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May 1: MMC Dance Presents Twyla Tharp's THE ONE HUNDREDS
May 1, 2011
Performances: Sunday May 1, 1 p.m. and 2 p.m.
Location: Theresa Lang Theatre, Marymount Manhattan College, 221 East 71st Street, NY
Cost: Free
Contact: Anthony Ferro, M.F.A., associate professor of dance, (212) 517-0613
Marymount Manhattan dance majors, the MMC community and friends present Twyla Tharp’s THE ONE HUNDREDS on Sunday, May 1 in the Theresa Lang Theatre, 221 East 71st Street, New York City. Two performances are scheduled at 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. Free admission and no reservations necessary.
The MMC dance majors have been working with the Tharp choreographic material during the spring semester and they are now prepared to share their experience with other dancers, dance enthusiasts and individuals who love movement and movement invention. Veteran Tharp dancers Rose Marie Wright and Jennifer Way have been on campus contributing their expertise and assisting Associate Professor of Dance Anthony Ferro ’01, M.F.A., in mounting the work. Professor of Dance Katie Langan ’92 B.A., who also serves as chair of the MMC dance department and Ferro are former dancers with Twyla Tharp Dance.
Twyla Tharp’s THE ONE HUNDREDS was first performed in 1970. In her words, the dance is “...an exercise in aesthetic and physical deterioration. This dance is a series of 100 11-second movement phrases performed in three sections. In the first section, two skilled dancers, in unison, perform 100 movement phrases separated by four seconds of stillness (approximately 25 minutes); in the second section, five dancers perform 20 phrases each without pause (approximately five minutes); and in the third section, 100 people perform one phrase each (11 seconds). The movements are based on activities that anyone, including untrained dancers, could do—such as skip, hop, shiver, and shake—and are performed in silence. As the time diminishes, so does the rigor and definition of the dancing. And at the climactic display of 100 soloists, the phrases become mere shadows of themselves.
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