The 2018-19 Fall Season opener, entitled Flying, returns the company to the beautiful California Theatre with two public performances. Also, again this year, there will be a free Youth Performance for under-served Title 1 schools.
In its 9th year of collaboration with Barbara Day Turner and the San José Chamber Orchestra, sjDANCEco’s program will feature the Company Premieres of “Corvidae” by Limón Dance Company Artistic Director Colin Connor and “Flying Colors” by sjDANCEco’s Choreographic Advisor/Mentor Fred Mathews. The program will also include World Premieres by company choreographers Maria Basile and Gabriel Mata, as well as excerpts from José Limón’s “Mazurkas”, which premiered in 2014.
Colin Connor, born in London, England, is the fifth Artistic Director in the Limón Dance Foundation’s 70-year history. Mr. Connor began dancing in Canada and was a soloist with the Limón Dance Company for eight years, guest performed with several other companies, and toured extensively with his own work. He has always been committed to the idea that dancers are creative artists, and that dancing is the act of drawing from a large range of influences, musical, literary, sensory, social and scientific — to bring attention back to the visceral communicative power of the human body.
Mr. Connor’s fifty-plus choreographic commissions span the worlds of contemporary, ballet and flamenco companies, and his works have been presented at numerous venues across the Americas and Europe. As an educator, Mr. Connor has been on the faculties of The Juilliard School, New York University, and the City College of New York. For fourteen years, he was full-time faculty at the California Institute of the Arts, where he served as Director of Student Professional Development.
Ticketing Note: Saturday night’s VIP tickets include entry into the after-show Gala, with a chance to meet dancers and choreographers of sjDANCEco.
Performances:
- Fri., October 12, 2018 @ 8pm
- Sat., October 13, 2018 @ 8pm