Point Park University to Perform Martha Graham's HERETIC at the Joyce Theater, 3/14

The Martha Graham Dance Company has invited Point Park University, along with six other student groups, to perform at The Joyce Theater in New York as part of the Company's 86^th anniversary season.  

The Company has chosen Inner Landscape as the focus for its 2012 season and will present a great range of performances, partnerships and educational activities exploring the psychological aspects of dance.

The special student Inner Landscape program will take place on March 14, 2012 at 
7:30 p.m.  The Joyce Theater, one of the premiere theaters for dance in New York City, is located at 175 8^th Ave.  

Students from Point Park University will be performing Graham's classic work, Heretic.  Heretic is being restaged and directed by Diane Gray; Judith Leifer serves as rehearsal director.  Music is arranged by Charles de Sivry ("Bretons Têtus" from Chansons de "La Fleur-de-Lys").  Hereticpremiered in 1929.

"Point Park University chose Heretic for its historic significance and the pivotal position it holds in the development of Graham's body of work.  It is also essential for our dancers to experience the raw directness of Graham's early developing vocabulary and choreography as the power of the work is in its simplicity," said Leifer.  "It is important for the dancers to experience the intensity of recreating a work such as Heretic; to have the experience of building the dance through the reconstruction and rehearsal process, and to then use that preparation to embody the work through performing it."

Point Park's Conservatory Dance Company will also perform Heretic as part of its annual concert at the Byham Theater April 19 – 21, 2012.  In addition, the piece was notated at Point Park by the Dance Notation Bureau during its recent reconstruction. 

Dance students from seven different national training programs will come to NYC to perform Inner Landscape classics.  As well as Point Park University, these groups include the Graham Center's Second Company, Graham II, the University of Arizona, the Hartt School (CT), Point Park University (PA), Skidmore University (NY), the New World School of the Arts (FL), and the Interlochen Arts Academy (MI).  Dances performed will include six masterworks by Martha Graham seminal to her revolution in modern dance.  University of Arizona will perform a work by another important pioneer of American dance, Charles Weidman.

"We are very proud of our student productions of Graham dances and have partnered with schools all over the world since 2003," says Janet Eilber, artistic director of the Martha Graham Center.  "This is the first time we've organized a gathering of this year's top student productions.  It's going to be a logistical challenge to have over 100 students on the stage in the course of the evening, but the energy will be tremendous.  And I know it will be very moving to see the next generation of dancers take on these masterpieces of American dance."

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