Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, March 20, 1990 TAG: 9003202313
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV2 EDITION: NEW RIVER
SOURCE: DENISE TURNER SPECIAL TO THE ROANOKE TIMES & WORLD-NEWS
DATELINE: RADF LENGTH: Medium
The university has acquired the services of the Battery Dance Company as its resident dance company.
The troupe is on campus through Sunday to rehearse its new work with 20 Radford dance majors.
A preview of the work's world premiere will be performed in the university's Preston Auditorium Thursday through Saturday. The curtain time is 8 p.m.
The Radford dancers then will perform with the troupe in New York at its premiere in the newly opened Florence Gould Hall at the French Institute. Performances will be on April 20, 21 and 22.
"Light from Dead Stars" depicts three events of the Holocaust and its aftermath. April 22 is Holocaust Remembrance Day.
The Battery Dance Company was founded 14 years ago by Jonathan Hollander, its artistic director and choreographer. The dance troupe has performed at the Lincoln Center and at a number of other theaters throughout the United States.
"Light from Dead Stars" is an interpretation of stories written by New York Post reporter Peter Moses.
The stories concern a Jewish ballerina in Auschwitz concentration camp, two elderly camp survivors searching for family members and their former lives, and young Jews searching through boxes of victims' personal belongings in a warehouse as they try to come to terms with their heritage.
Tickets are $3 for the public, free with a Radford University identification card.
For further information, call the Radford University dance department at 831-5162.
by CNB