By Randi Bjornstad
A-Squared Productions brings its latest creation to the Ed Ragozzino Performance Hall at Lane Community College for three performances on Sept. 30 and Oct. 1 and 2.
Birds Flying Through features nine original poems by Eugene poet Deborah Narin-Wells, set to a score by five local composers, and performed by three vocalists, four musicians, and seven dancers.
The theme of the whole examines the meaning of being a woman by in terms of the roles of females as daughters, wives, and mothers.
Here’s the entire creative cast:
Poet: Deborah Narin-Wells
Composers: Kathryn Brunhaver, Paul Safar, Colin Pip Dixon, David Sprung, Anice Thigpen
Vocalists: Gretchen Farrar (soprano), Siri Vik (soprano), Paige Carpenter (mezzo-soprano)
Instrumentalists: Nathalie Fortin (piano), Kathryn Brunhaver (cello), Annalisa Morton (oboe and English horn), Arnaud Ghillebaert (viola)
Dancers: Lynn Burg, Karen Sanchez, Sara Stockwell, Pamela Lehan-Siegel, Olivia Ross, Madeleine Sisson, Elana Sutton
Director: Brian Haimbach
Conductor: Brian McWhorter
Choreographer: Bonnie Simoa
Birds Flying Through
When: 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 30 and Saturday, Oct. 1, and 2 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 2
Where: Ragozzino Performance Hall, Lane Community College, 4000 E. 30th Ave., Eugene
Tickets: Sliding scale, $5 to $30 (free for children, LCC students, and performers’ guests), available online at https://www.tickettailor.com/events/asquaredproductions/736481#
