Dancing in North Lancashire and New York

Two dance alerts for the following days:

1. In Scunthorpe, North Lancashire:

Plowright Teathre
Wednesday 15 to Saturday 18 July at 7.30pm

Kay Traviss Dance Group
Wuthering Heights in dance

With supporting programme.

Wonderful music, dance and drama - the classic story of Heathcliff and his obsessional love for Cathy in the bleak, wild setting of the Yorkshire Moors. Vivid characters, stylish costume and action keep you entertained in an evening of theatre. Large cast and some of the brightest talent in the area.

Tickets: £8. Concessions £7. One free ticket in every eight.

2. The SoNoGo company is performing a new revamped version of Art of Memory (check this previous post and comments therein) in New York:
Picture by Ryan Jensen.

Art of Memory
Directed by Tanya Calamoneri and written by Lisa Ramirez
3LD Art & Technology Center
Thurs-Sat @8pm
Sun July 25 and Aug 2 @2pm
Monday show July 20 @8pm

Company SoNoGo invites you to World Premiere of ART OF MEMORY at 3LD Art & Technology Center (80 Greenwich Street at Rector -- accessible from the 1/R/W trains at Rector Street). After an acclaimed 2007 debut at the Ontological Hysteric Theatre Incubator, The New York Innovative Theater Awards honored the original production with Best Set and nominations for Best Ensemble, Best Performance, Best Sound Design, and Best Costumes.
Not content to rest on their laurels, director Tanya Calamoneri and writer Lisa Ramirez (Exit Cuckoo) have continued to develop and re-work the piece for its official World Premiere. The new production includes live music, a fairytale house up on stilts with hinged walls that open up to reveal a beautiful library within, and tiny video images projected onto the books inside. The production runs July 16 - August 2.
In ART OF MEMORY, four librarians create an elaborately braided narrative about forbidden knowledge and transgressed boundaries. They seamlessly inhabit various roles, including handless maidens, the Brontë sisters, an ill wind, and minor deities. Comedic and dark by turns, the piece employs books, children's games, and alchemy as it traverses internal landscapes of memory. Towers of books topple, the best-laid curse goes awry, knowledge confuses rather than instructs, and hearts are twisted for this quartet of "researchers" in search of the mind's body of knowledge
ART OF MEMORY is performed by Tanya Calamoneri, Lisa Ramirez, Cassie Terman, and Heather Harpham, with set by Sean Breault, lighting by Bruce Steinberg, costumes by Mioko Mochizuki, live music by Miguel Frasconi, and video design by Jim Short and Matt Tennie. (Broadway World 1 and Broadway World 2)

Categories: Dance, Wuthering Heights