Three’s Company Has Dancing Shoes Packed, Will Travel to Nevada

SAN DIEGO — This year, more means less for fans of Three’s Company.

The group’s 1989-90 season will feature six concerts--a bumper crop for San Diego’s senior modern dance ensemble. But only two of those will be performed on home turf. Bookings in several California cities and a return to the University of Nevada at Las Vegas will keep the company on the road much of the time.

“It’s a modest beginning for us as a touring troupe,” said artistic director Jean Isaacs, “but we’re pleased. And we’ll still have two more San Diego performances than last year, because we’re doing four, instead of two, performances at our Mandell Weiss gig.”

Although the company’s annual concert at UC San Diego’s Mandell Weiss Center will run twice as long, it will not take place until March--a couple of months later than usual. Isaacs and fellow choreographers Nancy McCaleb and Betzi Roe are preparing premieres for this major concert.

Three’s Company will make its Sushi debut on Nov. 24-25, with live musical accompaniment by Miles Anderson and Erica Sharp, local musician/composers who have collaborated with the company on several successful works in the past few years.

“Since the Mandell Weiss date was put back till March, we decided to find another space,” Isaacs said. “Even though Sushi is not a wonderfully technical house, it is geared for presenting, and we were committed to performing downtown.”

Three’s Company’s season actually started earlier this summer with the Ramona repertory performance sponsored by Ramona Arts Unlimited. Next stop is the Judy Bayley Theater at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, on Oct. 28, where McCaleb’s choreography and the music of Anderson and Sharp will dominate the program.

Three’s Company will hit the road again to appear at the Gloriana Opera House in Mendocino as part of that city’s dance series March 31, followed by a performance at Occidental College in Los Angeles on April 22.