October 30, 2006

"Still Crossing" Rehearsals

I mentioned last week that I'm participating in the community dance portion of Liz Lerman Dance Exchange's "Still Crossing."

We had rehearsals Saturday and Sunday at the Takoma Park, Maryland studios of Dance Exchange. Then tonight and Wednesday we will be rehearsing at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center where the performance will take place this coming Thursday and Friday.

"Still Crossing" is primarily performed by company dancers. Then, the last six minutes of this work are performed by community participants in conjunction with the dance company members. During the weekend's rehearsals, we learned the movement phrase that we will be performing.

It was a lot of fun learning the movements and meeting the over 50 or so participants in this program. I feel pretty comfortable with the movement phrase although I don't have it completely synchronized with the music. But the company members will be performing on stage as well so it really won't be difficult to get the timing down.

Martha Wittman and Elizabeth Johnson of Dance Exchange conducted the rehearsals over the weekend. They both bring a tremendous amount of commitment and enthusiasm to teaching non-dancers how to do the movements.

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