Linda Wang of Plainsboro and Katherine Meduski of West Windsor are two of the students performing in “Moving Stillness: Dance with Sculpture,” a benefit for the American Repertory Ballet, taking place at Grounds for Sculpture, in Hamilton, rain or shine, on Saturday, October 13.##M:[more]##
Performances include new works by Bat Abbit, Graham Lustig, and Laney Engelhard, performed at three sculpture locations by all 20 members of ARB’s professional company and 11 senior students of Princeton Ballet School. A cocktail reception honoring ARB’s new executive director, Marvin Preston, follows. Tickets are $125 and up.
Meduski, a senior at High School North, has been dancing since she was two. When the family moved from Acton, Massachusetts, when she was in third grade, she began studying at Princeton Ballet School. She has been dancing in their annual Nutcracker ever since.
Her past few summers include two years with Princeton Ballet Summer Intensive program, one year at Walnut Hill School of the Arts in Massachusetts, and one year with Joffrey Ballet School in New York City. She usually dances six days a week but during Nutcracker season she dances daily.
At North, Meduski is an editor of the yearbook, and involved in the Amnesty Club and Tutoring Society. She plans to major in dance at college. Her mother, Mary Meduski, is the CFO with Sudden Link, a telecommunications company based in St. Louis, Missouri. Her father, Michael, is a retired lawyer with the Army Reserve. Wang, 15, is a sophomore at South, where she plays bass in the school’s orchestra. This is her 11th year dancing at Princeton Ballet School, where she is the youngest person in the Professional Training Program. — Lynn Miller
Moving Stillness: Dance with Sculpture, American Repertory Ballet, Grounds for Sculpture, 18 Fairgrounds Road, Hamilton, 609-249-1254. www.arballet.org. Register. $125 and up. Rain or shine. Saturday, October 13, 3 p.m.
