Adelphi students to perform ‘Company B’

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Department of Dance students from Adelphi University will be performing Paul Taylor’s well-known work “Company B” Tuesday, April 28 through Sunday, May 3 at the Olmsted Theatre of Adelphi University’s Performing Arts Center AUPAC, One South Ave., Garden City. 

This year’s annual Adelphi Spring Dance production also includes choreography by Adelphi University Department of Dance faculty members Orion Duckstein, Frank Augustyn, Catherine Denisot-Lawrence and Jennifer Kreichman.   

“Company B” is Taylor’s non-narrative work that juxtaposes American exuberance in the early 1940s with the tragedy of men who never returned from battle.  “Company B” is as grand as it is because the work counters every expectation about its inspiration without doing harm to the original material.  

On one level, Taylor pays tribute to the World War II-era music of the Andrews Sisters  – featuring such popular hits as Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, Tico-Tico, Pennsylvania Polka – while, at the same time, “Company B” is a radically revisionist work. 

Choreographically, the movement is abstract.  By contrasting shadowy figures of war and loss behind the merriment of the dancers, “Company B” turns into a compelling anti-war statement.  

This performance is presented as part of Adelphi University’s year-long, campus-wide “Changing Nature of War and Peace” initiative.

Tickets are currently on sale and are priced at $20, with discounts available to seniors, students and alumni.  

For more information about all events at AUPAC and to purchase tickets, visit aupac.adelphi.edu.  

Information is available at The Lucia and Steven N. Fischer Box Office at (516) 877-4000 or boxoffice@adelphi.edu.  

Regular box office hours are Tuesday through Friday from 1 to 6 p.m.  The box office is also open two hours before most scheduled performances.

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