The Third Stage

Strong community support and critical acclaim
met The Third Stage's debut in spring 1994. As
Northern California's only multi-generational
contemporary concert company, with dancers
ranging in age from 10 - 92, its work is a
testament to the intrinsic belief that dance is
not the sole property of a technically trained
elite but a form of expression, communication,
and creativity that belongs to all people.

The Third Stage was born out of Artistic
Director Pamela Trokanski's desire to explore
the aging process and its effect on movement.
Inviting different generations to communicate
their specific wisdom to each other allows the
development of a group of capable dancers with
the ability to explore themes that might require
adults or children with a wider variation in age
than is found in most companies.

"Lovely and haunting visions..."
--Davis Enterprise

"(The Third Stage's) dancers...move appealing
well to music, and as dancers they have
something to tell us about life with their personal
force."
--
Sacramento Bee
Pamela Trokanski
Dance Theatre
 

The Pamela Trokanski Dance Theatre is a post-
modern, contemporary dance company based in Davis,
California. Since its first concert in spring 1985, the
PTDT has presented fall and spring concerts each
year. Also,  it has performed throughout Northern
California, including Sacramento, San Francisco and
Nevada City.

In addition to its concert series, the PTDT presents
lecture/demonstrations for elementary school children.
"Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Dance
(but were afraid to ask), Athleticism and Dance," and
"The Art of Dancing Art," have been funded, at various
times, by the City of Davis' Arts Contract program, US
Bank, Davis Waste Removal, and the PTDT.  These
programs have provided movement education to
"standing room only" audiences since 1994.
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"Davis choreographer Pamela Trokanski is perhaps
unique among local dance creators in being able to
marry autobiography, popular culture and universal
concern into works of surprising seriousness and humor."

--Sacramento Bee Dance Critic Jim Carnes

"Lest there be any confusion about whether or not the
creation of dance is at once an intellectual, spiritual and
physical endeavor, the proof of the argument is readily
available...at the Pamela Trokanski Dance Theatre...the
work is impressive, powerful and polished."

--Davis Enterprise

"Pamela Trokanski would seem to be a choreographer
who can make dances out of anything."

--
Sacramento Bee

"It is those intimate disclosures that set fire to the dance
floor."

--
Sacramento Bee
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