Georgian Court Dancers Present Spring Concert Featuring Faculty and Guest Artist Choreography

Georgian Court Dancers Present Spring Concert Featuring Faculty and Guest Artist Choreography

Lakewood, NJ., April 13, 2017—Dance majors at Georgian Court University will host distinguished guests who have choreographed original or repertory works for GCU students at their annual Spring Dance Concert on Friday, April 21, at 7:30 p.m. The concert, held at The Strand at 400 Clifton Avenue in downtown Lakewood, is free to all, and no reservations are required.

Guest choreographers include award-winners like Randy James and Alex Biegelson of Ten Hairy Legs; GCU alumna Titilayo Majoyeogbe ’14 of T.MAJ Dance Company; and Sidra Bell of Sidra Bell Dance New York. There are also five faculty-choreographed performances planned.

According to Silvana Cardell, chair of the Department of Dance, this year’s spring dance concert will be dedicated to Trisha Brown (1936–2017), one of the most acclaimed and influential American dance innovators, who founded the Trisha Brown Dance Company (TBDC) in 1970. Upon her death in March at the age of 80, TBDC’s resident scholar, Susan Rosenberg, wrote that Ms. Brown was “the creator of over 100 choreographies, six operas, and a graphic artist” and that her “movement vocabulary, and the new methods that she and her dancers adopted to train their bodies, remain one of her most pervasively impactful legacies within international dance practice.”

For more information, please contact GCU Director of Dance Silvana Cardell at 732.987.2170 or scardell@georgian.edu.

Story contributed by Lindsay Donohue ’16, a Georgian Court University alum who graduated in December with a B.A. in English and Education (K-12).