{"id":4139,"date":"2012-11-10T08:20:33","date_gmt":"2012-11-10T16:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forallevents.com\/reviews\/?p=4139"},"modified":"2012-11-10T18:38:25","modified_gmt":"2012-11-11T02:38:25","slug":"dance-at-dominican-a-great-show-from-the-linesbfa-in-dance-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forallevents.com\/reviews\/dance-at-dominican-a-great-show-from-the-linesbfa-in-dance-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Dance at Dominican: A great show from the LINES\/BFA in Dance Program"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the don\u2019t-miss shows of the north Bay Fall Season has got to be Ballet Recitals by the students of\u00a0 Dominican University\u2019s BFA in Dance.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The school works with Alonzo King\u2019s LINES Ballet and the San Francisco Dance Center.\u00a0 I\u2019m no dance critic, but I know what I like.\u00a0 I really<\/em> like this show, and wouldn\u2019t miss it for the world.<\/p>\n

There are generally eight or so recitals, some complex ensemble pieces by the combined students of the various classes, a few Senior Project, some modern pieces in urban settings, some classical performed to operatic music.\u00a0 The show opener, four movements set largely to non-melodic rhythmic music through a rain-forest setting was also one of the more accessible to philistines like me.\u00a0 I soon learned to put down my notes and just watch.\u00a0 Each piece had its own story, and not necessarily the one I would have gotten from the liner notes, or from my own attempt at understanding.\u00a0 In time I lose place altogether with the program, becoming lost in the swirl of vision, rhythm, motion, visceral stories told without words, visceral emotional contact that cannot be recast in mere words.\u00a0 Each of the pieces exists for a brief moment in its own world, and we in the audience are blessed to be invited into it.<\/p>\n

The evening performance of November 9 was followed by and informal Q+A and round-table discussion between some of the dancers and choreographers, and those few audience members who chose to stay after the show and take part.\u00a0 This was a nice touch, a great way for some of us to learn more about the art of dance.\u00a0 Not every piece needs to be taken literally, interpreted through the written introductions in the program.\u00a0 Dance is one of the liveliest of arts, a wide range of possibilities drawing not only from music and movement, but from each dancer\u2019s separate and ensemble interpretation interacting with each audience member\u2019s intellect and emotion.<\/p>\n

This show only happens twice a year in the Fall and Spring semesters so look for it and mark your calendars for 2013.\u00a0 Last performance this year is 3:00 November 10, 2012<\/p>\n

Performances at Angelico Hall,\u00a0Dominican University of California, 50 Acacia Ave., San Rafael, CA 94901<\/p>\n

415-482-3579\u00a0 www.domincan.edu\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

LINES Ballet School\/BFA\u00a0 http:\/\/bfa.linesballet.org\/events\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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