Virtual October Dance 2022

Live Stream: We Oct 12, 2022, at 7:30pm CT
On-Demand Viewing: Mo Oct 17-Mo Oct 31, 2022
View on Vimeo

October Dance 2022 features an evening of premieres coming from multiple international aesthetics choreographed by new faculty members Serouj Aprahamian, Alfonso Cervera, and Roxane D’Orleans Juste, graduate student Sojung Lim, and new Head of the Department of Dance Sara Hook. Serouj (“Midus”) Aprahamian, an internationally known hip hop artist, is performing a new solo. Alfonso Cervera, founder of Poc-Chuc Dance, is making a work for the first-year students in the Department of Dance based on his background in experimental dance, Ballet Folklorico, and Afro-LatinX social dances. D’Orleans Juste who is Haitian-Canadian offers a group work conjuring the resilience of community in crisis and set to music by Samuel Barber. Sojung Lim who hails from Korea is creating a dramatic solo for fellow MFA candidate Ricky De Jesus-Valentin, who is from Puerto Rico and will be performing to live music by cellist and current PhD candidate in the School of Music, Keegan O’Donald. And Hook’s work Dick and Janes references the iconic American early reader series and is set to an original composition by Ralph Lewis (DMA '21 Music) performed live by percussionist Brant Roberts (current PhD candidate in the School of Music).

This performance contains adult language.

VIDEO LIVE STREAM AND ARCHIVE COORDINATOR
Laura Chiaramonte

VIDEO LIVE STREAM AND ARCHIVE ASSISTANT COORDINATOR
Elliot Emadian

LIVE STREAM DIRECTORS
Landon Allender
Sam Keller
Anna Lillig

LIVE STREAM VIDEO SWITCHER
Danielle Monet Johnson
M Ospina Lopez

CAMERA OPERATORS
Landon Allender
Sam Keller
Anna Lillig
Solveig Preus

October Dance 2022 will also be performed before an in-person audience Thursday-Saturday, October 13-15, in the Colwell Playhouse.