Dance Concert Canceled this Weekend
Weekend performances of “On the Edge,” Ƶ’s Fall Dance Concert, have been canceled. A free, one-time only showing has been tentatively rescheduled to Tuesday, Dec. 12 at 7 p.m. in Porter Theatre. If you have already purchased a ticket for the weekend and would like a refund, please email bwhitcomb@westmont.edu..
Susan Alexander, adjunct dance professor and the show’s director, will premiere new work created for her dance performance class. “The show opens with a group piece, ‘Really on the Edge,’ which pushes the dancers’ boundaries and physical capabilities,” Alexander says.
She has also choreographed a quartet, “Gone,” lamenting loss and moving on. Junior Heidi Rosentrater is featured in a solo, “Becoming,” which explores change and personal evolution. Melanie Bales, adjunct dance professor, has choreographed a piece in the tradition of the Judson Church Dance Theatre artists of the 1960s in New York.
Several Ƶ students have choreographed solo pieces, including senior Brenna Humphrey, sophomores Brittany Fayard and Abigail Pyron, and first-year student Andrea Rice, who has choreographed a group piece for her Ƶ debut.
Ƶ alumni Mackenzie Ellis and Miranda Wittrock return to perform a duet. Wittrock also has a solo, and Ellis presents a piece he created for 13 women he describes as “a playful, modern interpretation of the concepts from Bob Fosse, with influences from today’s established choreographers.”