Commotion Dance Theater will perform at the 2016 First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival on Sunday September 18 at 4:30 pm at MuCCC Theater, 142 Atlantic Avenue, Rochester. Tickets are $10 at rochesterfringe.com and available at the door.
Choreographers Ruben T. Ornelas and Laurie MacFarlane will present new and repertory dances that use poetry, props, music and text to evoke both other worlds and common scenes.
Ornelas will present “Barrio Poems,” a solo set to the poetry of Joaquin Zih...
Commotion Dance Theater will perform at the 2016 First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival on Sunday September 18 at 4:30 pm at MuCCC Theater, 142 Atlantic Avenue, Rochester. Tickets are $10 at rochesterfringe.com and available at the door.
Choreographers Ruben T. Ornelas and Laurie MacFarlane will present new and repertory dances that use poetry, props, music and text to evoke both other worlds and common scenes.
Ornelas will present “Barrio Poems,” a solo set to the poetry of Joaquin Zihuatanejo, which celebrates the experience and beauty of being brown in a world of adversity. “Soloing,” set to poems by Philip Levine, honors the working man and bonds of family.
“silver bells and cockle shells,” a new trio by MacFarlane in conjunction with performers Kristy Barr and Alaina Olivieri explores the rituals and absurdities of childhood, in a prop-laden stroll down memory lane. “Two Stories, One Dance” is exactly that – an amalgam of storytelling, movement, gesture, memory.
MacFarlane and Ornelas have been dancing co-conspirators for 25 years, performing together throughout the US, Canada and Mexico. Kristy Barr is a Rochester actor and a member of the city's newest theater company, The Kingfisher Theater; she also sings with the Rochester Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra. Alaina Olivieri is a movement artist and collaborator with Rochester-based dance companies BIODANCE and Hanlon Dance & Company. She is also a guest performer with KDiehl Danceworks, Melanie Aceto Contemporary Dance, KT Insights, and Heather Roffe Dance.
