The Columbia College Dance Company will present its annual Fall Faculty Concert on Friday and Saturday, November 20 and 21, at 7:30pm in Cottingham Theatre. The concert will feature contemporary work from several faculty members including Martha Brim, Marcy Yonkey-Clayton, and Stephanie Wilkins, as well as Erin Bailey, an alumna of the department.

Brim will be presenting Amorphous Solid with music by Willie May. The dance is choreographed by Brim but also with collaboration of the dancers. This piece is a movement meditation on glass as a material and concept.

Yonkey-Clayton will be premiering Dance Lab, a group of Columbia College dance artists dedicated to improvisation. They will be performing and premiering inaugural improve-ography. This group is interested in creating an environment where dancers and artists collaborate, play and perform in diverse public spheres.

Yonkey-Clayton will also be premiering a solo collaboration project with Senior BFA candidate Elyse Cox. This solo investigates ideas related to “the nesting instinct” typically evident in birds and other mothers-to-be.

Yonkey-Clayton’s group piece, Now See Here, one must DO the experience. It explores a series of events we choose to encounter in order to watch and be watched.

Wilkin’s dance, Last Fairy Standing, is a contemporary jazz piece of eight dancers. It is about urban demented fairies that dance themselves to death after awakening from some sort of hibernation. The music is driving and electronic, while the movement is hard-hitting and fast.

Bailey’s dance is a group piece about the exploration, extraction, and suppression of memories.

Bailey’s duet, Madeline and Rose, is about two girls playing and intensely exploring their surroundings in the form of flashback memories. The girls encounter the elements of joy, pain, freedom, captivity, etc… They set off to conquer the world and begin to understand it at the same time.

There will also be a silent auction of donated items before the show.

Tickets are $10 General Admission and $5 Senior Citizens and Students. For reservations, call the Cottingham Theatre Box Office at 786-3850.