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I LOOK AT CHOREOGRAPHY AND DANCE A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENTLY THAN MOST PEOPLE.
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sent out an open call for older dancers in December. Avoid the wait Both seasoned local dancers and for Spring! older individuals who were new to performing responded to her call. The group expanded from five members to 15, and the show itself adapted and evolved based on the unique physical abilities of each performer. Each also brought her personal experiences with aging, caregiving and illness. Some have been caretakers, coping with family members who have illnesses such as schizoaffective disorders, Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. Many have experienced the loss of a family member. Ultimately, Bryce suggests, the point of the show is to open a dialogue, and just about anyone can relate. After all, everyone is growing older. “It’s really helpful to know you’re not alone in your struggle, and my hope is that art can help impact society,” says sixtysomething Jacob and Kristin Albee dancer SHARYL GREEN. “It’s not something JacobAlbee.com . 802-540-0401 we have to talk away; we really can ex41 Maple Street, Burlington, VT press it in this medium.” Hours BY APPOINTMENT ONLY The hope is that the audience takes the show’s redefinition of aging to heart. With a smile, Green gestures to 3/11/14 8v-OldSpokes031214.indd 10:41 AM 1 her gray hair. “And I know this is how8V-JacobAlbee031214.indd 1 people see me first, but that’s not who I am,” she says.
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To You, Around You, About You, choreographed by Heather Bryce and Kayla West. Saturday, March 15, 7 p.m., at the Spotlight on Dance theater in South Burlington. $15; $10 for children and seniors. brownpapertickets. com/event/577046
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Susanne Freidberg will discuss the history of freshness in food, and how the meaning of this ephemeral quality has changed along with the technologies that protect it.
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“Landscape Traditions” opens with a reception on Saturday, March 22, 6-8:30 p.m., and runs through January 1, 2015, at West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park in Stowe. Also opening are solo shows by painters Rebecca Kinkead and Tom Cullins, both through June 17. Info, 253-8943. westbranchgallery.com
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come in and they like the gallery, but they think it’s not for them.” So really for three reasons, Curtis, who creates large-scale stone sculptures, and Swenson, a painter whose delicate work is Asian-influenced, decided to put landscape in their gallery’s mix.
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esoteric but is actually backed up by science: looking at landscapes, whether real or painted, is soothing. “We were in the competition for [creating] artwork for the new psychiatric facility in Berlin,” Curtis noted, referring to the Art in State Buildings program. “And in the process of research, we discovered there is scientific proof that earthbound, landscape-y images have a positive impact on psychiatric patients. “I thought, I can connect with that,” he continued. “I feel good when I look at things like that; I feel good when I am outside.” Besides, he said, “A lot of people
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important to a community, and then making social change based on that. So how can we start to talk about these things that we don’t really talk about?” Bryce and West set the choreography and then held auditions. The piece began with a company of five female dancers, the eldest of them 40; it had its first performance at the Flynn Center last August. (The company has since performed it at Goddard and Marlboro colleges.) Based on audience feedback — and because the elderly patients from the workshops could not participate for safety and liability reasons — Bryce