[Capdist-announce] Nacre Dance Company to perform at the SPA Little Theater

[Beth Fecteau]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:  Beth Fecteau
Nacre, Inc.
Executive Woods, 4 Atrium Drive
Albany, NY  12205
(518) 435-0510,Fax:  (518) 438-7444
Beth at Nacredance.com<mailto:Beth at Nacredance.com>




Nacre Dance Company in Concert at SPA Little Theater
in
Saratoga Springs


Saratoga Springs – Nacre, Saratoga Springs’ Modern Dance Company, will burst on the stage March 2nd and 3rd at the SPA Little Theater.

Nacre, known for their work in the staging of classic and current modern dance has woven a program offering variety in movement, music and content spanning the decades.  Nacre engaged esteemed modern dance professionals to work closely with Nacre company members to present five out of eleven pieces on the program.

To represent the early years of Modern Dance, Merril Doty from the Doris Humphrey Foundation shared Humphrey’s 1919 solo dance Valse Caprise which involves a twelve foot scarf that serves as a dance partner for the soloist and the “MONO” Waterstudy created in 1928 where the ensemble of 10 dancerstake the form of water and wave.

Representing the “experimental” years of modern dance, Jim May from the Sokolow Dance Theater set Anna Sokolow’s 1945, Kaddish, which depicts the wailing of sorrow experienced from great loss. Seasoned Nacre dancers Isa Ientile and Deb Rutledge portray theheavy emotions with searing simplicity and intensity brought forth in this classic.

Capital Region resident and former May O’Donnell dancer, Donna Emerson, once again worked closely with Nacre to stage May O’Donnell’s  Adelphi Trio from Dance Energies.  This dance brings out a sense of humor and joy for movement while portraying and displaying the interplay among the dancers.

This season Nacre has expanded its relationship with the May O’Donnell Foundation to include O’Donnell alumnus Sabatino Verlezza. Verlezza set his 1986 piece Tobi Roppo inspired by a quote from an elderly female survivor of the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. The woman described it as “first you see a flash… then you feel the heat… then there is nothing”. It is inspired by fortitude of the survivors as well as the miraculous return of vegetation to those two cities following decades of nogrowth.

Nacre’s Artistic Director, Beth Fecteau, will present four of her own choreographies to complete the program. Fecteau’s choreography draws from her emotional connection to each piece of music. It Started One Monday, set to selections of Celtic music, paints hills and valleys that relationships travel through and the support that friends offer. Fallen Between the Cracks set to selections from Mozart’s Requiem Mass hints at the story behind the creation of this musical score created on Mozart’s deathbed. “In researching the history behind the music, I imagined the emotions surrounding this time in Mozart’s life and reflected those thoughts through movement just as Mozart reflected his thoughts through pen.” Fecteau states.  In keeping with her love for Mozart’s music, Fecteau’s Musical Offerings takes the Serenade in Mozart’s Eine kleine Nachtmusik to create a serene duet for area dancers MaryBeth Hamphshire and Johnny Martinez silhouetted by Julia Kool and Jessica Foley.  Loose Change, set to a jarring aria by Yanni, has dancers moving around the stage like pocket change on a dashboard.

This program will be presented at the SPA Little Theater in Saratoga Springs on Saturday, March 2nd at 2pm and 7:30pm and repeated on Sunday,March 3rd at 2pm.  Tickets are $15.00 for students and senior citizens and $20.00 for general admission. To purchase tickets and for more information about the performance please visit www.nacredance.com<http://www.nacredance.com>.  Tickets can also be purchased at the box office the day of each performance.

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