Prelude

LILA Dance Festival presents 

Prelude

Annex Contemporary Dance Company

Introduction by Julie Hebb

Pathways

Choreography: Julie Hebb

Music: Nils Frahm, Aukia & Jamshied Sharifi

Dancers:

I. Audrey Eastman, Maiya Jordan, Naomi Sawyer, Leann Sbriizza, Rhianwen Watkins

II. Naomi Sawyer

III. Audrey Eastman, Maiya Jordan, Elyssa Moyer, Naomi Sawyer, Leann Sbrizza, Rhianwen Watkins

FUKUDANCE

Excerpt from Mea Tormenta

 Choreography: Junichi Fukuda

Dancers: Junichi Fukuda & Sharon Wehner

NSquared Dance

Interview with Zackery Betty

Excerpts from The Shire: A Bioregional Exploration of the state of New Hampshire

"Spring" - White Mountain Region

Dancer: Sallie Werst

Music: Rain Dance- Jon Algar 

"Abandoned Railroads" - The Great North Woods Region

Dancers: Zackery Betty & Ava Girard 

Music: Steep Hills of Vicodin Tears- A Winged Sullen Victory for the Sullen, & A Magnificent Gray- Slow Meadow
 

"Peaks" - White Mountain Region

Dancers: Zackery Betty, Nathan Duszny, & Nick Neagle

Music: Autumn Forest- Park Leaf, & And Then There Was Peace- Anton Fargau Petrini
 

"Summertime"- The Lakes Region

Dancers: Zackery Betty, Nathan Duszny, Ava Girard, Nick Neagle, & Sallie Werst

Music: Summertime- Billy Stewart 

Northeastern Ballet Theatre

Interview with Edra Toth

Excerpt from Edra Toth?s original ballet Dracula

Choreography: Edra Toth

Dancer: Naomi Sawyer

10 MINUTE INTERMISSION

On stage rehearsal of “The Run” By Nadya Timofeyeva

Director of Jerusalem Ballet Company

Dancers: Yuval Cohen, Iona Darling, Savannah Lee, Emily Wozer

Rhode Island Women's Chorepgraphy Project

 Introduction by Kristy Dubois

Excerpt from Gotholympians

Choreography by Jessi Stegall

Music: Adaptation of "Gotholympians" by Reid Jenkins

Dancers: Margot Aknin, Dara Capley, Hannah Franz

Interview with Jessi Stegall

Unrestrained Gesture

Interview with Amanda Whitworth, Christina Pitsch and Vivian Beer

Figurine II 

Music: Catherine Shaw & Attacca Quartet "Ritornello 2.sq.2.j.a"

Inventors: Unrestrained Gesture (Amanda Whitworth, Christina Pitsch and Vivian Beer)

Dancers: Janelle Abbott Staley, Angela Grassie, Samantha Fontneau, Hannah Haines