By Dan Nonte, University Relations
Contact: (336) 334-4314
Posted 4-4-08
Jen Guy (above) presents her MFA dance concert April 18-19. Photo by Christian Metcalf.
GREENSBORO, NC – “DEPARTURE(S),” Jen Guy’s MFA dance concert, will explore the themes of choice and interaction at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, April 18 and 19, in the UNCG Dance Theater.
In keeping with those themes, willing audience members may interact with the performers and make creative choices that will determine what they see or hear.
Tickets – $12 for general admission; $9 for seniors, children and non-UNCG students; and $6 for UNCG students – can be reserved through the UNCG Box Office, (336) 334-4849. The Dance Theater is located on Walker Avenue at Kenilworth Street.
The concert will feature several collaborations between Guy and composer Jonathan Salter, who is pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at UNCG and will perform April 18 and 19. The evening will begin with one of those collaborations, “Persistence of Presence,” a musician/dancer duet employing a video looping program to create multiple layers of interacting sound and movement.
Guy composed some of the other choreography in the concert last summer while attending an intensive workshop in Vancouver, British Columbia. The trip, made possible by a summer research grant, allowed her to create the dance-for-camera work “Atelier,” which was screened at Reel Dance Film Festival.
Other works inspired by her research are “Performing the Process,” a video instillation that shows Guy’s creative process and will be placed in the lobby outside the theater, and “…it comes not back again,” a work filmed near her childhood home at Jacksonville Beach, Fla.
Guy’s abstract choreography is heavily influenced by her ballet and contemporary dance training. The performers in her concert are a mix of undergraduate and graduate students, both dance majors and non-dance majors.
