Hilton Head Dance Theatre Presents 40th anniversary performance
Hilton Head Dance Theatre will continue its 40th anniversary season with Terpsichore: A Retrospective, a program featuring selections from across the company’s four decades of performances.
The performances are scheduled for Friday, March 27, at 7 p.m. and Sunday, March 29, at 2 p.m. at the Seahawk Cultural Center on the campus of Hilton Head Island High School.
The program will highlight a range of dance styles performed by Hilton Head Dance Theatre company members and guest artists.
The performance opens with “Grande Pas Glazunov,” a wedding divertissement from the ballet Raymonda. The work, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and first presented in Russia in 1898, was staged for the Hilton Head company in 1986 by Karena Brock-Carlyle, based on the version she performed with American Ballet Theatre.
For the anniversary performance, Brock-Carlyle has updated the piece with new variations. Kylah Arnholt will perform the role of Raymonda, with guest artist Will Scott portraying Jean de Brienne.
The retrospective will also feature works restaged by Kathleen Watkins, a former dance captain for the Broadway production Fosse. Additional performances include “Rock Ballet II,” set to music by Prince, and “Ramalama Bang Bang,” set to music by Róisín Murphy, restaged by Hilton Head Dance Theatre ballet master Jamal Edwards.
John Carlyle will revive a pas de deux from Sunny Side of the Street, set to the song “Fairytale of New York” by the Pogues and performed by Emily Ott and guest artist Bobby McClure.
The program concludes with Brock-Carlyle’s “Gotcha Gottschalk,” first performed by the company in 1986. The piece features the full company and includes a pas de deux originally choreographed for Brock-Carlyle and her future husband, John Carlyle. The roles will be performed by Sarah Tiller and Jamal Edwards.
Tickets are $25 for adults, $20 for seniors 60 and older, and $10 for students age 18 and under. More information and tickets are available at hiltonheaddance.com.
