By LISA G. CURRIE

By LISA G. CURRIE

Rappahannock News Staff Writer

Space — with its, changes, its nwements, and its boundaries — is the theme for several* the dances to be performed by the Last Minute Wood Company, choreographed by Sally Nash, this Saturday night, Dec. 8.

“It is the story of evolution,” Ms. Nash said of the premeire dance, entitled, “Sanskrit,” a 20 minute movement using five dancers.

“It is the story of evolution using animal types and movement to show how quickly weltake up space and move through it,” Ms. Nash said, dfding the choice of gymnasium was mainly for this dance as its movements are grand. And, with five dancers on the floor at once a large area was required. “There is no exiting or entrancing” of dancers, she explained. J

Dancers for this piece are familiar Rappahannock faces. Underneath the yards and yaifls of flowing muslin type material, hand-painted and self-styled, is Flint Hill’s Nina Stamer, Washington’s Kim Doyle and Sperryville’s Shari Aveniles, James Madison University guest performer Debra Goff and Last Mimite Wood Company charter member Nan Reddick of Sperryville.

Ms. Reddick is the company’s pnly originial member performing this time. She has been with the group since its inception in 1976. n

Potters, gardeners, construction workers, and other artists all come together in this production, one of four dances performed.

Besides ‘Sanskrit*, which premired in Washington D.C. in October and featured the same five dancers who will perform on Saturday in Rappahannock, several of the other works, all choregraphed by Ms. Nash, have not been performed in Rappahannock.

“Mother’s Solo from Box 48,” performed by Deb Goff, is a solo from a larger, earlier choregraphed dance concerning letters from a mother. The second dance has likewise never been produced fof a Rappahannock audience though it was performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. by Cynthia Thompson and is titled, “A Woman’s Work.”

Ms. Thompson, in a duet witih partner and colleague, Kate Trammell of James Madison University, also performs in the third piece, entitled, “Underpinnings.” Both women, co-directors of the dance company Thompson and Trammell, are guest performers for this dance.

The last dance is “Sanskrit.”

Costumes for this dance were handsewn by Deb Goff and Kim Doyle; hand-dying was done by Ms. Nash. Creation and design were aided by guest designer Sharon Wyrrick. “It’s very sheer material,” Ms. Nash said of the yards and yards of material used in the costumes for “Sanskrit.”

“They are very hard to get into,” she said with a laugh, adding the yards and yards of free-flowing, yet shaped, material allows the dancers to take on many animal forms during their danc$. “They look like people as well as animals,” she said.