PRESS - The Triad Style, Greensboro, NC

About "Lux Eterna (excerpts)"
10-23-02
TRIAD STYLE MAGAZINE
By Jeri Rowe

"Arts Ignite: An Artistic & Financial Success"

"...Winston-Salem's 16-day multi-arts festival wrapped up Oct. 12, and so far, preliminary numbers show that ArtsIgnite sold more tickets than they expected and could expect to break even - good news for any first-time festival. ...

Every performance yielded some sort of mind-expanding surprise.'Take the Oct. 9 chamber music series at Project Space 211 that married Mozart with modern dance. Karola Luttringhaus, director of Winston-Salem's alban elved dance company, slipped into a $10 suit she bought at a local thrift store and performed "Lux Eterna", or Variations on Reality. At one point during their hour long performance, she and her dance partner, Andrea Lieske, climbed into rock climbing harnesses attached to the 9-foot ceiling, curled their bare feet around the rope and defied gravity as they danced on air.

Meanwhile, the crowd at PS211-mostly older, all white- craned their enecks to see what Luttringhaus and Lieske would do next. They weren't dissappointed. As inductrial noise created by sound artist Rhan Small poured from the speakers, Lieske walked onto the wooden floor wrapped in Christmas lights.

"This has been fantastic," Susan Carson, a Winston-Salem resident since 1973, said minutes after the Wednesday night performance."It gets people involved who hadn't been involved before." ...

...Chumbley (head of the W-S arts council), his 25 member arts council staff and the festival's fleet of volunteers pulled it off and created a festival that should make the entire Triad proud.

I mean, after alban elved performance's last week at PS211, it was a nice surprise to hear someone say, "Oh my God, is this Winston-Salem?" Believe it. It is. Hallelujah."