Elegy (What Rises Can Fall), Saturday 8pm

Choreography: Lorin Johnson with contributions from the dancers
Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, clarinet concerto in A major
Clarinet Soloist: Hiroshi Ikeda
Costume Design: Liz Pelster
Lighting Design: Andrew N. Milhan
Dancers: Kimberley Hannah (soloist), with Kathryn Lung, Angela Mattern, Estela McNaughton, Jessica Stover, Maria Tolbert, Stephanie Yonkovich
Understudy: Clarice Ordaz

Choreographer's Note: The rising and falling motif present in this adagio by Mozart, a musical expression of elegiac couplets of poetry, expresses to me
a strong metaphoric representation of the universal ebb and flow
present in human life. Though often desired (perhaps subconsciously?),
permanence, in any aspect of human experience, is a myth.

Music performed live by the Cole Conservatory Orchestra
Johannes Muller-Stosch, Conductor and Music Director
Fusion: a Performance of Dance and Live Orchestra
Carpenter Performing Arts Center
Saturday, November 20 at 8pm
California State University, Long Beach
Dance Department and Bob Cole Conservatory
Videography by Gregory R. R. Crosby

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