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Dance Opera About Literary Legend Set To Open On South Coast

(Photoby Barry Weiss)
"Anais: A Dance Opera" tells the story of literary legend Ananis Nin through music, dance, and video. The production runs two nights at Santa Barbara's New Vic Theater

A unique new dance opera about the life of an acclaimed, but little known author from the 1920’s is premiering in Santa Barbara this weekend, after being performed in France, where the writer lived.

Music, dance, and video are being used for a dance opera telling the story of a literary legend, Anaïs Nin. Nin was a major writer in Europe in the 1920’s. The Cuban author was raised in France, and was part of the cultural scene with artists like Henry Miller. Cindy Shapiro is the production’s composer and lyricist, and says it mixes a singer, dancers, and video to tell Nin’s story.

The dance opera will be performed Friday and Saturday nights at 8, at Santa Barbara’s New Vic Theater.

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral. 
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