MIFA Victory Theatre

Presents

2014 Spring Season: "A Time of Spring"

Wine and "Wayfarer" at Wistariahurst

A festive evening celebrating MIFA Victory Theatre and Wistariahurst upcoming spring events. Featuring Wayfarer by Wendy Woodson and Into the Shade/Work and Culture by Deborah Baronas.

Tuesday, April 22, 2014, 5 - 7pm, Wistariahurst Museum, Holyoke, MA

Shot on location at Wistariahurst, Wayfarer is a film by Wendy Woodson, Artist Director and Professor of Theater and Dance at Amherst College, with Israeli chore

ographer Idan Cohen and dancer Noa Shiloh. The dance performance features 'Songs of a Wayfarer' by Gustav Mahler. Woodson will be present for a Q & A following the short film and Don Sanders, MIFA Executive Artistic Director, will talk about modern dance, setting the stage for MIFA's two upcoming major spring dance offerings. Into the Shade/Work and Culture is an installationbyDeborah Baronas whose hand stenciled transparent scrims, paintings, artifacts, and video allow us to enter the energy and spirit, the patterns, shadows, rhythms and movements of 19^th century workers in fields, factories, and domestic surroundings.

FREE for MIFA Victory Theatre donors, supporters and friends, and open to the public (donations welcome). Cash bar. Special Wistaria mocktail and light refreshments. R.S.V.P. 1.800.224.6432

TOUR*

Solo performance by David Wampach

A return engagement by the dazzling and provocative French choreographer and performer David Wampach who galvanized MIFA audiences last season with his SACRE. In TOUR Wampach places vocal work and breath center stage using wheezing, laughter and other organic sounds to create an uneasy sound portrait of a Dionysian being boiling in an archaic flow unable to communicate through speech.

Tickets: 1.800.224.6432

French Dance package available for TOUR & du Printemps $22.00

Choreographed and directed by Thierry Thie� Niang

A co-presentation of MIFA Victory Theatre and Vermont Performance Lab

Wednesday May 27, 2014 at 7pm, Serkin Center, Marlboro 

College, VT.

Friday May 30, 2014, at 7pm, The Hub@ Gateway City Arts, Holyoke, MA.

MIFA Victory Theatre and Brattleboro's Vermont Performance Lab team up to bring French choreographer Thierry Thie� Niang to New England for a three-week workshop and residency. A groundbreaking French choreographer, Niang will select 24 local participants ages 60-90 (12 from the Holyoke area and 12 from Vermont) to work together to stage a powerful re-imagining of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. Culminating performances in Holyoke, MA and Marlboro, VT.

Tickets: By reservation and contribution only. 

Suggested contribution $10.00, 1.800.224.6432

French Dance package available for TOUR & du Printemps $22.00

Performances of du Printemps made possible with funding support from the National Endowment for the Arts, FUSED: French-US Exchange in Dance, a program of the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States in partnership with FACE French American Cultural Exchange and Institut Fran�ais.