UC Irvine
Claire Trevor School of the Arts
Department of Dance
Dance Visions 2009
Evenings: Feb. 5 – 7, 8 pm
Matinees: Feb. 7 & 8, 2 pm
For tickets go to:UCI Arts Box Office (949) 824-2787 or artstix@uci.edu or visit ticketmaster.com
Irvine Barclay Theatre (949) 854-4646
$16 general audiences/ $14 seniors & UCI staff & faculty/ $9 UCI students & children

This year’s concert featuring faculty choreographers is dedicated to Claire Trevor Professor of Dance Donald McKayle, celebrating his 20 years in the UCI Dance Department. McKayle premieres a new work “Noir” to an original score jointly composed by Kei Akagi and Alan Terricciano and performed by Kei Akagi & The Tokyo Trio and the UCI Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Stephen Tucker. Distinguished Professor Yvonne Rainer, an avant-garde choreographer and filmmaker, presents a restaging of her signature work, “The Mind is a Muscle Part 1, or Trio A.” Jodie Gates presents an excerpted version of choreographer William Forsythe’s neo-classical masterpiece, Artifact Suite, with 25 dancers. Molly Lynch will also present a new work entitled “Starry Night” based on Vincent Van Gogh’s painting with the Orchestra providing music, and New Dance Faculty member Sheron Wray will dance to choreographer Jane Dudley’s “Harmonica Breakdown”.