Forty Steps Celebrates 20 years

Her long brown hair pulled back into a bun often held in place with chopsticks, Slagle approaches her chosen music and hears echoes of choreographic phrases from Modern dance greats Doris Humphrey and José Limón. She then infuses the tradition with her singular vision, contemporary themes and costumes.

Forty Steps Dance performs regularly in concerts throughout the Boston area including recently with North Shore Dance Alliance, Exit Dance Theatre of Newburyport and the Danny Swain Dance Company of Boston.

For the last three summers, the company has split the evening playbill on the outdoor stage at Rockport's Windhover Center for Performing Arts with the Dušan Týnek Dance Theatre company of New York City. Dušan Týnek's dances electrify with a strong and diversely beautiful company performing highly entertaining patterns and organic formations in the choreographer's allusions to city life.

Slagle's dances, by contrast, "are like a 3D dream," said Laura Smith, a member of the Swampscott Cultural Council who is frequently in the audience. "When I watch them, my insides move around, not knowing where to land or what comes next-- and then a phrase recurs to make the whole thing make sense, unlocking the subconscious."

The demanding choreography is effortlessly executed by a troupe of ten lyrical and athletic modern dancers who have some serious street cred of their own.

Want to Keep the Channel Open?

In Slagle's long-standing annual creativity workshop for adult non-dancers, she reveals that abstract movements represent different things to every member of the audience, and sometimes the people won't know what it is until it hits them, maybe the next day, maybe later. Dance is like that; it happens in the moment and lingers in the mind.

Please visit Boston Dance Alliance and support Forty Steps Dance, a native cultural institution in culturally progressive Nahant!

Photos online:

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"Lux Aeterna" (2009) Photo by Joe Puleo

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"Fragile" (2001/2011) Photo by Leslie Jardine

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"The Flood" (2012) Photo by Sallee Slagle

Lynn Area Chamber of Commerce
Nahant Town Pride Award Winners

On Tuesday, February 5th, at the Lynn Area Chamber of Commerce's Annual Dinner, at Spinelli's in Lynnfield, Nahant News/Harbor Review Editor and Publisher, Donna Lee Hanlon and Michael Manning, Nahant Selectman, each received the Chamber's Nahant Town Pride award. Photo: Outgoing Lynn Area Chamber of Commerce President, Ralph Sevinor (far left), Donna Lee Hanlon, Nahant Harbor Review News, Nahant Selectman, Mike Manning and newly-elected President, David Solimine Jr. Photo by Chris Stevens.

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Donna Lee Hanlon, Editor

Understanding Music With Duncan Lorien

International recording artist, Duncan Lorien returns to Boston to turn complete novices into musicians in just one weekend - guaranteed.

'The Understanding of Music Seminar'
April 5-7,2013

After delivering the seminar in Australia and Singapore this month, international recording artist, composer and music educator, Duncan R. Lorien, will return to Boston to deliver his highly acclaimed "Understanding of Music Seminar" in April 2013.

Now being delivered internationally on six continents, Duncan's seminar promises to turn absolute beginners into musicians, as well as inspire music teachers and revitalize any musical career in just one weekend.

Boston is the only New England location for this seminar which will be held April 5-7,2013.

An Introductory Lecture, will be held on Wednesday, March 6th at 7:30 p.m., at Bristol Studios, 169 Mass Ave., Boston. This lecture is free and open to all those who want to find out out about this unique seminar.

Attendees will hear Duncan Lorien speak about his revolutionary approach to teaching music and walk away knowing 24 scales and over 60 chords from memory even if they have never touched an instrument before.

Since its inception in 1991, The Understanding of Music Seminar has been delivered in over 16 countries and on six continents worldwide. More than 15,000 people have now benefited from the seminar, including absolute beginners, experienced musicians, music teachers, graduates and university professors of music.

The success of Duncan's seminars results from 20 years of research into the history and teaching methods of Western Music. Duncan notes that, for example, in Ancient Greece, every child could play at least two musical instruments by the age of 11, but many false ideas now dominate Western thinking about music and these seriously handicap our ability to learn music.

During The Understanding of Music Seminar the complex formal language of Western music is unraveled to reveal its true simplicities and attendees are pleased to discover they can actually learn how to play any instrument in one weekend.

"This is the way music was always meant to be," says Duncan. "It's a subject for the common man, not just the chosen few. I want to bring music back to the people, where it belongs, and show everyone that it is not a complex, serious subject but a fun, freeing experience to learn and master any instrument or voice."

"Nothing brings me greater joy than to see someone who thought they 'couldn't play' or was 'tone deaf' sitting down at the keyboard at one of my seminars and happily playing scales, chords and even Bach, within a few hours!"

Limited interview/performance opportunities available.

Duncan lives in the Boston area so, as his schedule allows, there will be opportunities for print and broadcast interviews and/or performances before the seminar. Phone interviews can be arranged by contacting the seminar organizer, Sallee Slagle, 781-599-1476, or email: sallee@dlorien.com , www.understandingofmusic.com

Congratulations to Nahanters Kourkoulis, Osbahr and Tsokanis

St. John's Prep Announces Academic Honors for Second Quarter 2012-2013

The following Nahant students were named to the Principal's List for the 2nd Quarter 2012-2013:

Athanasi Kourkoulis '14 
Derek Osbahr '13 
Peter Tsokanis '15 

Bruce Tarney invites you to
The Bandwagon's event:
THE BANDWAGON
Saturday, April 20
at 8:30pm ( EDT)
at O'Briens

Nahant’s Newest Author Juliette Guidara Pens “5.4% Beating the Odds of Pancreatic Cancer”

This book is a factual recount of how Juliette’s husband, Frank Guidara, was diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer 11 days before their first wedding anniversary. He was "supposed" to die within a few weeks. Juliette writes about the initial anguish and heartache, as well as the arduous and adventurous journey to finding treatments to heal this horrible disease. Juliette writes, “Everything in the book is factual: all names, dates and events. I have poured my heart and soul into this project and hope you will find it interesting.”

You can have a copy mailed to you. or you can go to the Nahant Mall page to purchase her book through Amazon.