Theatre and Dance -- Summer 1996

• Native Movement, a new dance company -- founded by Eddie Swimmer, former soloist with the American Indian Dance Theatre, with whom I toured for two years -- has just burst onto the scene, featuring my lighting design. Also featured is Flutist and Dancer Andy Vasquez, also a former soloist with the AIDT. The company performed at Centennial Park in Atlanta for the Olympic Games (just days before the bombing there,) and then moved on to Athens, GA, where we opened July 26 at the University of Georgia Continuing Education Center. The concert series ended on August 2nd, as the Athletic events in that area drew to a close.

  The 45 minute show was a compilation of Native American dances by men and women, including Traditional, Fancy, Jingle, and highlighting Mr. Swimmer's very popular Hoop Dance, for which he recently was depicted on a United States Postage Stamp.

• In a Clean House opened July 25 at the Theatre Row Theatre at 424 W. 42nd Street, in New York City and ran until August 25. A rural African-American family in Eastern North Carolina, must cope with decisions about how to proceed with their lives after the death of the matriarch, who had always favored her light skinned offspring and snubbed their darker siblings.

  Produced by the Carolina Playwrights Center, as an Equity-Approved Showcase, I collaborated as Lighting Designer with Playwright Carolyn Cole Montgomery, Director Nefertiti Burton, Set Designer Sal Perrotta, and Costume Designer Michael Moore.

• A New York Romance was performed August 8-11 in Charlotte, NC. It tells the story of a single woman's search for love in a big city, told through a series of songs, from Puccini to Gershwin, and from Sondheim to Salt-n-Pepa.

  This tour-de-force one woman show was created by and features Mary Setrakian, who toured with the National Companies of Hello Dolly, Evita and Les Miserables, and appeared on Broadway with Carol Channing in Hello Dolly. This piece was last performed at One Dream Theatre in Tribeca, NYC in March '96. I have been involved as lighting designer on it for two years, and am now also a full co-producer. We are hoping to take it to San Francisco next, but are still in negotiations for a theatre. Set Designer Sal Perrotta shows up again in my universe on this project.

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