Lane Music, Dance, and Theatre Arts

PRESS RELEASE

DATE: April 27, 2005
CONTACT: Myrna Seifert, Publicist: 463-5161
Bonnie Simoa, Dance Program Director: 463-5645
Music, Dance & Theatre Arts Department
4000 East 30th Ave., Eugene, OR 97405

DANCE FACULTY AND LANE STUDENT DANCERS PRESENT NEW SOLO WORKS AT SPRING CONCERT

The Spring Dance Concert featuring the works of Lane Dance Faculty is May 12, 13 & 14 at 8:00 p.m. in the Performance Hall (Bldg. 6) on the main campus at Lane Community College. The Lane Dance Company performs the work of Bonnie Simoa and Kim Vetter, and Cheryl Lemmer will present a piece with Lane dancers. Both Bonnie and Kim will also dance new solos. General admission tickets are $10.00 adult and $8.00 student/senior and may be purchased at the door beginning 1 hour prior to the concert. The Ticket Office information line is 463-5202.

Bonnie Simoa’s group piece, “Mercury” explores the spiral as a shape that informs the unfolding of life. Concepts of perspective and place weave through the dance structure, illuminating vantage points as guides to what we see as “real”. Complex spatial patterns and multi-dimensional movement continue to return to cyclic orbiting as a metaphor for the ever-changing realities of life. The choreographic process was collaborative springing from improvisations and compositions scripted and directed by Simoa and revealed through the dancers responses to the tasks, cues, and directives.

Simoa’s will premiere “Blue Dress Dance No. 2”, an solo to music from Pucicini’s opera Tosca. Humorous and extravagant, Simoa explores the meaning of grief, beauty, and destiny.

New dance faculty Kim Vetter presents “genesis,” in a continuing collaboration with composer Charles Lawrence Gran. For an ensemble of 8 dancers, the dance explores creation, evolution and transformation through movement and metaphor.

“Kim, Jim, Gymnopedies, 1,2,3” is a solo dance by Kim Vetter to Eric Satie’s 3 Gymnopedies played by pianist and Lane Music Faculty Jim Greenwood.

Cheryl Lemmer’s “In a Heart’s Breath” danced to music by Ryan Cabrera reflects the resiliency of the human spirit when someone reaches out to lift pain and sorrow from the soul of another. The choreographer collaborated with the dancers in the making of the dance creating a strong sense of ensemble and personal connection to the dance.

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