Lake Tahoe Dance Collective celebrates the 12th anniversary of its summer time pageant from July 23-26. The 12th annual Lake Tahoe Dance Pageant kicks off with a gap night time gala in Tahoe Metropolis, adopted by Tahoe Metropolis Neighborhood Evening, Kings Seashore Neighborhood Evening and concludes in a closing night time gala in Incline Village, that includes new commissions and performances from artists from New York Metropolis Ballet, Broadway, L.A. Dance Challenge, Boston Ballet and extra!
The Lake Tahoe Dance Pageant was began by longtime pals Christin Hanna and Constantine Baecher in 2013, to current the best skilled dance and dance instruction in North Lake Tahoe. Because the pageant enters its second decade, Lake Tahoe Dance continues to fee new works and current rarely-seen classics alongside fan favorites danced by the best caliber artists.
A number of the performances featured on the 2024 Lake Tahoe Dance Pageant embody an excerpt of Erick Hawkins Dance Firm’s Greek Goals Nymph Solo, first carried out on the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York in 1973, with dancer Kristina Berger sporting the unique costume on mortgage from the Library of Congress; a brand new fee from Daniel Baudendistel and Valerie Madonia, carried out by Ethan Value and Kate Loxtercamp; an excerpt of Susan Stroman’s Contact, carried out by Stephen Hanna and Ashley Fitzgerald; an excerpt of William Forsyth’s Blake Works, carried out by Lia Cirio and Paul Craig; Needle & Thread (working title), a brand new fee choreographed and carried out by Daphne Fernberger; and a brand new fee from Maxfield Haines and Dwight Rhoden that explores identification and selfhood.
Greek Goals Nymph Solo (excerpt), Erick Hawkins Dance Firm
Lake Tahoe Dance Pageant first introduced this work in 2014, and filmed for archival functions through the 2020 Digital Dance Pageant. “I don’t fairly know whether or not these dances are goals the outdated Greeks had, or my goals of the Greeks. What a vivid form of society they have been that we nonetheless are enchanted by the way in which the appeared on the world, and the way in which they let poetic photographs fountain forth. Even their language is the true start line for our western languages, music, the muses, the gymnasium, geography. These beautiful folks noticed that the bare physique, when it’s nurtured to be what it may be, is a poem and a mirrored image of the Divine!” — Eric Hawkins, choreographer
New Fee, Daniel Baudendistel and Valerie Medonia
Daniel Baudendistel and Valerie Medonia shaped a lifelong friendship after dancing collectively for a few years on the Joffrey Ballet and on a number of visitor appearances. For the 2022 Lake Tahoe Dance Pageant, they staged Gerald Arpino’s Gentle Rain, which they danced collectively, for Kate Loxtercamp and Ethan Value. Desirous to work with the dancers once more on a co-creation, Valerie and Daniel are creating a brand new work “about exploring the area between music and motion and the way that mirrors wholesome relationships.”
Contact (excerpt), Susan Stroman
Did you Transfer? is from Half II of the musical Contact, winner of the 2000 Tony Award for Finest Musical. This part, set in circa 1954 in Queens, New York, takes place in an Italian restaurant, specializing in the empty marriage of a small-time gangster and his spouse.
Blake Works (excerpt), William Forsythe
Initially created by the Paris Opera Ballet, Blake Works I options the music of James Blake and premiered at Boston Ballet in March of 2019. As Roslyn Sulcas wrote within the New York Instances in 2019, “In Blake Works 1, set to seven songs by the English musician James Blake, he mined the wealthy technical heritage of the Paris Opera Ballet dancers, incorporating combos which have been handed down by generations of academics, and emphasizing the crushed footwork and refined arms which are French stylistic hallmarks.”
Needle & Thread (working title), Daphne Fernberger
A brand new fee and work in progress, Needle & Thread provides the viewers a singular and exploratory expertise. Because the character enters the area, the viewers finds themself in her psychological dwelling, or maybe it’s her front room. With the repetitive virtually hypnotic music, the viewers discover themselves going from a deep internal world in direction of a state that’s extra open and current with the outer world.
New Fee, Maxfield Haynes and Dwight Rhoden
An explorative collaboration between Mayfield Hayens and Dwight Rhoden interrogating concepts of selfhood, identification, and the self that’s at odds with the world round it.
For extra info and ticketing, go to www.laketahoedancecollective.org/laketahoedancefestival.
