{"id":29720,"date":"2014-11-26T16:01:38","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T02:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=29720"},"modified":"2021-10-19T13:32:02","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T23:32:02","slug":"uh-hilo-and-hawaii-cc-dancers-take-great-leaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2014\/11\/26\/uh-hilo-and-hawaii-cc-dancers-take-great-leaps\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Hilo and <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> <abbr title=\"Community College\">CC<\/abbr> dancers take Great Leaps"},"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><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/great-leaps.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/great-leaps.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"463\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-29732\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/great-leaps.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/great-leaps-168x260.jpg 168w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Great Leaps Dance Concert, a popular end-of-the-semester presentation by all dance classes taught at both <a href=\"http:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/hawaii.hawaii.edu\/\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Community College<\/a>, will be held on Saturday, December 6, 7:30 p.m. at the <a href=\"http:\/\/artscenter.uhh.hawaii.edu\/\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo Performing Arts Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Founded by a <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> 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.<\/p>\n<p>At this semester&#8217;s Great Leaps Dance Concert, 100-plus dance students from <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo and <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Community College will perform original choreography.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Celeste Staton&#8217;s<\/strong> ballet classes will perform a charming dance of toys come-to-life and a beautiful waltz by Shostakovich.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Annie Bunker&#8217;s<\/strong> <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo modern dance class will perform <em>A Moment in Rain<\/em>&#8212;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.<\/li>\n<li>A <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr> modern jazz class will perform <em>Caught<\/em>&#8212;21 dancers investige repetitive habits, co-dependency and the sensations of being stuck and the inability to manifest change.<\/li>\n<li>The <abbr>UH<\/abbr> 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.<\/li>\n<li>Dance instructor <strong>Kea Kapahua<\/strong> presents a special piece <em>How Many?<\/em>, which incorporates interviews with two combat veterans and portrays some of our society&#8217;s complexities in dealing with war and peace.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dori Yamada<\/strong>, <abbr>UH<\/abbr> 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.<\/li>\n<p>Learn more at the <a href=\"http:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/news\/stories\/2014\/11\/24\/dance-concert\/\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo Stories website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Ticket information<\/h2>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>$7 general admission<\/li>\n<li>$5 for <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo and <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr> students with valid <abbr>ID<\/abbr> and children 17 and under<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To purchase tickets, visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/artscenter.uhh.hawaii.edu\/\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo Performing Arts website<\/a> or call the box office at (808) 932-7490.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo and <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr> dance students to perform at the 2014 Great Leaps Dance Concert<\/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":[78,61,14,355],"class_list":["post-29720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","tag-dance","tag-hawaii-community-college","tag-uh-hilo","tag-uh-hilo-performing-arts-center","entry","no-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29720","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=29720"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150078,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29720\/revisions\/150078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}