Where: Vine Arts Village, 12540 Oaks North Drive, Rancho Bernardo Alia will wear a costume that her mother wore 30 years ago for her first time working with Sandback. The 5-minute piece is a traditional modern dance that is especially meaningful to Jensen-Ismay because Sandback was one of her mentors decades ago. The cost goes deep,” Sandback has said about the dance. “These times draw us to consider the meaning of homeland and what one will sacrifice in order to defend it and our loved ones. Her 28-year-old daughter, Alia Ismay, will premiere the solo dance “Called,” choreographed by guest artist Patricia Sandback, who was inspired by the Ukrainian people and the choices they have had to make. “It is definitely contemporary and an edgier piece,” she said. Staged to show a meeting around a table in an office building, Jensen-Ismay said the seven dancers express their thoughts, ideas and conflicts. This is the darker side of what happens, the compromises they make, the things they have done, losing sight of where they are.” who lose their way with integrity,” she said. “I was inspired by people in power politically and in corporations. The performance will be 10 minutes long, but her plan is to make it a much longer piece in the future. “Tainted” is a new work Jensen-Ismay has choreographed that is still evolving. It has “sweeping movement, intimate partner work, interactive, moving and shifting.” “Aftermath,” a contemporary-modern piece, “explores “the beauty of relationships mending after a crisis inspired by collective communities that gather to support, mourn, reminisce and recover following a catastrophic event,” Jensen-Ismay said. “War and trauma, divorce, injury recovery, whenever a problem is there you have to learn coping mechanisms,” she said. But the theme can be associated with overcoming any tragedy. Those who survived the 2007 Witch Creek fire in Rancho Bernardo and Poway can relate to a piece about a devastating fire, Jensen-Ismay said. “How they were supported and were coming back, going from despair to hope.” Jensen-Ismay said she was inspired to choreograph the piece for seven dancers after seeing media coverage of the 2018 Camp fire that destroyed the Paradise community in Northern California. Returning to the Mojalet stage is “Aftermath,” which debuted in November 2019 and has not been performed since. the dedication of a daughter-in-law to her mother-in-law,” Jensen-Ismay said. “It is about love, compassion, embracing someone from another community.
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