Mountainside Residents to Give Folkloric Dance Recital,
MARGARETVILLE — Residents of Mountainside Residential Care Center in Margaretville, operated by HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley, a member of the Westchester Medical Center Health Network (WMCHealth), will give a free public recital of folkloric dances at the Open Eye Theater in Margaretville at 2 p.m. Oct. 26. Reservations are strongly encouraged.
The recital will culminate six months of dance training that the 10 Mountainside residents
received from dance educator Columbine Macher from May through this month.
The dances will include original choreography to “Las Chiapanecas” (“The Women of Chiapas”),
a traditional melody from Mexico’s Chiapas state; “Tangos,” flamenco-type music from Andalusia, Spain, influenced by traditional rhythms, melodies and dances from Afro-Cuban neighborhoods in Havana; and “Frühlingsstimmen” (“Voices of Spring”), a well-known orchestral waltz by Johann Strauss II.
The Mountainside dancers will answer audience questions after the performance.
The training, in a workshop titled “Moving Mountains,” was funded with a decentralization grant from the New York State Council on the Arts and a grant from the A. Lindsay & Olive B.
O’Connor Foundation of Delhi, with support from the Roxbury Arts Group, the Roxbury Library Association and the MARK Project of Arkville.
The 99-seat Open Eye Theater is wheelchair accessible. Its address is 960 Main St. in
Margaretville.
For more information or to make reservations, call the theater at (845) 586-1660.
About HealthAlliance, a member of the Westchester Medical Center Health Network HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley operates a 315-hospital bed healthcare system comprising
HealthAlliance Hospital: Mary’s Avenue Campus and HealthAlliance Hospital: Broadway Campus in Kingston, New York, and Margaretville Hospital in Margaretville, New York. It also operates Mountainside Residential Care Center, an 82-bed skilled-nursing facility in
Margaretville. As Ulster County’s largest employer, HealthAlliance is committed to attracting the best-qualified medical and support staff; providing outstanding, responsive, coordinated,
compassionate patient- and family-centered care; excelling in clinical outcomes and patient experiences; and ensuring patient rights, privacy and respect are honored at all times, while improving the overall health and well-being of the diverse communities it serves. For more information about how HealthAlliance is delivering the promise of medicine, visit hahv.org or
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About Westchester Medical Center Health Network
The Westchester Medical Center Health Network (WMCHealth) is a 1,700-bed healthcare system headquartered in Valhalla, New York, with 10 hospitals on eight campuses spanning 6,200 square miles of the Hudson Valley. WMCHealth employs more than 12,000 people and has nearly 3,000 attending physicians. From Level 1, Level 2 and Pediatric Trauma Centers, the
region’s only acute care children’s hospital, an academic medical center, several community hospitals, dozens of specialized institutes and centers, skilled nursing, assisted living facilities,
homecare services and one of the largest mental health systems in New York State, today WMCHealth is the pre-eminent provider of integrated healthcare in the Hudson Valley. For more
information about WMCHealth, visit WMCHealth.org.
