Adirondack Dance Company

Thank you to FLETCHER PHOTOGRAPHY for making our dancers shine ✨ in their individual photographs! 🤩

Happy Juneteenth. Dance, music, and artistry bring us together and allow us to be storytellers. We recognize the enduring journey towards equality and the stories that continue to inspire us all to create!

Many of us have been inspired by “The Wizard of Oz”, but also the subsequent art that has been inspired by “The Wizard of Oz”, including “The Wiz” and “Wicked”. Our own teacher, Carlee Carrier, was inspired by “The Wiz” to choreograph a dance to “Ease on Down the Road” with her Grade 3 class this year to share a message of resilience and perseverance. The lyric “Don’t you carry nothing that might be a load” reminds listeners to shed unnecessary burdens and worries.

Miss Carrier reminds us all to dance it out 💃 when you feel like you’re carrying a heavy load.

Here’s a little bit about The Wiz:

The primary connection between The Wizard of Oz and Black history is The Wiz—an iconic, all-Black musical adaptation that debuted on Broadway in 1974. It reinterpreted L. Frank Baum’s classic story to celebrate Black culture, urbanization, resilience, and the Great Migration.The Wiz and the Great MigrationWhile the original 1939 film focuses on a longing for rural Kansas, The Wiz places its characters in a fantastical, urban landscape (a reimagined New York City).

The Yellow Brick Road: This symbolizes the Great Migration, when millions of African Americans relocated from the rural South to Northern cities in search of economic opportunity, community, and a better life.

Cultural Reclamation: The stage and film versions (including the famous 1978 movie adaptation starring Diana Ross and Michael Jackson) infuse the narrative with R&B, soul, and gospel music, as well as Afrocentric costuming.

We hope you’ll ease on down the road with us tonight!

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Great Performance yesterday for our area schools. They got to witness an indoor tornado and the yellow brick road. Our Kansians and Ozians performed wonderfully!

We're off to see the Wizard...at E. Glenn Giltz Auditorium tonight at 7:00 PM. Tickets available here: https://27613.danceticketing.com/ or at the door. Online sales end at 4:00 but we will have seats available at the door. Or call 518-335-7385.

The dancers 👯‍♀️ of Adirondack 🏔️ Dance Company have been following the yellow brick road to Oz for months! They need your help to get back to Kansas! Please don’t let them down by not coming to see them do the jitterbug 🪲! Somewhere over the rainbow 🌈 there is a ✨wonderful✨ evening for all ages!

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Have you gotten your tickets for The Wizard of Oz?

What are you waiting for???

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Follow the yellow brick road to E. Glenn Giltz Auditorium June 19, 7:00 PM. Tickets: https://27613.danceticketing.com/ or at the door.