Spring Works 2025 Dance Concert

Purdue Contemporary Dance Company

Friday, May 2 - 7:30pm, Saturday, May 3 - 2:30pm & 7:30pm

$19.50 adults - $12.50 students – $8.00 Child 12 & under

Additional donations to PCDC are welcome! https://connect.purdue.edu/s/givenow

Purdue Campus Box Office – 765.494.3933

Please contact Holly Jaycox, Director of Dance, at 765.494.5993 or hollyj@purdue.edu for more information

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 seven new works created by dance faculty, select student artists and a PCDC Alumni Artist. Faculty and students in the Dance Program, and in Purdue Theatre, part of 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 managers, 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 image and metaphors of nature, mechanics and physics, as well as delving into the human emotions connected to fitting in, relating to others, and dramatic self expression.