Dancing Your Age - A Live Performance
A group performance that explores the lives of six dancers and the world-music of percussionist Tony Vacca.
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Dancing Your Age is a group performance that explores the lives of six dancers and the world-music of percussionist Tony Vacca. Each dancer draws on their own embodied memories and kinesthetic imagination to explore all the years of their lives through movement. Performances are individual, held within the rhythms of Tony Vacca's music, and accompanied by the other dancers: Chris Aiken, Angie Hauser, Sarah Lass, Maya LaLiberté, Cameron McKinney, and Andrea Olsen.
Welcome and introductory remarks by Historic Northampton's co-directors Laurie Sanders and Elizabeth M. Sharpe, with a Q & A to follow. Dancing your Age, developed by dance artist Andrea Olsen, is taking place at dance sites around the globe from 2023-25. |
Date
Sunday, May 5, 2024
12 noon to 2 pm Location
Shepherd Barn at Historic Northampton
66 Bridge Street Northampton, MA 01060 Admission
Sliding Scale Admission: $10 - $25
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In partnership with A.P.E@33 Hawley.
Funding benefits Historic Northampton and A.P.E@33 Hawley. The event is part of the Build-a-Floor Celebration weekend at 33 Hawley in Northampton, MA—honoring floors for safe dancing and movement artists past, present and future.
https://www.apearts.org/build-a-floor-fest.html
Funding benefits Historic Northampton and A.P.E@33 Hawley. The event is part of the Build-a-Floor Celebration weekend at 33 Hawley in Northampton, MA—honoring floors for safe dancing and movement artists past, present and future.
https://www.apearts.org/build-a-floor-fest.html
Andrea Olsen is a dancer, writer, educator, and long-time participant in creative endeavors in Northampton—including hosting the Build-A-Floor project and celebration. She teaches and performs internationally and is author of four books on embodiment: Bodystories, Body and Earth, The Place of Dance, and Moving Between Worlds.
Tony Vacca is a self-described “rhythm nomad.” Over the course of his career locally and globally, he has made a habit of pushing the already adventurous conventions of World Music into new territory, both as a soloist and as the leader of three group projects: World Music Ensemble, Fusion Nomads, and The Senegal-America Project. Twenty-one trips to West Africa and many cross-cultural collaborations have contributed to his unique approach and to his depth of knowledge regarding African and American musical traditions. He currently has eight recordings and a new book of words called “the Rescue of Luminous Being."
Vacca has worked creatively with Olsen since 1978, creating balafon music for dance classes at Thornes Market; they continue their journey four decades later through the Dancing Your Age project.
Tony Vacca is a self-described “rhythm nomad.” Over the course of his career locally and globally, he has made a habit of pushing the already adventurous conventions of World Music into new territory, both as a soloist and as the leader of three group projects: World Music Ensemble, Fusion Nomads, and The Senegal-America Project. Twenty-one trips to West Africa and many cross-cultural collaborations have contributed to his unique approach and to his depth of knowledge regarding African and American musical traditions. He currently has eight recordings and a new book of words called “the Rescue of Luminous Being."
Vacca has worked creatively with Olsen since 1978, creating balafon music for dance classes at Thornes Market; they continue their journey four decades later through the Dancing Your Age project.