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Dancers rehearse for Evening of Dance
When Richard Ouellette came to Keene State in 2008 from northern New Hampshire, he wanted to study the backstage arts of technical theater design. He soon fell in love with modern dance and added dance performance to his resume. After graduation in 2012, he worked in Boston as a dancer and scenic designer, then went on to graduate school at the University of Maryland, earning an MFA in Scenic Design.
Then it was off to New York City, where his training as a dancer served him well in his work as a scenic designer for dance concerts, operas, and other performances. “It helps to have been a dancer, to know how bodies move in space,” he says. “When I am creating the architecture for a dance, I draw the body first, then imagine the world around it.”
Dance Institute rises up with annual show
New Hampshire Dance Institute staff at Keene State College’s Redfern Arts Center. From left are Residency Director Lisa Cook, Teaching Artist Tracy Croteau, Teaching Artist Jessica Lamoureux, Artistic Director Kristen Leach and Teaching Artist Linda Estabrook. Courtesy of Lisa Scoville
The oldest resident organization at Keene State College’s Redfern Arts Center is coming home.
Now in its 35th year, the N.H. Dance Institute recently began preparing for its “Event of the Year,” an annual performance that typically follows nearly eight months of rehearsals but has been heavily adapted for the COVID-19 pandemic.
Published: 1/18/2017 6:33:13 PM The Redfern Arts Center presents 2125 Stanley Street, a performance installation exploring notions of home on Thursday and Friday, February 9 and 10 at 7 p.m. and Saturday, February 11 at 2 p.m. at the Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery at Keene State College.
Tickets are $10 for general admission, $8 for senior citizens and youths, and $5 for KSC students. Seating is limited, so buy your tickets early to this modern dance performance about how home informs who we are. For tickets, call the Redfern Box Office at 603-358-2168 or order online at keene.edu/arts/redfern. 2125 Stanley Street invites audiences into a home that unfolds though movement and sound that exists in the present moment through intimate exchange, a home that is both familiar and yet cannot exactly be located. A collaboration between dancers/co-creators Dahlia Nayar, Margaret Sunghe Paek and cellist/composer Loren Kiyoshi Dempster, the performance explores growing up in multi-lingual/