Nashville in Motion presents new works at Renaissance Center’s anniversary Aug. 2
Release Date: 7/16/2008. Expired: 8/2/2008
Nashville In Motion, a dance company that blends contemporary dance with music by top contemporary music acts, returns to The Renaissance Center in Dickson as part of its 9th anniversary celebration on Saturday, Aug. 2.
Tickets for the 7 p.m. performance are $12 for adults, $10 for seniors 55 and over and $8 for children under 13.
Founded in 2007, Nashville in Motion combines contemporary dance with the multitude of other artistic outlets available in the Middle Tennessee area. Nashville In Motion is the vision of artistic director Jennifer Niemeyer Harwell, whose credentials range from performing with the Tennessee Repertory Theatre to dancing with the Nashville Ballet, among others. Most members of Nashville in Motion are dancers from the Nashville Ballet seeking an outlet for performing opportunities during the ballet’s off-season.
Harwell was looking for an opportunity to use her skills as a choreographer to combine contemporary dance with popular music. Nashville In Motion made its debut July 16, 2007, at the Belcourt Theatre with a performance that combined contemporary dance with live musical performances by Ty Herndon and Thompson Square and followed that as the featured performance at Arts Fusion 3, a statewide celebration of the arts held at The Renaissance Center last fall.
For 2008, choreographer and associate artistic director Kathleen Cruz Spinazzola brings a large cast of professional dancers to the stage with her latest work, Design, a look at how the expressive nature of space and repetition can communicate through the complex architecture of everyday relationships between people. Design features the music of Radiohead.
In addition, Harwell presents a world premiere set specifically for the dance troupe using the music of Yo Yo Ma and Itzhak Perlman from John Williams’ soundtrack to Memoirs of a Geisha, to explore the dichotomy of being called to love In Perturbatio (In Disorder).
Robert Poe, a member of the dance troupe, has choreographed Broken Remnants, to the music Any Other World by Mika, and company member Eric Harris choreographed Knee 5, featuring music by Michael Reisman and the Phillip Glass Ensemble.
Featured company members of Nashville in Motion at the Aug. 2 performance at The Renaissance Center will include Kelsey Bartman, Emily Crampton, Robert Gosnell, Eric Harris, Kate Kastelnik, Mary LaCroix, Brendon LaPier, Mark Nimmo, Robert Poe, Kimberly Ratcliffe, Kimberly Torcivia, Allison Zamorksi and Morgan Burke.
For more information on Nashville In Motion, visit its website at www.nashvilleinmotion.org.
For more information on the Nashville In Motion performance as part of The Renaissance Center’s ninth anniversary celebration on Saturday, Aug. 2, call (615) 740-5600 or visit www.rcenter.org. To purchase tickets, call (615) 740-5601.
The Renaissance Center is a fine arts education and performing arts center at 855 Highway 46 South in Dickson, just 35 miles west of Nashville on Interstate 40 at exit 172.
Visit the Dance page for more about dance at The Renaissance Center.