The OU School of Dance Young Choreographers’ Showcase will open at 8 p.m. Thursday in the Reynolds Performing Arts Center.
For more than 25 years, the Young Choreographers’ Showcase has provided an opportunity for emerging talents to present original choreographic works. The 2011 program is under the guidance of showcase coordinators and School of Dance faculty members Steve Brule and Holly Schmidt and OU School of Dance Director Mary Margaret Holt.
“All of our students are interested in performing, of course, but developing an interest in choreography is really taking their experience in the arts to the next step,” Holt said.
About 18 students tried out for the showcase, with half being chosen. The presenting choreographers are undergraduates Adryan Moorefield, Brianna Anderson, Terra Easter, Molly Jackson, Chris Frazier, Claire Brunelli, Mario Romero and Brett Young and graduate student Kerri Lambert.
The various works range greatly in style, influence and design and display the skills of 40 OU dancers. “My piece has a lot of abstracted gestural movements,” said Romero, modern dance senior. “It’s got a lot of arabesque lines and different classical elements to it with the upper body being in different positions. It would be considered modern but with a contemporary ballet flair to it.”
Tickets can be retrieved from the fine arts box office in Catlett Music Center from 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday or by calling 405-325-4101.
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