Nothing Wasted - A Spring Recital 2009

PRESS RELEASE

Halestone Dance Studio will present Nothing Wasted, its 30th annual spring recital, at the Lenfest Center for the Arts on the campus of Washington and Lee University with three shows scheduled for Saturday, May 30th at 7:00pm and Sunday, May 31 at 2:00pm and 7:00pm.

The show opens with an original ballet created for the studio by director Nancy Saylor entitled Waste Not, Want Not. Featuring the music of Johannes Bach, George Harrison, Signor Rossini, and Cat Stevens, the ballet’s cast includes the Kindergarten and 1st Grade Creative Movement classes, Halestone’s Dance Lab classes I, II, and II, Ballet I, and II, and the Middle School Technique Class.

The ballet’s story presents a doomed host of characters (played by Dance Lab II and III), unable to resist the snare of spending their lives acquiring “things” and “stuff.” Urged on in their quest by the spirit of “more and more” (played by graduating senior Emily Strong), the stage is eventually overwhelmed with the clutter of their obsessive ways.

As they create their mess, the Dance Lab characters are also plagued by the trickster energy of nature (the Creative Movement Classes), determined to undermine these “all-consuming” practices. In league with the other natural forces of the universe, light and wind (played by Ballet I, II, and III), the creative movement tricksters of Waste Not, Want Not employ their powers of decomposition and re-creation to confront the relentless consumers. The tricksters then tap into the alternative power of human creativity (embodied in the dancing of Dance Lab I and The Middle School Technique Class) to unleash a new season of possibility, restoring and reviving the landscape of the Lenfest stage.

The Second Act of Nothing Wasted features a wide variety of original dance works performed by Halestone’s Baby & Me, Pre-School Creative Movement, Advanced Technique, Zumba, Hip Hop, and Tap classes. The CDCT High School Company is also presenting a new work entitled “Bib-lickal Revelations” and CDCT member Emily Strong has choreographed her senior piece, “Facing Me,” set to be performed by The CDCT’s Young Dancers ensemble.

Tickets for Nothing Wasted are $6 in advance or $8 at the door. Tickets can be purchased at the studio during regular studio hours or from the lobby box office in The Lenfest Center for the Arts, one half hour before show time.