April 25, 26, 27 // 8:00 p.m.
Space Place Theater

This performance will feature four works choreographed by graduate students from the University of Iowa Department of Dance. All performances are free and open to the public. Seating is first-come, first-served.

Program

SET

Choreographer: Joshua Culbreath
Music: Funkier than a mosquito's tweeter by Nina Somone
Costume Design: Juliana Waechter
Lighting Design: Jim Albert
Dancers: Isabella Kees, Emily Culbreath, Owen Abel, Andrew Wade, Victoria Lefler, Lindsey Wildman, Grace Noonan

Please be advised this performance includes adult language.

Special Thanks: I would like to thank all the dancers for collaborating with me on this project because without them, this wouldn't be what it is!

If You Are Going To Wear Braids, Be Mindful of Where They Come From

Choreographer: Mariana Tejeda
Music: divertimento para tres chicas, original composition by Douglas Baker
Costumes: Costume selection by Juliana Waechter and Mariana Tejeda
The costumes for this work were originally designed and constructed by Margaret Wenk-Kuchlbauer and the PAPU costume shop for the Dance Gala 2019 and DIC 2020 concerts.
Lighting Design: Jim Albert
Dancers: MJ Van Ostrand, Morgan Powers, Ashley McKim

Please be advised this performance includes three short moments of strobe lights.

If You Are Going To Wear Braids, Be Mindful of Where They Come From explores the theme of solidarity among women, delving into subjects like interconnectedness, empowerment, and collective strength, by weaving threads from multiple sources together to create an entity that transcends its diverse origins and moves as a unified whole.

This work is an embodied response to my poem "Excepciones a la sororidad," the choreography structure is derived from the three-section architecture proposed by the poem, as well as the metaphorical imagery of braids and their connection to poetry writing.

Special Thanks: To Cindy Kubu and Juliana Waechter for alway running an extra mile. To Eloy and Zena for their mentorship that extends well beyond this project. To Linsey Urbanski for her contributions to the development of this work. To Kendra McDaniel for the warm and generous way in which she shared her time and talents. To the generous genius Morgan Powers for saving the day!

Read the poem "Excepciones a la sororidad / Exceptions to Sorority" that inspired this work.

_{(culturally, I mean...)}

Mystic Sister

Choreographer: Mikey Rioux in collaboration with the dancers
Music: Lament 25, Mika and The Lover's Light with Justin Jones; Lament 16, Mika and The Lover's Light
Costume Design: Juliana Waechter
Lighting Design: Jim Albert
Sculptures: Mikey Rioux
Dancers: Maddie Bulman, Soraya Cohen, Jaidyn Davis, Sydney Gorak, Tori Lefler, Lindsey Urbanski, Lindsey Wildman

Please be advised this performance includes strobe lights.

Plan A: Stories of Embodied Frontiers

Choreographer: Directed and Choreographed by Emily Culbreath in collaboration with Lindsey Wildman, Kendall Hicks, Emma Proch, Jaidyn Davis, Talia Van Santen, and Grace Noonan
Music: Original Sound Score by Lady Em, Sk8z, and The Corner Girls
Costume Design: CJ Johnson, MFA Design Candidate (modified for live performance by Emily Culbreath)
Lighting Design: Jim Albert
Dancers: Lindsey Wildman, Kendall Hicks, Emma Proch, Jaidyn Davis, Talia Van Santen, and Grace Noonan

Please be advised this performance includes adult language and subject material and the use of strobe lights.

Plan A: Stories of Embodied Frontiers centralizes the dancer's personal stories to inform and complicate the political narratives and relationships between performing bodies and audience members through varying modalities of storytelling, such as verbal text, character work, and street dance movement languages (Robot/Animation and Hip Hop Social Dances). Personal stories and embodied practices excavate questions that reflect a specific body reality, such as "What personal stories have shaped your relationship to contraception?" "Where does the word contraception live in your body?" and "What was your mother's favorite activity to do with you as an infant?"

Biographies