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Worlds collide: Dance, live painting to merge on stage at Endicott
The arts will collide — in a good way — at Endicott College next week.
Cynthia Roberts, an artist and professor at the school, will team with dance instructor Nicole Sao Pedro and 11 women from Endicott's Repertory Dance Ensemble to produce "Life Horizon," a unique performance incorporating live painting, digital projections, dance, music and colorful lighting.
"This collaboration effort brings audiences together," Sao Pedro said, noting the ensemble collaborated with the Beverly college's band last year and plans to work with its chorus next semester. "It opens dancers' minds to paint and vice versa."
Sao Pedro teaches the one-credit Repertory Dance Ensemble course. She said her students' final grade will depend on their performances.
Two free, public performances of "Life Horizon" are scheduled for Tia's Theater, in the Center for the Arts, on Thursday, Dec. 10, and Friday, Dec. 11, at 8 p.m.
The synergy between Roberts and Sao Pedro extends beyond movement and visual art forms; it also includes the evening's soundtrack: Together, they created a mix of "ambient and electronica" sounds from artists such as Imogen Heap, Mediums, Mr. John Soda and other new-generation artists, according to the college.
For "Life Horizon," Sao Pedro said she choreographed a series of modern and contemporary movements taken from Roberts' work. Sao Pedro has visited Roberts in-studio, to watch her paint, and Roberts has sat in on the ensemble's rehearsals.
"It's the first time I've worked with dancers," Roberts said. "We're really responding to the same ideas of telling a life story but in two different mediums."
The idea behind "Life Horizons" is to "create a series of paintings and dance pieces, which work together to bring some aspect of the horizon of life to mind," Sao Pedro said. "Whether we are thinking of birth, the life journey itself or simply the form of a painting itself, the pieces aim to evoke thoughts of these and more in the audience."
If you go
What: "Life Horizon," dance and live paint collaboration
Where: Tia's Theater, Center for the Arts, Endicott College, 376 Hale St., Beverly
When: Dec. 10 and 11 at 8 p.m.
How much: Free, reservations recommended
More information: 978-998-7700
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