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Event
With/In Sight
With/In Sight
A concert of new dance works featuring four Asheville choreographers.
Witnessing and performing are an intimate exchange in With/In Sight.
We invite you to participate - with your attention, your intention, and your presence. Through shared reflections the audience has the opportunity to enter into the dance and the implicit exchange becomes tangible.
Presented by Dance & Spirituality. GO INWARD, BREATHE, and CONNECT with us.
We look forward to being with you in the dance.
Performances:
Saturday, February 22 at 7:30 PM
Sunday, February 23 at 2:00 PM & 7:30 PM
Monday, February 24 at 7:30 PM
Venue:
Asheville Jewish Community Center
236 Charlotte Street
Choreography:
Jessica Damon, Amanda Levesque, Idelle Packer, Michele Torino Hower
Original Live Music:
Madelyn Ilana
Dance Performance:
Jessica Damon, Aris Lara, Amanda Levesque, Idelle Packer, Michele
Torino Hower, and guest 10-year-old Gabrielle Prince
Narrator and MC:
Lars Clark
Dedication & Raffle:
Our concert is dedicated to Tammy Weinburger, a beloved childhood friend of Idelle's children who is battling Stage 4 Breast Cancer. $10 raffle tickets will be available during intermission with a drawing at the concert's conclusion. The winner takes home 50% of proceeds and the other half goes to support Tammy. To read more about Tammy, please visit her GoFundMe page: https://gofund.me/a836eb8f
Co-sponsors: Asheville Jewish Community Center, Congregation Beth Israel, St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church, Deerfield Charitable Foundation, Amy and Jim Jacobs, Rebecca Stein Morgan, and with appreciation for support from Center for Jewish Studies and the Tikkun Olam Committeee of Congregtion Beth HaTephilla. Gratitude to CBHT Sisterhood and Brotherhood for their support, as well.
Program notes:
Holiness vs the mundane brings the audience into action with the dancers as they learn about the power of the Hebrew letters, how they are brimming with potential holiness, and when gestured, inspire an experience of holiness, introspection and joy.
10-year old Gabrielle Prince, dancer from St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church, takes those hebrew letter gesstures into dance in a solo, Crying for Joy, made for her by Idelle Packer.
Also featured is Amanda Levesque, a dancer in a wheelchair, who has co-choreographed Inside Amanda with Idelle. Idelle and Amanda set out to create a dance of beauty that would reveal the inner thoughts of a person whose life is often viewed as limited in movement, bound by a wheelchair. We learn the depth of her experience in surprising and delightful ways, and in witnessing her inner life, touch an inner spiritual light within ourselves. Audience participation directs the dance's resolution making each performance unique.
"Three", a solo choreographed and performed by Idelle Packer, grapples with questions of life and death, particularly the human transition to death. How do we face death when it knocks on our door? Do we hold onto this world, fight to ward off the inevitable or surrender?
here, where we last met, by the mountains, by the sea is a new work by Jessica Damon, performed with Michele Torino Hower. The duet is a joyful/sorrowful reflection on memory, perception, kinship and loss.
In premiere solo by Michele Torino Hower, "see this Up on a rooftop, sky of wind and ominous gray clouds moving me while the children and dogs bellow from the windows below" she invites audience interaction by asking audience members to creatively direct its sequence.
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LocationJewish Community Center (View)
236 Charlotte Street
Asheville, NC 28801
United States
Categories
| Minimum Age: 8 |
| Kid Friendly: Yes! |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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Contact
| Owner: Idelle Packer |
| On BPT Since: Sep 04, 2019 |
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| Jewish Community Center of Asheville |
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Accessibility
The JCC is an accessible venue with elevator to take you to the 2nd floor 'theater'. Seating for those who cannot climb stairs available. House opens at 7:10 allowing time to be seated by House Manager, Arora. Let her know your needs. Contact Nicole for questions / requests and to let her know if your wheelchair needs to be set in the audience. (317) 453-6581 Free parking in the lot and on the street.
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