The Best And Worst Of The Local Arts Scene In 1997.
By Margaret Regan
ONE OF THE best moments in the whole art year took place
in its earliest weeks. Liz Lerman s Dance Exchange had come
to town in January, and worked intensively with local groups to
incorporate them into a professional performance at Centennial
Hall. After weeks of rehearsals, old Mexican-American women from
El Rio Neighborhood Center, Jewish mothers and children from the
Hebrew Academy, gay activists and even Ken Foster, head of
UApresents,
joined Lerman s troupe onstage for Still Crossing,
a dance about immigration and nationhood. It was a performance at once solemn and joyful. Its best moment,
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(Above) At Virtual Leaps Fall 2020, a ballet performance: A Hilo Au. The dancer at the start of the video (:04-:32) is Kiaria Zoi Nakamura, the author of this story. Video by David Bennett and Kea Kapahua; music by the Galliard String Quartet.
Great Leaps, a biannual production that features dance students from both the university and Hawai‘i Community College. The show provides students with the opportunity to showcase their artistic talents as well as technical progress within various dance styles including ballet, jazz, modern, and aerial.
Kea Kapahua. Archive photo.
This year, the production took on a new look with