The Hartt School Announces Its 2010-2011 Dance Season

The Hartt School is proud to announce its 2010-2011 Dance Division season performance schedule. Please call the University Box Office at 860.768.4228 or 800.274.8587 or visit www.hartford.edu/hartt after August 1 for tickets and up-to-date scheduling information for all performances.

The fall Senior Dance Concert, featuring six graduating seniors who will present their own choreographic works plus solos set on them by professional choreographers from around the nation, takes place Friday, October 29, and Saturday, October 30, at 2:00 PM and 7:30 PM. Performances are in The Edward C. and Ann T. Roberts Foundation Theater at the Mort and Irma Handel Performing Arts Center, 35 Westbourne Parkway, Hartford. Admission is $20, with discounts for seniors, students, and groups.

Hartt's fall main stage concert, Hartt Dances, includes excerpts of "Concerto Barroco", a George Balanchine masterpiece, set to the music of J.S. Bach; the poignant full version of "Dark Elegies" by Anthony Tudor, set to the music of Gustav Mahler; Jose Limon's soulful "Mazurkas", to music of Frederic Chopin; the exuberant "2 Celebrations in 3 Parts" by Stephen Pier, with a powerful rhythmic score of Steve Martland; and a new work by Katie Stevenson Nollet. This concert includes not only the beautiful artistry of Hartt dancers, but also features live music for most pieces spanning an impressive range from classical to hard driving contemporary performed by Hartt's Performance 20/20 chamber ensemble. Performances are Friday, November 19, and Saturday, November 20, at 7:30 PM, and Sunday, November 21, at 3:00 PM. The performances will be held in Lincoln Theater, University of Hartford, 200 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford. Admission is $20, with discounts for seniors, students, and groups.

Full Force Dance Theatre, The Hartt School's professional dance company in-residence, performs Thursday, February 10, through Saturday, February 12, in The Edward C. and Ann T. Roberts Theater, Mort and Irma Handel Performing Arts Center, 35 Westbourne Parkway, Hartford. Visit www.hartford.edu/hartt this fall for updated times and admission prices.

Hartt's annual Collage Concert, which is free and open to the public, features two acts filled with continuous music, dance, and theatre. Hartt's gift to the community, Collage takes place on Friday, February 18, and Saturday, February 19, at 7:30 PM, in Lincoln Theater, University of Hartford, 200 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford. Admission is free, though tickets are required.

The spring Senior Dance Concert features six graduating seniors who will present their own choreographic works plus solos set on them by professional choreographers from around the nation, and takes place on Friday, March 11, and Saturday, March 12, at 2:00 PM and 7:30 PM. Performances are in The Edward C. and Ann T. Roberts Foundation Theater at the Mort and Irma Handel Performing Arts Center, 35 Westbourne Parkway, Hartford. Admission is $20, with discounts for seniors, students, and groups.

Continuing our effort to introduce more of the best of dance past and present to the Hartford Community, the spring performance of Hartt Dances features choreography by living choreographers on the rise from around the nation. Performances are on Friday, April 22, and Saturday, April 23, at 7:30 PM, and Sunday, April 24, at 3:00 PM. The performances will be held in Lincoln Theater, University of Hartford, 200 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford. Admission is $20, with discounts for seniors, students, and groups.

In addition to Hartt sponsored performances, Dance Division students will represent The Hartt School at the American College Dance Festival Association, the nation-wide festival of college dance departments, in March of 2011. Hartt dancers also will participate in the Ted Hershey Dance Marathon, the yearly dance marathon celebrating the Greater Hartford area dance community, also in March, 2011.

Hartt dancers also will be collaborating with NYC based visual artist, Saya Woolfalk, in a groundbreaking installation work at RAW, Real Art Ways, in Spring 2011.

The Hartt School is the comprehensive performing arts conservatory of the University of Hartford that offers innovative degree programs in music, dance, and theatre. With more than 400 concerts, recitals, plays, master classes, dance performances, and musical theatre productions a year, performance is central to Hartt's curriculum. For more information on The Hartt School, visit www.hartford.edu/hartt.

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