Each year, “Dancing in the Landscape” is performed in various locations around campus allowing audience member to experience each location in a different way. This year’s event will take place at Loy Farm.

Performances will occur during Family Weekend on Friday, Sept. 29 at 5:30 p.m. and Saturday, Sept. 30 at noon at Loy Farm. The event is open to all and has free admission.

Those interested in attending the Friday performance can take the Elon Express Shuttle from the Center for the Arts building on North Williamson Avenue at 5 p.m.

Dance movement is an artistic experience that utilizes and interacts with our inner emotions while also representing the larger context of the world around us.

Semiotic theory is the science of signs and when applied to dance movement can be a way for understanding how meaning is created and conveyed to an audience.

The final choreographic work, featuring Elon dance majors and minors, will blend the ideas of perception and reality, through the lens of escapism. The full-length work will feature seven vignettes all inspired by the ideas previously mentioned.

It wanders somewhere between the realms of reality and enchantment; weaving the movement and atmosphere into a journey. The windy path of one’s life, containing protruding branches makes it hard to tell what is real and what is a simple trick of light and shadow. The ideal reality we create for ourselves could be just as sinuous as the one we are already living and filled with faults of its own.

There is a dilemma in deciding when to push forward on the path and when to turn around. One must decide what they are willing to give up on the journey of escape and if the magic and the joy are worth the risk. Can we work to find the bits of magic in our present reality or are we only looking to escape?

This 30-minute long performance piece will be presented in a virtual format. It will premiere on April 23 at 7:30 pm and will continue through April 25 at 10 p.m. The performances are free and open to the public.

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The concert will be streamed live each day at 7:30 p.m. at and feature performances by Elon Dance majors. Access to the live stream is free and open to the public.

The Fall Dance Concert features six original choreographic works for physically distanced solos, duets, trios, and quartets by Elon Dance faculty, students and guest choreographers Renay Aumiller (Artistic Director), Caroline Boothe, Jasmine Powell, Marissa Mahoney, Lauren Mitchell and Alex Warren. It celebrates diverse and varied voices in dance that reflect the challenges, limitations, repressions and isolation experienced uniquely by being alive in 2020.

This concert features dances that physicalize the humanistic experiences of current social landscapes through themes relating to community, social justice, self-analysis, and hope. While uniquely different in how they are presented, the choreographers all created works that are physically distanced yet rich in emotional proximity. The unique artistic choices made from one dance to another are eloquently executed by Elon dance majors, who are charged with the task of performing such varied and intense choreography.

“Chroma,” ����app�ٷ���վ��’s Spring Dance Concert, features six different dances by faculty and guest choreographers including Renay Aumiller (Artistic Director), Jason Aryeh, Amy Beasley, Lauren Kearns, Jen Guy Metcalf and New York-based guest artist, Gallim Dance Company. This concert showcases works that creatively investigate the theme, “Chroma,” by means of stage lighting, movement, music, rebellion, and societal metaphors.

Chroma means the saturation of a pure, brightly intense color. A chromatic theme offers a common thread from one dance to another while allowing for individuality and unique aesthetic representations in each choreography. While one dance may highlight hues as a theme for movement invention, another dance uses chroma as a motivator for cultural reflections on female identification. The eclectic artistic interpretations from one dance to another is eloquently executed by Elon Dance Majors, who are charged with the task of performing such varied and intense themes of vibrancy and saturation.

“Chroma” is a team-driven collaboration between all involved choreographers, technical, design, and production members of the Elon Department of Performing Arts.

On Feb. 16 and 17, senior dance majors and Elon College Fellows Abigail Corrigan and Corinne Wilson will be presenting “Of Those Who Live” and “Reconstructing Jazz,” a dance concert consisting of two full-length pieces choreographed by the students.

Both Corrigan and Wilson have been conducting separate research projects through the College Fellows program during their time at Elon, and this concert is a demonstration of both of their findings.

Elon Dance Majors of all grades will perform the two works. The show will be on Friday, February 16 at 6 p.m. and 8:30 p.m., as well as on Saturday, Feb. 17 at 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. The performances will take place in the Black Box Theatre at the Center for the Arts.

On February 16, Corrigan and Wilson will hold an artist talk back at 7:30 p.m. to have an open discussion with the audience. In addition, on Feb. 17 there will be a reception open to all members of the community following the 6 p.m. show.

“Of Those Who Live,” choreographed by Corrigan, is a full-length dance piece that utilizes a choreographic process that is emanated from Ernest Hemingway’s Iceberg Theory of writing, which she created through her research. The Iceberg Theory is a minimalistic approach to writing where only surface details, such as descriptions of setting and dialogue between characters, are included while larger thematic elements are left open to interpretation.

This form of writing evokes a more intense emotional response from the reader. “The first time I read a work by Hemingway, I felt as if I became a part of the story,” Corrigan observed. “I knew the thoughts and inter workings of the characters, making me feel as if I had my own role in the story.  In “Of Those Who Live,” I aim to make the audience experience this same sensation through my piece of dance art that I had when I read Hemingway for the first time.”

It is Corrigan’s theory that the combination of the creative development behind the movement and the sensory experience of the dancers on stage will parallel Hemingway’s writing style in the medium of dance. In turn, the work will invite the audience of “Of Those Who Live” to engage with the work on a more intimate level, as Hemingway was able to do with his readers.

Through this process of choreographing that Corrigan researched, she and her dancers have created a work that explores what the phrase “you aren’t really living until you’re almost dead” means to the six dancers on stage and the audience in the room. In order to unpack the meaning behind these words, the saying will be analyzed from a physical, aesthetic and emotional perspective using intricate and humanistic movements. At the end of “Of Those Who Live,” the audience will be able to feel the true meaning behind the phrase “you aren’t really living until you’re almost dead.”

The research behind “Reconstructing Jazz” began with an analysis of the choreographic works created by five of the most influential jazz dance artists of the 20th century listed above. From the information uncovered in these analyses, Wilson created five new dances using the most prominent choreographic concepts and stylistic characteristics of each choreographer. Allison Ivan, a junior dance major at Elon and a dancer in the work “Reconstructing Jazz,” said, “Corinne’s research has helped me better understand the fundamentals of jazz, and her choreography has challenged me to develop another side of my artistry.”

In addition to the five pieces Wilson has choreographed in the styles of Giordano, Fosse, Luigi, Horton and Mattox, she created a sixth piece using influences from all of these choreographers in the way that feels most interesting and natural to her own artistic processes. “Reconstructing Jazz” is a result of all of the information and techniques Wilson has learned from her research over the past two years.

Through their hard work and research, Corrigan and Wilson have not only grown as artists, but also as professionals and scholars.

“This has been the most interesting, artistically challenging, and rewarding process I’ve ever been a part of,” Wilson said. “This show has changed the way I approach dance and has pushed me to become a better artist, choreographer, and director in so many ways.”

The work the two students have committed to this project is demonstrative of the quality of the performance. The combination of Corrigan and Wilson’s works in “Of Those Who Live” and “Reconstructing Jazz” will create a dance concert that is not only engaging, but spans a wide range of interest. With two varying styles of dance, every audience member is sure to be engaged by the work  Corrigan and Wilson have created and will leave the theater having experienced an evening of dance like no other.

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Email collegefellowsdanceconcert@gmail.com for reservations.

Students will perform site-specific choreography in, with, and around the sculptures located in front of Arts West while being serenaded by faculty and students from the Music Department. We invite the audience to take a walk with us as we utilize dance to accentuate the natural beauty of the environment.

Artistic Direction by Assistant Profesor of Dance Renay Aumiller with choreography by faculty Suzanne Beahrs and Amy Beasley. Music direction by Jinny Novine-Whittaker. Student choreography by Alexandra Fung and Brittany Pappaconstantinou. Guest performance by Elon alumnus Galen Schneider. 

Students will perform site-specific choreography in various locations across campus. We invite the audience to take a walk with us as we utilize dance to accentuate the natural beauty of the environment. Co-directed by Professor Renay Aumiller and Professor Sara Tourek from the Dance Program in collaboration with Professor Susanne Shawyer from the Theater Studies Program and Professor William Moner from the Communications Department. 

Reservations are accepted by emailing introspectionsproductions@gmail.com. Seating is limited.