Nancy Lyons, choreographer and dance professor at Sonoma State University for the past 33 years, is staging a reunion, and everyone's invited.
"Still Moving," a sabbatical project of live music, text and dance choreographed by Lyons, opens at 8 p.m. Friday in the Evert B. Person Theatre at Sonoma State University, 1801 E. Cotati Ave., Rohnert Park.
Dancers Lyons recruited for the show include alumni and friends Beckie Almirol, Mahalath Alsworth, Kristen Cortenback, Justin Fernandez, Rachel Young Mawan, Rebecca Wilson and Sara Vietti.
The program premieres two new works by Lyons:
"Peculiar Species," inspired by the shopping mall, Darwin and Galapagos Islands, and set to music by Phillip Glass and the South American musical group Uakti.
"Passing Along," combining music and text, with accompaniment by pianist Marilyn Thompson.
"Emergency Measures," an earlier piece set to a sound collage including words as well as music ranging from Mozart to hip-hop, also will be performed.
The program will be repeated at 8 p.m. Saturday, 2 p.m. April 3 and 7:30 p.m. April 5. $8-$12. 664-2353, www.sonoma.edu.
- Dan Taylor
The Marin Symphony led by Music Director Alasdair Neale will perform Brahms' majestic German Requiem at 7:30 p.m. April 3 and April 5 at the Marin Center in San Rafael.
Soloists joining the symphony include San Francisco Opera baritone Ricardo Herrera, a graduate of Juilliard, and soprano Hanan Alattar, who is making her Bay Area debut.
Tickets are $24-$57. For reservations, call (415) 499-6800 or www.marinsymphony.org.
A benefit concert for the Marin Symphony Youth Orchestra with trombone virtuoso Joseph Alessi of the New York Philharmonic will take place at 6 p.m. Saturday at the Larkspur home of Peter Paul, owner of the Grove Street Winery in Healdsburg. Tickets: $100. Info: (415) 479-8100.
- Diane Peterson
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