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from the issue of September 29, 2005
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Variety of performance art disciplines featured in 'Shall We Dance?'
Diane Cawein Barger's faculty recital is a multi-disciplinary event titled "Shall We Dance?" and will feature both music for clarinet and music relating to dance in some way, along with performances by five UNL dance students. "Shall We Dance" will be performed, at 3 p.m. Oct. 2 in Kimball Recital Hall. Barger is associate professor of clarinet.
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| | | Diane Cawein Barger, associate professor of clarinet, practices with UNL dancers (from left) Traci Christensen, Sarah Kesse and Kira Boerkircher, as they ready for "Shall We Dance?" a faculty artist performance at 3 p.m. Oct. 2 in Kimball Recital Hall. Courtesy photo.
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Barger will be joined by Mark Clinton, associate professor and co-chair of piano and Albie Micklich, assistant professor of bassoon, as well as Susan Levine, assistant professor of dance, as choreographer/dancer. Student dancers are seniors Kira Boerkircher, Traci Christensen, Lars Hollingsed and Sarah Kesse, junior Megan Lenihan, sophomore Molly McConkey, and freshman Ashley Fox.
The program begins with "Dante Dances" for clarinet and piano by Dan Welcher.
All five UNL dancers will perform during this piece, which explores a journey through the various circles of Dante's Inferno using various dance forms.
Next, is "Dance Music" for E-flat clarinet and piano by Daniel Dorff. The story of the piece involves a mouse that meets various dance partners along the way and winds up "dancing himself to death," and he ascends to heaven.
Levine said the dancers will not be in costume as mice for this piece, but they will stay true to the story, including an ascension at the end of the piece.
The third piece on the program is "Ballabile con Variazioni nel Ballo Ettore Fieramosca" for E-flat clarinet and piano by Giacomo Panizza. While this piece does not feature dancing, the piece is based on music from a ballet.
"Arlequin" for solo clarinet by Louis Cahuzac will feature Barger and a solo dance by Levine. The piece is about one of the principal stock characters in the Italian comedy of art, Harlequin.
The program concludes with "Duet-Concertino" for clarinet, bassoon and piano by Richard Strauss. While there are no dancers in this piece, it is a tone poem loosely based on Hans Christian Andersen's story, "The Swineherd." Strauss's story involves a princess who is alarmed by the grotesque cavortings of a dancing bear. Eventually, she dances with the bear, who turns into a prince.
The clarinet is the princess, and the bassoon is the dancing bear.
Tickets are $5 general admission, $3 students and seniors, and will be on sale, at the door, one hour before the performance. For more information call 472-6865.
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Variety of performance art disciplines featured in 'Shall We Dance?'
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