Next month, student choreographers and dancers at Stephens College will perform a recital of new works set to original music written especially for them by student composers from Mizzou.

The six Mizzou composers taking part in the project are Benedetto Colagiovanni, Shaun Gladney, Trey Makler, Haley Myers, Justin Pounds, and David Witter.

To select their collaborators, the composers and choreographers got together this past summer for what amounted to a creative speed-dating session. After Mizzou’s William Lackey and Stephens’ Carol Estey set the scene, each composer spent a few minutes talking with each choreographer, and then all the participants ranked their preferences in potential partners.

The works resulting from those collaborations will be presented as part of Stephens’ Senior Dance Concert the weekend of November 15 through November 17 at Macklanburg Theatre on the Stephens campus. You can read more about the project in this article from Stephens’ Janese Silvey: http://www.sc-scene.com/2013/10/mu-composers-stephens-choreographers.html

(Photos by Stefan Freund.)