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Brenda Siegel, founder and executive artistic director of the Southern Vermont Dance Festival (SVDF), looks for ways to inspire the community through movement.
“For some, they are inspired by moving themselves. For others, it is being a spectator of the art of dance and, for others, it is the image of dance or movement that inspires,” says Siegel. “Showing the multi-venue exhibit is a way to show dance and movement as it is captured by the visual artist. It is just another way to inspire people through movement. Another way to show that dance is for absolutely everyone.”...
American abstract painter Emily Mason believes that her creative energy comes from intuition. “You have to fall back on yourself,” she says. “I never know what a painting will look like when I start a new picture. Every time I face a blank canvas, I have only an inkling...
Frank Salomon, administrator of Marlboro Music School and Festival, says that despite the name, he believes that the organization offers not a festival but a retreat. “Professional beginning artists get the special opportunity to work with acclaimed senior artists, some of whom have been involved with Marlboro 30 years...
Next weekend, a big white tent is going up inside the River Garden on Main Street. Under this big top, visitors can listen to professionally produced audio stories collected from people in Vermont. It's part of the Wake Up to Dying Project (WUDP), a free four-day series of events about death and dying. Nina Thompson, founder and executive director of the WUDP, believes that if we pay just a little more attention to the fact that we die, we will...
As it begins now, with its Young Artists Program (YAP) and then its 2015 Summer Season with more than 30 public events between mid-June and early August, Yellow Barn Music School and Festival is presenting a performance that is unusual in two ways. First, unlike most of their concerts, this one will not be performed in Putney. Second, in the strictest sense, it is not even a concert of classical music. But what kind of concert it is exactly may...
Sara Coffey, the director and founder of Vermont Performance Lab (VPL), does not want VPL to be an arts organization lost in the the foothills of Vermont's Green Mountains. The Guilford-based nonprofit arts organization is dedicated to supporting artists in the creation and development of new work and bringing artistic experiences to rural Vermont communities. While pursuing the development of avant garde performance projects is central to VPL, community involvement is also crucial. In fact, engagement with Brattleboro and its...
“I have been singing Sacred Harp for 60 years and have never seen it led so well,” said the late Pete Seeger when he saw Peter Amidon leading the Old Songs Festival Sacred Harp Sing. Peter Amidon has become something of a musical legend in the New England area for his performing, arranging, and teaching of traditional American folk music. Members of the Amidon family have become magnets for musicians who have been attracted to the area to study with...
Virtually everyone knows about Samson and Delilah. In the story, perhaps best exemplified in the 1949 Hollywood film of the same name with Victor Mature and Hedy Lamarr that was revived at the Latchis last month, an Israelite strongman meets the seductress Delilah who cuts off his hair so that he loses his strength and becomes the captive of the Philistines who blind him. Nevertheless, he musters enough strength in the end to knock down the temple, killing all the...
