September 22,1994 • The Skidmore News • Page 19 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Dancers in Concert Alumna Pam Lau '94 to Perform Dancers in Concert, Inc. is a non-profit organization of nine women who began dancing with Sally Cohn and Susan McLain, the company’s artistic directors and choreographers, in the summer of 1992. The company grew out of the choreographers’ desire to create dances for dancers who were proficient in the Humphrey-based technique. Although trained and educated in the technique for many years, the choreographers are interested in exploring different ways of moving while maintaining their Humphrey-base. The dancers play an integral part in developing movement. In addition, the dancers are encouraged to work on their own pieces in order to develop the company’s repertory. Dance ideas are often developed from the dancers’ improvisational movement which is then shaped and reworked by the choreographer. Many of their dances are either inspired by their own life experiences or by their students’ movement. Skidmore graduate Pam Lau ‘94 is a member of the company which will be performing in the Dance Theater this Saturday, October 24, at 8 pm. Lau graduated from Skidmore last year with a double major in Dance and Exercise Science/Sports Medicine. Lau has been dancing since she was six years old. She was trained by Ernestine Stodelle and performed with her company “Silo Concert Dancers” for many years. While at Skidmore, Lau was president of Terpsichore, the Skidmore Dance Club. Other company members include Amy Cohn, Elaine Filomena, Susan Hart, Sara Kramer, Lisa Rose McKenna, and Michele Buccy Slater. The nine women range in age from 17-50 yean old. They are a tighdy knit group of women who have supported, nurtured, and nourished each others’ creative lives. The group feels like a family of sisters, “the sisters we never had or those we wanted.” Presendy, the company is working with Maher Benham, faculty of the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance and Marymount College in Manhattan. Bentham is setting an original piece on them called “Feroce,” wild woman, while working within their framework of movement. Tickets cost $8 general admission and $5 for seniors and the Skidmore community. To make reservations, please call the Dance Theater at x2776. WOW! A story of LUST!?! and MURDER!?! and SUPERNATURAL REVENGE!?! Coming to Skidmore? Uh-huh! By Stephen King? Naaah! MOZART! his DON GIOVANNI “The Greatest Opera Ever Written”? Yep! With full orchestra and fully staged? Uh-huh! Performed by WESTERN OPERA THEATER, the hot professional company of young singers sponsored by the SAN FRANCISCO OPERA? Right! TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18 at 8 P.M. SARATOGA SPRINGS JR. HIGH AUDITORIUM DON’T BE SLOW MISS OUT!, Get your ticket in FILENE 203 by September 30 during the SKIDMORE PRIORITY SALE. After September 30, tickets go on sale to the general public and will surely SELL OUT!