February Dance 2022

The four faculty-choreographed works you’ll see tonight are evidence of that staggering forward momentum. Roxane D’Orléans Juste’s meditative solo is really a duet in disguise, one concerned with memory and its inextricableness from identity and family. Tere O’Connor’s Future Cake examines our obsession with unison in dance and gently guides us to instead uncover the choreographic bounty and community innate in plurality. In her work Fallow, Cynthia Oliver uses the exhaustion and depletion that inevitably accompany drive, not as means to a necessary end but as onsets—as opportunities to lean in. John Toenjes marries dance and technology in fresh, invigorating ways as dancers compete for audience approval via sonic and movement improvisations.

—Rachel Rizzuto, concert director