Title: Wuthering Heights
Location: Mesa Arts Center
Description: Experience the blending of jazz dance and contemporary music in the retelling of this haunting story of love and betrayal. Based on Emily Bronte’s classic novel, Wuthering Heights, explores the doomed love between Heathcliff and Catherine that captivates audiences.

Performances held at the Mesa Arts Center Nesbitt/Elliot Playhouse Theatre

December 4th – 7:30pm
December 5th – 2pm
December 5th – 7:30pm
December 6th – 2pm

Tickets:
Students/Seniors $12
Adults $16

Tickets are available for purchase at the Mesa Arts Center Box Office. You may purchase tickets online at www.MesaArtsCenter.com, call 480-644-6500, or at the door before the performances.

For more information, contact Kelsey Wolf at Info@GravityJazzDance.org or call 602-316-0846.
Start Date: 2009-12-04
Start Time: 07:30pm
End Date: 2009-12-06
End Time: 02:00pm

Title: EPIK Dance Company presents COMMON GROUND
Location: Herberger Theater Center, 222 East Monroe, Phoenix
Description: EPIK Dance Company, Arizona’s premier street-fusion dance company, is partnering with 92.7/99.3FM The BEAT to take their infectious passion for music and dance to the stage, presenting their first annual performance concert! “Common Ground” will treat audiences to over 90 minutes of original choreography developed and presented by members of the company that features contemporary, jazz, hip hop, b-boying, punking, and a variety of other dance styles. Each piece will showcase a different side of the multi-faceted dance troupe, while each story ties together with the presence of the show’s focal point –
a swing. The swing represents a common ground that unites us, and though each individual’s experiences in life may differ, we can all find something in common that can bring us together in a unique way, with each story being told through the powerful
language of dance.
Date: November 20-21, 2009
Time: Friday 7:30pm, Saturday 2:00pm & 7:30pm

Title: AZDance Group’s 6th Annual Christmas Dance Concert
Description: Professional Christmas Dance Concert presented by AZDance Group. Performances valley-wide at various venues listed below.

Location: Paradise Valley Community College, Center for the Performing Arts, 18401 N. 32nd Street, Phoenix
Date: December 6, 2009
Time: 2:00pm
Cost: $12 Adults, $8 Senior/Students, FREE Kids under 10
$8 ACNV and MEM members (service charges may apply)
Box Office (602) 787-7738, www.paradisevalley.edu/cpa

Location: Tempe Center for the Arts – Studio, 700 West Rio Salado Parkway, Tempe
Date: December 7, 2009 and Jan 8, 2010
Time: 6:30pm
Cost: $12 Adults, $8 Senior/Students, FREE Kids under 10
$8 ACNV and MEM members (service charges may apply)
Box Office (480) 350-2TCA (2822), www.tempe.gov/tca

Location: Cactus Shadows Fine Arts Center, 33606 N. 60th Street, Scottsdale
Date: January 10, 2010
Time: 2:00pm
Cost: Tickets available at the door and fine businesses throughout the valley
$15 adults, $10 seniors, under 10 FREE! cash/check ONLY please.

For more info: (480) 215-1916, www.azdance.org

Title: ASU Dance presents Emerging Artists I
Location: Arizona State University, Nelson Fine Arts Building University Dance Laboratory – Room 122 in Tempe (on the corner of 10th Street & Mill Avenue)
Description: Emerging Artists I

LaShonda L Williams and Sammy Stephens Jr., MFA Candidates of Dance, will be presenting their thesis work at the ASU Nelson Fine Arts Center –Tempe campus.

LaShonda L Williams – “multoMONOvistic”
Various artists come together to collaborate through movement and music, evolving from two basic concepts – Love and Water. Artistic director of Hoj Poj Movement Company, LaShonda L Williams, facilitates the company’s debut project, “multoMONOvistic”, featuring ideas and information obtained through recent international travels.

Sammy Stephens Jr. – “HOlisticMykOnin”
Follow Dionysus quest to find himself and his place in society. Agonized by strong barriers against the unification of both his natural beings comes the story of young African American male tested by the strains placed on him by his own community. This piece, conceived by Artistic Director Sammy Stephens, Jr., revolves around Dionysus’ story through movement/performance art and challenges pre-existing discrimination beliefs on homosexuality within the African American community. Experience “HOlisitcMykOnin” as we journey through the life and time of one in a million voices….

Where
Nelson Fine Arts Building
University Dance Laboratory – Room 122
ASU Tempe campus.
(on the corner of 10th Street & Mill Avenue)

When
November 20th – 22nd, 2009

Friday at 6:30 pm
Saturday at 7:30 pm
Sunday at 2:00 pm

Cost
$7 – $20

Media Contact:
Sunny Kuo, D.M.A.
Operations Manager
School of Dance
Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts
Arizona State University
P 480-965-1208 | F 480-965-2247
PO Box 870304 Tempe, AZ 85287-0304
http://dance.asu.edu

The Herberger Institute School of Dance is recognized as one of the leading dance departments in the U.S. The highly experienced international faculty and staff offer a broad approach to developing artists, educators and scholars who are actively engaged with the rapidly expanding range of global contexts for artistic practice; from performance to education, from community to online contexts. We recognize and value the creativity and meaning that each student brings to the program. The Herberger Institute School Dance is committed to enabling students to find their own unique role within the rapidly changing and expanding horizons of dance culture, and ensure that they have the skills, experiences, knowledge and tools to facilitate their continuing success.

Date: November 20-22, 2009
Times: Friday at 6:30 pm, Saturday at 7:30 pm, Sunday at 2:00 pm

Title: ZUZI!’s 12th Annual Solstice Celebration: “House Made of Light”

Location: ZUZI! Theater,
738 North 5th Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85705

MATINEE PREVIEW: Friday, December 11th, 2009 at 10:30am
Price: $7.00

Date: December 18 – 21, 2009
Time: 7:30pm
Price: $15, $13 Students and Seniors

CONTACT: Cecily Crebbs or Nanette Robinson, 520-629-0237

ZUZI! Dance Company celebrates the Solstice with modern and aerial dance in a multi-generational performance including the ZUZI! professional company, the ZUZI! Apprentice company, ZUZI!’s “Many Limbs” Youth Aerial company, and members of our annual community performance workshop.

The word Solstice means standing still sun. The winter solstice is the shortest day of the year; it marks the turning from the cold dark days of winter to the warmer, lighter days of spring and summer.  Traditionally, this season was used as a time of reflection, renewal and community celebration.

ZUZI! will also be hosting a silent auction of donated items including: jewelry, wine baskets, concert tickets, hand decorated ceramic seasonal platters from HFCoors, and a weekend getaway to the Gila Wilderness Lodge.

In this season of giving, ZUZI! offers as its gift the Magic of Movement, Creative Energy, Song and Reflection.  Come in.  Be Moved.

Sponsored by: ZUZI! Dance Company, School and Theater
Link out: Click here

Preview Date: December 11, 2009
Time: 10:30am

Evening Dates: December 18-21, 2009
Time: 7:30pm

Title: SCC Presents… Muscle Memory Implications
Location: ASU Studio Theatre PEBE-132
Link out: Click here
Description: Friday December 4th, 2009 & Saturday December 5th, 2009
8:00pm
ASU Studio Theatre
(Physical Education Building East)
General Admission: $10
Students and Seniors: $5

Guest Choreographers include: Anandha Ray, Ashleigh Leite, Tamara Dyke and Ann Reinking

Date: December 4-5, 2009
Time: 8:00pm

Title: Belly Dance Master Class by Jazmine Ryan
Location: Scottsdale Community College
Link out: Click here
Description: Friday, November 13, 2009
5:30pm
Fee: By donation (proceeds go to the SCC Dance Club)
SCC Campus – PE-135
9000 E Chaparral Rd
Scottsdale AZ 85256
480.423.6600

Date: November 13, 2009
End Time: 5:30pm-7:00pm

Title: Latin Ballroom Dance Master Class
Location: Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, 7380 East Second Street Scottsdale, AZ 85251
Description: Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts presents the First Annual Scottsdale Latin Jazz Festival
Latin Ballroom Dance Master Class with Internationally Renowned Teacher Ron Montez
Sunday, November 15
12-1:30 PM
Virginia G. Piper Theater
$10 for individuals, $15 per couple
For More Information and to Register online:
http://www.scottsdaleperformingarts.org/jazz_festival_dance.php

Time: 12:00pm-1:30pm
Date: November 15, 2009