Purdue Contemporary Dance Company Winter Works

The Purdue Contemporary Dance Company (PCDC), housed in the Patti and Rusty Rueff School of Design, Art, and Performance in Yue-Kong Pao Hall, presents six new works created by dance faculty, select student artists and PCDC Alumni Artists. Faculty and students in the Dance Program and Purdue Theatre, housed in the newly formed Department of Theatre and Dance, collaborate intensively to create original art on the stage, and to prepare students for careers in these performative disciplines. Original movement is created in the studio for each work over the course of the entire semester. All works are accompanied by original music/sound created specifically for these dances by students in the department’s  Dance Sound Design course, working in collaboration with their choreographers. Rueff School light-design students work with choreographers to craft special light designs on the  Hansen Theatre stage. And students also gain experience through their roles as stage manager, sound and light engineers, board operators, and more. The importance of collaboration for live performance is on full display in this dance concert which features works exploring human nature, wild nature, and the threads of connection between us all.