Date/Time
Date(s) - 06/17/2022
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Location
Hammer Theatre Center
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BUY TICKETS – $39-45. General Admission. $80-100. VIP Package.*
sjDANCEco presents “Encores and Celebration” a program of two revivals and four World Premieres. The new works are by choreographers Fred Mathews, Maria Basile, Hsiang Hsiu Lin, Gary Masters and the dancers of sjDANCEco.
Presented in collaboration with San José Chamber Orchestra.
The Program
- Earth Song (Revival from 1988)
Choreography: Fred Mathews
Music: Untitled. Unknown composer. Electronic/synthesized sounds.
- Yield (World Premiere)
Choreography: Maria Basile
Music: Nastasya Khrushcheva (“Koub” Final movement from “The Book of Sadness and Joy”) and Mark Kohn (Hymn for Strings Orchestra)
- Rising (World Premiere)
Choreography: Hsiang Hsiu Lin
Music: Johann Sebastian Bach (Aria da Capo from the Goldberg Variations) and Claude Debussy (Clair de Lune)
- Hymn to a New Dawn (World Premiere)
Choreography: Gary Masters with major contributions from Fred Mathews and the dancers of sjDANCEco
Part 1 – “Looking Back”
Music: Michael Touchi (Nocturn 1997)
*Part 2 – “Seeing Forward”
Music: Gabriel Fauré (Cantique de Jean Racine)
- “Flying Colors” (Revival from 2018)
Choreography: Fred Mathews
Music: J.S. Bach Violin Concerto #2
- “The Mitten” (World Premiere)
Chorography: a collaboration by the dancers of sjDANCEco set to the fairytale “The Mitten.”
Music: Mona Reese Hassing (San Jose composer who often creates for the San Jose Chamber Orchestra)
Story: Marie Olofsdotter
•NOTE: VIP packages include VIP seating and a Saturday evening (JUN 18) reception with the dancers and choreographers, guest artists, artistic directors, musical director, and board of trustees. Inexpensive parking next door to the theater in a city-owned garage.
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sjDANCEco’s mission is to nurture the creative spirit of professional and emerging dance artists and to inspire audiences to discover dance. We achieve this through groundbreaking performances, community festivals, workshops and outreach.
IMAGE courtesy of sjDANCEco (Public Domain)
The video attached is a short presentation of the Free Spring Dance Festival presented at Eastridge Center as a celebration of National Dance Week presented last month. It combined professional companies and dance schools. It is an annual event produced by sjDANCEco.org. Please join us for our program of World Premieres June 17 and 18 at the beautiful Hammer Theater Center in downtown San Jose’s SoFA (South of First Street Arts District.)