Project 21 and the Ann Lacy School of American Dance and Entertainment will perform side by side in a concert this semester.
The concert will be the second consecutive joint performance and will take place at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 12 in Burg Theatre in Kirkpatrick Fine Arts Center.
Dr. Edward Knight, professor of music and composer in residence, said the concert will be a collaboration between the Project 21 composers and choreographers in the dance school.
“The composers that are interested in writing and the choreographers that are interested all had a quick meeting,” Knight said. “So the composers pitched their ideas, and the choreographers would pitch what they thought they would bring to the music.”
Knight said the composers and choreographers will consist mainly of graduates and upperclassman undergraduates.
“The students who are either upper class or graduate have the first opportunity because they are not going to be here,” he said. “We want everybody to have opportunities instead of a freshman doing it for four years in a row, I mean, it’s a little redundant.”
Matthew Campbell, music composition graduate and president of Project 21, said he participated in the concert as a composer before.
“The amount of talent level that we have here is just unmatched anywhere in the nation, and how lucky are we to be able to write music for them,” Campbell said. “Not just for them to bring our vision to life, but to also bring their own vision brought to life.”
Clint Williams, music composition graduate and organizational liaison between Project 21 and the dance school, said the concert is modeled off of a program at The Juilliard School.
“The dance school is the best school in the nation right now, and we are modeling this program off of the Juilliard school’s choreo comp program,” Williams said. “We are trying to take their program and make it better, to where it’s not just appealing for dancers because they love it, but make it appealing for composers to come here.”
Campbell said the concert will be one of the best of the of year.
“There is literally no reason you should not be there,” Campbell said.
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