Photos from 2018 Spring Concert

The 2018 Annual Spring Concert and 25th Anniversary Celebration, held March 2018 at Nahant Town Hall, featured new and old works: Trees (2018), Fragile (2002 & 2011), Images (2017), Accord (1992), Serve It Up (1991) and excerpts from Creatures (2016). Photos: Igor Burlak

Trees (2018)

Fragile (2002 & 2011)

Images (2017)

Accord (1992)

Excerpts from Creatures (2016)

Serve It Up (1991)

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Free Performance at Flax Pond, Lynn

Community Performance
at Flax Pond Park

Saturday, July 28, 2018
at 5 p.m.
(Rain date July 29 at 5 p.m.)

FREE performance by
Nahant’s modern dance company

at Flax Pond, Chestnut Street, Lynn, MA
Directions

Check our Facebook page for weather updates

This performance will include free form dance through the park using its many natural landscape features. There will be site-specific choreography as well as excerpts from repertory and a preview of new works to come. There is also an interactive segment planned where dancers will invite the audience to join in!

More info at facebook.com/FortyStepsDance

This performance is supported in part by a grant from the Lynn Cultural Council,
a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency,
and in part by the Nahant Preservation Trust.

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Creatures Workshop

“Plains” section of “Creatures” suite, March 2014 at Nahant Town Hall. Photo: Miguel Vargas

Sunday, May 6, 2018
12:30 pm – 2:30 pm
at Nahant Community Center
41 Valley Road, Nahant, MA 01908

In a one-of-a-kind experience, this unique workshop encourages participants to interpret and identify their own artistic portrayal of animals, and blend it with choreographed dance excerpts as well as improvised movement.  Learn from choreographer Sallee Slagle and the dancers of Forty Steps Dance while exploring the movement of “Creatures.” All workshop students will be involved in a closing event when we present the fully edited video of Sallee Slagle’s choreographic master work “Creatures” which was filmed at LynnArts theater. This unique workshop is for adults and children ages 8+.

ArtWeekAdmission (tickets available below)

Children (age 8-17): $15
Adults (age 18+): $20
Family (up to 4 participants; includes parents and their children): $30

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This workshop is a part of ArtWeek, presented by Highland Street Foundation and produced by the Boch Center.

25 Years of Photos

A sample of photos from the past 25 years of Forty Steps Dance:

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Forty Steps Dance inspired and delighted an audience of 75 plus with “Creatures in the Lilac Garden” on June 7th. Seven dancers brought animal magnetism to the fragrant Lilac Garden, performing sections of a new work, “Creatures”, that is “all the buzz.” The performance was funded by the Swampscott Cultural Council, and amazed young and old as the “creatures” ventured beyond the stage and into the audience bringing the interactive performance to life. Sallee Slagle, choreographer, has brilliantly portrayed the movements of creatures through the movements of the human body.

Forty Steps Dance will be performing “Creatures” in full on the evenings of July 18, 19 and 20, 2014 at Windhover Summer Dance Institute in Rockport, Mass.

Originally appeared on the Swampscott Reporter’s website at http://swampscott.wickedlocal.com/article/20140617/NEWS/140616438

Photos from 2014 Annual Spring Concert

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Forty Steps Dance performed at their Annual Spring Concert, March 29, 2014. The works featured include “Accord,” “The Flood,” “Creatures,” and a solo danced by Director Sallee Slagle from “Two from Tull.”