A Diversified Line-Up Will Return For Performance Café

WATERBURY — The popular Performance Café returns to Mattatuck Museum’s Performing Arts Center on Friday, January 26, at 7:30 pm.

The innovative modern dance company Kiva Dance Collective will perform along with a diverse line-up of other artists including Terre Lefferts, a Lakeville-based modern dancer and teacher with her own studio; the Lorraine Judd Youth Tap Dancers from Cheshire; Brass City Ballet’s adult tap group; Yale grad student Bradon Nappi, performing a comedic monologue; original poetry readings by Judith Herman-Shapiro; and Bud Larson, a musician who will provide improvisational music to the dance collective’s improvised movements.

Performance Café is an evening of eclectic performances and a chance for audiences to be a part of the development of works in progress. All types of performers including poets, musicians, dancers and singers are welcome to perform at the performing arts showcase.

For more information regarding performing in future showcases, call Christine Jewell at Mattatuck Museum at 203/753-0381, extension 11.  Admission is $6 per person. The Mattatuck Museum is at 144 West Main Street in downtown Waterbury.