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Jan Van Dyke Presents Three Free Concerts at Weatherspoon

GREENSBORO – The Jan Van Dyke Dance Company will present three free performances at the Weatherspoon Art Museum at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Dances will be performed Sunday, April 27, at 3 p.m., Thursday, May 1, at 6 p.m. and Saturday, May 3, at 2 p.m.

The Weatherspoon Museum is located at the corner of Spring Garden and Tate streets.  No reservations are required.  For further information, call 370-4819.

Three dances from the repertory will be performed:

· NIGHT BETWEEN TWO DAYS (1994) is a dance for six performed to music by Deep Forest.  It depicts a dark experience that becomes transforming.

· In TRADE ROUTES (2002), ethnic music accompanies up to four dancers as they move through the space, exchanging solo choreographies.

· RELIANCE (2001) is a women’s duet danced to music by the Portuguese group Madredeus.

Performances will take place in the main gallery, providing the audience with an opportunity to view dance in a visual art setting.  The dances are performed in the round and audience members are invited to stand and walk around, following the dancers as they move through the space.

The Van Dyke Dance Group is the professional company in residence in the Department of Dance at UNCG.  The dancers are known for their dynamic energy and rhythmic precision.

The Washington Post described her use of form as "...immaculate. Thematic variation and recapitulation, counterpoint and consonance occur so naturally that one is hardly aware of the strict structure until the end."

Dance Magazine has written "Van Dyke builds intense anticipation and escalating climax through interwoven designs of rhythmic movement and variations in timing, ending each work powerfully on a single image of finality."

Jan Van Dyke has been making dances for over 30 years and has shown choreography widely throughout the United States and in Europe.  She has set dances for groups ranging from the Washington Ballet to students at Baltimore's Carver Center for Arts and Technology. She is on the dance faculty at UNCG, a recipient of a N.C. Choreography Fellowship, and a 1993 Fulbright Scholarship. In 2001, she was honored with the North Carolina Dance Alliance Annual Award for contributions to the development of dance in the state.
 

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