Program reflects U-M dance department through the years

Wednesday, June 17, 2009 | Source: Detroit Free Press

Dancers at the University of Michigan flutter off into the sunset with site-specific pieces.

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At the core of dance is movement -- forward and back, side-to-side, fast, slow, soaring, melting. So when University of Michigan dance professor Jessica Fogel took on the task of showcasing a century of dance in just a few hours, she came up with a site-specific program, to be performed at 6:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, that will have the audience as well as the dancers on the move.

"Dance chair Angela Kane and I wanted the program to travel, to be the tale of three buildings: where we started, where we currently are and the building we hope will someday be," says Fogel.

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