The Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University

Peabody Dance Spring Showcase presented an all-Bach program to live music by the Conservatory's Early Music & Strings Departments. Alumna-director Meghan Flanigan brings back other Peabody alumni dancers in "Letters to Myself.” Artistic Director Carol Bartlett and ex-Pennsylvania Ballet dancer Katie Morris present new choreography to Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 and Flute Sonata in G Major.

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Letters to Myself

directed by 1992 Peabody Prep alumna Meghan Flanigan, to Bach's Violin Partita No. 2 in D minor performed by Andrea Picard.

In Letters to Myself, alumnae of Peabody, of a range of ages and stages of their dance careers, reflect on what they have learned since leaving behind their childhood.  Their remembrances and counsels form the basis for letters, both spoken and danced, that they send to their younger selves.  Each of the three dancers has an individual voice and style that evolves throughout the piece and is interwoven with the stories and movements of the others. Set to a Bach score, the dance combines beautiful movement, recorded voices and video imagery.

Meghan Flanigan is a dance artist whose work includes choreography for theaters and site-specific locations, multi-disciplinary collaborations, improvisation, performance and community focused work. more >>
 

Andrea Picard is a Peabody graduate, faculty member in the Preparatory Strings Deptartment and also teaches at the Société Musicale d’Été Vivaldi, in France.

Sonata

a ballet choreography in four movements choreographed by Katie Morris and Debra Robinson and performed by upper level Peabody Dance students to Bach's Flute Sonata in G Major.  Students in the Conservatory's Early Music Program will perform live, coached by Gwyn Roberts, Peabody faculty member.

Katherine Morris, choreographer, received her early training in Bethesda, Maryland. She was invited to join the Pennsylvania Ballet in 1976, where she performed works by Balanchine, Tudor, Limon, Butler, Van Manen, Sappington, Robbins and many others. more >>

Debra Robinson began studying dance in Baltimore with Ellen Gniazdowski and Wally Saunders. After studying at the Joffrey Ballet School and with Joyce Trisler at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, Ms. Robinson returned to Baltimore to dance with the Maryland Ballet. more >>

The sonata will be performed by:

Yuan-Chih Chen, recorder
Michael de Sapio, violin
Daniel Taylor, cello
Anthony Harvey, theorbo
Qin Ying Lin, harpsichord

Brandenburg

a contemporary dance work in three movements choreographed by Artistic Director Carol Bartlett and performed by upper level Peabody Dance students.

Carol Bartlett, Artistic Director of Peabody Dance for the past seventeen years, is a diverse and prolific choreographer whose generative work with established and burgeoning composers has resulted in music-dance collaborative projects in theaters and festivals across the United States and Europe. more >>