The humdrum of reading period and examinations will be broken by several campus productions over the next month — including performances of BodyHype Dance Company, the University Concert Choir, Triangle Club and the Student Playwrights' Festival.
BodyHype will hold their spring show this weekend at Frist Theatre. The 22-member company specializes in jazz and hip-hop dance. The student-choreographed show incorporates many forms of dance, including ballet, hip-hop and martial arts. The show features music by Guns N' Roses, Madonna and Outkast. Ellie Kemper '02 and Brian Barrett '03, members of the improv comedy group Quipfire!, will emcee the show.
The show also features guest choreographer Peter Khoo '98, a BodyHype alumnus. He has choreographed an all-male hip-hop routine.
"We tried hard to make it a very edgy show," said Sun-Young Park '03, president of the dance troupe. "It's a high-energy, eclectic show, and it should be a lot of fun."
Triangle will be presenting "Rude Olympics IV: Tuesdays with Moron." The show will run tonight and tomorrow at Theatre~Intime.
The performance will showcase a collection of original sketches and songs written by the members of the club. The show is directed by Robert Duke, a professional director who also worked on Triangle's fall 2000 show "Puns of Steel."
With a more classical tone, the concert choir, conducted by Richard Tang Yuk, will perform "Le Roi David" by Arthur Honegger and "Le Bal Masque" by Francis Poulenc tonight in Richardson Auditorium.
Tang Yuk is a member of the music department's faculty.
The performance will be the choir's final concert and will feature singers and a professional orchestra.
The all-French program features expressionistic music written in Paris during the 1920s. The first piece, "Le Roi David," was at the time considered one of Honegger's best compositions, Tang Yuk said.
"This was the piece that brought him into national acclaim," he said.
The two pieces are very different. "Le Roi David" is a serious, sacred piece based on the biblical story of King David, while "Le Bal Masque" is more whimsical, based on poems by Max Jacob. The latter piece attempts to create a carnival-like atmosphere, reminiscent of childhood, Tang Yuk said.
Next weekend, the Student Playwrights' Festival will present three one-act plays at Theatre~Intime. The featured plays, chosen by Intime, will be "Suicide Pact," written and directed by David Brundige '04; "Whatever Shall We Do?" written by Michael Grabell '03 — a Daily Princetonian managing editor — and directed by Mario Ramirez '03; and "Hurricane Hugo," written by Eric Bland '02 and directed by Cara Marsh Sheffler '04. All three plays are comedies.
"Suicide Pact" is about a man and a woman who agree to commit suicide together. The woman wants to make a statement about freedom and society, Brundige said, but the man is really only looking to get her into bed.
"Whatever Shall We Do?" — set on a hog farm — focuses on a group of people struggling to take big chances in a world bound by certain realities, Ramirez said.
"Hurricane Hugo" is a game show, said Rebecca Simson '04, Intime's production manager.
In addition to the reading and exam period shows, Intime will produce Neil Simon's "Plaza Suite," directed by David Bengali '04. Quipfire! will perform during Reunions weekend.
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