The Peace College Dance Company will perform their Spring Concert on April 24-26, 7:30 p.m. in Leggett Theater on the Peace College Campus. The concert will inlcude six dances by various choreographers including Joan Nicholas-Walker, Christal Brown, Beth Wright and Chrissy Hawley Pressley.

For information or reservations please contact bwright@peace.edu, (919) 508-2333. Tickets are $8 General admission, $5 Students, seniors, & NCDA members. Arts Access will be providing audio description for this concert. For more information about Arts Access, visit http://www.artsaccessinc.org/.

PIECE INFORMATION:

Fact (After the), is a piece filled with high energy and constant motion.  Jess Shell's dancers shift between unison phrases and complex patterns to explore relationships not only with themselves, but each other as well.

What happens when five dancers move continuously in and out of the floor for a brief moment in time?  When, choreographed by Joan Nicholas-Walker, explores that question. 

Most of us find challenges in our lives when authorities and agents over which we have no control require us to jump through hoops. And we complain, and we whine, and we moan, but we still have to get through the hoops to get what we want. With Leap Year, Betsy Ward-Hutchinson is encouraging us all, especially herself, to see the hoops with a playful eye and to jump with curiosity and fun.

Taking on, by Christal Brown, displays a montage of character sketches, personalities, traits, and affectations through athletic precision and melodic undertones.  Dancers create and re-create themselves as audience members get sneak peeks into their characters inner dialogue.

Chrissy Hawley Pressley's Live from the Laundry Room was inspired by fondness for her high school & college friend Jill Austin.  Jill used to entertain her with her music & guitar playing by giving concerts in the little laundry room in their all-girl, all-freshman dorm at UNCG in 1987.  Pressley was a captive and dedicated audience to Jill's folksy, often funny songs.  Fifteen years later in 2002, they were both experiencing being married, being mothers, being adult women.  Pressley saw herself as a clueless newlywed and soon-to-be first-time mom, needing to bring "real life" into her art.  She was driven to create by this one of Jill's later songs (made with her band Layman's Daughter).  She sees this piece as dark and yet funny, stressed and yet light, comical while also cynical...sort of like a typical day as a woman!

Beth Wright restages Here and Where?  a piece she created in 2001.  This piece is inspired by Marjorie Agosin's book about Chilean Arpilleristas.

Borders examines how we define ourselves as inclusive and exclusive members of society.  The departure point for Beth Wright's work-in-progress was an exhibit of the same name at the Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona.