Dance Currents to Present SPRING CELESTIALS, a Program of Dance and Music

Spring Celestials, featuring Dance Currents with Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra at First Church Cambridge and Newton City Hall

(Presented by Dance Currents Inc. www.dancecurrentsinc.com, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston Inc. www.proarte.org, and Newton Cultural Council,www.newtoncommunitypride.org).

When: Thursday, March 13, 2014 at 7pm with Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston, and Sunday, March 16, 2014 at 3pm, War Memorial Auditorium at Newton City Hall. Sponsored in part by the Newton Cultural Council.

Where: Thursday, March 13th at 7pm. First Church Cambridge, Margaret Jewett Hall, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 as part of Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston's Salon Series. Sunday, March 16 at 3pm. Newton City Hall, War Memorial Auditorium, 1000 Commonwealth Avenue, Newton, MA 02459 .

Reservations and Information: Please contact www.proarte.org, for March 13, and Newton Cultural Council, www.newtoncommunitypride.org for March 16th. Ticket prices range from $15-30.

Spring Celestials, featuring Dance Currents with Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra playing live both performances.

The program includes three pieces, Ressourcement to Bach's Cello Suite in D minor, Emergence to Archangelo Corelli's Concerto #8 in G minor and Dawn, to Louise Farrenc's Trio for flute, violin, and cello in E minor and Nadia Boulanger's Pieces for Cello and Piano. The inspiration for the choreography by Kathy Hassinger, artistic director of Dance Currents Inc., is from moments of transcendent memory: a sacred space, (Ressourcement) a birth (Emergence), and the moment of creation (Dawn). The program will be performed by the accomplished dancers, Jennifer Burpee, Sarah Josselyn, Li-Ann Lim, Lauren Previte, Kai Sherman and Alison Smith as well as Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston's renowned musicians. Dance Currents has performed this program twice before, once with LaVazza Chamber Orchestra May 13, 2012, and also on December 9th, 2012 with Peter Zay as cellist.

Dance Currents Inc. is thrilled to collaborate with Pro Arte's fine musicians while opening up a new venue for dance in Newton. "Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston is an innovative, musician-run orchestra that brings a creative mix of classical and new music to the concert stage while truly reaching out to the community. Pro Arte is New England's only professional cooperative chamber orchestra. Its players are among the area's finest free-lance musicians, and they perform regularly with the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, the Boston Symphony, the Boston Ballet, Handel and Haydn Society, and the Boston Lyric Opera". (Quoted from the website). "The goal of the Newton Council is to contribute to the cultural vitality of Newton by funding creative, cultural and humanistic projects involving Newton cultural organizations and Newton artists and humanists." (Quoted from the website).

Spring Celestials, a program of Dance and Music, presented by Dance Currents Inc. and Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston, Inc. onThursday, March 13, 2014 at 7pm Margaret Jewett Hall, First Church Cambridge. "Dance Currents at Newton City Hall" with Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, Sunday, March 16, 2014 at 3pm, War Memorial Auditorium. For information and/or reservations contact www.proarte.org (March 13) or www.newtoncommunitypride.org, 617-796-1540 (March 16). Tickets range from $15-30.

photo by Charles Daniels