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UNLV Dance & UNLV Symphony Orchestra present Nijinsky's 'Afternoon of the Faun' Oct. 18-19

The concert is a joint collaboration between UNLV's departments of dance and music, with funding support from the vice president for research and the College of Fine Arts.

The UNLV department of dance, in collaboration with the UNLV Symphony Orchestra, is proud to present a historic reconstruction of Nijinsky's 1912 work, L'Apr?s-midi d'un Faune (Afternoon of a Faun) at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 18, and at 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 19, in Artemus Ham Concert Hall. Music and dance pioneer Anne Hutchinson is setting the piece.

The ballet is reconstructed from Nijinsky's own choreographic notation and transcribed into Labanotation (a notation system for recording and analyzing human movement) by Hutchinson and Claudia Jeschke.

In addition, Ravel's 'Mother Goose Suite' and Stravinsky's 'Rite of Spring' will be performed.

Tickets

Tickets are $18 and can be purchased at the UNLV Performing Arts Center box office or by calling 895-ARTS (2787).

This concert is made possible by joint collaboration between the UNLV departments of dance and music with funding support from the UNLV office of the vice president for research and the College of Fine Arts.

Campus Units:

Department of Dance,  College of Fine Arts,  School of Music,  Performing Arts Center

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