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ONE SWEET PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL
3rd Annual Festival at Memorial Hall, Shelburne Falls
March 17 & 18, 2012
A delicious potpourri of world class theatre, music, and dance for all ages
This year’s headline performer is internationally acclaimed ballet-mime artist Karen Montanaro offering workshops for all ages on Sunday, 3/18! (see schedule below for details)
“Piti Theatre’s Syrup is what community arts festivals are all about: variety, enthusiasm, involvement, and a “sweet” taste of local talents.”
- Chris Rohmann, Theater Critic
Watch the coverage of last year’s festival on WWLP 22′s Mass Appeal
Saturday Afternoon Family Show
2:00 pm: Piti Theatre’s Elmer and the Elder Tree
AND
Karen Montanaro and Ballet Renversé
Saturday Evening: Spring Seeds Gala
7 pm:
Northampton Singer-Songwriter Carrie Ferguson
Cellist Wayne Smith (Bach Suite No. 2 for Solo Cello in D minor)
CLOWNING from Brattleboro’s Strong Coffee Stage
8:00 – Karen Montanaro’s “Tanzspiel” (German for “dance play”)
Tickets: $5 afternoon, $12 evening ($8 youth under 16) , $15 for all day bucket pass
SUNDAY 3/18 WORKSHOPS WITH KAREN MONTANARO
“The Maine Arts Commission is enormously pleased to honor Karen Montanaro with the Individual Artist Fellowship award. Our distinguished panel of judges was impressed with Karen’s phenomenal technique and control, but most importantly they recognized that Karen has fused her prodigious skill in both mime and dance into a new art form, using the body as a descriptive tool — painterly, narrative and lyrical.”
–Donna McNeil, Director of the Maine Arts Commission
all workshops take place at Shelburne Falls Yoga, #1 Deerfield Avenue
11:00 – 12:30: Mime & Dance Workshop for Children ages 7 – 12
This will be a high-energy movement adventure. Students will move in ways that engage 100% of their energy, their focus and their imagination. They will learn some of the most popular mime illusions such as “the box” and the “moonwalk.” They will learn how to move as different characters, animals and things. They may even learn how to walk through a wall.
1:30 – 3:00: Physical Storytelling for teens/adults (ages 13+)
Karen’s fusion of mime and dance allows the mover to “speak” without using words and her workshop explores this possibility. Students will learn “the box” and “the moonwalk” with an emphasis on the subtleties that turn regular movements into feats of magic. They will approach movement as a road-to-discovery — a path that opens up to new feelings, new ideas and new states-of-being. No previous dance or movement training is necessary and all body-types are welcome.
Workshops are $10 for SYRUP ticket holders, $15 for others
Register by emailing info@ptco.org with the number of places you’d like and for which session.
Thank You Sponsors!
Lead Sponsors
Angels
Directors
Berkshire Insurance Group, a Berkshire Bank Affiliate
Blackmer Insurance
Coldwell Banker Upton-Massamont Realtors
Greenfield Radio Shack
Greenfield Savings Bank
Yes Exactly Webdesign
Actors
Baker Pharmacy
Molly Cantor Pottery
Pro Tech Automotive of Greenfield
Shelburne Falls Independent
Shelburne Falls Yoga
With Door & Raffle Prizes From:
Elmer’s Store
The Pieropan Christmas Tree Farm
Real Pickles
Shelburne Falls Artwalk: May 5 & More
Stephen Earp Redware
Funders
Funded in part by the New England States Touring program of the New England Foundation for the Arts, made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts Regional Touring Program and the six New England state arts agencies.
Buckland Cultural Council
Deerfield Cultural Council
Hawlemont Cultural Council
Heath Cultural Council
This program is supported in part by grants from the Buckland, Deerfield, Heath and Hawlemont Cultural Councils, local agencies which are supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
Contact us about Sponsorship Opportunities!
info@ptco.org or 413-625-6569
