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During the current season, enjoy these dance events at Krannert Center:
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An art of motion, dance expresses emotion through body movement. The infinite range of dance styles, forms, and techniques may be graceful or awkward, athletic or calm, abstract or pantomimic, simple or complex. The person who arranges the dance or directs the movement is known as the choreographer, and dance is sometimes known as choreography.
Dance is created for personal satisfaction and social situations as well as for public stages, ceremonies, festivals, or ritual. Music usually accompanies dance, ranging from a simple hummed tune, clapping, snapping the fingers, or bells worn on the ankles to a full orchestra. Dance types include court dance, liturgical dance, classical ballet, folk dance, social dance, mime, and modern dance.
The four presentations by the University of Illinois Department of Dance -- November Playhouse Dance, Festival, Studiodance I, and Studiodance II -- offer a huge variety of dance styles within each performance, although they draw largely on modern dance traditions.
While written descriptions and drawings document dance's function in society, the art of performing dance has been passed down largely by memory. Even recently developed dance notation -- Labanotation -- is imperfect. Film and videotape provide the best way to record movement sequences and correlate movement to music in dance.
Some famous choreographers whose works and lives you might enjoy exploring include Marius Petipa, Vaclav Njinsky, George Balanchine, Yuri Grigorovich, Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, Jerome Robbins, Paul Taylor, Alwin Nikolais, and Mark Morris.
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