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Director of the Last Minute Wood Company in Sperryville, Ms. Nash has been an active member of the Rappahannock artistic community since the early 1980s. She and her work has been performed around the nation in cities like Washington, D.C. and San Francisco. An active dancer since childhood, Nash said she worked with the “traditionally imposed style” of dance until adulthood.
“Then, I become more intrigued by the movement of people who were not dancers,” she said, adding this is the main thrust of her work.
The dance involves a series of summers the choreographer spent while a child—just as she developed into a woman of age and experience.
“It’s new movement, like a new kind of genre,” she said, adding as she ages she finds new avenues for movement and how it affects her body.
“Oh, there is just as much exactness and technique,” she said witl) a shake of her head, it’s “just not the jumping and the 3,000 turns of traditional dance.”
“The more details you add to a dance, the more you start detailing,” she said with a smile, adding she Iras taken the dance one step beyond dance into theater where “ I really get into the work from the character’s point-of-view.”
Like the other two segments in this performance, costumes play an important part in the presentation.
“They are in shades of white,” the dancer/choregrapher said, explaining the piece is a series of daydreams in which she drinks tea — separate from the dance both by color (she wears black) and by movement.
“It’s clothing from other eras like the clothing the character in the past may have worn,” she said. At one point in the dance, all six dancers are on the floor at one time. For this reason, space is needed. The audience is asked to arrive promptly for seating at the front of the hall.
“We are reversing the stage,” Ms. Portman said. “We can not admit during a piece.”
Tickets for the presentation are $5 in advance at Mountain Side Market or, for reserved seating, by contacting Ki Theatre at 987-3164. Tickets are available at the door for $6 for non-members or $5 for Ki Theatre members.
Prompt arrival is suggested as no admission can be made during a performance since dancers perform on the floor with the audience seated on the stage.
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