Keepers of the Light

Friday, January 31st at 7:00pm
Westbrook Performing Arts Center

Friday, February 7 at 5:30pm
Saturday, February 8th at 5:30pm
Gordon Center for Creative and Performing Arts, Colby College

A choreographic collaboration between Artistic Director, Nell Shipman, and Annie Kloppenberg, Associate Professor of Dance at Colby College, takes as its inspiration Maine’s landscape, history, and lighthouses as portals to explore our relationship to the land, water, wayfinding, and navigation in an original contemporary ballet.

The performance features an expanded Portland Ballet Company with dancers from Colby, who have joined the company for the month of January to develop this work and an original score by composer Caitlin Scholl, created and performed in collaboration with Colby student musicians.

The collaboration between Shipman, whose work has been called “refined and engrossing” (Portland Press Herald) and Kloppenberg, “a choreographer of nuances” (Boston Globe), will yield a richly layered work that treats Maine as history and home.


Information: https://www.portlandballet.org/keepers