{"id":16027,"date":"2013-04-19T15:04:50","date_gmt":"2013-04-20T01:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=16027"},"modified":"2020-11-04T17:15:38","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T03:15:38","slug":"manoa-dance-students-present-spring-footholds-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2013\/04\/19\/manoa-dance-students-present-spring-footholds-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"M\u0101noa dance students present Spring Footholds concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_16041\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16041\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/spring-footholds.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"514\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16041\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/spring-footholds.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/spring-footholds-202x260.jpg 202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16041\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rashida Jewel Vennie preforms her piece The Importance of Choice, from Kennedy Theatre&#8217;s Spring Footholds dance concert (photo by Chesley Cannon)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/dance\/\">Department of Theatre and Dance<\/a> presents its <em>Spring Footholds<\/em> performance, which showcases new choreography by the department&#8217;s  graduate and undergraduate dance students.<\/p>\n<p><em>Spring Footholds<\/em> will be performed at the Earle Ernst Lab Theatre April 24&#8211;27 at 8 p.m., and April 28 at 2 p.m. A post-show discussion will follow the performance on Friday, April 26.<\/p>\n<p>The evening will center around the capstone projects of graduating seniors <strong>Sami L.A. Akuna, Rashida Jewel Vennie and <\/strong><strong>Kent Shinomae<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shinomae&#8217;s piece, <em>Driven<\/em>, combines modern dance technique with the pulsing rhythms of EDM (electronic dance music), providing a visceral \u201csense of acceleration\u201d for the viewer.<\/li>\n<li>Vennie&#8217;s <em>The Importance of Choice<\/em> uses dance to address social and personal concerns and incorporates dance set to spoken-word poetry.<\/li>\n<li>Influenced by Japanese avant-garde butoh movement, Akuna features four vignettes&#8212;<em>The Calm<\/em>, <em>The Storm<\/em>, <em>The Light<\/em>, and <em>The Dark<\/em>&#8212;exploring the history and effects of nuclear warfare.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The concert will also feature new choreography rooted in classical techniques and themes. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Devon Izumigawa&#8217;s<\/strong> <em>Star Sign<\/em> will present a new work that fuses Mongolian folk and classical Chinese dance techniques.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lei Ishikawa&#8217;s<\/strong> piece is a combination of traditional and new choreography set to Okinawan folks songs that date back to the 1800s; it expresses the excitement of flirting with someone in the moonlight.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Malia Wild&#8217;s<\/strong> dance explores themes from folklore surrounding the Japanese goddesses Marishiten and Ameterasu in <em>Ascension.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Ticket information<\/h2>\n<p>Tickets for <em>Spring Footholds<\/em> are available online at <a href=\"http:\/\/etickethawaii.com\">etickethawaii.com<\/a>, by phone at (808) 944-2697, at participating outlets and at the Kennedy Theatre box office. The box office is open Monday&#8211;Friday, 10 a.m.&#8211;1 p.m., with extended hours on performance dates.<\/p>\n<p>Prices are $16 for general admission; $15 for seniors\/military\/<abbr>UH<\/abbr> faculty and staff; $13 for <abbr>UHAA<\/abbr> members and non-<abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa students; and $5 for <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa students with a validated spring 2013 <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa photo <abbr>ID<\/abbr>. All service fees are included in ticket prices.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please visit <a href=\"hawaii.edu\/kennedy\">the Kennedy Theatre website<\/a> or call (808) 956-7655. For disability access, please call the theatre.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Nicole Atienza<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring Footholds features new choreography by graduate and undergraduate dance students. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[131,76,9],"class_list":["post-16027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-kennedy-theatre","tag-theatre-and-dance","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16027"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130065,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16027\/revisions\/130065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}