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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For 33 years, art lovers have been climbing the daunting staircase up to Etherton Gallery, perched high on the second floor of downtownâs historic Oddfellow Hall.
Proprietor Terry Etherton is ending his more than three-decade run in downtown and moving to a one-story building at 340 S. Convent St. in Barrio Viejo.
âThe building was sold,â Etherton says of the current place. âIt was time to move on. Itâs a cool space. This is our 40th anniversary year. Itâs a good time to make a move.â
Etherton opened his first gallery in a retail space on Sixth Street near Fourth Avenue; he stayed there for seven years before setting down roots in the Odd Fellows building.
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