{"id":2275,"date":"2012-10-23T00:05:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T00:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/journal\/index.php\/2012\/10\/23\/alison-saars-creativity-reaches-new-heights\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T17:52:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T17:52:56","slug":"alison-saars-creativity-reaches-new-heights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/journal\/alison-saars-creativity-reaches-new-heights","title":{"rendered":"Alison Saar&#8217;s creativity reaches new heights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Talent\u2019s something you know and you feel and the gods tell you\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What I look for in an artist, in a dancer, in a musician, is invention,\u201d Fagan said. \u201cWynton plays notes I can\u2019t find anywhere else. My dancers go a bit slower, a bit faster and they jump a bit higher. When I go to a gallery, it has to call me, pull me in. I am not going to go searching.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>- Wynton Marsalis<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full tmblr-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"266\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/image-26.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5774\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/image-26.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/image-26-300x160.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn more about the production,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bam.org\/lighthouse\">Lighthouse\/Lightning rod&nbsp;<\/a>created by dancer Garth Fagan, and musician Wynton Marsalis, and how they were inspired by Alison Saar<a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzinearts.com\/reviews\/arts-review-lighthouse-lightning-rod-10122012\">&nbsp;here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tour dates in case you are lucky enough to live in a city where the show is traveling:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Scottsdale Center for the Arts,\u00a0Scottsdale, AZ,\u00a0November 16, 2012<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Home Season: Nazareth College Arts Center,\u00a0Rochester, NY,\u00a0November 27 - December 2, 2012<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Benefit Night: Nazareth College Arts Center,\u00a0Rochester, NY,\u00a0November 30, 2012<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Civic Center of Greater Des Moine,\u00a0Des Moine, IA,\u00a0February 9, 2013<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>University of Missouri - Columbia,\u00a0Columbia, MO,\u00a0February 12, 2013<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Grand Opera House,\u00a0Wilmington, DE,\u00a0April 20, 2012<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talent\u2019s something you know and you feel and the gods tell you\u2026 What I look for in an artist, in a dancer, in a musician, is invention,\u201d Fagan said. \u201cWynton plays notes I can\u2019t find anywhere else. 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