Featuring a small ensemble of select dancers, Control/Shift explores dance as it intersects with technologies of control and for connection. A highlight of the performance will be a post-show event providing insight into the creative process behind the choreographies and how they developed.
The fall dance concert from UC Davis' Department of Theatre and Dance takes place Nov. 19 - Nov. 21 at 7 p.m., and Nov. 22 at 2 p.m. in the intimate Vanderhoef Studio at the Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts.
“This project is a broad inquiry regarding how movement and technology interact,” said curator Doria E. Charlson, visiting assistant professor of theatre and dance. “The students are exploring how technology functions both to connect and alienate."
Control/Shift showcases new works-in-progress developed and performed by undergraduate students. Charlson will create a new piece for the company as will guest choreographer Meredith J. Charlson.
The works-in-progress consider how our movement is impacted by the tools around us. How are we tethered together by our devices? What technologies of control exist within our society? Movement provides a critical mode of inquiry to investigate these questions.
— Doria E. Charlson
Doria Charlson’s research and scholarship is deeply informed by her decades of study as a dancer. She has trained with ODC/Dance, Mark Morris Dance Group, the Alvin Ailey School, the Joffrey Ballet School and L’École superieuse de danse Rosella Hightower and at Stanford University (Diane Frank, Robert Moses, and Aleta Hayes).
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Tickets are $15.50 for adults, $11 for faculty/staff, $8.50 for children (under 18) and $5 for UC Davis students and seniors. Seating is unassigned.
Meredith J. Charlson, a director/choreographer based in San Francisco, has extensive theater credits. Among them are Carrie: The Musical and Into the Woods , both at the American Conservatory Theater’s Young Conservatory, Alice By Heart at Hillbarn Theatre, Bright Star at Palo Alto Players, Tinderella: The modern musical at Custom Made Theater Co. and FaultLine Theater, and the world premiere of A Walk on the Moon at the American Conservatory Theater. She was a trainee for Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company in Northern Israel and is an associate member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society.
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