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The Jay and Susie Gogue Performing Arts Center at Auburn University has announced a star-studded 2022-23 season performance schedule.

Dancer Nicole Sabella is returning to Philly this month with Mark Morris Dance Group (MMDG), celebrating the Beatles’ album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band with Morris’ Pepperland. Sabella, who is a graduate of UArts, joined the company in 2015. She looks back at her time in Philly and credits it for some of her best memories.

“Audiences will be immersed in the innate rhythms and cadences of movement through the extraordinary scope of preeminent choreographers from across the globe during this season.” said Alicia Adams, Vice President of Dance and International Programming. “As we look beyond the 50th Anniversary of the Kennedy Center, the dance season continues to build upon its legacy of presenting a dynamic range of diverse companies and artists. We are also elated to be co-commissioners on a new work, and for the first time, to present one of Canada’s leading contemporary Indigenous dance companies.”

Brandon Flowers’ faith has helped steer the course for his rock band The Killers. Choreographer Mark Morris confidently pushes the limits of modern dance, even in the face of criticism. And violinist Augustin Hadelich uses technical mastery to achieve human connection.

Dance is emerging once more in Charleston. And it’s landing squarely on its feet. It can be homegrown, like the reanimation of “A Light in a Window” by Annex Dance Company. And it can blow in from parts up the Eastern seaboard, like Brooklyn-based Mark Morris Dance Group’s “Pepperland.” But the art form is bouncing back in ways both intimate and grand, ruminative and jubilant.

The Mark Morris Dance Group is coming to Charleston in April to perform “Pepperland.” We chat with the group’s Company Director, Sam Black.

We’re betting on these virtuosic minds to power a post-pandemic renaissance: Mark Morris, “the most successful and influential choreographer alive” (The New York Times), and “living legend” (The New Yorker) Fred Hersch, jazz pianist and composer, on primal improvisation, ’60s tunes, the return to live performance, embracing the gay, and more.