Spring Dance Concert (Southern Methodist University)

(Source: Southern Methodist University) March 17, 2016 DALLAS (SMU) - The world premiere of a new interpretation of Stravinsky's TheFirebird by noted choreographers Claudia Lavista and Victor Manuel Ruiz, artistic directors of Delfos Danza Contemporanea in Mazatlán, Mexico, highlights the Spring Dance Concert at SMU's Meadows School of the Arts, March 31-April 3. The Meadows Dance Ensemble also will present Martha Graham's 1944 masterpiece Appalachian Spring, set to Aaron Copland's original score, and Tschaikovsky's Pas de Deux by George Balanchine. The concert opens with Appalachian Spring, one of Martha Graham's signature works. Written at the end of World War II, it is a depiction of...