keepers
of the light

A choreographic collaboration between Nell Shipman, Artistic Director of the Portland Ballet and Annie Kloppenberg, Associate Professor of Dance, takes as its inspiration Maine’s landscape, history, and lighthouses as portals to explore our relationship to the land, water, wayfinding, and navigation in an original contemporary ballet.

The performance features an expanded Portland Ballet Company with dancers from Colby, who have joined the company for the month of January to develop this work and an original score by composer Caitlin Scholl, created and performed in collaboration with Colby student musicians.

The collaboration between Shipman, whose work has been called “refined and engrossing” (Portland Press Herald) and Kloppenberg, “a choreographer of nuances” (Boston Globe), will yield a richly layered work that treats Maine as history and home.

RUN TIME: 60 minutes (no intermission)