Dance to benefit Edmonds center
Published 9:00 pm Thursday, June 16, 2005
“Out of the Dust,” a new dance work, will be performed at 7:30 tonight and 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Edmonds Center for the Arts, 410 Fourth Ave. N.
The work is by Daniel Wilkins, associate artistic director of Olympic Ballet Theatre, and will be performed by his own dance company, which he founded in New York before returning to Edmonds.
The company is called danielandsomesuperfriends (or dass) and the new work features music by Joseph Fraioli.
Presented in conjunction with the National Education Association’s Read Across America program, “Out of the Dust” is set in an attic brought to life by the imaginative art of Edmonds artist James Martin. The characters are abstract figures caught in the recesses of a young person’s psyche.
The performance is preview of a dance that Wilkins is planning to premiere this fall in New York. Dancers from Cornish College of the Arts and Spectrum Dance Theatre in Seattle have been added to the mix for these performances.
The performance, part of a weekend of entertainment and arts events during the Edmonds Arts Festival, is a benefit for the Edmonds Center for the Arts. The old public school building is being renovated into a new performing arts center.
The facility has risen from the dust, which inspired the name of the work, Wilkins said.
Tickets. $10 at the door (free 12 and younger); 425-672-7758; www.dassdance.org.
