Starr Foster Dance Project Presents Page to Stage

STARR FOSTER DANCE PROJECT is a critically acclaimed modern dance company which calls Richmond, Virginia its home and tours nationally throughout the year. Artistic Director Starrene Foster has received numerous awards for her teaching and choreography and feels strongly about creating work that embraces the human spirit. As a performing company, their mission is to provide a positive experience for the audience by creating and presenting emotionally intoxicating and physically charged works with themes based on human nature.

Page to Stage Dance Series, produced by Starr Foster Dance Project, is a cross discipline project combining the art of writing and dance. In the Spring of 2015, we launched a call for submissions of sudden and flash fiction stories to be considered for this exciting project. We received an incredible response from writers across the country and have selected eight stories to be created into, and inspire, new dance works choreographed by Starrene Foster. The stories are a vast range from adventurous to fearful, sinister to sincere; creating a prolific and diverse program. The stories selected will be printed in the event program booklet, as well as on the Starr Foster Dance Project website, to allow the audience to read the stories before or after the performances.

THE SELECTED WRITERS AND THEIR STORIES:

 Mary Lou Hall: “River”

 Starlet Knight: “Snow Angel”

 Jed Brody: “Tilling the Arctic Soil”

 Joanna Wolford: “Borrowed Time”

Cheryl Pallant: “On Second Thought”

Danny Diaz: “Make Believe”

Dean Knight: “The Thing with the Strapped Face”

Katie Branca: “Cut Yourself Free”

SHOW RUN: Approximately 1hr 45 mins

Appropriate for ages 12+