Spring 2016 Senior Project Concert: Identity4

VCU Dance & Choreography Department Presents:

Spring 2016 Senior Project Concert: Identity4

Saturday, April 23rd, 2016 at 8:00pm

Tickets: $15/$10 Students (Reserved Seating event)

Virginia Commonwealth University's Department of Dance & Choreography is pleased to present Identity4 Spring 2016 Senior Project Concert, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, April 21, 22 & 23 at 8:00 pm at the Grace Street Theater, 934 West Grace Street, Richmond, VA. Tickets are $15/$10 students with valid I.D. Group discounts available. Visit Showclix.com or call 804-828-2020 for reservations.

Join the VCU Dance class of 2016 as they present their capstone choreographic projects in Identity4. Experience the different identities that make us question our obsession with electronic stimuli, and a satirical look at how masculinity shapes our interactions with society. Take a journey on the path to empowered intimacy after trauma, and tip the scales to reveal how power is divided in various relationships. This concert is enlivened by VCU Dance's collaboration with Theatre VCU, eight of whose students are providing lighting and costume design for the four choreographers' works.

Anna Jane Glascock's new work delves into a dystopian future controlled by the presence of technology. When the element of addictive technology is stripped from society, individuals must fight to rediscover their identities and deal with raw human interaction.

Assertive by Rule, choreographed by Reese Goldman, presents three duets that examine the balance of power and dominance in relationships. Six dancers shape the space with exciting partnering and rich physicality, set to contrasting music to further reveal the power dynamics of relationships.

Rex Kennedy’s Man Down examines the detrimental effects of toxic hyper-masculinity through a collection of vignettes centered around childhood experiences. His seven dancers traverse extreme performative states and lush, precarious movement while using satire to reveal the contributions we all make to the culture of misogyny.

Altered States, choreographed by Tyesha Nance, explores how sexual abuse unravels compassionate intimacy. Tyesha uses five women to portray the dichotomy of physical intimacy and trauma through supportive, risk-taking movement that exemplifies what many women go through but are afraid to speak about.

Identity4 is the seventh event in VCU Dance’s 35th Anniversary Season. Keep up and tell us what you think at #VCUDANCE35. The presenting program of VCU Dance is committed to building and engaging dance audiences in the University and Richmond communities while providing opportunities for artists to present and create work.