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Dance: C
By Rob Sherwood
Rappahannock News
Contributing Writer
Since 1976, when she founded the Last-Minute Wood Company, an interpretive dance ensemble here in Rappahannock, Sally Nash has established a tradition of providing evenings of dance that inspire and move their audiences.
Last Thursday’s performances at her Workspace for Choreographers studio off Estes Mill Road was no exception. The audience was treated to two dance premieres, and eight-minute piece called “Savory” and a 24-minute work “20 Words for Snow.” The evening’s impact was enhanced by an audience discussion of the pieces and then a second performance of “20 Words for Snow.”
In “Savory” three dancers recreate a time in Nash’s childhood when she and her sister used to listen to recorded poems by the English poet Edith Stillwell. Dancers Shari Avenius and Tutt Stapp-Harris portray the young sisters who play at patty-cake and loll around on the floor as they listen to the alliterative word play of the poems, oblivious to its adult sexual innuendo.
Nash also dances in the piece as an adult looking back on these memories. “Savory” climaxes with Spanish tango music of clarinet and castanets in which we see Nash, the adult, now energized by this reverie of childhood.
The second work, “20 Words for Snow,” is a fascinating and complex dance/theatre piece that interweaves two scenarios. The first is based on Nash’s experiences being stranded in her house for eight days during the ice blizzard of 1995 here in Rappahannock. She had no phone and no electricity and couldn’t drive out.
As portrayed by four dancers on stage, her emotions move from fear and loneliness during the first few days to wonderment and discovery as
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