In Bodies Becoming: Three Evenings of Choreographic Research, a company of Trinity College student dancers stretch their minds and bodies, engaging in three distinct models of choreographic inquiry over the course of the semester.
An individual dancer will lead each evening performance combining experimentation and discussion, and highlighting the ongoing choreographic research of the artists.
The series will begin September 26 with Rebecca Pappas, associate professor of theater and dance, and will be followed by an October 24 performance by Sara Smith, a guest artist based in Western Massachusetts, and a December 5 performance by Brandon Couloute, instructor of theater and dance.
In her performance, Learning/Caring, Pappas imagines new futures that embody the challenges of caring for one another. The piece was grounded in repeated physical acts such as reflecting and refracting; echoing and materializing; holding and letting go.
Smith will present an excerpt of Inside the Breath (In Network Time), an imagined utopia rooted in ecological and social questions, and the theories of Gloria Anzaldúa, an American scholar of Chicana feminism. as modeled by octopuses.
The series will conclude with Brandon Couloute’s Marcus Rodriguez Live @Trinity, a live hip-hop concert experience featuring singer Marcus Rodriguez, along with professional and student dancers in an unforgettable, high-energy evening.
All showings of Becoming Bodies take place in the Performance Lab located in Trinity Commons, at the corner of Summit Street and New Britain Avenue, Room 152, at 7:30pm. Tickets are free and reservations are required.
Photos: Unbound
Photos: Unbound
Rebecca Pappas, associate professor of theater and dance, and the performers collectively imagined new futures in "Learning/Caring."
The piece was grounded in repeated physical acts such as reflecting and refracting; echoing and materializing; holding and letting go.
The performance embodied the challenges of caring for one another.
