Tuesday, April 8, 2008

PURE ABSTRACTIONS: Collaboration

For PURE ABSTRACTIONS, collaboration was the key.

In addition to dances choreographed by students and by HSU dance faculty (Sharon Butcher and Deborah Ketelson), there is a dance created by a faculty member (Jeff O’Connor) together with a student (Marisol Elizarraras.) But more characteristic of PURE ABSTRACTIONS are the partnerships between dance choreographers and musical composers.

HSU Music professor J. Brian Post composed the score for Lela Annotto-Pemberton’s “Permutations. Lela Annotto-Pemberton and Tara Lihn perform a duet, “Head and Heart,” that was inspired by an original vocal composition by music student Calista Labolle.

One student turned out to be a triple threat: with a music major and dance minor Jesse Franzen choreographed one work (“First Pulse”), wrote the piano score for another (Edana Gentry’s “Origin”) and accompanies several more dances on the program as a musical performer.

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