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Cutting like a lightning strike through the blank wilderness of the summer dance scene is Joel Myers. The Tacoma dancer--whose career is on the up and up thanks to Seattle gigs with Spectrum Dance Company and choreographer Zoe Scofield--will be creating the Joel Show III for MLKBallet's Move! contemporary dance series this Saturday.
MLKBallet is a tuition-free ballet school in Tacoma's Hilltop area, bringing lessons, shoes and performances to kids who otherwise couldn't afford it. To pay for full-time teacher Kate Monthy, plus their classroom space at Urban Grace church and their soon-to-be-renovated space on S. J St., MLK invites Tacoma and Seattle professionals and MLK students to perform in the Move! concerts.
This Saturday's concerts, at 2 p.m. and 6 p.m., are in Stadium High School auditorium, for the first time--seems like Move! is cranking up several notches in terms of stage size, lighting, audience size and so on.
But the big drawcard is Myers. He's been in several previous Move!s, either grooving around to James Brown or interpreting an emotional number in shadowy lighting. You may have seen him bathed in sweat, pounding out the grass at last month's Urban Arts Festival, or in Donald Byrd's superb choreography for Seattle Opera's "Aida" (in which Myers is currently performing.)
Here's what Seattle Times reviewer Michael Upchurch had to say about Myers' performance in Spectrum's "The Theater of Needless Talents" last February:
"An astoundingly supple mover (his rolls and somersaults are things of liquid languor)... Whenever he's in action, your eyes don't want to leave him."
Tickets are $14 at the door, $10 in advance. Shows are 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. Aug. 16 at Stadium High School theater, 111 N. E St, Tacoma. Information/tickets: Joel Myers 253-273-4019, Lisa Fruichantie 253-921-2858, www.brownpapertickets.com or www.mlkballet.org
