“Alloy” – Joint Dance Concert with three Companies of the Southern Region

When: Saturday, Sept. 15, 2007, 7:30 p.m.

Where: Manship Theatre, 100 Lafayette Street, Shaw Center for the Arts, Baton Rouge

Cost: Not available

Age limit: All ages

Categories: Dance performance, Other

Description: “Alloy” is a new and collaborative dance concert running in Baton Rouge September 14-16, 2007. The performance will offer work from three strong dance forces in the Southern Region: Louisiana’s Of Moving Colors Productions (OMC), Willow Oak Contemporary Ballet and Florida’s Fuzion Dance Artists. The concert will challenge the audience’s artistic thought with segments of contemporary ballet, modern dance, and contemporary dance-theatre. The word “alloy” is defined as a substance composed of two or more metals intimately mixed, as by fusion or electrodeposition. “Our Dance concert will fuse together an incredible mixture of movement – an alloy of our own – represented by three strong companies in the south,” says Garland Goodwin Wilson, Of Moving Colors’ Artistic Director.

OMC kicks off their 20th Anniversary Season with this collective performance. The local company will highlight new works from four of their choreographers including Artistic Director, Garland Goodwin Wilson. With a wide range of music from Mozart to Led Zeppelin, OMC will compliment and contrast this music with modern and contemporary movement just as varied.

Willow Oak performs choreography ranging in style from classical to contemporary ballet. Dianna Jones of Jean Leigh Academy directs the company. Tamu Wilson, the Artistic Director and visionary for Willow Oak will also present original choreography focusing on impeccable line, believable emotional scope, and the undeniable partnership between movement and music.

Fuzion, who will perform as a guest to Of Moving Colors, is a contemporary dance collective influenced by World Dance forms. This Florida based company will inspire Baton Rouge with movement that expresses the desires and struggles of the human spirit. Directors Leymis Bolaños Wilmott and Rachael Inman bring their images to the Baton Rouge stage.

OMC will also be holding auditions for their company dancers Sunday, September 16th at noon in the Manship Theatre (registration opens at 11:15).

“Alloy” will be held at The Manship Theatre in the Shaw Center for the Arts (100 Lafayette Street) in Baton Rouge, LA on Friday through Sunday, September 14th & 15th at 7:30pm and the 16th at 2:00pm. Tickets may be purchased through the Manship Theatre website at www.manshiptheatre.org or by calling the Manship Theatre Box Office at 225.344.0334. For more information on the upcoming show, please contact OMC via web - www.ofmovingcolors.org or phone - 225.338.0804 or contact Willow Oak Website via web - www.willowoak.org or phone at 225.664.1809.

OMC is a contemporary dance theatre organization based in Baton Rouge Louisiana and that was founded twenty years ago under the title “In the Company of Dancers”. The company’s name was changed in 1998 and is currently under the artistic direction of Garland Goodwin Wilson. The organization produces major works for the theatre, provides training for the contemporary dance community, and hosts world-class guest residencies each year. In addition, OMC runs an extensive community outreach program called “C.L.O.S.E.R. to the Arts!” which takes dance into Churches, Libraries, Open-air spaces, Schools and Everywhere they can Reach. OMC’s programs are made possible in part by: Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge; the Lamar Families Fund, the Community Funds for the Arts Campaign; City of Baton Rouge and the Parish of East Baton Rouge; Louisiana State Arts Council, Division of the Arts; and the National Endowment for the Arts. OMC partners with Powell-Moise School of Dance, a center that has provided dance training for all ages since 1952.

Willow Oak Contemporary Ballet is a professional dance company committed to artistic excellence, creative development, choreographic discovery, and dance education. Willow Oak will strive to set new standards in the dance theatre experience while demonstrating a strong commitment to the diversity among our audiences and artists. Willow Oak Contemporary Ballet is a professional dance company based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, whose repertoire includes original choreography ranging in style from classical to contemporary. WOCB celebrates the art and concept of movement by promoting and producing extraordinary works by exceptional artists. Willow Oak is the brainchild of Co-Directors Dianna Jones and Tamu Wilson. Wilson and Jones are committed to elevating the art form while enlightening and educating a new generation of dance enthusiasts.