IN MODERN MOVES showcases Dayton Contemporary Dance Company’s remarkable 55-year journey. Black (aka American) history month features two works by Talley Beatty bridging Reconstruction to the culmination of the Great Migration. Former Artistic Director, Kevin Ward’s “And Each Day,” created for DCDC’s 50th anniversary, explores the power of “we the people.” A season highlight will be the DCDC premiere of “Esplanade” by legendary choreographer Paul Taylor performed to live music by the Springfield Symphony under the direction of Peter Stafford Wilson. “Esplanade” has been called “a masterpiece of physical joy” and will be the first time this work will be performed by a majority African American dance company.
Springfield Symphony
In Modern Moves
IN MODERN MOVES showcases Dayton Contemporary Dance Company’s remarkable 55-year journey. Black (aka American) history month features two works by Talley Beatty bridging Reconstruction to the culmination of the Great Migration. Former Artistic Director, Kevin Ward’s “And Each Day,” created for DCDC’s 50th anniversary, explores the power of “we the people.” A season highlight will be the DCDC premiere of “Esplanade” by legendary choreographer Paul Taylor performed to live music by the Springfield Symphony under the direction of Peter Stafford Wilson. “Esplanade” has been called “a masterpiece of physical joy” and will be the first time this work will be performed by a majority African American dance company.
Springfield Symphony Orchestra Presents 1788!
This concert brings to a close the SSO’s first-ever Mozart Festival; a ten-day celebration of the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, one of the most creative minds in history. During the summer of 1788, Mozart enjoyed a flurry of compositional activity, producing over a dozen new works, including his three final symphonies. But this composer who always created with a specific occasion in mind wrote these monumental works with no apparent cause. Each one unique in sound, structure, and style, they are marvels of invention, and very human statements. Perhaps they are the result of an inner compulsion to create, somehow knowing that the end of his life was near.