a different movement quality. Little does this individual know, the group will morph and change as one, leaving the “hellion” to fall behind and be forgotten.
Resonance is a quintet choreographed by Amanda Lindamood for her senior creative capstone project in dance, set to music by composer Gyorgy Ligeti. This is an abstract work in three sections featuring a solo done by the choreographer.
Returning to the MaDaCol stage, CWRU alumna Ziying Cui’s Poem of “Drum” is set to a percussion composition by Hok-Man Yim wherein drumbeats represent spiritual guidance and the strong and intense beat in our hearts.
Ticket information
All tickets are $7 and may be purchased at Mather Dance Center prior to each performance. Only cash or checks are accepted upon purchase. Early arrival is suggested due to limited seating. No reservations and no advance sales will be made.