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The Great Leaps Dance Concert, a popular end-of-the-semester presentation by all dance classes taught at both and , will be held on Saturday, December 6, 7:30 p.m. at the .
Founded by a Â鶹´«Ã½ dance legend, the late Earnest T. Morgan, to showcase student learning and accomplishments in dance the peformance has become a greatly anticipated biannual event on campus.
At this semester’s Great Leaps Dance Concert, 100-plus dance students from UH Hilo and Â鶹´«Ã½ Community College will perform original choreography.
- Celeste Staton’s ballet classes will perform a charming dance of toys come-to-life and a beautiful waltz by Shostakovich.
- Annie Bunker’s UH Hilo modern dance class will perform A Moment in Rain—21 dancers and large umbrellas impart an impression of a community exploring the wonders and joys of celebrating the wet liquid that falls from the sky.
- A Â鶹´«Ã½ CC modern jazz class will perform Caught—21 dancers investige repetitive habits, co-dependency and the sensations of being stuck and the inability to manifest change.
- The UH Hilo jazz class is doing a piece that is a nod to Broadway and film legend Bob Fosse, co-mingled with other fun and funky dance moves.
- Dance instructor Kea Kapahua presents a special piece How Many?, which incorporates interviews with two combat veterans and portrays some of our society’s complexities in dealing with war and peace.
- Dori Yamada, UH Hilo Performing Arts Center associate manager, creates a dance with shifting tones and a mood that mimics the unsettling way that dreams can shift from one minute to the next.
Learn more at the .
Ticket information
- $7 general admission
- $5 for UH Hilo and Â鶹´«Ã½ CC students with valid ID and children 17 and under
To purchase tickets, visit the or call the box office at (808) 932-7490.