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Nash's dance
spellbinding
By DIANA BIRD
Rappahannock News Contributing Writer
Last Saturday evening, Dec. 8, at the Rappahannock Elementary School, the Last Minute Wood Company, Sally Nash’s creation, entertained an audience of about 100 admirers. At the end of the performance, no one wanted to go home. I have never before seen an audience sit, transfixed as this one was, even though they knew there was no encore.
Part of the magic of the evening was owing to its variety. The first piece, “Mother’s Solo from Box 48,” danced by Deb Goff, mocks our fixation with food and recipes, especially foreign cooking. In this case, an Italian menu was featured.
We saw a beautiful dancer in green, red and white put together a meal, all performed with effects that left nothing to the imagination. This combination of movement and voice was precise and humorous.
Having caught the audience with lots of fun, Sally moved us to “A Woman’s Work” danced by Cynthia Thompson. Here we saw a development, recognizably in Sally’s style, performed with wit, grace and vigor, assisted with one dancing prop, a black ‘kerchief.
“Underpinngs,” danced in negligee by Kate Trammell and Cynthia Thompson, was a sensuous, spirited production that seemed to contrast a statuesque, blond beauty of Norwegian cast with a fay, dark, slender, Mediterranean figure, both speeding across the dance floor in first night gown and camisole underwear and finally in modest blue lounging robes.
This delightfully feminine exercise brought together individuals who turned out, when I talked with them after the performance, to be very little different in physical size, but who appear as marked contrasts in performance.
They too projected beauty as well as skill. In this case, as in some of the other dances, the large floor space of the elementary school auditorium was fully engaged.
“Sanskrit,” the premier new piece, employed five dancers, Shari Avenuis, Kim Doyle, Deb Goff, Nan Red< dick and Nina Stamer.
It evoked many manifestations of water. .The performers, arrayed in similar, flowing garments that suggested the rushing, dancing nature of water, against a background of water music and sounds, through their movements not only imitated aspects of the sea and the
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