Hartt Dance, named “Best College Dance Program” by DanceUS for the past six years in a row, brings to the stage its fall program of classical and contemporary works. The selected repertoire features the dancers of The Hartt School Dance Division in four very unique styles:
Martha Graham’s Diversion of Angels, to an original score by Norman Dello Joio, premiered in 1948 in New London, Conn. It is a timeless classic of the modern dance idiom revealing three aspects of love, restaged by Kim Stroud, a former Graham Company member and currently on faculty at Hartt.
The renowned 19th century Ballet choreographer, Marius Petipa, is represented in excerpts from Le Corsaire and La Bayadére. These are being staged by faculty member Hilda Morales who danced these works with American Ballet Theater and Pennsylvania Ballet.
Debra Ryder, a former principal dancer with The Hartford Ballet is recreating her work Passeri which is a contemporary ballet “en pointe” taking inspiration from the avian form, passerine.
And lastly, Katie Stevinson-Nollet, former dancer and founding director of Full Force Dance Theater is busy creating a new work, featuring 18 dancers from the second, third, and fourth year student body.
Hartt School Dance Director, Stephen Pier, shares, “As words become a less trustworthy and more divisive mode of communication, we can find joy, truth, and deep connection in sharing humanity’s most elemental and honest form of communication, Dance!”
Join us in Millard Auditorium Nov. 13–14, for performances at 7:30 p.m. and on Nov. 15, for performances at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Free for faculty, staff and students, with UHart ID. Get tickets here.