Jasmine Wolfe, Carrie Walpole in "Elevated Contour" by Lyndsey Lascheck.  All photos HSU Graphic Services. Click photo to enlarge.

It's the essence of the dancers’ action: the struggle of muscles with the insistent tug of the planet, transformed into grace and expression.

Even more than most of us, dancers must be aware of the gravity of their situations. On the Van Duzer Theatre stage, the HSU dancers will “play with gravity, wrestle with it, negotiate it and define it,” HSU dance director Sharon Butcher said.