Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Dance KSU Dance Company returns to National College Dance Festival
Posted by Adam Carlson on Wed, May 23, 2012 at 9:40 AM
- Photo courtesy Robert Pack
- KSU dancers during a performance of "Rhizome."
For the third time in a row, Kennesaw State University’s Dance Company has been invited to perform at the National College Dance Festival. KSU’s Dance Company will perform Rhizome, choreographed by dance program director Ivan Pulinkala. Pulinkala says the opportunity is both “very, very exciting and humbling" and is the product of the work of both faculty and staff.
The company performed Pulinkala’s “Chakra” and “Incubus,” in 2010 and 2008 at the festival, which is held every two years.
A moody, intergalactic work, Rhizome is performed in pitch blackness with the dancers acting as light sources. At one point, dancers spin around a kind of hollow teepee with spikes. Later on, a chorus of dancers appears with lighted wands. The movements may appear fragmented but a closer look reveals a preciseness to the scurrying, twirling and jumping. You may not know exactly what the dancers are doing, but they are doing it with great rhythm.
“This is definitely one of those programs that has come in a very short time to a very high place,” says Cheryl Anderson Brown, KSU director of public relations.
Rhizome is one of only three works selected from the Southeast. Pulinkala says he's excited to perform the piece on a national level and to represent the region.
“What we have to offer is really the work itself,” he says.
Sponsored by the American College Dance Festival Association, this year’s festival will be held at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. from May 24-27.
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