Crows flying high to their favourite works
Crows Feet Dance Collective are revisiting some of their favourite works from the past 22 years with a performance at Coastlands Theatre next weekend.
It has been described as an afternoon of joyous and uplifting dance and a chance to turn back the clock.
Director Jan Bolwell said ‘‘we have created an amazing number of dances over the years, and it is such fun to perform a few of these again. Some of the works are a bit of a challenge — we were younger then’’.
“However everyone has risen to the task, and the Crows are dancing wonderfully.”
Ka¯ piti Crows Feet dancers perform Woman’s Work to Ravel’s famous composition, Bolero, rollicking with vacuum cleaners, brushes, pans and scrubbing brushes.
Then out comes prams, babies, a politician, a sportswoman — even a governor general. It is all a bit crazy and manic, and reaches a wonderful chaotic climax to end Ravel’s fabulous music.
Wellington Crows will perform Requiem to the uplifting music of the same name, by Welsh composer Karl Jenkins.
For Bolwell, the work has a deeper meaning.
“I created this work in memory of my younger sister who died of cancer. It was first performed in 2007, and the Crows have always loved dancing the piece. We are all getting such a pleasure in revisiting Requiem fifteen years later,” she said.
The Hutt Crows and Palmerston North Crows also present works from previous seasons, Witchy Woman to music by The Eagles, and Wading into the Manawatu, which challenges our degradation of the environment.
At the beginning of the programme there is a special guest appearance by Bolwell and Marion Sherley’s dance exercise classes, as they dance up a storm to It’s Raining Men.