PORT ANGELES — Peninsula College this afternoon and evening will present “Lemonade,” a dance and theater performance combining the poetry of Tess Gallagher and Raymond Carver with original choreography by Vicki Lloid.
The performance features both student and professional dancers.
The performers will give a Studium Generale presentation at 12:35 p.m. in the Little Theater at Peninsula College, 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd.
The main dance performance will be at 7 p.m. in Maier Performance Hall.
Both events are free and open to the public.
The presentation is named after “Lemonade,” a poem by Carver, who lived in Port Angeles before his death in 1988.
The poem will be performed by Kevin Loomer, head of the theater department at Walla Walla Community College, along with Allie Keppel, former soloist with Spectrum Dance Theater of Seattle.
Edward Dixon, Whitman College music professor emeritus, will provide cello accompaniment for this moving piece Carver wrote after he was diagnosed with terminal cancer, event organizers said.
“Lemonade” was published posthumously in A New Path to the Waterfall.
Two unpublished poems by Gallagher, Carver’s widow — “Let’s Store These Hours” and “Little Inside Out Dream” — provide inspiration for the other pieces on the program, the former an ensemble for five and the latter, a duet for Keppel and Lloid, organizers said.
Gallagher, who lives in Port Angeles, will read both poems at the performance.
A question-and-answer session is planned with Gallagher and the performers.
