เกี่ยวกับคณะ&nbsp;Dana Lawton (ดาน่า ลอเทิร์น)คณะ&nbsp;Dana Lawton&nbsp;ก่อตั้งตั้งแต่ปี 2008 โดย ผู้กำกับท่าเต้น ดาน่า ลอเทิร์น จากเมืองซานฟรานซิสโกโดยมีจุดมุ่งหมาย ที่ ใช้การเต้นมาเป็นการเชื่อมความแตกต่างของ วัฒนธรรมและผู้คน&nbsp;คณะ&nbsp;Dana Lawton&nbsp;สร้างสรรค์ผลงานและเปิดโอกาสให้การเต้น&nbsp;/ศิลปะการแสดงสำหรับบุคคลทั่วไป เพื่อผู้ชมและผู้แสดงจะได้ใช้ประสบการณ์ทางด้านการชมหรือเต้น และความคิดสร้างสรรค์ เพื่อให้รู้จักตนเองมากขึ้น ขณะนี้ มีนักเต้นประจำ 10 คนอายุตั้งแต่ 21 ถึง 63&nbsp;คณะนี้มีความมุ่งมั่นที่ เผยแพร่ การศึกษาทางด้านการเต้น ไปยังนักเรียนและบุคคลทั่วไปขัอมูลเพิ่มเติม <a href="http://www.danalawtondances.org/" target="_blank">www.danalawtondances.org</a> About Dana Lawton DancesDana Lawton Dances (DLD) was founded in 2008 by Bay Area choreographer Dana Lawton in order to make dance that celebrates social diversity and challenge ageism through meaningful collaborations with other artists. DLD is committed to providing access to the art of dance to all members of the general public, creating a wide range of accessible works that resonate with people&rsquo;s personal experiences, touch their hearts, and inspire them to tap into their own creative spirit at any age or phase of life. The company is currently made up of ten dancers ranging in age from 21-63.Dana Lawton Dances is committed to dance education and providing access to the art of dance to the general public and students. In addition to ticketed performances open to the general public, DLD frequently offers open rehearsals and participates in salons - offering a deeper insight into the choreographic process and art form. This not only cultivates deeper audience engagement but sparks dialogue between the artists and the patrons.&nbsp; &nbsp;Meet Dana&nbsp;Dana Lawton is the Artistic Director of Dana Lawton Dances (DLD), founded in 2008, in addition to being a tenured faculty member at Saint Mary&#39;s College in the Performing Arts Department, a faculty member at Shawl-Anderson Dance Center and Co-Director of the Enchanted Ridge Dance Retreat.&nbsp;A founding member of the Bay Area&#39;s acclaimed dance company, Janice Garrett &amp; Dancers, (now Garrett+Moulton), Dana has had the honor of performing works by Joe Goode, Randee Paufve, Nina Haft, and Cathy Davalos. Lawton was awarded Outstanding Performer in the 2000 Vision Series, for her own solo choreographic performance, and nominated for an Isadora Duncan Award (Izzy) for her performance in Garrett&rsquo;s Wayfarers in 2002.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.danalawtondances.org/" target="_blank">www.danalawtondances.org</a><hr>Lighthouse as Muse and Metaphor in&nbsp;The Farallonites&nbsp;from Dana Lawton Dances Comes to Bangkok (Finally!) <img src="https://s3-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/tm-img-description/d972e921462e11ed911101117567899b.jpg" style="width: 498px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib">&nbsp;The Farallonites&nbsp;from Dana Lawton Dances: Dancer Lia St. Pierre; photo by Piro Patton Originally scheduled for March of 2020, then November of the same year because of the pandemic, the evening length multi-disciplinary performance seeks to illuminate the lives of lighthouse keepers and their families who lived in isolation on The Farallons, 26 miles off the coast of San Francisco in the mid-to-late 1800s as they went about their daily lives collecting water, climbing the steep hill (often while carrying heavy whale oil) surrounded only by water, waves, rain, wind, and birds as they sought purpose and worked to keep the lamp lit. With the themes of the work much more topical now in 2022, the performance will feature ambient sounds, an original score containing music reconstructed from popular late 1850&#39;s sheet music and an on-site gallery exhibit of both historic and interpretive artifacts, including photographs, poetry, news clippings, visual art and other ephemera. &nbsp; &nbsp; This multi-disciplinary enterprise was originally inspired by a poem from Jennifer Kulbeck about children being teathered to boulders as they played hide and seek in the dense fog in order to not accidentally fall into the ocean. It will feature original musical scores, ambient sounds, spoken word, and other stagecraft to palpably transport the audience to a place and time much different from our own. A major part of the piece is about the dancers exploring the harsh physical conditions, repetitive labor, and isolation the families who lived on the Farallons and took care of the Lighthouse, endured. &ldquo;Tasks such as collecting water and the arduous journey on a daily basis to climb the steep hill in order to get to the lighthouse will define the dance,&rdquo; says Lawton. &ldquo;Not to mention the labor involved with carrying heavy whale oil to keep the lamp itself lit, all while dealing with the elements, the water, the waves, birds and stars. Also the toll taken on their emotions by the isolation, the duty, and the boredom will come into play.&rdquo; <img src="https://s3-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/tm-img-description/e6366d82462e11ed911101117567899b.jpg" style="width: 503px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib">&nbsp;The Farallonites&nbsp;from Dana Lawton Dances: From front to back: Jennifer Smith, Leah Curran, Michael Armstrong, Lia St. Pierre, Robin Nasatir, Jon Lawton, Garth Grimball. Photo by Piro Patton Lawton describes herself as &ldquo;obsessed&rdquo; with the Farallons and the lives that those who chose to live there led &ndash; and who in a way have become a muse.&nbsp;&ldquo;What drew them to such inhospitable place as the Farallons? I think it was about practicality,&rdquo; she says. &ldquo;It was a job and a chance to have stability when the Bay Area was going crazy with the gold rush. And perhaps some thought of it as a higher duty to serve others as a way of meeting a need, but in Victorian times things were not very romanticized so there&rsquo;s a good chance that it may well have been a &lsquo;just what people do&rsquo; situation, all of which I find to be very compelling tells about tenacity, resilience and human nature.&rdquo; After the delay of two years, the piece feels more personal to Lawton and the dancers than ever. When asked if the pandemic that has made conceptions of isolation very much more real to everyone had changed her ideas about life on the Farallons, she responded: &quot;No, it has confirmed them. Especially of the importance of ritual in everyday tasks, the fragility of life and the utter importance of tenacity.&quot; The length of the postponement was much longer than Lawton and her crew anticipated. &quot;Some might use the word &#39;interminable,&rdquo; says Lawton. &quot;But we&nbsp;loved dancing outside, especially at the beach, recreating water and waves, two distinct sections originally choreographed in the studio. Working with the element of water informed the movement in new ways, as did dancing in strong winds and the rain.&quot; Ultimately The Farallonites&nbsp;is about the lighthouse and living in close quarters cut off from the rest of world on an otherworldly landscape surrounded by fog, water, diving birds and sharks. Collaborators include set designer Jon Altemus whose research about the island has been key and poet Jennifer Kulbeck whose extensive research resulted in her poems becoming a primary creative source for the production. Production Credits: Choreography:&nbsp;Dana Lawton Poetry:&nbsp;Jennifer Kulbeck Lighting Design:&nbsp;Walter Holden Composers:&nbsp;Thomas Edler and Jon Lawton Visual Artist &amp; Exhibit Designer:&nbsp;Jon Altemus&nbsp; Dancers:&nbsp;&nbsp;Olutola Afolayan, Michael Armstrong, Leah Curran, Garth Grimball, Colin McDowell, Robin Nasatir, Vera Schwegler, Jennifer Smith, &nbsp;Katie Lawson-Gill, Leah Hendrix-Smith &nbsp;Eduardo Garcia and John McConville Music featured in The Farallonites&nbsp;is taken from the Library of Congress and will feature the most popular sheet music from the late 1850&#39;s (nothing was recorded at that time), which is being recomposed for the dance. Inspiration for the costumes comes from newspaper photographs of the era.