CORE's "Rise" - Harris Center, Folsom, CA - Saturday Evening, March 26, 2016

Because of Lydia's birthday party, I joined Sadie, Nan, Linda, Helen, and Fred at intermission.

Lobby.

Lobby.

Choreographer Kelli Leighton at Bows.

Question and answer session.

Choreographer Kelli Leighton.

Jamie.

Teagan.

Sadie, Nan, and Linda.

Cool staircase here at the Harris Center. (After "Man of La mancha", I'm conditioned to look closely at staircases.)

I saw the CORE show last year in Auburn, but as Kelli noted, this version has been about 75% reworked. The piece is dedicated to Kelli's Norwegian grandmother, who came to the U.S. post-WWII, but I kept confusing it in my own mind with my great-aunt, a Norwegian woman who was born on a sailing vessel in what is now Indonesia, plus my experience living a year in Salt Lake City (1989-90). Indeed, since most of the dancers did not wander far from established stations, it felt like they were monuments in a kind of psychic landscape - a Monument Valley of the imagination - with Kelli's grandmother being a solitary traveler. Almost like she was a solitary 49er heading west in a covered wagon (with the skirt being the wagon - both a support and a burden).

Just a different way of looking at the dance.

"Rise" - the dancers' perspective (part 3)

Rachael and Lexi share their inspiration for their performance in "Rise". Tickets available for Saturday's shows at harriscenter.net #BTS #BehindTheScenes #COREContemporaryDance #RISE #Sacramento #DANCE #HarrisCenter #Folsom #Sac365 #SubmergeMag #VisitSac #SMAC #ARTS #LOCAL #ContemporaryDance

Posted by CORE Contemporary Dance on Thursday, March 24, 2016