DANCE
Back to Buffalo 2: The UB Dance All Star Concert
Drama Theatre
Saturday, September 25
8:00pm
$26.50, Students (any school) $13
Sponsored by the UB Alumni Association
The Center’s Dance Residency Outreach Program brings professional dance companies into area schools for workshops, demonstrations and performances. Since 1997, more than a dozen professional visiting artists have provided more than 20,000 students with free dance performances and workshops.
Additionally, the Dance Residency helps attract prospective students and affords UB dance majors the opportunity to take part in master classes with international professional artists. This program allows the Center to give back to the community while helping UB's Theatre & Dance Department provide its students with amazing experiences and connections in the performing arts.
After last year’s sold-out dance alumni concert event, we are pleased to announce Back To Buffalo 2, featuring another eclectic group of accomplished alumni. All proceeds from the performance will benefit the spring 2011 Taylor 2 residency.
Currently scheduled to perform:
Amanda Benzin (Jump Rhythm Jazz Project)
Katie Heintz (Houston Metropolitan Dance Company)
Claire Jacob-Zysman (Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company)
Jenny Laroche (Rockette – The Radio City Christmas Spectacular, television, film)
Matt Pardo (Eisenhower Dance Ensemble)
Danielle Sheather (Stiletto Entertainment / Holland America)
Gina Pero (Rockette – The Radio City Christmas Spectacular, television, film)
Richard Ashworth (Chicago Tap Theater)
In addition, UB’s Zodiaque Dance Company will perform a piece choreographed by UB alum Jon Lehrer. Jon’s company LehrerDance (including recent UB graduate Colleen Walsh) will also perform.
Learn from the All-Stars!
Master Classes will be offered for both junior students (ages 11-14) and advanced students (15 & up) on September 26.
Master classes registration is now available. Download the registration form and class descriptions at the link below
Registration form and class descriptions
LehrerDance
Drama Theatre
Friday, October 8 To Sunday, October 10
Friday & Saturday at 8pm
Sunday at 3pm
$19.50, Students $16.50
Fresh off a year of touring around the country, LehrerDance returns to the Center. This year's concert will feature three World Premieres that showcase the company's trademark athletic, breathtaking and strikingly orginial style of dance. The three premieres include: "An American Siddhartha - The Way Within," a rock-opera influenced dance based on the novel "Siddhartha" by Hermen Hesse set to the music of Led Zeppelin, The Guess Who, and Christopher O'Riley; "SuperZeros" - a comedic look at a family of 'not-so-super' heroes; and "Hearth" - a showcase for the LehrerDance women set to the music of Buffalo Native Damien Simon who will perform live with the group.
Parsons Dance
Mainstage Theatre
Friday, October 15
8:00pm
Pre-performance talk at 7:15pm
$26.50, Students (any school) $13, Groups $23.50
The sexy, athleticism, exuberant personality and joyous movement that is Parsons Dance is comprised of ten full-time dancers and maintains a repertory of over 70 works choreographed by David Parsons. The company’s style is a fusion of the gesture and movement of modern dance, with the discipline and precise execution of a classical company.
Since 1985, Parsons Dance has toured to more than 235 cities, 30 countries, six continents and millions of audience members. They have been featured on PBS, Bravo, A&E, and the Discovery Channel, and even performed live in Times Square as part of the internationally broadcast, 24-hour Millennium New Year’s Eve celebration. The company has performed at the most prestigious theaters, festivals and presenters the world over.
“It does not take long to see why Parsons and his company are one of the hottest tickets in contemporary American dance. First, they are all terrific performers, energized, eager to please and rehearsed within an inch of their lives. Second…Parsons provides choreography that’s consistently intelligent, witty, well-crafted, and humane.”
- Michael Crabb, The Toronto Star
Pre-show talk with Elizabeth Koeppen, Associate Artistic Director at 7:15P in the Screening Room
This tour of Parsons Dance Company is made possible by a grant from Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Suzanne Farrell Ballet
Mainstage Theatre
Friday, November 5
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8:00pm
$34.50, Students (any school) $16.50 Groups $29.50
The Balanchine Couple
In just over a decade, The Suzanne Farrell Ballet has evolved from an educational program of the Kennedy Center to a highly lauded ballet company, hailed by the New York Times’ Chief Dance Critic in 2007 as “one of the most courageous projects in ballet today.”
Throughout the nearly three decades of her performing career, Suzanne Farrell was the most influential American ballerina of the late 20th century, as well as the exquisite muse of George Balanchine, one of the undisputed masters of ballet. After retiring from the stage in 1989, she emerged as one of the world’s most inspiring ballet teachers and directors.
In this unique program, Ms. Farrell provides onstage narration, navigating the audience through the evolution of Balanchine's legendary pas de deux style. The program begins with the pas de deux from the early years of Apollo, La Sonnambula, Ivesiana, La Valse, and Agon and continues through to the "Farrell years" of Meditation, Don Quixote, and Diamonds. The program concludes with the grand pas de deux of Stars and Stripes.
In each of these selections, the focus is on the couple, dancing together in pas de deux. From the French, meaning ‘step for two,’ it is designed to show the virtuosity of the ballerina and her partner.
Following the performance, there will be a post show discussion lead by Suzanne Farrell
Bellydance Superstars
Mainstage Theatre
Sunday, November 14
8:00PM
Advance Tickets
Adults $43.50, $33.50
Children (15 & under) $33, $25.50
Seniors (60+) $37.50, $28.50
College students $35, $27
Groups (15 or more) $40.50, $30.50
Day-of Tickets
Adults $49.50, $39.50
Children $37.50, $30
Seniors $42.50, $34
College students $40, $32
Groups $46.50, $36.50
With over 700 shows in 22 countries to their credit the Bellydance Superstars are the world’s premier dance troupe elevating the art of Bellydance to mainstream status while incorporating other dance styles including Indian, Ballet, Polynesian and Tribal to create a spectacular show with great variety, amazing costumes and fabulous music. No wonder these 16 Dancers with master percussionist Issam Houshan have been called “the next Riverdance” and “the most important dance troupe in the World”.
The Nutcracker
Mainstage Theatre
Saturday, December 4 To Sunday, December 5
Saturday at 1:00pm & 7:00pm
Sunday $26.50, $21.50
This magical performance of The Nutcracker celebrates its' 15th year with special guest artists Daniel Ulbricht, Principal Dancer with New York City Ballet and Misa Kuranaga, Principal Dancer with Boston Ballet dancing the roles of the Sugar Plum Fairy and her Cavalier.
Join us as Clara and her Prince "fly" around the world in a hot air balloon. This imaginative version of The Nutcracker is ideal for all family members.
On sale date to be announced.
Tango Buenos Aires
Mainstage Theatre
Tuesday, February 22
7:30pm
$26.50, Students $13
Tango Buenos Aires has become one of Argentina’s great cultural exports, known throughout the Americas, Europe and the Far East as the most authentic and uncompromising representative of the Tango.
Taylor 2
Mainstage Theatre
Thursday, March 10
7:30pm
$23.50, Students $13
Established in 1993 by Paul Taylor - Contemporary Dance Company
Savion Glover
Mainstage Theatre
Thursday, March 24
7:30pm
$47.50 (floor), $37.50 (balcony)
Students $31.50 (floor), $26.50 (balcony)
The world renowned tap dancer and choreographer returns to the Center with a new program
Sponsored in part by:
Russian National Ballet Theatre
Mainstage Theatre
Thursday, April 7
7:30pm
$26.50, Students $13
"Romeo and Juliet"
The classic love story