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TRYON—Super Saturday will return to Tryon for its 46th festival on March 15. The all-day event includes ten main stage shows, including storytellers Ramya Kapadia and Leland Faulkner, and free performances and local organizations offering free activities along Melrose Avenue.

Attendees can enjoy Ramya’s performance at 10:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. at Tryon First Baptist, where she will present Bharatanatyam, storytelling through movement and mime. Bharatanatyam is a form of dance from South India steeped in cultural motifs and iconography that draws heavily from nature. Expression is achieved through facial and body movements, lyrics, melodies, and rhythms. Through an interactive performance, the audience is introduced to hand gestures and body language, through which geometrical and abstract shapes are created in space to weave stories rich in life lessons.

Leland Faulkner will also perform at Tryon First Baptist, at 9:15 a.m. and 1:15 p.m. His program, Dreamcatcher, is a collection of works dealing with Native America and the Native American perspective. These visions are brought to life using the tools of theater, mime, spoken word, and visual magic. Traditional tales of wonder are full of entertaining lessons from Turtle Island and are a gift and legacy for future generations. Dreamcatcher is a celebration of the beauty and simplicity of human imagination and the power of community.

Children’s Theater Festival’s presentation of Super Saturday is supported by grants from the

Mary F. Kessler Fund at the Polk County Community Foundation. Organizers are grateful to the

Polk County Community Foundation for administering the George and Esther Moore

Endowment Fund, Arthur M. and Frances H. Wilhelm Fund, Dixie and Harry Evans Charitable

Endowment Fund, and Super Saturday Fund. Children Theater Festival thanks its sponsors,

including the Ann L. Turner & Geoffrey M. Tennant Foundation, the Stuart and Margaret L. Forbes Foundation, Lucy and Tim Brannon, the Chapman family, and Wayne and Clara Rogers.

Tickets to main stage shows are $2 per person, and order forms will go out in schools and

the community the last week of February. For more information, visit tryonsupersaturday.com or follow Super Saturday on Facebook. To learn more about volunteering, email supersaturdayinfo@gmail.com.

 

Submitted by Jen Pace Dickenson