Collage Dance Ensemble

Sunday, April 24, 2005
4:00 pm

Haft Auditorium
Building C
Fashion Institute of Technology
Seventh Avenue at 27th Street
New York, NY 10001

Tickets: $15, $10

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The Boston-based dance group Collage Dance Ensemble evolved out of Artistic Director Ahmet Lüleci’s dream of making folk dance and music more accessible to a general audience. The company, featuring more than twenty dancers, presents pieces ranging from traditional choreography to more modern interpretations that remain true to the spirit of folk dance. Presenting a program that makes people want to jump out of their seats and join the dancers onstage, the company showcases the beauty, energy and passion of neglected dance forms as well as the cultural heritage they represent. The Collage Dance Ensemble won the 2005 Dance Renewal Project and came in fifth place among 23 countries in the 2002 World Dance Competition in Bursa.

This will mark the debut performance of Ahmet Lüleci's Portraits from the Bosphorus, which was commissioned by the Moon and Stars Project and features music by world-famous Turkish composers and musicians such as Emre Araci, Fahir Atakoglu, Mercan Dede, and Cihat Askin. Audiences will also have a chance to view the award-winning choreography of easternTIDES , balkanBLUES, Passing, Coast to Coast, and Anatolian Mosaic. Boston Globe critique Christian Temin has praised Lüleci’s choreography as “…giving each section a different tone, from somber to exhilarating, grouping dancers in unexpected formations and making the transitions as inventive as the main event…”