Event detail
Berkeley Dance Project 2019: the body remembers
Performing Arts - Dance | February 21 – 23, 2019 every day | 8-10 p.m. | Zellerbach Playhouse
Joe Goode, Professor of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
Choreographers
Joe Goode, TDPS, Joe Goode Performance Group
Cherie Hill, IrieDance, UC Berkeley Alumna
Rulan Tangen, DANCING EARTH
Latanya Tigner, TDPS, Dimensions Dance Theater
Katie O'Connor, UC Berkeley Alumna
Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of UC Berkeley’s dance program, Berkeley Dance Project 2019: the body remembers will feature an all-student cast performing pieces by professional choreographers Joe Goode, Rulan Tangen, Latanya Tigner, and Cherie Hill, as well as recent dance program alumna Katie O’Connor.
From a “haunting” solo to a multi-dancer “mosaic,” the dance pieces in BDP 2019 represent a wide range of sources and styles: Goode incorporates spoken word and song into a piece based on the buddhist concept of “the undefended heart;” Tangen presents an organic creative response to a “re-mapping” and “re-storying” of campus based on Ohlone histories and perspectives; Tigner honors researcher, instructor and choreographer Ruth Beckford, recognized as the mother of African diasporic dance in the Bay Area; Hill draws from supernatural elements of her Jamaican Maroon ancestry; and O’Connor explores the tenderness, anguish, healing and transformation inherent in caretaking.
Professor Emerita Marni Thomas Wood, co-founder of the dance program, will be on campus for a short residency, including a discussion of the dance program’s history on February 21.
$13 online in advance or $15 at the door for students/seniors and UC Berkeley faculty/staff, $18 online in advance or $20 at the door for general admission
