Guest artists from the Martha Graham and José Limόn dance companies and the local dance community join faculty members E.E. Balcos, Kim Jones, Tamara Williams, Kaustavi Sarkar, and Shamou for an exciting and eclectic program featuring contemporary dance, Indian Odissi dance, African-based dance, and multi-media performance - all with live music. The Department of Dance welcomes an array of outstanding musicians: music faculty Mira Frisch, Jessica Lindsey, and Elizabeth Sullivan, with guests Anna Cromwell and Lisa Nelson; master sitarist Hans Utter; Afro-Brazilian percussionist Luciano Xavier; and the musicians of the Bechtler Ensemble, with conductor Alan Yamamoto. Tickets are $18, $12 for UNC Charlotte faculty and staff, $10 for seniors, and $8 for all students.
Movement Migration will be performing Phoenix, Revive, and Untamed.
"Amy Claugus and Pablo Francisco Ruvalcaba, are exceptional. Expressive and strong performers. I was able to discern every unspoken narrative action and was impressed with their expressive contribution to the movement material. There was never a moment that I questioned skill or experience level; the movers executed the (movement) material with mastery." - Jeffery Bullock
"In Untamed, the performers, E.E. Balcos and Masha Dashkina Maddux, are exceptional. The performers move beautifully together. They sinuously move around, through and between each other wonderfully. They are in sync." - Jeffery Bullock