Dancers, Musicians, and Silk Transform Schuster Performing Arts Center on July 22nd
By: Lauren Wolman
Blue Sky Project and Victoria Theatre Association present a live performance collaboration in the Wintergarden of the Benjamin and Marian Schuster Performing Arts Center, Thursday, July 22, 2010.
On July 22, the three-story-tall glass Wintergarden of the Schuster Center will be transformed by a live performance installation, Of a River, featuring dancers, musicians and flowing silk. Of a River, a site-specific performance collaboration between Victoria Theatre Association and Blue Sky Project, features artists, musician Shaw Pong Liu and choreographer Rodney Veal. Two performances will occur on Thursday, July 22 at 7 and 9 p.m. Admission is free to the public.The thirty-minute performance will take audiences on a journey exploring time, space, and the precious resource, water, in the magnificent multi-tiered world of glass and marble that is the Schuster Center's Wintergarden.Shaw Pong Liu, current program director for Blue Sky Project, is a Boston-based, classically-trained violinist who performs internationally and creates innovative shows weaving improvised music with storytelling. Dayton native Rodney Veal is a choreographer and interdisciplinary artist whose work has been featured at the Ohio Dance Festival and has received numerous MCAD grants. Veal is on faculty at Stivers High School and Sinclair College, and serves as Board Chair of Blue Sky Project.Both Liu and Veal are past Artists-in-Residence at Blue Sky Project, an international summer artists' residency that brings together five professional contemporary artists with 40 Dayton-area 14 - 18 year-olds for eight weeks of intensive collaboration.
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