Nancy Menapace
Nancy Menapace was a dance student at the George Washington University and graudated from GWU with a BA in Dance with a minor in Religion. She worked with Skip Costa’s Core Movement Concert and with Katie Duck, Guest Artist. Nancy is interested in improvisation, contact improvisation, and performance.
Nancy was invited to perform in three projects with the Dance Construction Company:
The Stone Ring was an unusual program in GW’s Studio J Theater featuring Maida and international “extreme vocalist” Marilia (Japan/Brazil/America), and pianist, Stephen Lockwood (California, USA). The artists were at GW preparing for a tour by the artists to perform Stone Circle in Tokyo, Japan.
Nancy’s work at GW included the following:
Utah * Spirit Place * Spirit Planet * Tukuhnikivatz is constructed in such a way as to include dancers in supporting roles as spirit figures: wisdom/stiltwalkers (two dancers), painted women/water (three dancers), noble warrior (one male dancer), innocence/goon (one female dancer), and petroglyph/holy ghost (one dancer), etc. Figures originating from images on the Great Gallery Wall in Utah.
Damned River, a work created on students by Maida on her return from Japan where the environment conference celebrated the one river in Japan that was not dammed, at that time. This inspired Wither Damned River project.
This Space Occupied, DC 4th International Improvisation Plus+ Festival, Corcoran Gallery of Art evening length event with national and international dance improvisation artists.