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The beat goes on in Housatonic
Posted on Sun, Nov. 08, 2009
Bettina Montano leads a beginner’s dance class for eight-year-olds at Berkshire Pulse Center for the Creative Arts.
By David Scribner
HOUSATONIC—Through the tall factory windows illuminating the floor of the dance studio the outline of the black water tower on the roof of the next building suggests lower a Manhattan location rather than the offices of a former lumber mill in the heart of a village in the Berkshire Hills.
The light streams into the top floor of a former Barbieri Lumber Company warehouse where a beginner dance class with 15 or so 8-year-olds — boys and girls — is just getting under way on this autumn afternoon. Bettina Montano, a whirlwind of enthusiasm and energy dressed in a black leotard, is beating an insistent rhythm on a hand-held Tibetan drum, and leading her students in a serpentine pattern, urging them all the while to “feel the rhythm, feel the energy through your feet, now relax, have a picnic.”
The young dancers respond with a gleeful burst of gestures and movement, and just as suddenly collapse, at her command, onto the floor, like a swirl of leaves whom a fickle dancing breeze has abandoned.....for the full story pick up this week’s Berkshire Record at a newsstand or subscribe by calling 413-528-5380 ext. 29. Support your local newspaper, the community's watch dog. Subscribe by calling 413-528-5380 ext. 29.
HOUSATONIC—Through the tall factory windows illuminating the floor of the dance studio the outline of the black water tower on the roof of the next building suggests lower a Manhattan location rather than the offices of a former lumber mill in the heart of a village in the Berkshire Hills.
The light streams into the top floor of a former Barbieri Lumber Company warehouse where a beginner dance class with 15 or so 8-year-olds — boys and girls — is just getting under way on this autumn afternoon. Bettina Montano, a whirlwind of enthusiasm and energy dressed in a black leotard, is beating an insistent rhythm on a hand-held Tibetan drum, and leading her students in a serpentine pattern, urging them all the while to “feel the rhythm, feel the energy through your feet, now relax, have a picnic.”
The young dancers respond with a gleeful burst of gestures and movement, and just as suddenly collapse, at her command, onto the floor, like a swirl of leaves whom a fickle dancing breeze has abandoned.....for the full story pick up this week’s Berkshire Record at a newsstand or subscribe by calling 413-528-5380 ext. 29. Support your local newspaper, the community's watch dog. Subscribe by calling 413-528-5380 ext. 29.
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