noc-turne, noun

a work of art dealing with evening or night

Welcome to noc-turne

For the sake of performers and the audience experience:

No food or beverage allowed in the theatre.
Use the restroom before the show starts. It will not be possible to access the restroom during the show.
Do not move into the performance space.
Do not touch the performers.
Please, no filming or photography.
Please silence your cellphone.

Thank You! Enjoy the Show!

"Dancing was barely tolerated, if at all, so they danced in the forest where no one could see them..."

-Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

Show

RUN OF SHOW

in order of appearance

Creation and the Cosmos

"Earth Melodies", Ekaterina Shelehova — Kyra Scrimgeour

"Baldur", Osi and the Jupiter — Kyra Scrimgeour, Amelie Hubert, Teresa Kooima, Marina Snow, Christina

Desert, Summer

"Serpentine", Anilah — Katana, Mirise

"Flow Like Water", CloZee — Leslie LowJinx

Forest, Fall

"Anoana", Heilung — Katie Butler

"Raganu Nakts", Tautumeitas — Sarah Gabriela, Mariah Ford, Isabel Hillam, Brie LaVerge

Solstice

"Mohe Mohe", Amanati — Amelie Hubert, Teresa

Mountains, Winter

"Conjuring Storms", Ekaterina Shelehova — Sunny D'Lightful, Greyce Skinner

"Peaks", Fyfe, Iskra Strings — Sunny D'Lightful, Greyce Skinner

Rivers to the Sea, Spring

"Solringen", Wardruna — Ari

"Her & the Sea", CLANN — Victoria Lovering, Kyra Scrimgeour

Finale

"Hunger of the Pine", alt-J — Full Cast

"The Seed", Aurora — Full Cast

PRODUCTION

Producer, Director - Greyce Skinner
Stage Manager, Production Support - Sunny D'Lightful

Front of House Manager - Stefanie Chow

Choreography* - Sunny D'Lightful, Georgia May Wake
Sound Operation - Mike Thompson

Poetry - Kyra Scrimgeour

Merchandise Design - Christina

*All solo and duet pieces were choreographed by the performers.

SPECIAL THANKS

Venue - Ashlee Renee & Tease Studio Denver

Photography - Rachel Graham, RDGPhotography

Videography - Heather Cabrera

Cast
in order of appearance

KYRA SCRIMGEOUR

Wild Woman & Poet

This is my fifth year as a part of noc-turne and my fourth year as the Wild Woman. I received my B.A. in poetry from the University of Colorado Denver, but I have been telling stories since before I could write. While I have tried on many forms of movement over the years, I always return to dance because it allows me to move within story.

"By skies fresh and ancient as the next raindrop you were assembled, then, from fog frozen to pines, taught yourself to wonder..."

- Reg Saner, What Wilderness Tells You

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AMELIE HUBERT

Night Sky

Amelie is a local visual artist. Her love of dance and painting stems from childhood. Born and raised in Belgium, she studied psychology and fashion design before moving to the US in 2012. She splits her time between her creative pursuits: oil painting and pole dancing. She aims to bring forward and honor the Divine Feminine in all she creates.

"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will." - Charlotte Brontë

MARINA SNOW

Sun

I have been dancing my whole life, doing ballet and jazz when I was younger and starting burlesque and contemporary dance about 4 years ago. This is my third time performing in a noc-turne show! I love finding new ways to tell stories and get to know myself through dance.

“The Earth has music for those who listen.”

- William Shakespeare

TERESA

Night Sky

My pole journey started in Aguascalientes, Mexico in 2021. Since then, pole dance has developed within me a fire for creativity and desire to push my physical limits in ways I used to never believe possible.

“For in the beginning, as humankind emerged from the darkness of prehistory, God was a woman.”
-Rosalind Miles, Who Cooked the Last Supper?: The Women's History of the World

CHRISTINA

Moon

Christina decided to attend her first pole dance class during the pandemic in 2020. It was an immediate obsession that she embraced as a new way of self-expression and staying connected to her body in a time of fear and isolation. Over the last 6 years she has experienced many health challenges and life changes that have changed the way she approaches dance, but it remains an important pillar of her life. As one of the original 2021 noc-turne cast members who also participated in the Ophelia, Medusa, and Revenge Dress shows, she is excited to make a comeback this year as the moon!

“However tired I am, however hard it is: I know I can keep going, because I’m alive.”
― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun

KATANA

Desert

Katana is a creature of mystery, born from a need to discover and renew themselves; to reclaim the body they inhabit. Katana is equal parts water and fire, striving to always be both fluid and fierce on their journey to embrace femininity and sensuality as some of their many strengths.

"I'm asking you to be a forest where mud and leaves,
shadows and light, growth and decay
all have their unquestioned belonging."

MIRISE

Desert

As a lifelong artist and dancer, movement and self-expression have been central to my wellbeing for as long as I can remember. I began pole dancing over 3 years ago, a journey that has opened doorways to the self I never imagined possible.

“If you have ever been called defiant, incorrigible, forward, cunning, insurgent, unruly, rebellious - you’re on the right track. Wild Woman is close by.”

-Clarissa Pinkola Estés

LESLIE LOWJINX

Monsoon

LowJinx found dance on club floors, moving to DJs long before any formal training. After exploring other aerial apparatus, pole became home when she realized it was the best of dancing and flying. She dances because it feels good. This is her first solo performance piece.

“Don’t fear your own weather."

-LowJinx

KATIE BUTLER

Fall

Katie has danced forever and has choreographed for and performed in a wide variety of shows. This is her third time performing in noc-turne, and she is honored and humbled to be a part of this show again this year. It is a beautiful space to be a part of.

“I think that to one in sympathy with nature, each season, in turn, seems the loveliest.”

- Mark Twain

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SARAH GABRIELA

Tree

Sarah is honored to join this production after falling in love with Memoir earlier this year. A lifelong creative, she returns to her performance arts roots with joy. She studied visual art and technical theater throughout her education and she is now an art therapist, dedicated to nurturing spaces for authentic expression.

"One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began."
-Mary Oliver, The Journey

MARIAH FORD

Tree

ISABEL HILLAM

Tree

BRIE LAVERGE

Tree

I’ve been dancing since age four, beginning with Mexican folklore, jazz, and ballet. My journey includes hip hop and salsa competitions and training in many Latin rhythms. I have a degree in Theater and have performed in multiple productions throughout the Bay Area and Colorado.

"Hold the seasons close while they are still here to dance with us."

SUNNY D’LIGHTFUL

Winter, Choreographer, & Stage Manager

Three years ago, after a lifetime of dancing, I was introduced to the world of aerial. I fell in love with the physical and mental challenges it presented (along with the pain). This is now my fifth show with Wild Productions, and I’m honored to be included.

“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? […] and perhaps it says, ‘Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.’”
- Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

GREYCE SKINNER

Winter, Producer, & Director

I'm an actor, aerialist, movement teacher, and producer with over 20 years of focused performing arts experience. I started producing noc-turne to merge my theatre background and love of aerial.

“I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.”

- Frank Lloyd Wright

ARI

Spring

Ari (she/her) started her pole journey in 2020 with no prior dance experience, drawn in by the strength and athleticism of the sport. After her first competition, she challenged herself to explore the more expressive, dance-focused side of pole, and to her surprise, she fell in love with that too! Embracing both the powerful and artistic aspects of pole has helped her grow in confidence and self-expression. Since 2022, she’s been teaching both choreography and pole tricks, sharing the same joy and empowerment that pole has brought into her life.

"If you have ever been called defiant, incorrigible, forward, cunning, insurgent, unruly, rebellious, you’re on the right track.”

-Clarissa Pinkola Estés

VICTORIA LOVERING

Sea

Victoria Lovering (she/they) is a Portland, Maine-based pole instructor, burlesque performer, and longtime dancer. After many years of choreographing high school musicals, V discovered their love of pole dancing at Hustle and Flow movement studio in 2019, and has been an instructor there since 2022. She's thrilled and honored to join their first Wild Woman production and would like to thank Greyce and Kyra for the invitation!

"Spread the sails—the waves are swelling proudly round thy buoyant dwelling.
Fare thee well! and when at sea, think of those who sigh for thee."
-Hannah Flagg Gould

"Art is not just for oneself, not just the marker of one's own understanding. It is also a map for those who follow after us."

-Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

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Show

Cast in order of appearance

Cast
in order of appearance