Fall Arts Celebration presents Gallim Dance

The contemporary dance company Gallim Dance will perform as part of Grand Valley State University’s Fall Arts Celebration, October 27.

Founded in 2007, Gallim Dance is a Brooklyn-based contemporary dance company dedicated to creating and performing original work by choreographer Andrea Miller. Miller is a former Julliard dance graduate who studied GaGa technique with the Batsheva Dance Company under the direction of Ohad Naharin. Upon her return from Israel, Miller embarked on a cutting-edge mastery of movement invention inspired by the compositional improvisation structure of GaGa technique. Gallim’s dancers are fluid, quirky and phenomenal talents.

“Gallim Dance: Articulate Bodies, Visceral Language”
October 27 at 7:30 p.m.
Louis Armstrong Theatre, Performing Arts Center
Allendale Campus
Free and open to the public

Gallim Dance incorporates past and present movement invention practices, fueled by human emotion. In the early 20th century, dance pioneers Isadora Duncan and Ruth St. Denis employed movement invention and exploration practices inspired by the sheer joy of simply moving. In the 1960s, postmodern choreographers Yvonne Rainer and Trisha Brown incorporated spontaneous, pedestrian, task-based movements to develop choreography. These practices are incorporated into the dance language GaGa.

“Gallim Dance is one of the world’s most sought after contemporary dance companies,” said Danny Phipps, chair of the Department of Music and Dance at Grand Valley. “It is breaking new ground in choreographic invention, physical realities and human awareness.”

Since its start in 2003, Fall Arts Celebration has featured some of the preeminent writers, poets, musicians, dancers, artists and scholars of today.

All Fall Arts Celebration events are open to the public with free admission. Seating is limited. For more information, visit www.gvsu.edu/fallarts, or call (616) 331-2185.