When the members of the Women’s Choreographer’s Showcase, a group of professional dancers over 40, present their fourth annual project, there will be several West Windsor and Plainsboro artists working with them. The event is at Rider University’s Yvonne Theater on Saturday and Sunday, March 10 and 11.##M:[more]##
Linda Mannheim and Marie Alonzo Snyder, both of West Windsor, are two of the founders of dance cooperative, comprising women professional dancers ages 40 and older who want to celebrate the rich life experiences acquired so far, and who want to continue their commitment to dancing.
Alonzo Snyder’s piece is titled “Fireflies.” “It is an exploration of the activities and mating behaviors of fireflies which somehow are quite similar to human relationships between men and women,” she says. “The dance becomes a metaphor for the various emotional twists, highs and lows of the complexity of human attraction, promiscuity, betrayal, and loss.”
Born in the Philippines, Alonzo Snyder was raised in Rome, Italy, attended schools in England and California, then settled in New York City attending New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, and Columbia University’s Teachers College. She is on the faculty of Princeton Day School and Princeton Dance and Theater Studio.
Alonzo’s husband, a computer scientist, works in New York for Blackrock. Their oldest son is a freshman at High School South and the younger one is a fifth grader at Village School.
The two-day, exclusive engagement of innovative and risk-taking choreography includes West Windsor performers Paul Cerna, Mannheim, Preeti Patel, and Alonzo Snyder. Plainsboro dancers include Henri Velandia and Nancy Musco. Music was composed by Gerri Hemingway of Plainsboro.
The March 11 performance will be followed by an open discussion with the artists, giving a chance for the audience to ask questions about the works and/or the choreographic process.
I’ll Have What She’s Having, YWCA Princeton, Yvonne Theater, Rider University, 609-497-2100. Members of the Women’s Choreographer’s Showcase, a group of professional dancers over 40, present their work. $20. Saturday March 10, 8 p.m.; and Sunday, March 11, 2 p.m.
