"Diversity of Dance", Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»'s Fine Arts Hall, October 22 -27
October 20, 2016
Brian Harlan Brooks, a member of Earl Mosley's Diversity of Dance, will be the Master Artist in Residence to create a new work with the Dance Theatre of Santa Fe (DTÂ鶹´«Ã½Ó³») Oct. 22-27, 2016. Members of Diversity of Dance will join DTÂ鶹´«Ã½Ó³» in performance of that work at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 27, in the Fine Arts Hall at the Northwest Campus, 3000 NW 83 Street, Gainesville. The Diversity of Dance residency dovetails into a residency at the Young Dancer Workshop Oct. 28-29.
Tickets for the Oct. 27 performance are $15 or $9 for seniors, children under 12, University of Florida and Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» students, staff, and faculty. For ticket information, call the Box Office at 352-395-4181 or visit the Fine Arts ticket website.
The DTÂ鶹´«Ã½Ó³» residency is part of the Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» Master Artist series that enables students to interact with and learn from visiting performers. The Young Dancer Workshop-organized annually by the Florida Dance Association, the University of Florida School of Theatre and Dance and Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»-will be held at the Northwest Campus Oct. 28-29. That event brings hundreds of dance students from throughout Florida to Gainesville for classes with guest instructors and two evening performances.
"Earl Mosley is a longtime friend and I admire his work very much," said Alora Haynes, chairperson of the Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» Fine Arts Department who is also a director of the Florida Dance Association (FDA). "For the Young Dancer Workshop this year, I recommended to FDA that we offer a residency with a dance company and I suggested Diversity of Dance. This is an incredible opportunity for area dancers and students in Dance Theatre of Santa Fe because it's a chance for them to work with professional dancers who've had successful careers with Alvin Ailey, on Broadway, and on television."
