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Dancing through the fall
Fall dance concert blends modern with traditional choreography
Melissa Knowles
Senior Staff Writer
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Unlike Brown Bag, Hope Show uses original works of professional choreographers rather than Meadows dance students.
Wednesday night offered a free performance of the dance concert for students and the SMU community.
"This is the first Hope Show I've been too and I didn't know what to expect," Tyeson Seale said, a sophomore cinema-television major. "The dancers performances really held my interest."
The concert opens with an original ballet choreographed by Alvin Ailey, a Texas native and founder of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in New York.
After the ballet, a dramatic duo performs "The Beloved" written by Lester Horton.
"I've always wanted to perform a Lester Horton piece," said "Beloved" performer and sophomore dance major Brandon Perry-Russell.
"The entire show has more variety than last years', and really explores all of the [dance] department's talents," Perry-Russell said.
Pas De Cinq (from Sleeping Beauty), a ballet by Marius Petipa, follows "Beloved" with an upbeat tone and "The Bodyography," choreographed by Max Stone, concludes the concert in a flare of rhythm and movement.
First-year dancer Cristofer Cangero, who dances in the most modern of the four pieces, said this was more of a challenge than Brown Bag.
"The rehearsals have been long, but have definitely paid off," Cangero said. "It's great to just get up there and perform."
Show times are 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $12 for adults, $9 for senior citizens and $6 for SMU students. For more information contact the Meadows Ticket Office at (214) 768-2787.
