“I’m a choreographer. I create movement and I’m searching for truth in movement.” – Alvin Ailey
H.A.T.CH. (HOLISTIC APPROACHES to TRANSFORMATIVE CHOREOGRAPHY) intends to provide a space to consider choreography as not only as product, but a process to understand our world. Join us for this invigorating, robust and vigorous concert of recently ripened works conceived and created by world-renowned contemporary choreographers Professors Charles O. Anderson, Alfonso Cervera, Irvin Manuel Gonzalez, Nyama McCarthy-Brown, Crystal Michelle Perkins, Abby Zbikowski, Post MFA Scholar Ryan Johnson and featuring Guest Artist Sidra Bell, founder of Sidra Bell Dance New York. The concert showcases performances by our talented BFA and MFA students. For Anderson's piece, we welcome back the amazing dancers of the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, the oldest Black dance company in Ohio, one of the premiere dance companies in the country holding works of some of the most innovative and influential choreographers of the 20th and 21st century and Ohio State Dance's professional company in residence.
Audiences have two different line-ups to choose from, Scarlet and Gray:
SCARLET PROGRAM (Thursday and Friday)
in order of appearance
“actually breathing” (World Premiere)
Director: Sidra Bell
“las cosas que enter(r)amos” (“the things we bury”)
Choreographers and Performers: Alfonso Abraham Cervera and Irvin Manuel Gonzalez
“Churning the Ocean”
Choreographer: Abby Zbikowski, with contributions by Benjamin Roach and dancers
<<<TEN-MINUTE INTERMISSION>>>
“American Mixtape (42)”
Choreographer: Crystal Michelle Perkins
“A 3/5 Proclamation: 8.5.23”
Choreographer: Charles O. Anderson
“Sawubona 2.0”
Choreographer: Ryan K. Johnson
GRAY PROGRAM (Saturday)
in order of appearance
“actually breathing” (World Premiere)
Director: Sidra Bell
“Five Pillars”
Choreographer: Nyama McCarthy-Brown
“American Mixtape (42)”
Choreographer: Crystal Michelle Perkins
<<<TEN-MINUTE INTERMISSION>>>
“Churning the Ocean”
Choreographer: Abby Zbikowski, with contributions by Benjamin Roach and dancers
“Sawubona 2.0”
Choreographer: Ryan K. Johnson
