MARCH 2015 | BOROMAG.COM | 53 BORO: In three words, how would you describe the choreography of Charlotte Griffin? PK: Bright, earthy, and peaceful BORO: Katarzyna Skarpetowska? PK: Powerful, edgey and musical BORO: Miguel Quinones? PK: Liquid, quick, and brilliant BORO: With the onset of You Tube, and even So You Think You Can Dance and Dancing with the Stars, dance has become more widely enjoyed in the public eye. Do you find audiences to be more educated or enthusiastic than they once were? PK: I do believe that some shows have been more enlightening and helpful in cultivating dance audiences than others. The concept of dance as a fine art that must be viewed in a theater, has certainly become endangered when the general public can consume reality show competitions to fill their dance viewing quotas. I guess it can be difficult to get people to see live performances of any sort in a culture that is learning to turn to the “tube” for entertainment. With everything at our fingertips and usually free, it takes more effort in my opinion than it used to, to bring friends, family and even dance enthusiasts to come to a show. Having said all that, I do believe that live dance will always hold a magical place in theater that cannot be experienced in any other medium. It is the reason I have been dancing my whole life, for that beautiful exchange between dancer and audience member and the privilege to tell a story through movement. BORO: As a dancer, who are some of your greatest influences? PK: Many of my early teachers and mentors from childhood, of course, and coming from a family with Aunts and Uncles who were all singers and self taught musicians. My paternal grandfather was a singer and tap dancer during prohibition, and often performed in the local speakeasies. He taught me the time step when I was around five years old. My dance style and choreography is greatly influenced by my lifetime involvement in sports. I have always been a runner, and I was recruited to college for women’s lacrosse—and had to choose between dance and lacrosse in my college years. Lastly, my love of music, its emotionality and passion, of course, but even more—the way a dance phrase can manipulate the music is everything to my soul. BORO: For such a physically and mentally demanding skill, where does your mind go to tap into the grace and elegance required? PK: Dance is the union of all those concepts. The grace is in the fusion of physicality, musicality, and story and the artistry that develops over the years through experience in life and experience on the stage. BORO: What will the audience of Kismet be most surprised to see? PK: The use of a wide variety of eastern and western composers and the employment of a hip hop, ballet and modern vocabulary to tell the story of fate. { Patricia Kenny Dance Co llection Queens Theatre March 28, 2015 Saturday @2pm & 8pm Single Tickets: $30 Member Price: $27 Rear Seating: $25 4-Pack Special: 4 tickets for $99 (use code FAM4 at checkout) https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/942717 Photos by Michael Shi
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