Medley

Company

Theresa Dickinson, Graciela Figueroa, Sheela Raj, Sara Rudner, Margery Tupling, Rose Marie Wright

Ensemble

66 Students from the Connecticut College American Dance Festival including: Harriet Berg, Dallas Lee Dexter, Ben Dolphin, Lynne Elze, Sherry Enenstein, Laura Fleishman, Dottie Fried, Susan Hamady, Lee Harper, Brenda Harvey, Irene Jouhet, Gail Kern, Kathy Kline, Andrea Levine, Chris Loken, Nancy Mangus, Nancy Mimms, Davida Navarre, Donna Parsons, David Roach, Liz Robinson, Helena Rodriguez, Nancy Schieber, Nancy Steele, Bobby van Staten, Valerie Vaughan, Gail Weiss, Linda Welles, Diana Wiener, Fredica Witzke, Martha Wolf, Stephanie Woodard, Kay Wylie

6:55pm – 7:09pm

Prelude

Working Solo: Rudner

Pointe Solo: Wright

Audience Pick-Ups and Individual Videos: Company

7:10pm – 7:20pm
Six Variations
Three themes for six dancers with inserts: Company
Lay-outs (put-downs) for five:  Rudner, Dickinson, Raj, Figueroa, Wright
Volume for four: Rudner, Dickinson, Figueroa, Wright
Street Moves and first mix – for three: Rudner, Raj, Rigueroa
Fast and small – for two: Rudner, Raj
Solo: Figueroa

7:20:35pm
Margery’s Bit
Tupling

7:21pm – 7:32pm
’50’s
Coming in and out, with movement of their own making: Raj, Figueroa, Rudner, Dickinson, Wright

7:30pm- 7:32pm
Traveling Phrase For Two Files And Four Ranks
File One: Rudner, Harriet Berg, Dallas Lee Dexter, Gail Weiss, Davida Navarre, Kathy Kline, Helena Rodriguez
Rank One: Tupling with Sherry Enenstein, Laura Fleishman, Dottie Fried, Valerie Vaughan, Linda Welles
Rank Two: Figueroa with Ben Dolphin, Brenda Harvey, Chris Loken, Nancy Steele, Martha Wolf, Stephanie Woodard
Rank Three: Dickinson with Lynne Elze, Lee Harper, Nancy Mimms, Nancy Schieber, Diana Wiener
File Two: Wright with Susan Hamady, Gail Kern, Donna Parsons, Liz Robinson, Bobby van Staten, Kay Wylie
Rank Four: Raj with Irene Jouhet, Andrea Levine, Nancy Mangus, David Roach, Fredica Witzke

7:33pm – 7:36pm
Duet
Dickinson and Raj with Movement Machine

7:37pm – 7:51pm
Video Plus Gates
Company with Dolphin, Enenstein, Kline, Rodriguez, Vaughan, Wiener

7:37pm – 10:49pm
Adagio
…………. – 8:00pm Ensemble
7:51pm – 8:21pm Tupling
8:21pm – 8:49pm Dickinson
8:49pm – 9:19pm Wright
9:19pm – 9:29pm Figueroa
9:48pm – 10:19pm Raj
10:19pm – 10:49pm Rudner

Medley marks the first time the company performed in an outdoor location. The Medley event begins an hour before sunset in an open field when a crowd of sixty student performers emerges from the audience and into complex, choreographed formations. In Twyla Tharp’s Scrapbook (1983), Tharp remarks that “to exist in a natural surround, we needed the appearance of spontaneity. So, I carefully plotted chaos.” There is no designated seating for the audience and performers wear everyday clothing while executing pedestrian actions, blurring the lines between audience and performers.

Six dancers are featured in solos and group dances, and lead two groups of students through “The Movement Machine,” wherein the students are arranged into battalions and perform intricate canonic motions in one-second intervals.

A map of the performance space in Medley. Page 34 of 152.

The final section of Medley is an adagio performed in relay. The company members have half an hour to complete one phrase; one dancer starts just as the other finishes. The shift from movement to movement within the adagio is so subtle as to be almost imperceptible. The last dancer disappears quietly into nightfall as the sun finally sets.

    
Notes for the “Movement Machine” showing the student battalions. Page 10, 15 and 16 of 152.