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By LISA CURRIE
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Opening to a packed house, three dancer-choregraphers concluded the final part of the “Exchange” series for Ki Theatre last Sunday evening in the Washington Town Hall.
Rappahannock’s Sally Nash presented a new group piece for the Rappahannnock stage, “We always spent our summers in Wisconsin,” an autobigoraphical sketch of preadolescent and adolescent summers spent at a summer vacation spot.
Another Rappahannock County artist, Sharon Wyrrick, presented a solo-performance, “On the Cutting Room Floor.” This is the third in a three-part series of solo-presentations by the artist and explores material cut from film — or life — and its effect on the remains.
The last presentation, by Charlottesville’s Denise Read, was another solo-presentation, entitled “Sea Baby.” Using movement so detailed and precise it portrays slowmotion, Ms. Read gives the story of the baby, though not linear and told by several people at one time.
Together, the three dancers and choregraphers captured the audience with dance, theater and sound.
With each performance, dance movement became the modifier for text and facial expression, characterization and visual details.
“Each performer created outside the realm of tradional dance,” director of Ki Theatre Julie Portman said. “This was beyond the inmobile face and the gracefully mobile body.”
Sunday night each graceful mobile body performing for the audience blended body movement with facial expression, creating a new form of dance theatre.
Using six dancers to represent family members of the past, Sally Nash’s psychological examination of childhood summers in Wisconsin moved quickly and professionally across the floor. Common childhood preceptions and phrases become qued responses — emphasised as they become chants and verbal misconceptions.
“We Always Spent Our Summers In Wisconsin” examines the ability of a family to “articulate” though there remains a terrible “failure to communicate.” Perfecting facial expressions, detailed movement, and phrased chanting, the performers
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