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(Posted 1-20-04)
Contact: Tiffany Aumann, 336-334-5371

Valentine’s Weekend Filled with Dance at UNCG
 

Elizabeth Longphre, left, and Cory Stephenson will give a Valentine's Day weekend MFA concert at UNCG.  Photo by Steve Clarke.

GREENSBORO — The UNCG Department of Dance will present the work of choreographer Elizabeth Longphre in “Sentient History” for a special Valentine’s Day weekend of dance.

Performances will be on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 13 and 14, at 8 p.m. in the UNCG Dance Theatre, located on Walker Avenue at Kenilworth Street.  Tickets are $10 for adults, $7 for seniors and non-UNCG students, and $5 for UNCG students with I.D.  Free parking is available in the university lot at the corner of Walker Avenue and Aycock Street.  For information and reservations, call (336) 334-4849.

Longphre earned a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College, where she studied dance and chemistry.  She has performed and choreographed in such festivals as the Boston Dance Umbrella, the Festival d’Avignon in France, and the American College Dance Festival at Bates College.

Longphre’s work is dramatic and exaggerated while also exploring and conveying human emotions through simple physical interactions. The program opens with a structured improvisation titled “Four Scores,” which takes the dancers among the audience members into the theater space.  The improvisation explores the balance between the tenuousness of art’s construction and the beauty innate in spontaneity.

The program continues with two group pieces.  The first physicalizes the passage of time, and the second, “Drink,” plays with images associated with thirst.  In addition, Longphre will perform in a duet titled “In Company,” which derives inspiration from Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden.”

After the Friday night performance, Longphre invites audience members to meet with her and the dancers for refreshments and discussion regarding the work and the artistic process.

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