VIENNA – Molly Gawler will present a premier performance of her new company Droplet Dance featuring dance and the Cyr Wheel 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 26 at the Vienna Union Hall. Her passion is to dance with live music, and inversely to incorporate dance into music shows. Thus, the performance will be accompanied by Ellen and John Gawler playing and interweaving their lovely fiddle and banjo tunes to Molly’s dance.
The Cyr wheel, named for its designer, Daniel Cyr, is an acrobatic device popularized in the early 21st century. It consists of a single large, metal hoop.The acrobat or dancer spins inside the wheel while maneuvering around the stage. It has recently become popularization as a circus apparatus and is taught in many “circus camps” and colleges.
Daniel Cyr, himself has instructed many artists in the use of the wheel including at the National Circus School of Montreal and at Cirque du Soleil. Hundreds of circus artists from around the world have performed in the wheel.
Molly Gawler grew up on Buttermilk Hill on a small farm in Maine. She danced from a young age and studied Vaganova ballet with Russian teacher and choreographer Andrei Bossov. Following that, she broadened her horizons with ballet, modern and improvisational studies at SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Dance earning her BFA in Dance Performance. While in New York City she danced with contemporary/modern companies “CorbinDances” with choreography by Patrick Corbin and “Noa Dance” with choreography by Nelly VanBommell.
She began working with Pilobolus Dance Theater in 2006, and soon thereafter, she was a part of the “Oscars,” Academy Awards of 2007 and collaboratively created many theatrical shadow projects that arose from that point forward. The culmination of that work is her lead role as “the dog girl” in Pilobolus’s Shadowland, a full length show that toured the world. She continued her exploration of movement/performance studies with the Cyr Wheel and Aerial Rope at the New England Center for Circus Arts.
She plays fiddle, banjo and sings in the “Gawler Family Band” as well as her trio of sisters, “The Gawler Sisters.”
Friday the 26th is a once in a lifetime chance to catch Molly Gawler in our neighborhood. This not to be missed event is also a fundraiser for the Vienna Union Hall. Advance tickets will be $12 and $15 at the door. For more information or tickets email viennaunionhall@gmail.com or call 293-2674 or 293-2362.
