By Daily Press staff
Santa Monica College’s Synapse Dance Theater will present an eclectic program of modern dance, jazz, hip-hop, performance art, video and mixed media. The event will be held at 8 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, May 1 and 2, at the SMC Concert Hall, 1900 Pico Blvd.
The program will showcase choreography by SMC dance professors, guest artists and students.
The theater is under the artistic direction of SMC dance professor Linda Gold, who has created a video for the program that reflects the dancers’ production process. Gold is a dancer and choreographer who has toured throughout the world and won critical praise from such publications as The New York Times.
Pieces also have been choreographed by adjunct dance professors Damien Davis and Luretta McCray.
Davis has had experience as a dancer, choreographer and teacher, and has several television commercials among his choreography credits.
McCray’s career has taken her throughout the world as a singer, dancer, choreographer, educator and lecturer.
Guest choreographer, Kindra Windish, based in New York, currently dances with Douglas Dunn and Catherine Solaas. An SMC alumna, she recently performed in the SMC production of “String Theory,” a modern dance concert accompanied by an original arrangement of jazz music.
The student choreographers are Faye Lim, Zorami Samuelson, Alexander Rice, Tatiana Johnson, Jeremy Hale and Stephan.com.
Synapse, SMC’s contemporary dance ensemble, performs regularly at SMC and throughout the Southwest. Past performances have been at the American College Dance Festival in New Mexico, Cast Theater in Hollywood and Electric Lodge in Venice. Synapse also tours schools throughout the Los Angeles area and is participating in the Los Angeles Junior College Dance Consortium.
Tickets are $12 general admission and $10 students and senior citizens. For tickets, call (310) 434-3000.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on April 26, 2004. Read the original PDF.