On December 2, 2005, Friends of the Arts’ Art Encounters Education Program held a bus-in at the Silver Center for the Arts for subscribing schools to Plymouth State University Dance Faculty’s Dance Extravaganza! This wonderful dance performance combines the Plymouth State University’s Contemporary Dance Ensemble with local young dancers. Through its music, sensational lighting design and seasonal theme, “Dance Extravaganza” makes dance accessible to area students!
The Plymouth State University Dance Faculty choreograph dances inspired by music, art, film and the season which is then performed by the PSU Contemporary Dance Ensemble.
Patricia Biaginni has performed on both stage and video for Stevie Wonder Productions at Radio City Music Hall. She received her dance training in both Boston and New York, specializing in tap and musical theatre and many styles of jazz. Lois Hanks is a ballet instructor on the Masters level. Lois has studied with Boston Ballet and has performed with Topeka Ballet Company and Ballet Mid-West to name a few. Priscilla Wagner has danced professionally throughout the Midwest with modern and jazz dance companies most notably Dance Theatre II and Jazz Dance Theatre. She has served a sartistic director of City Ballet Theatre (WI) and Jazz Dance Theatre (MI). Ms. Wagner holds a BA in Dance from the University of Akron. Joan Wiegers, Director of Dance at Plymouth State University earned her MFA from SUNY College at Brockport, NY in choreography and Performance. She originally studied at the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance, NY and has performed with Charles Weidman Dance Theatre, NY, Concert Dance Company, Boston and Hayles and Company Dance, Concord, NH. Joan is the Artistic Director of the Contemporary Dance Ensemble and the Director of the Summer Dance Intensive. Participating schools for the holiday performance include The Children’s House in Littleton, PSU Child & Family Center, Lakeland School, Proctor Academy Dance students and Bodhi Tree Montessori School. For more information on this or any other Friends of the Arts program call our office at 603/536-1182