Shepherdstown, WV -- The Board of Directors of the Goose Route Arts Collaborative invites all Goose Route Dance Festival opening night ticket holders to an opening night, pre-performance toast, beginning at 6:15 pm on Friday, July 11. The reception takes place on the ground floor of the War Memorial Building, home of the two week contemporary dance festival. Tickets for the reception and 7:00 pm performance are $12 in advance ($10 for seniors/students) and $15 at the door ($12 for seniors/students).

“We’re very proud of the eight-year run of the Goose Route Dance Festival,” Executive Director Kitty Clark says. “The Festival is a much-anticipated cultural event in Shepherdstown, and we are thrilled to toast our ongoing success and toast the community that has given us so much support.” With art gallery and theater openings happening the same weekend, Clark adds, “The Goose Route opening night toast is the beginning of several celebrations marking artistic happenings in Shepherdstown.”

Performers on Opening Night include Megan Mazarick (Philadelphia) whose Roadkill features four male dancers as truck drivers in a humorously dark portrayal of men struggling to find their identity; Guta Hedewig (NYC) performing Dog Days, a piece using slapstick and burlesque to point out the hilarity in Bush's rhetorical missteps, while illuminating some of the disturbing implications entailed by his use of propaganda; and Heather Ahern (Morgantown), whose company performs the dynamic and jazzy There’s A Groove in My Jam” and Bad, a tongue-in-cheek dance/monologue with text from Mother Goose and a book of manners from 1905.

For more information and to buy tickets, call (304) 876-6751, or visit us at gooseroute.org. Print Add a Comment Back to All Articles