Five Bay Area choreographers—four of them Stanford alumni—created works for five “magical” campus locations in the May 28 performance, Red Rover. White-clad students wearing accessories in red danced and posed to direct the audience to the various performance sites. Composers Edward Schocker, Daniel Berkman and MFA candidate Cobi van Tonder contributed music. The show was a collaboration among the Stanford Institute on Creativity and the Arts, Stanford Lively Arts and the department of drama and dance, where professor Diane Frank taught a spring-quarter course about site-specific dance.

SPIRAL AWAKENING: In the central courtyard of the Clark Center, Dudley Flores, Tanya Bello and Kaitlyn Ebert dance inside lanes of rose petals. Janice Garrett, '75, choreographed.

PAS DE DROPS: At the Shumway Fountain, Katherine Wells and Michael Separovich perform “Distant Hues,” choreographed by Bliss Kohlmyer Dowman.

SLOPE AND POND: The Terman Building attracted choreographer Brittany Brown Ceres, MA '01. Dancers traveled down a tree-studded lawn to the pool featuring a clothes line of red garments.

RED LIKE ME: Choreographer Hope Mohr, '94, Julie Sheetz and Jennifer Chien spoke slogans about body awareness during the dance at Canfield Court.

LIKE A ROCK: Brenton Cheng, MA '94, choreographed the piece performed in the bamboo grove at the Mudd Building.

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