Nichole Canuso Dance Company was selected for inclusion in the touring roster of Pennsylvania Performing Arts on Tour. Fundingmay be available to support touring engagements of the company in DC, DE, MD, NC, NJ, NY, OH, PA, WV, VA and the US Virgin Islands. For more information on these grants visit www.pennpat.org.

Despite dreading the idea of audience participation, I entered Christ Church Neighborhood House last night with a group of 20 or so and let myself be gazed at, guided, ushered and hand-held by 13 kid-gloved strangers. And it was magical. The story begins with Alice — winsome, wonderful Nichole Canuso — who loses her notebook. Worried that without it she may forget something important without it, Alice sheepishly enters a Zenned-out wonderland of sorts to retrieve her possession. What she finds instead is unexpected, exquisite, at times otherworldly; that we got to experience it, too, was like being let in on a secret and promising to keep it to yourself. And you just can’t get that feeling sitting in a theater, removed from the fantasy. Me, I left the show feeling a little lighter.