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Arts Alive! podcast: The architects of Beacon Dance
For the past 10 years, the Palladium Theater’s Beacon Dance concert has been a guiding light for appreciators and aficionados of dance, and the amazing, poetic things of which the human body is capable.
There isn’t a lot of professional-caliber dance in the Tampa Bay area, and that’s another reason Beacon – which trips the Palladium light fantastic for the 11th consecutive year tonight – is always a highlight of the spring season.
Beacon founders Helen French and Lauren Slone, dancers and choreographers both, guest on today’s Arts Alive! podcast. They’re joined by Palladium executive director Paul Wilborn, whose support has been crucial since Beacon took its first tentative steps in 2015.
Tonight’s 8 p.m. roster includes works by (among others) Madison Pineda Bender, Heidi Brewer, Justin Brock, Frank Chaves, Peter Chu, Jhon Destrade Delgado, Nicholas Garlo, Alexander Jones + projectALCHEMY, Sarah Walston Philips + ATLAS Modern Ballet … and Helen French. And Lauren Slone.
“The power of the moving body … it’s so powerful,” French enthuses. “When you watch another human move through space and communicate something – whether it’s joy or grief or excitement or confusion – we get it. Even if we don’t know we’re getting it. And I think that’s what contemporary dance, or dance in general, can do for you.”
Beacon Dance tickets are available at this link.
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