Bolero: Suburbia
PepsiCo Theater
Your friends, neighbors, perhaps even your colleagues, have all pulled on their dancing shoes and in a few weeks you will be able to see just what they’re excited about.
Under the creative tutelage of contemporary choreographer Larry Keigwin and Nicole Wolcott, the assistant artistic director of the New York City-based Keigwin + Company, nearly 100 residents of Westchester and Fairfield counties have been cast in “Bolero Suburbia.” This dance production depicts the region’s daily life – all staged to the music of Ravel’s iconic “Bolero.”
Think “The Dick Van Dyke Show” meets Off-Broadway. Mr. Keigwin and Ms. Wolcott aren’t strangers to portraying both urban and suburban life through the evocative motions of dance. “Bolero Suburbia” is the pair’s fourth foray of using the undulating crescendo of Ravel’s Bolero as the musical impetus to illustrate a snapshot of suburban daily life via dance.
The cast is a pro-am group of dancers who all put their best feet forward during the auditions held in February by Mr. Keigwin and Ms. Wolcott. It’s comprised of moms and dads with children of all ages – toddlers, youngsters, tweens, teens, as well as baby boomers, grandparents and even great-grandparents. The group also will be joined by students from the Purchase College Conservatory of Dance and members of Mr. Keigwin’s troupe.
The “Bolero Suburbia” piece will be a 15-minute production that will conclude an evening of dance performed by Mr. Keigwin’s ensemble.
Using vignettes, life in the suburbs will be portrayed by both singles and families as they attend school, participate in extracurricular activities such as ballet lessons, soccer and skateboarding; tend to daily household chores and the commute to work, as well as trying to find a respite from that daily grind through television, golf and more.
The work will be the culmination of an evening-length performance that also will feature dances by Keigwin + Company.
Click here to listen to WNPR reporter Josie Holtzman’s report on the development of Bolero Suburbia.
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