Double-Edge Dance

Upcoming Performances

Cry-i-i-ing at the Kennedy Center

May 27, 2012

Press Release is Below

 Photo by Rebecca Wolf

 National College Dance Festival Welcomes Kenyon Dancers

GAMBIER, Ohio –Cry-i-i-ing, a dance with five Kenyon students and choreographed by Assistant
Professor of Dance Kora Radella, will be performed at the National College Dance Festival on May 25-27
in Washington, D.C.

The students will perform Cry-i-i-ing at the Terrace Theater in the John F. Kennedy Center for
the Performing Arts. Hosted by the American College Dance Festival Association, this series features
outstanding college dance performances chosen for artistic excellence at 11 regional conferences.
Kenyon is one of only 30 colleges and universities represented.

This is the second consecutive invitation for Kenyon dancers to perform at the biennial gala.
“This festival is the highest honor for college-level dance in the United States,” said Associate Professor
of Dance, Balinda Craiq-Quijada. “To have dances from Kenyon chosen for the past two national festivals indicates that dance at Kenyon is to be taken seriously. It puts Kenyon dance on the map.”

Kenyon’s dancers include Hannah Beckerman of Upper Montclair, N.J.; Matthew Davis of Cranberry Township, P.A.; Eden Deering of Brooklyn, N.Y.; Adrian Galvin, Bedford Hills, N.Y.; and Robby
Letzler of Atlanta, G.A.

Radella described Cry-i-i-ing as a quintet that “embodies the human need for one another, while acknowledging the integrity of the individual.” Set to music for piano by Franz Schubert and Roy Orbison’s lovelorn Crying, the piece carries “a sense that the dancers discover an integral part of themselves (the capacity to feel, appreciate, and grow) only through each other.”

Adjudicator KT Niehoff said about Cry-i-i-ing: “Humans. Thank you,” while Patrick Corbin
characterized the quintet style as “dirty, hipster, chic.”

The Kenyon performance in Washington is scheduled for May 27. To purchase tickets and to
learn more about the National College Dance Festival, visit www.acdfa.org.

CONTACT: Mark Ellis, 740-427-5591, ellism@kenyon.edu
RELEASE: May 9, 2012

Two photographs above by Howard Korn Photography 

 Photo by Charlotte Woolf

Recent Performances

Boomerang

a duet choreographed by Kora Radella, and danced by Matt Davis and Adrian Galvin, was performed at the Spring Dance Concert,

Kenyon College, May 3-5, 2012

Photo by Charlotte Woolf

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Unfurled & Sound Mirrors

a solo choreographed and performed by Kora Radella

a duet for vocalist Rebecca Cross and saxophonist Ross Feller

performed

at Cleveland Public Theatre's Pandemonium 2011

Saturday, September 10th

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 Double-Edge Dance at Ingenuity 2011

 Matt Davis, Kora Radella & Ross Feller

performed at

Ingenuity 2011: Cleveland's Festival of the Arts, Music, and Technology

at space #25 on the Veterans Memorial (Detroit Superior) Bridge

September 16 -18, 2011

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 Double-Edge Dance at Movement Research

Kora and Ross presented an Open Performance of

"Love Cry"

inspired by the work of pioneer saxophonist

Albert Ayler

October 5th at 8 pm

Movement Research

138 S. Oxford Street, Brooklyn, New York

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Etched in Motion

was performed at the Cleveland Public Theatre's DanceWorks 2011, May 26–29, 2011.

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Laden

was performed at the 2010 Intermedia Festival in Indianapolis on April 23. Kora also performed Strung, a solo made for her by NYC-based choreographer Bill Young. Click HERE for details.

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(L)edge

for solo dancer, textiles, and computer-generated sound was performed on at Pandemonium 09, Cleveland Public Theatre.

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Shimmer

a work for solo dancer, video, and interactive audio performed at Ingenuity: The 2009 Cleveland Festival of Art and Technology, Westfield Studio Theatre, Idea Center, Cleveland.

Click HERE to see Double-Edge Dance on Cleveland's WKYC!

Click HERE for more information about Ingenuity 09.

 photographs by Ross Feller

photo by Larry Coleman

photos by Larry Coleman
 

Sparrow, featuring 6 Kenyon College dancers was performed at the American College Dance Festival

Performance of Some Nerve
April 4, 2009
at the Ohio Dance Festival Showcase
Athens, Ohio 

Sparrow, for sextet, choreographed by Kora Radella, with an electroacoustic score by Ross Feller, was performed December 11-13, 2008 in Gambier, Ohio at the Fall Dance Concert in Hill Theater at Kenyon College.  

Double-Edge Dance relaxing outside the Cleveland Public Theatre. 

 
Double-Edge Dance performed Some Nerve danced by Kimberly Karpanty and Kora Radella with music composed by Ross Feller, at the annual Dance Showcase in the Ohio Theatre at Playhouse Square, September 12, 2008.

Double-Edge Dance performed an improvised duet that featured choreographer/dancer Kora Radella and live music by composer/saxophonist Ross Feller, and costume by textile artist Rebecca Cross, at Pandemonium 08 at the Cleveland Public Theatre, September 13, 2008.

Double-Edge Dance performed a new solo, Laden, with choreographer/ dancer Kora Radella, music by Ross Feller, and costumes/décor by textile artist Rebecca Cross, at "Assemblage," the first annual fundraiser for the Collinwood Community Arts Center, September 27, 2008.