By MARTY CLEAR and JOHN FLEMING
Published January 20, 2005
Moving Current, the 8-year-old Tampa-based dance collective, has always enjoyed a reputation for presenting a variety of contemporary dance. But this weekend's performance, which includes a classically flavored piece, a film and works by two choreographers who have never before worked with Moving Current, promises even greater diversity than usual.
Besides new pieces by Moving Current co-founders Erin Cardinal and Cynthia Hennessy, and works by University of South Florida dance professors Michael Foley and Lynne Wimmer, the concert features guest choreographers Sara Sweet Rabidoux and Paula Kramer.
Rabidoux came to dance relatively late in life, Cardinal said, and uses her background as a fiction writer and an athlete to create unusual narrative pieces. Kramer, the former artistic director of the Detroit Dance Collective, has moved to St. Petersburg but has never worked with Moving Current before.
The concert, part of the "Lucid Echoes" series, is scheduled for 8 p.m. Friday and 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday at USF's Theater I, on the Tampa campus. Tickets are $15 general, $10 for students and seniors and $8 for USF students. Call (813) 974-2323.
- MARTY CLEAR, Times correspondent
Songs woven into a generation's fabric
For people of a certain age, Tapestry: The Music of Carole King will be irresistible. King's 1971 album was a generational landmark for the baby boom, essentially defining the singer-songwriter genre and filling the airwaves with achingly emotional songs such as It's Too Late and So Far Away. Her later albums weren't bad either, with Been to Canaan, Sweet Seasons and many other memorable songs. Now there's a theatrical revue that showcases not only King's solo career but also Brill Building pop hits she co-wrote with her onetime husband Gerry Goffin, including Will You Love Me Tomorrow?, One Fine Day and The Locomotion.
Tapestry opens Friday and runs through Jan. 30 in an American Stage production directed by Ami Sallee Corley. The cast includes Julie Rowe, with guitar; Angela Bond, seated; standing from left, Sharon Scott, Kristin Huffman and Gayle King.
Performances are at the Palladium Theater, 253 Fifth Ave. N, St. Petersburg. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday; 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 3 p.m. Sunday. $22-$32. 727 823-7529; www.americanstage.org
