By Jennie Fitzhugh, Golden Gater Writer Students slinked, stretched and slid across the stage in McKenna Theatre last week during their last big rehearsal for the SF State Dance Department's 1998 New Moves Dance Concert, which takes place at 8 p.m Friday Dec. 11 and Saturday Dec. 12. It's not like anything that's taught in choreography classes. We put on music with a mood and then play with it. The student-run program features 12 choreographed performances and involves an array of music, poetry, lighting, scenery and dance. Sullivan, who has studied ballet and modern and ethnic dancing, said she is creating a collage of movement.
Choreographers are responsible for their own costumes, selection of dancers and the set.
Sullivan described her 8-minute performance, a dramatization of domestic violence, as a skit with human statues that perform as the music moves them. It's a full performance piece with scenery and props. Sullivan's piece takes place in a family room setting. A couple is arguing and a child is trying to intervene. The argument erupts into a violent scene.