Tsawwassen’s Madelaine Burnett is happy to be home, so happy in fact, that she’s going back to where it all started.
Burnett, past-principal dancer of the 10-year-old, New York City-based modern dance company, Alison Cook Beatty Dance, will perform in a solo show entitled B.C. to NYC – a Dance Journey on Monday, April 10 at 2 p.m. at the Deas Island Dance Centre (320-4949 Canoe Pass Way). The show will be followed by a masterclass and question and answer session.
Registration is via email: [email protected]. Participation in the masterclass is $15 per dancer and the performance is free of charge.
Burnett was born and raised in Tsawwassen and has since taken her professional dance career to the Big Apple.
She performed as a soloist dancer in Martha Graham’s second company, Graham 2. She was and is engaged to be the feature dancer in House of Spirits, an America-wide Halloween performance production, which has touched more than 50,000 audience members so far. She also performed as a principal dancer with Alison Cook Beatty Dance, whose repertory she will be performing and teaching at this event.
“I am thrilled to be back in my home dance community of Tsawwassen after several packed seasons of performing on New York stages and touring around the surrounding states of the eastern USA, post the pandemic lockdown,” she said. “Bringing my professional experiences abroad back to the place that dance started for me, Deas Island Dance, is very close to my heart and I look forward to sharing my journey so far with aspiring dancers.
“I will be performing repertory by Alison Cook Beatty Dance, the dance company that did not let the pandemic stop it and which instead caught major media attention for its prolific pandemic relief efforts, and with which I have performed soloist roles.”
