Choreographer, Benjamin Levy creates a new relationship between audience and performer that heightens and activates the role of the viewer. ROMP seats dancers and audience members together at banquet tables, providing a familiar setting for everyday interactions to transform. Playful and exuberant, this world unites audience and performer together in the somewhat surreal experience. LEVYdance’s signature partnering and dynamic physicality are witnessed at close range, amplifying the intimate connections inherent in Levy’s work. Students from the Boyer College of Music & Dance, Dance Department will join the company in this special performance of ROMP.
The creation and production of ROMP was made possible in part by funding received from Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund, the David and Laura Merage Foundation and the Zellerbach Family Foundation.
PDP is pleased to expand its partnership with
TU Dance Department in 2012.
The two will partner to host a Guest artist in residency with San
Francisco based Choreographer Ben Levy. Levy will teach technique classes
and dance students will be selected to perform repertory as part of the
company’s presentation of a new work
“ROMP” which seats dancers and audience members together
at banquet tables creating an increasingly surreal and hyper expressive world.
PDP’s 7th Annual presentation of SCUBA at Conwell Dance Theater includes
corollary interactions between students and SCUBA artists, who will teach
technique classes and be guests speakers about their work and their
choreographic process. SCUBA
provides precious touring opportunities for dance artists, and for everyone
else it gives a fantastic view of the breadth of choreographic invention across
the country.
This partnership is providing not only
access to contemporary dance for the TU community and the public at large, but also
it aims to create opportunities for student interaction with creative artists
and to deepen engagement.
