Anna Haltrecht, Salt Spring Island's MiBC dance outreach coordinator, writes about the Lobby Dancers' summer adventures with visiting artist Danny McCusker....
"It looked like my dream was about to come true – to have the Salt Spring Lobby Dancers perform on stage with a professional dance company. triPOD dance collective, from Victoria, is the first Made in BC sponsored dance company for the 09/10 ArtSpring season.
One of the community dancers, Robbyn Scott, is a member of triPOD. Robbyn and I organized a week long workshop with Danny McCusker (from Boston), to create a piece of choreography for dancers from both groups to be performed in the September 26 performance.
We began the creation process on Saturday, May 9. Danny gave us different sources to use for creating choreography in duets. As a community Lobby Dancer, it was fun to be paired with a triPOD professional dancer. At the end of the week we had created a 17 minute dance called “Keep Talking”, which we performed at an informal studio showing for friends and family. We were 10 dancers.
Throughout the summer Robbyn and I taught a weekly class where we also rehearsed the piece. Then we learned that triPOD could not have the piece be part of the September performance as their show was already very long. We were disappointed, but we asked the next Made in BC company, MovEnt and Tara Cheyenne if we could be their curtain raiser and they enthusiastically agreed. The bonus is we have more rehearsal time, the performance is November 5.
I will have to wait a little longer to have my original dream come true however what is important is the Salt Spring Lobby Dancers are dancing together and having a super time.
Project sponsored by Made in BC - Dance on Tour, ArtSpring, Salt Spring Coffee Company, Cats Pajamas Studio, Antler Ridge Studio.
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