New Stanford dance performances highlight different views toward ’space’

Four Stanford dance faculty members created four new dance works, showing how dance interacts and engages with space in different ways. The performances are slated for May 26-27 in Memorial Auditorium. Stanford freshman Cora Cliburn, foreground, and doctoral candidate Glory Liu will dance on the Memorial Auditorium stage this Thursday and Friday in dances created by faculty members. (Image credit: Frank Chen) With a nod toward the artistry of "space,” the dance performance Spatial Shift will take place May 26-27 in Memorial Auditorium on the Stanford campus. The final event in the Department of Theater & Performance Studies' 2015-16 performance season, Spatial Shift is a series of new dance works by Stanford faculty members Diane Frank, Aleta Hayes, Alex Ketley and Robert Moses. It is subtitled Four Dances in Four Stages. Spatial Shift will be performed at 8 p.m. on Thursday and Friday nights.