Dance residency at Luther College this week

A dancer from Ireland will have a residency at Luther College this week.  Nick Bryson is co-artistic director of Legitimate Bodies Dance Company based in Birr Theatre & Arts Centre in County Offaly, Ireland.  He is at Luther through Wednesday.

Bryson will hold a workshop that will run Sunday, Monday and Tuesday nights.  He will also teach two classes while on campus.

Bryson will perform at 9:00 p.m. Wednesday in Studio II in the Center for the Arts on the Luther campus. The performance includes a piece created out of a workshop "Body Points (of Departure)," held during Bryson's residency, a solo by Bryson and a duo performance with Bryson's colleague Jeff Wallace.  The duo's performance "Balls of Receptivity" is a dance and juggling work they created at a contemporary dance festival in Mexico a year ago. The piece rounds off a collection of works that toy with the relationship between self-mockery and expansiveness.