Fall Faculty Dance Concert: Shake

Saturday, October 31, 2015 at 8:00pm
Patricelli '92 Theater

$6 Wesleyan students; $8 all others

Shake is a work born out of a seven-year friendship in dance. In the world premiere of their first co-choreographed work, Wesleyan Artist in Residence Iddi Saaka and Bates College Assistant Professor of Dance Rachel Boggia started working from their shared love of vibratory movement, smooth breath, and cheesy humor. Influences from West African traditional and contemporary dance, American postmodern dance, fake tap dance, bad jokes, and life experiences glimmer under the surface of this rambunctious and tender duet. Like their bodies, the work contains their stories, but explains nothing.