DANCING AT THE CROSSROADS
The original VMC stage production Dancing at the Crossroads: A Celebration of African American and Anglo-Celtic Dance in the New World (premiered 2012-13) is an impressionistic, evocative, engaging theatrical spectacle of live music and dance, celebrating the meetings and transformations between European and African cultures which are the deep roots of American popular music. Integrating music, solo and group dance, narration, solo song, projections, sets, and costume, the performances drew upon a corps of energized and charismatic young students and special guest artists to tell the stories, both real and imagined, magical and mythical, dusk-to-dawn, that lie at the heart of the American expressive imagination.
