USC Dance Company 2017-18 Season Brochure

FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR With brand new creations, renowned masterpieces, and great classics, this season’s repertoire is sure to excite our audience and highlight the versatility, technical brilliance and dramatic flair of our nationally recognized young artists. Our 2017-18 Season is going to be our best.

We are thrilled to announce that this season the USC Dance Company will collaborate on three occasions with the USC School of Music. Under the direction of Cormac Cannon, we will be performing at the “Dancing with the Stars” half-time show at Williams-Brice on September 23. Cormac will also conduct the USC Symphonic Wind ensemble when they perform with us on our November Concert. In April, we have been invited to perform as part of the Bernstein MASS, under the direction of Ellen Schlaefer. This monumental production is in honor of the 100th birthday celebration of Leonard Bernstein.

Some faculty highlights: Tanya Wideman Davis received tenure and promotion to Associate Professor. Stacey Calvert continues her brilliant work as Distinguished Artist-in-Residence with Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet. Stephanie Milling and Thaddeus Davis both received major grants from the Provost Office for continued research in dance. We welcome back Miriam Barbosa, former member of the Martha Graham Dance Company, who will be a guest artist-in-residence for the Fall term. This year, we welcome to the dance faculty Olivia Anderson Waldrop, who recently received her MFA from UC-Irvine, as well as Susan Dabney Hancock, former LA Classical Ballet dancer, who will head up the USC Dance Conservatory and teach in the dance program.

This year will mark our 13th year hosting the Ballet Stars of New York Gala Performance, Columbia’s premiere dance event directed by Stacey Calvert, which features our students performing exquisitely alongside Principal Dancers from The New York City Ballet. Each year the incredible USC Board of Dance works tirelessly through this event, raising scholarship funds to attract stellar dance majors from across the US. We currently have 55 dance majors on scholarships who have previously trained at prestigious conservatories and magnet schools from 18 different states.

As a Professor and Director of Dance at the University of South Carolina, I have been fortunate to design, teach, and create much of the essential curriculum used in the dance program. I am glad to say I never looked back! Now, USC has over 80 dance courses with a BA in Performance/Choreography, we offer licensing for K-12 Dance Education, our program is nationally recognized as one of the “top three to consider for classical training for non-conservatory programs” (Dance Magazine), and we have recently received accreditation from the National Association of Schools of Dance. I have personally taught over 12,000 dance students and USC Dance Program has taught over 100,000 university students.

With a great deal of pride and joy I sign off.

Susan Anderson Artistic Director

TICKET INFORMATION REGULAR SEASON PERFORMANCES $15 $20 $20 $22

BALLET STARS OF NY PERFORMANCE

STUDENTS USC FACULTY/STAFF MILITARY, SENIORS (60+) GENERAL PUBLIC

$15 $25 $30 $35

STUDENTS 2ND BALCONY 1ST BALCONY ORCHESTRA

USC DANCE CONSERVATORY PERFORMANCES $12 ALL TICKETS

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Brochure photos by Jason Ayer unless otherwise noted.

Costumes (except inset photos) courtesy of The Turning Pointe.

Drayton Hall Box Office is open the Monday prior to each Drayton Hall performance. Box office hours: 1pm - 5:30pm, M-F.

FALL 2017

NOVEMBER 16-17 USC DANCE COMPANY

FALL CONCERT

The USC Dance Company will present a mixed repertory of timeless classics and contemporary works. Featured will be George Balanchine’s Walpurgisnacht, staged

by Stacey Calvert, as well as three new works. Suite of Old American Dances, by American composer Robert Russell Bennett, will be turned into a new choreographic work by Heather Stokes. Conductor Cormac Cannon will lead the USC Symphonic Winds in this piece.

We’ll also feature a new world premiere by Associate Professor Thaddeus Davis, recipient of the Choo San Gho choreographic award, as well as a tribute to Martha Graham by visiting guest artist Miriam Barbosa.

PERFORMANCES 7:30 PM KOGER CENTER FOR THE ARTS

DECEMBER 5-8 STUDENT CHOREOGRAPHY

SHOWCASE

Under the direction of Cindy Flach, our gifted student choreographers will showcase original works as part of their training in the completion of degree requirements.

PERFORMANCES 7:30 PM DRAYTON HALL THEATRE

FEBRUARY 21-24 USC DANCE COMPANY

SPRING CONCERT

Thought-provoking and boundary-pushing dance comes to the forefront as the USC Dance Company presents a repertory of brand new contemporary choreography!

On tap are works by Associate Professors Thaddeus Davis and Tanya WidemanDavis, as well as new choreography by USC Dance instructor Olivia Waldrop and Stephanie Wilkins.

PERFORMANCES 7:30 PM FEB. 21-23 2 PM FEB. 24 DRAYTON HALL THEATRE

MARCH 2-4 SPECIAL EVENT

BERNSTEIN MASS USC Dance is proud to be part of the USC School of Music’s largest event, a production of Leonard Bernstein’s monumental MASS, performed in commemoration of the legendary composer’s centenary. The epic stage production includes two orchestras, a rock band, a blues band, several choirs, singers, dancers and actors.

PERFORMANCES 7:30 PM MAR. 2-3 KOGER CENTER FOR THE ARTS

3 PM MAR. 4

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Presented by arrangement with Boosey & Hawkes, Inc., Sole Agent for Leonard Bernstein Music Publishing Company LLC, publisher and copyright owner.

APRIL 15 13TH ANNUAL

BALLET STARS OF NEW YORK

GALA PERFORMANCE Photo by Sarah Silver

Columbia’s premiere ballet event enters its thirteenth year! Under the direction of Stacey Calvert, Principal Dancers from the New York City Ballet will perform an evening of world class ballet in concert with the USC Dance Company.

A gala after-party will also be held as a fundraiser for the dance program (separate ticket required).

PERFORMANCE 5:30 PM KOGER CENTER FOR THE ARTS

APRIL 27-28 STUDENT CHOREOGRAPHY

SHOWCASE

SENIOR CAPSTONE CONCERT Seven selected works by senior Performance/ Choreography major will be featured, as well as choreography by invited alumni of the dance program.

PERFORMANCES 7 PM APRIL 27 DRAYTON HALL THEATRE

2 PM APRIL 28

MAY 18-19 USC DANCE CONSERVATORY

SPRING CONCERT

Bring the whole family for our annual concert, choreographed by Conservatory faculty and performed by the exceptional students of our preprofessional training program for students aged 3-18.

PERFORMANCES 6 PM MAY 18 DRAYTON HALL THEATRE

2 PM MAY 19

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SUBSCRIPTION PRICES LEVELS

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$107

USC FACULTY/STAFF, MILITARY, SENIORS 60+

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$127

GENERAL PUBLIC

$115

$135

*Subscription packages include tickets to all USC Dance concerts, including Student Showcase and USC Dance Conservatory events, plus orchestra tickets for Ballet Stars of NY. Admission to the Bernstein Mass or Ballet Stars of NY gala after-party is not included.

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