In addition to dancing frequently with live musician\/composers\u2014pianist D.A. Young, improvisation artists Gianni Mimmo and Vinny Golia, electric violinist David Strothers, and wind instrumentalist Ray Pizzi to name a few\u2014I have enjoyed the grand opportunity to create new work and perform with concert orchestras, beginning with my 1986 guest invitational with the Los Angeles County\u2019s Inglewood Symphony Orchestra with Maestro Leroy E. Hurte conducting. The event, \u201cPops For Pop,\u201d was a Father\u2019s Day Concert on the green of the Daniel Freeman Memorial Hospital. I danced to one of my favorite Gustav Mahler works, \u201cAdagietto,\u201d from his Symphony No. 5. <\/p>\n
Another invitational came from the Northern Nevada Concert Orchestra now the Ruby Mountain Symphony (https:\/\/rubymountainsymphony.8m.net\/index.html) with Maestro George Rosenberg conducting. I created new choreography and danced to two sections of Ferde Grofe\u2019s \u201cGrand Canyon Suite\u201d: \u2018Sunrise\u2019 and \u2018Cloudburst.\u2019 The venue was the Elko Convention Hall nestled in the Ruby Mountain valley range in eastern Nevada. (https:\/\/exploreelko.com\/meetings\/). <\/p>\n
In 2001 the Reno Chamber Orchestra invited me as its Guest Solo Dance Artist\u2014a first\u2014to join them on the Nightingale Concert Hall of the University of Nevada, Reno for its winter season (https:\/\/www.renochamberorchestra.org\/). I made a new work and danced Edward Elgar\u2019s \u201cElegy,\u201d another exquisite composition for my aesthetic exploration. 2020 became the year I officially gave my farewell concert performance. <\/p>\n
At the height of the Covid pandemic I was graced with an invitation from the Reno Philharmonic Orchestra. I created and danced to Camille Saint-Saens\u2019s \u201cThe Swan.\u201d Even though I\u2019d been investigating the swan trope since, well, apparently the swan has been dogging me since the time I witnessed Maya Plisetskaya dance Mikhail Fokine\u2019s The<\/em> Dying<\/i> Swan<\/i> with the Bolshoi when I was small girl, I\u2019d consciously avoided approaching the Saint-Saens music. But having gotten an invitation to dance with the Reno Phil\u2019s performance of the short composition on the Pioneer Center for the Arts stage, it was not an invitation to turn down. I made a dance. And to my deep (and often) surprised delight, the subtle and timely metaphoric emblems just happened to be there, making their appearance from m sub-conscious. In fact and as I shared with Maestro Laura Jackson, the dance came to me almost instantly,\u2014the imagery of the arc of the dance fully formed in my mind\u2019s eye (what most often occurs for me). The rest is Trust. A\u2019ho.<\/p>\n[aesop_gallery transition=”crossfade” caption=”Solo Dance Artist with Concert Orchestra” galleryType=”thumbnail” id=”339″]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In addition to dancing frequently with live musician\/composers\u2014pianist D.A. Young, improvisation artists Gianni Mimmo and Vinny Golia, electric violinist David Strothers, and wind instrumentalist Ray Pizzi to name a few\u2014I have enjoyed the grand opportunity to create new work and perform with concert orchestras, beginning with my 1986 guest invitational with the Los Angeles County\u2019s Inglewood […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":293,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-highlight"],"metadata":{"_edit_lock":["1675006839:301"]},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n