new PAC, Dance!

Winter Dance Concert ’18, New Digs!

a new Performing Arts Building:

comfortable seating, for all!

enough “bells and whistles” in the tech

to daunt us with what lights, sounds, curtains, can do,

yet at the heart of the Winter Dance Concert

lives a simple reality, a truth which lives through individuals,

each of whom conceives a vision 

and choreographs it into existence,

with the care, direction, help of staff,

staff more wedded to the creative process of the students’ power

than to any willful need to see themselves

in the mirror of the production,

truth then also lives in the other,

the other students whose bodies and ideas add their realities,

and the collective of how to incorporate each dance

into a whole that engages and transforms the audience,

how wonderful it is now to have a space

large enough to allow an audience to grow

so that more and more are called to witness what vision unleashes,

how wonderful it is now to have the tools

to help transform possibility into reality

with more ease than ever before,

yet the new building and the new tools are but servants,

what we celebrate are the students 

whose vision and bodies pull off transcendence.

by Henry H. Walker

December 12, ‘18