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,
Special to the Independent
MARSHALL Southwest Minnesota State University Theatre Professor Nadine Schmidt will have the lead role in an upcoming virtual concert reading of a play entitled Nickel and Dimed, by Joan Holden, produced by the Des Moines, Iowa-based theatre company TheatreMidwest.
The readings are free and will be streamed at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday and at 2 p.m. on Sunday. RSVP here: https://www.theatremidwest.org/online-rsvp.html, and an email will be sent on the day of the show with viewing instructions.
Schmidt said she and other actors will be available for discussion after the Sunday reading.