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Performance combines food, art, dance to engage all senses
By Sarah Guenther
On April 21, 2012
A blend of art forms will merge together as Buffalo State's dance program performs
Alternative Dimensions: A Multisensory Experience. This annual spring concert will
evoke a synergy of the senses in its audience April 18 to 21.
The five choreographers are Buffalo State faculty members, and individually they
each chose a single artist whose work they wanted to be incorporated in the show,
explained Joy Guarino, assistant professor of dance and director of Alternative
Dimensions.
The performance begins with Docents and Delicacies, a preshow session for the
senses, at 7 p.m. on the third-floor atrium of the Bulger Communication Building.
The preshow will be limited to 50 guests, and was created to help others understand
the show in its entirety.
"Attendees will be treated to a docent describing the artwork and how it was
inspired," Guarino said.
Then there will be the delicacies. Five sample stations of food and wine pairings
dedicated to each specific piece of artwork will be presented to enrich the taste buds
and appeal to the senses of smell and taste.
"We had the hospitality students select a food and wine pairing they thought went
with the artwork and the choreographer's statement," she said.
The artwork of Julian Beever inspired Guarino. This artist is known for 3D sidewalk
chalk. The hospitality students thought it was appropriate to choose a food that
someone could find on the streets to coincide with Beever, Guarino said.
"They selected a chicken souvlaki on a pita, and paired it with a Sauvignon Blanc
wine," she said. "Because that's exactly what it is. It's street food."
After the preshow, the concert will begin at 8 p.m. on the first floor of the Bulger
Communication Building. It will be very interactive, with dancers dressed in a
variety of costume types.
The costumes are designed to resemble the artwork of each of the five artists, said
Christina Metauro, a sophomore theater major with a minor in dance.
"My costume is an incredibly elaborate dress with a big hoop skirt," she said. "It goes
alongside with the artist Erte's art deco from the 1920s era."
"The dancing, the movement, it's happening right in front of them, right next to
them, all around them," Guarino said of the audience. "It's as if they're in an art
gallery, but it's moving."
Guarino encourages the audience to become a part of the performance and
participate if they want to. Those who feel comfortable dancing with the performers
are able to do that.
"I've been dancing all of my life," Metauro said. "I'm fully prepared to have the
audience dance along with me."
After the intermission, the production will move to the Warren Enters Theater in
Upton Hall.
"They move around, and by this they get a whole sense of a different environment,"
said dance professor Carlos Jones. "That's another way you feel it and see it and
experience it."
"It's about being in the middle of the artwork as opposed to watching it from a
distance," Jones said. "In Bulger on the first floor, you're surrounded by it. In Upton,
you're seeing it from a distance."
The second half of the show will be performed as a traditional stage concert.
The audience will sit in the seats and observe and watch the full choreographed
concert on stage," Guarino said. "It will be all the things we traditionally do with a
dance concert."
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