Event

An Evening of Dance

This March the Newcomb Dance Company stages their annual An Evening of Dance concert, with original choreography from the Newcomb Dance Faculty. This year will feature a performance from Lusher Charter School, and special guest choreographer Stevan Novakovich, who will be staging a ballet.

Among the faculty presenting new choreography are Jeffrey Gunshol, Diogo de Lima, and Michaela Cannon.

Yugoslavian-born Stevan Novakovich explores the core of the human experience through the essence of its freedoms and constraints. Novakovich combines high technical prowess and attention to details to choreograph pieces that are offer intense complexity and mesmerizing simplicity. He believes in the accessibility of the art form and stages pieces that engage audiences through ballet and minimalist movement to Contemporary, Modern, and Butoh. Novakovich was educated at California State University, University of Utah, and the Ballet Academy in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, and has trained at Martha Graham School, Brigham Young University, and the Alvin Ailey School of American Dance. His has performed with Joffrey Ballet, Alwin Nikolais, Battery Dance Company, the New York City Opera, and the 2002 Winter Olympic Games.