REBA'S DANCE CONNECTION, is sponsoring a Winter Wonderland Dance Weekend, Jan . 29to 31 at Wisdom House, 229 East Litchfield Road, Litchfield, Conn.
ANNA MARIA CICCONE THEATER, BERGEN COMMUNITY COLLEGE "Dance Connection 2005," dance showcase of works by Bergen choreographers.
SHARP THEATER, BERRIE CENTER, RAMAPO COLLEGE "Dance Connections," new works by Bergen DanceMakers.
This is a shabby, flip piece in which women in high heels continually flounce their short, flared skirts; male-female relationships are all cheapened — in one duet the partners take turns to make rabbit ears and other signs behind each other's heads — and the dances' connection to the songs (which include "Hit the Road Jack," "Rockhouse," "Drown in My Own Tears") is superficial.
During the opener on Saturday, McCoy Tyner's "Passion Dance," that connection was made blazingly clear.
In dance, the connection between the two concepts is stronger than in some other arts, and neither can exist without the other.
"Do you like tinned food?" The dance of connection and disconnection between these two souls, each grown comfortable in the isolation of his existence and yet seduced by the solace of company, is both comic and sad.
Love is a dance of connection and disconnection.
Partners tune in to each other other's feelings and intentions in a dance of connection...perceiving and responding to each other's mental state," writes neuroscientist Louis Cozolino in his book The Neuroscience of Human Relationships: Attachment and the Developing Social Brain.
In cities we live on top of each other and move in a complex dance of connection and disconnection - sometimes because of fear, sometimes because we don't know what to say to someone who seems very different, and sometimes because staying in our own bubbles affords all of us a bit of privacy.
The Caroline Hearst Choreograprogram-Residence programadeade possible by a gift from Margaret C. and William R. Hearst, III, is designed to foster the Program in Dance's connections with the dance field.
