Thursday, April 2-Saturday, April 4, 8:00 p.m.

Student Dance Concert

Loree Dance Theater

$15/$15/$10 (student price available during daytime ticket office hours only, Monday through Saturday)

Sunday, April 5, 2:00 p.m.

BA Dance Showing

Loree Dance Theater

FREE-reservations required

Wednesday, February 11, 8:00 p.m.

Dance Within the Art
The Jane Vorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Zimmerli Student Advisory Board, and dancers of Mason Gross School of the Arts present Dance Within the Art. This program invites you to be amid movement, much as you would be surrounded by artwork in a gallery. The live installations are direct responses to the museum's collections, including paper art constructions by Takayo Noda and sculpture by Herbert Ferber. The dance, music, and art of each area will continue throughout the program, allowing you to visit each room at your own pace. Please join us for free refreshments and a post performance discussion.
Zimmerli Art Museum
FREE

Direct any inquiries here

Thursday, April 16-Saturday, April 18, 8:00 p.m.

Saturday, April 18-Sunday, April 19, 2:00 p.m.

DancePlus Spring*

Matsuda Variations (premiere)

Choreographer: Jeff Friedman

Music: 5 pieces for orchestra, op. 10 by Anton Webern

Matsuda Variations is an embodied exploration of how we think.  Inspirations for the new work include silent meditation, appearance and disappearance of thought, the virtuosities of hackeysack, and the distractions of Tourette's Syndrome.  First-year students in the Performance Skills course created all movement in collaboration with choreographer Jeff Friedman.

Divining (premiere)

Choreographer: Paulette Sears

Music: Somei Satoh and Jim Hake

Divinging's inspiration is taken from recent travels in Greece to ancient archaeological sites whose ruins are considered “divine” or sacred.  The dance’s aura is heightened by an evocative violin and piano score by contemporary composer Somei Satoh, and further supported with a set piece of natural forest wood by Jim Hake.

While I breathe, I hope (premiere)

Guest Choreographer: Cleo Mack

The dance will explore the physicality of breath, and the emotional connection of breath to hope. This piece will utilize kinetic partnering, breath support, and the risk of gravity to create an indulgent visual landscape.

Hit Cat (1997)

Choreographer: John Evans

Music by Squonk Opera

This is a fast paced dance for four made up of two contrasting duets that merge into a final quartet.

the obsessive idea of searching for an impossible perfection (premiere)

Choreographer: Randy James

Featuring music by Rutgers Kirkpatrick Choir

This is a work for 14 that includes a Finnish song by the composer Selim Palmgren performed by the Kirkpatrick Choir, the Biber Passacaglia for Solo Violin and the gospel song I Want Jesus to Walk With Me recorded by The Homes Brothers.

Canonic 3/4 Studies (July 29, 1982)

Guest Choreographer: Mark Morris

Composer: Various; arranged by Harriet Cavalli

Music: piano waltzes; short piano pieces in 3/4 time

Originally Canonic Waltz Studies, the title was changed when Morris discovered that not all the musical selections were waltzes. He created it on the students of his summer workshop at On the Boards in Seattle. The piece was a workshop for him too; he was about to make New Love Song Waltzes, and he was practicing working with 3/4 time.

New Theater

$25/$20/$15 (student price available during daytime ticket office hours only, Monday through Saturday)

Price Key:

General Public/Rutgers alumni and employees and Seniors /Students

Adobe Acrobat required to read many of the links.

*indicates assigned seating