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Idaho Dance Theater to perform “Body Works” at the Special Events Center
Margaret Reimer, arbiter journalist - Margaret Reimer
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This weekend Idaho Dance Theater(IDT) will be performing “Body Works” at the Special Events Center with two new members, Lia Mrazek, 18, a sign language major from Vancouver, Wash. and Melynda Fischer, 18, an interior design major from Boise.
Both girls manage to balance dancing with a full course load.
“My schedule is all over the place,” said Fischer.
“You need great time management skills to do both,” said Mrazek.
Mrazek started dancing at the age 2 with creative movement classes then begged her parents to enroll her in ballet classes when she turned 6. Fischer’s parents enrolled her in dance because she had bone issues.
“My doctor suggested to my parents that I take gymnastic or dance to strengthen the muscles around my bones. I chose dance and they enrolled me in classes when I was 3. It has helped. I have a bit of a shoulder issue but I think it worked,” said Fischer.
Mrazek plans on sticking with dance until her body can’t handle it any more. Then she plans on working as a sign language interpreter. Fischer has a similar plan, but would like to own an interior design company some day. The two of them are happy to be working with IDT.
COURTESY/IDT Before any building is completed, dancers comb over the structure inspecting the quality of the engineers work.
“We’ve blended really well as a company this year,” said Fischer.
“This will be our first show but IDT is definitely my support group away from home,” said Mrazek.
Founding director Marla Hansen said the upcoming show will be unique.
“All of the works have a human emotional element that is palpable even though there is great diversity in the music and the meaning of each piece,” Hansen said. “The audience will get to experience a huge range of feelings and situations that they will be able to relate to.”
According to Hansen, Dance is abstract, not literal, but in Body Works, the performance is not just dance for dance’s sake.
“Joy, loneliness, anger, love, fear, and compassion are expressed through the human body,” she said.
IDT is a Boise dance company founded in 1991 by dancers Marla Hansen, Fred Hansen, and Carl Rowe.
BSU students can attend for $10 with their student ID and Faculty and Staff get 25 percent off general admission. Performances begin Thursday night, Nov. 5th, with a “pay what you can afford” cost and begins at 7 p.m.
Friday and Saturday performances start at 8 p.m. and Sunday’s performance beins at 2 p.m.
Good story about Idaho Dance Theatre — and so welcome today when arts coverage is hard to come by. Nice coverage of the BSU freshmen, what brought them to dance in the first place and where it fits in their lives and futures.
Just want to make one addition. Also new to the company this year is Mary Kate Sickel, a 2009 graduate of the Unveristy of Utah (cum laude, B.A. in anthropolgy and B. F. A. in modern dance).