Tickets for From Humphrey to Hip Hop, presented by The Department of Theatre & Dance at Pomona College and featuring students and alumni from The Claremont Colleges, may be purchased at the Pomona College Seaver Theatre Box Office. Performances are at 8 p.m. April 27-29, and at 2 p.m. on Sunday, April 30, on Seaver Theatre's mainstage.
Directed by Laurie Cameron, artistic director for Pomona College's dance program, the concert will highlight Water Study, choreographed by Doris Humphrey, a foremost figure in the development of modern dance and a founding member of the dance department at the Julliard School of Music.
The concert also will feature Los Angeles choreographer Brandon Aiken's Hip-Hop piecefive movements performed by 32 dancers. John Pennington, a former principal dancer with Bella Lewitsky, will perform two solo dances. Also included are presentations by: faculty choreographer Kim Gadlin (The Only Way Out is Through: A Dance in Solidarity for the Survivors of the Gulf Coast Hurricanes); Laurie Cameron (At the Joshua Tree); Pomona alumnus Eli Liliedahl-Allen (Diaphanous Mechanism, choreographed for four women). Other pieces include a large, group dance choreographed by student Michael Szanyi; student Shawnrey Notto's piece Talking in Circles (incorporating rollerblades and cellular phones); student Miguel Rodriguez's piece Baile de las Desparecidas (dedicated to women abused in the frontier town of Juarez, Mexico); and a trio-piece by student Elia Mrak-Blumberg.
Tickets are $5 for faculty, staff, seniors and students, and $10 general admission. For more information, contact the Pomona College Seaver Theatre Box Office: 909-607-4375 or 607-4376. Box-office hours are from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday.