Metamorphosis University of Pittsburgh Dance Ensemble Show

Brittany Garvey, a graduate of Brookfield High School in
Brookfield, CT will be performing in the University of Pittsburgh Dance Ensemble
spring show “Metamorphosis” on April 11th and 12th.

Ms.
Garvey will be performing in two dances, as well as helping backstage. She is a
graduate of Lori’s Center Stage Dance Studio in Danbury, CT and was a part of
their competition team. Ms. Garvey has performed with the Pitt Dance
Ensemble for two years now and is taking classes in the dance minor program at
the University of Pittsburgh, and is also a sophomore General Science major.

Brittany is performing in a dance by

Natalie LaBarbera and Korinne Heit who will be choreographing for the spring
formal dance concert for their first time. They have worked together

beautifully to create a lyrical style dance to “The Gravel Road” by James

Newton Howard. This piece is entitled Unveiled and includes the use of

blindfolds throughout the piece which creates an interesting image as each

dancer takes off their blindfold as the dance progresses until there is only

one dancer left with their blindfold. The other dance Brittany has the pleasure
of performing
is “Another Body” choreographed by Joanna Dehler. This piece is set in a bedroom
in which demons come in to torment the children in the room as the piece continues
the demons kill some of the children and even turn one child into a demon. It
is a haunting piece that will leave you scared when you return home after the
show.

 “Metamorphosis” is the
formal dance concert produced by the University of Pittsburgh Dance Ensemble.
The Dance Ensemble performs ballet, jazz, tap, hip-hop and modern dance
choreography by the students in the club. There will also be a piece by a
professional choreographer Jill Stifel. The Pitt Dance Ensemble has been around
since 1954 and is currently advised by Susan Gillis Kruman who is a faculty
member of the School of Education.

The concert will take place in the Stephen Foster Memorial
Theater on the University of Pittsburgh campus on April 11th
and 12th 2014, at 8:00pm. The cost is $10 for the public and $5
for students. Parking is available on the street or at the Soldiers and Sailors
parking garage across from the William Pitt Union.