USC Dance Company Calendar of Events 2006-2007

A Season of Choreographic Celebration

“A versatile company of young dancers, switching gears seamlessly between classical and modern dance.” –Free Times

Visions of Contemporary Dance

October 5th & 6th
Koger Center for the Arts
7:30

Tickets 10 students, 12 faculty staff military, 14 general

Directed by: Miriam Barbosa
Professor of Dance USC
formerly with the Martha Graham Company

Chronicles

Choreography by Martha Graham
This work created during post World War I is for future generations to discover the genius of the repertory of Graham. Graham founded her company in 1926 and is the oldest and most celebrated contemporary company in America, as a tribute to call to arms.

Pandora’s Box

Choreography by Miriam Barbosa
The box left by Mercury awakens Pandora’s curiosity. Dismayed, and very much discouraged, Epimetheus goes away in despair when the beatific comes out of the box. Jupiter had malignantly crammed into this box all the diseases, sorrows, vices, and crimes that afflict poor humanity. After torturing Pandora, they fluttered about to find Epimetheus. One last sound proceeded from the unfortunate box: ‘Open, open, and I will heal your wounds! Please let me out!’ it pleaded. Encouraged by Epimetheus, Pandora opens the box a second time, for the gods, with a sudden impulse of compassion, had concealed among the evil spirits one kindly creature, Hope, whose mission was to heal the wounds inflicted by her fellow prisoners, bringing them back to where they belong.
From The Myths of Greece and Rome by H.A. Guerber

Brimming Tides

Choreography by Miriam Barbosa,
Artist Brian Rutenberg
Piano Duo Marina Lomazov and Joseph Rackers

Arts collaboration with the USC Dance Company/Dept of Theatre and Dance, USC School of Music and USC Dept of Art.

Original premiere South Carolina State Museum April 28th funded by the USC Arts Institute and Cultural Council of Richland and Lexington Counties

Sur Les Pointes-Classical to Contemporary Dance

November 2nd and 3rd
Koger Center for the Arts
7:30

Tickets
$10- students
$12- faculty & military
$14- public

Directed by Stacey Calvert
USC Dance Faculty
former soloist of the New York City Ballet

Glennies

Choreographed by Alan Hineline

La Source

Choreographed by George Balanchine

 

Dancing on the Edge

November 29 and 30, December 1
Drayton Hall
8:00
Tickets
$10- students
$12- faculty & military
$15- public

Directed by Miriam Barbosa

USC Dance Majors Showcase of Choreography

Ballet Stars of New York

March 31st
Koger Center

7:00
Tickets
$25 general
$15 students
Gala performance and dinner $250 per person

Sponsored by the USC Board of Dance for dance scholarships and other program activities

Join the University of South Carolina Dance Company and Symphony with principal stars of the New York City Ballet for a spectacular performance of major works from the company’s repertory

USC Dance Company in Concert

April 13 & 14
8pm Koger Center for the Arts
$ 10- students
$12- faculty & military
$14- public

Featuring faculty and students’ choreography

Guest artists
USC Concert Choir under the direction of Larry Wyatt

Collaboration of music and dance by composer Gian Carlo Menotti’s ballet “The Unicorn, Gorgon and the Manticore"

"Les Sylphides" staged by Joulia Moisseeva

"Spanish Rhapsody" by Miriam Barbosa

Twelve Dancing Princesses

Koger Center for the Arts
April 13 at 6:00 pm
April 14 at 300pm
tickets
$10- students
$12- faculty & military
$14- public

USC Dance Conservatory Spring Ballet
Choreography by Peter Garick

Ballet with a cast of 100 children.

“Now This is Columbia”

the inaugural citywide arts festival presents
the best of the USC Dance Company 2006-07 season

April 28, 2007
Koger Center for the Arts
Tickets
$10- students
$12- faculty & military
$14- public