The Red Shoes (screening)
March 2 at 7PM
Julius S. Held Auditorium
304 Barnard Hall
Free
For information: 212-854-2995

The Red Shoes ( 1948 ) is a British feature film about ballet , written, directed and produced by the team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger , known collectively as The Archers . It tells the story of a young ballerina who joins an established ballet company and becomes the lead dancer in a new ballet called The Red Shoes , based on the story by Hans Christian Andersen about a woman who cannot stop dancing. The film stars Moira Shearer , Anton Walbrook and Marius Goring and features Robert Helpmann , Léonide Massine and Ludmilla Tchérina , renowned dancers from the ballet world, as well as Esmond Knight and Albert Basserman . It has original music by Brian Easdale and cinematography by Jack Cardiff , and is well regarded for its creative use of Technicolor .

Senior Creative Thesis Concert
April 3-4 at 7PM
Minor Latham Playhouse
Barnard College Campus
$10, $5 with CUID
For information call 212-854-2995

This concert series showcases yearlong projects by Barnard students, whose fall semester research find unique and often unexpected outlets in the dance studio. It is a celebration of that year of hard work, but also of the students' four years at Barnard: the culmination and synthesis of their academic and creative endeavors.

The Barnard Project at DTW
April 23-25 at 7:30PM
April 25 at 2PM

Dance Theater Workshop
219 W. 19th St. between 7th and 8th Avenue
Tickets $20 and $12 student
Box office: 212-924-0077
For information: 212-854-2995
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Cutting edge downtown choreographers Nora Chipaumire, Nicholas Leichter, Susan Rethorst and Morgan Thorson create new dances on Barnard dancers.

Celebrating Diaghilev in Music and Dance: Afternoon of a Faun and Les Noces
Nijinsky's celebrated ballet of adolescent sexual awakening and Stravinsky's Russian choral masterpiece performed by Barnard and Columbia students in a centenary tribute to the first Paris performances of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. Presented by the Harriman Institute, Columbia University, in collaboration with the Department of Dance and Music Program of Barnard College.

Saturday, April 25, 2009
8 PM
Miller Theater
Broadway and 116th Street
Box Office: 212-854-7799
$10, $5 with CUID
For information: 212-854-7799

PAST EVENTS (FALL 2008)

Making Choices: Presenters Talk about Programming Dance
Monday, September 29, 7:30PM
Held Lecture Hall
Free
For information: 212-854-2995

Three of the country's most prominent artistic directors – Ella Baff (Executive Director, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival), Joseph V. Melillo (Executive Director, Brooklyn Academy of Music), and Carla Peterson (Artistic Director, Dance Theater Workshop) – share insights into their processes and artistic visions for programming contemporary dance. Moderated by Paul Scolieri.

Jody Sperling's Ballet of Light
Wed. – Fri., Oct. 8-10, 8PM
Fri. – Sat., Oct. 17-18, 8PM
Sun., Oct. 19, 3PM
The Ailey Citigroup Theater
The Joan Weill Center for Dance
405 W. 55 th St. at 9 th Avenue
For information and tickets: timelapsedance.com/events.htm
Tickets: $30 and $15 for students
Discounts available for group sales

Barnard dancers perform with Jody Sperling and Time Lapse Dance. Loie Fuller's original Ballet of Light (1908) was a cinematic spectacle involving the projection of images – including the sea, icebergs, snowstorms, fires, space and an aurora borealis – onto transparent gauzes hung at the front of the stage. This project involves the mingling of serious scholarship with active choreographic imagination

“Eyes had swam and fancy rioted in an orgy of luminosity.” - anonymous newspaper clipping, 1909

Bill T. Jones Residency
Oct. 16-18, times TBA

Dance Performance in honor of President Debora Spar
Fri., Oct, 24, 1:30PM
Streng Studio, Barnard Hall
Free
For information: 212-854-2995

Recent graduates and current students perform their own creations and historic repertory by Paul Taylor, Merce Cunningham and Anna Sokolow.

Barnard Dances at Miller
Fri., Nov. 14 at 7:30 PM, Sat., Nov. 15 at 2PM and 7:30PM
Miller Theater, Columbia University
2960 Broadway at 116 th St.
212-854-7799
Tickets: $20, $12 with CUID
For information: 212-854-2995

Barnard dancers perform Stephen Petronio's Lareigne – “ … a heroically beautiful figure, seeming to float through fierce bursts of swirling, dynamic movement. Seven other join in, shot forth so deftly that at times they seem like dozens, their lashing limbs and unfurling torsos expressing infinite possibilities. “- Susan Reiter, Newsday

The program also features premieres by Camille Brown and Donlin Foreman and a restaging of the classical ballet Paquita by Robert La Fosse.

Dance Department Final Showcase
Monday, December 8, 6pm
Streng Studio

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