NC State will host several cultural events this weekend, including performances by the NC State Dance Program and the Center Stage Performing Arts Series.

The NC State Dance Program will present its annual student concert — which features the work of NC State student choreographers — on Friday and Saturday (Nov. 22 and 23) at 8 p.m. each night in Stewart Theatre.

The event will feature choreography by students Lindsey Greene, Megan Marvel, Gerren Mobley, Natalie Rockwell, Lauren Scott, Katie Tart and Jackie Willse. The program will also feature a screening of "The Water Line," a film conceived, choreographed and performed by Megan Marvel, as well as work in progress by NC State Dance Program Director Robin Harris.

Greene's "A Movie by Godot" is inspired by the Samuel Beckett play, "Waiting for Godot." In addition to presenting her film, "The Water Line," Marvel will be performing on a pedestal in her new duet with Mobley. Marvel's satirical work comments on the woes of a southern debutante.

Tart will be performing "I Want to be a Pigeon (And Just Yesterday I was Perfect)," in which she will employ a set of bathroom scales in her dance about struggle with an eating disorder. "I Want to be a Pigeon (And Just Yesterday I was Perfect)" will be performed to "Una Furtiva Lagrima," composed by Gaetano Donizetti and sung by Luciano Pavarotti.

"Deranged Covenant," choreographed and performed by Scott and Mobley, is the dramatic illustration of a troubled relationship set to music "The Cellist of Sarajevo" written by David Wilde and performed by Yo-Yo Ma. In Willse's "Corresponding Dilemma," an upbeat and comical group work is set to a lively Bach concerto. Also on the program will be Rockwell's solo, "20 West Henderson St.," a dance on a bike to a slightly confused love song.

Harris will be showing "Quartet, Choir (Bad Weather)," and Solo, three sections in progress from Songs, a collection of dances inspired by Richard Strauss lieder. These sections are set to Morgen Op. 27, No. 4 and Zueignung Op.10, No. 1, sung by Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, and Schlectes Wetter, sung by Jessye Norman. The finished collection of Songs will premiere in the NCSU Dance Company Spring Concert, May 1 and 2, 2003.

Tickets for the event are $7 for the general public, $6 for faculty/staff and $5 for students. To order, call Ticket Central at 515-1100.

Meanwhile, the NC State Center Stage Performing Arts Series will present the children's music of Cathy and Marcy Marx on Sunday (Nov. 24) at 3 p.m.

Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer, who have been entertaining children together for more than 20 years, blend heart-warming vocals with stellar instrumental work on guitar, banjo and hammered dulcimer. The duo recently gained widespread acclaim, as well as their fifth Grammy nomination, for their polka-party collaboration with the Texas roots band Brave Combo. "All Wound Up!" was also named the Indie Award Winner for children's music from the Association for Independent Music in 2002.

Tickets for the event at $7 for all seats and can be ordered by calling Ticket Central at 515-1100.

Posted November 22, 2002

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