By Daily Press staff
It’s time to get your groove on this weekend at Santa Monica College. SMC’s Synapse Dance Theater will present a program called “New Works” by current students and alumni. The program of innovative modern dance, hip-hop, jazz and tap celebrates the dramatic possibilities of dance, college officials say.
Synapse choreographers include Marshall Bang, Cortney Cantrell, Ola Hudson, Moo Kim, Amber King, Octavio Moreno, Nguyen Nguyen, Kathryn Rossum, Robert Whidbee, and guest artists Ron Brown, Linda Gold, Michael Skelton, Diane Takamine, Martha Thomas and Roberta Wolin-Manker.
The works were previewed at the American College Dance Festival, Citrus College Dance Festival, Los Angeles Community College Consortium, Moorpark College’s Evening of Choreography and Crossoads School in Santa Monica.
Synapse is under the artistic direction of Linda Gold, a dancer and choreographer who has toured throughout the world and consistently won critical praise from such publications as The New York Times. Her recent performances in Spirit Dances 6 and The World Festival of Sacred Music in Los Angeles were commended by the Los Angeles Times. A member of Dance Films Association, she has been part of selection juries for the American Choreography Awards presented by the Academy of Dance on Film.
Synapse, SMC’s contemporary dance ensemble, performs regularly at SMC and throughout the Southwest. Past performances have included the Getty Center, Cast Theater in Hollywood, Electric Lodge in Venice, and American College Dance Festivals in New Mexico, Arizona and Southern California, as well as area high schools and SMC.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on May 13, 2005. Read the original PDF.