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Idan Cohen Dance Company performs Gender Bender
La Jolla, C.A.—ArtPower’s 2015–16 season closes with award–winning choreographer Idan Cohen’s new work Gender Bender, performed by his dance company. This new creation is an autobiographical fantasy that returns to Cohen’s early years growing up in the ’80s. Drawing upon punch and pop culture, Gender Bender incorporates images that reflect personal and social identities of masculinity, femininity, and all that lies between. The piece takes ’80s gender-inspired images on a journey throughout the past and the present and creates a cultural cobweb of music, imagery, dance, and aspires to be a reflection of the influences and forces projected on us by the past and present culture, as well as our social environment. The event takes place at UCSD’s Mandeville Auditorium on Friday, May 20, at 8 p.m. and is followed up a post-performance ArtTalk with Associate Director of Artistic Planning and Education Molly Clark. Tickets are $28–46 and can be ordered online at boxoffice.ucsd.edu or by calling the box office at 858.534.TIXS (8497). Additional program information can be found at artpower.ucsd.edu.
About ArtPower
ArtPower at UC San Diego builds creative experiences in music, dance, film, exhibition, and food for our collective pleasure and inspiration. We engage diverse audiences through vibrant, challenging, multi-disciplinary performances by emerging and renowned international artists. Through extensive partnerships, ArtPower provides exciting opportunities for research, participation, and creation of new work, igniting powerful dialogue between artists, students, scholars, and the community.
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