Hochstein Announces Dances for “Flights of Winter Fancy”
An “If All Rochester Read the Same Book…” Event, Saturday, March 8
Hochstein School of Music & Dance has chosen the selections from solicited submissions by area dance choreographers for its “Flights of Winter Fancy” dance concert
scheduled for Saturday, March 8 at 4:15 pm in the Hochstein Performance Hall. The concert is winter themed to go along with this year’s “If All Rochester Read the Same Book…” selection of The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey.
The Hochstein Scholarship Dance Ensemble opens the concert with The Snow Scene from the finale of Act One from Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker. A trio of local dance professors will perform "Ophelia's Reclamation," a work by SUNY Brockport Associate Professor of Dance, Jim Hansen. The performers are Vanessa Van Wormer (Assistant Professor of Dance at SUNY Brockport), Heather Roffe (Assistant Professor of Theatre in Dance at Nazareth College), and Stevie Oakes (Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance at SUNY Brockport). Hochstein dance student, Josephine Person, will appear in “Winter Song.”
Chris Morrison, Hochstein faculty member, solos in an untitled piece to
“Cavatina” a classical guitar piece by Stanley Myers, best remembered as the theme from the movie “The Deer Hunter.” Kathy Diehl (Artistic Director, Rochester Dance Project) performs "Truth Unraveled,” a duet with Lauren Kush.
The headline performer is Mariah Maloney, a native of Homer, Alaska, who grew up listening to her mother playing chamber music in their homesteader log cabin—a beginning which influences her dance making process today.
Hochstein School is participating as a community partner in Writers and Books ”If All of Rochester Read the Same Book…” program this year. This year’s book selection, The Snow Child, follows a childless couple homesteading in Alaska in 1920 that one day playfully creates a child out of snow. When a mysterious and secretive little girl appears out of the woods the next day, their lives are changed forever.
Prior to the concert a Creative Movement Workshop will be held at 3:00pm in the Hochstein Dance Studio for ages 3 and older. Sarah Andreacchi, Associate Dean and Dance faculty will lead non-dancers and dancers alike in improvisations on winter themes accompanied by live music. Her goal for the workshop is ”how to make a dance in less than 30 minutes.” Both the Workshop and the Dance Concert are free and open to the public. Hochstein is located at 50 N. Plymouth Avenue in downtown Rochester.
For more information visit hochstein.org or call 585-454-4596.