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Productions, Enson creates, designs and implements Enjoy’s public and private events. She became the first female performer/director of Teatro ZinZanni, co-founded UMO Ensemble and was founding producer of the Fringe Theater Festival. An aerialist, actress, director, maskmaker, puppeteer, trainer and mother, Enson holds a master’s degree in fine arts from Connecticut’s National Theatre Institute and trained at Ecole Jacques Lecoq, a physical theater school in Paris. She grew up in New York City and moved to Vashon in 1989. McAlpin gave Vashon an enormous gift when she and David Godsey, in 1992, purchased the K2 warehouse, better known today as the Open Space for Arts & Community. As an aerialist and physical theater performer, McAlpin knew firsthand the island’s need for a large, flexible artist-centered space, and she made it happen. Also trained at Ecole Jacques Lecoq, McAlpin teaches and directs physical theater and has appeared as various charac-
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ters in Teatro ZinZani, Cirque du Flambe days, these three creative athletes invenand the Moisture Festival. As co-founder toried their stories, skipping the midlife of UMO Ensemble, McAlpin conceived crises, to produce a midlife circus of “50 and directed UMO’s first full-length pro- Sense.” “Everyone gives their two cents,” Enson duction and lovingly calls her son her clown mentor. She’s been an island resi- said. “Now that we’ve turned 50, this is our two cents times 50.” dent since 1989. Under the direction of Seattle performChoreographer and co-director of Lelavision, Mann began her career as ing artist Tina La Padula, who along a competitive gymnast, with Seattle dancer then as a dancer and Sumayya Diop performs “Everyone gives their two co-founder of Moving with the three women, in the Spirit, an awardthe show will open with cents,” Enson said. “Now winning dance and Oracles, characters that we’ve turned 50, this is the urban outreach prowho are based on the our two cents times 50.” women’s grandmothers. gram. In 1992, she began “We start with our collaborating with Ela Martha Enson roots,” McAlpin said. Lamblin using original “Then the show moves kinetic sculpture, live through us as we grow music and dance simultaneously in a performance, creating a and let go of the past, with permission to be who we are today.” new genre called physical music. “That letting go,” added Mann with a Mann’s passion for kinetic, spatial and multi-sensory expression led her to co- bemused twinkle in her brown eyes, “is a found Integrated Music, which brings real moment of letting go,” which fits for musicians to bedsides in a Seattle hospital a hybrid theatrical circus featuring daring and to instruct restorative movement to triple trapeze acts with intricate falls on Alzheimer patients at community care aerial silk, dervish Spanish web spinning centers. She facilitates personal develop- and “banshee-like bungeeing” plus eyement retreats and teaches youth move- catching sideshow acts of strip tease, feats on roller skates, an accordion extravament. Mann moved to Vashon in 2004. In response to their milestone birth- ganza, oracle conjuring and spoken word
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by poet Storme Webber. Told through what the women call sneaky deep comedy and visual poetry, the show ultimately weaves together the many threads of their lives affected by the vicissitudes of life — birth and death, abundance and scarcity, fear and courage — into the fabric of their final act “Admit It.” Each woman chimes in with a one-line slogan to describe the gist of that last act, “You get to admit who you are. You have permission to be who you are. You are good just as you are.” And somewhere within the show, some of these words will find their way onto the skin of these daring women on the bouncing bungees who will fly through the air with the greatest of ease.
“50 Sense Circus” will be performed at 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 18, and 4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 19, at the Open Space for Arts & Community. Doors will open 30 minutes before the show for live interactive sculpture. Tickets are available at the Vashon Bookshop or www.brownpapertickets. com. Proceeds from the door will be donated to two nonprofit organizations, the DoVe Project and Eve Ensler’s 1 Billion Rising Project.
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Our dear sister and friend, Terrie Lynn Hitch passed away, peacefully on January 6th, 2014. Terrie was born in Bremerton, Washington on April 13th, 1954. Terrie was a long-time resident of Vashon Manor Apartments. Terrie was preceeded in death by her mother, Helen Hitch, father Robert Hitch and two brothers Robert and Lonnie, both of Vashon. She is survived by her sister Nancy of Seattle, brothers John and Gregory, both from Vashon, Gordon from Missouri and brother Steven from Spokane, Washington. Terrie was a very friendly member of the Vashon community and had many loving and supportive friends on Vashon Island. The folks at the Vashon Pharmacy, the Vashon Thriftway and the Lutheran church were all a part of her Vashon family of friends. Terrie’s memorial service will be held at the Vashon Lutheran church 18623 Vashon Hwy. S. W., Vashon on Saturday, January 18th at 11am. Terrie’s family wishes to thank all of the Vashon community for their kindness, compassion, and understanding through all of her life’s challenges.
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Willis “Will” Chandler Norwood died peacefully with family at his side January 4, 2014. He was 84 years old. Will is survived by Marcia, his wife of 57 years, their three children, David (Gail), Doug (Susan), Amy (Doug), sister Zoe Brown, seven grandchildren, thirteen great-grandchildren, and extended family including a stuffed bear named Fred, a wooden pig, silly yellow ducks and a little blue mouse. Born in Grand Rapids, MI, on June 1, 1929, his teen years were spent dodging the truant officer in Kent, WA. He served his country during the Korean conflict as an army radio instructor. A graduate of Washington State College and Harvard Business School, this latter-day hippie founded THE WOOD SHOP in Seattle’s Pioneer Square, crafting musical instruments, folk toys and memories for all. This man of the sea who couldn’t swim dropped his anchor on the north shore of Vashon Island, where for 35 years he and Marcia weathered the storms, shared their summers and lost themselves in the sunsets. His shop was his sanctum, his books were his sails, yet Marcia was always his love. He was a fisherman, audiophile, boat builder, fine wood worker, jeweler, lapidary artist, and machinist. A reader, naturalist, dreamer, humorist and critic, he was an aficionado and collector of the slightly off center and quite frankly, the just weird. Will was a curmudgeon before they were popular ~ misunderstood by some, appreciated by many and loved by even more. Will’s generosity was always personal. Will’s family profoundly thanks all organ donors and their families. A donated heart gave them 20 years of joy brought to life through the optimism, compassion and skills of an army of medical professionals at the University of Washington. A celebration of life is planned for 1:30 P.M., February 1, 2014 at Timber Ridge, 100 Timber Ridge Way NW, Issaquah, WA. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to: UW Foundation, School of Medicine-Research, (877)894-4387.