Title: Khaleegy Kombos Workshop
Location: Urban Yoga 3225 N. Central Ave. Phoenix (Century Plaza – S. of Osborn – Light Rail Stop #7)
Description: Sunday, Feb. 21st
2 :00-4:00 pm

Khaleegy Kombos Workshop
Add some variety to your dance repertoire!
Khaleegy is a folk style from the Arabian Gulf that features playful movements that show off the dancer’s hair and a special overdress (thobe).
Loaner thobes will be provided for use during the workshop to first 10 registrants.

Urban Yoga 3225 N. Central Ave. Phoenix
(Century Plaza – S. of Osborn – Light Rail Stop #7)

$35.00 before Feb. 14
($40 after Feb. 14 or at the door if space is available)

Registration: http://shes-got-hips.com/Events.html or moc.spih-tog-sehsnull@niham
Date: 2010-02-21

Title: Special Momix School Performance
Location: Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, 7380 E. Second St. Scottsdale, AZ 85251
Description: Special School Performance Offer

The Best of MOMIX

Moses Pendleton, Artistic Director
Friday, January 22 @ 11a.m.
Duration: 1 hour
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts
The NEW Virginia G. Piper Theater

The uncanny dancer-illusionists of MOMIX are internationally renowned for conjuring up a magical fantasy world using props, light, shadow, humor and the human body. Best of MOMIX showcases selections from some of the company’s most dazzling productions, including its latest work Botanica and classics such as Baseball, Lunar Sea, MOMIX in Orbit, Opus Cactus and Passion.

$5 per student

Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts
Patron Services Box Office: (480) 994-ARTS (2787)
TDD: (480) 874-4694
www.scottsdaleperformingarts.org
E-mail: gro.straccsnull@hymmat; gro.straccsnull@tdivad
Fax: (480) 874-4699
Start Time: 11:00am
Date: 2010-01-22
End Time: 12:00pm

Title: Yumi La Rosa with Mosaico Flamenco
Location: Desert Botanical Garden
Link out: Click here
Description: Enjoy afternoons surrounded by desert beauty and sounds of the Valley’s premier musicians and dancers. Concert venue is open seating only. Limited tickets are available. Advance ticket purchase recommended. Group rates are available for parties of 10 or more. No refunds or exchanges on tickets purchased. No outside food or beverages allowed. In case of rain concert will be held in Dorrance Hall.
Start Time: 12:00
Date: 2010-01-24
End Time: 14:00

Title: JANET JACKSON CALIBER DANCERS NEEDED!!!!!
Location: Fred Astaire Dance Studio
Link out: Click here
Description: A premier Janet Jackson Female Impersonator
is hosting an audition for dancers to join his
tribute troupe to celebrate this iconic artist!

If you have ever dreamed of dancing for
Miss Janet, this is your opportunity to perform
with the next best thing and dance at venues all
over the country!

So if you think you can make me move, show up
for this audition and let me watch you groove.

Date: Sunday, January 31, 2010
Time: 3pm
Location : Fred Astaire Dance Studios
4649 E. Cactus Rd
Phoenix, AZ 85032

• Must be at least 18 years old
• Must be willing to travel
• Experience not required, but talent is!
Start Time: 3:00pm
Date: 2010-01-31
End Time: 6:00pm

Title: Jungle Love
Location: Phoenix Zoo
Link out: Click here
Description:

Where: The Phoenix Zoo

When: February 13, 2010 6:00 – 9 p.m.

The Deal: Make your Valentine’s Day a romantic and wildly entertaining night out with dinner, drinks, and dancing.

The Drinks:
Includes two complimentary drink coupons per person (a cash bar will available all night). Check-in and cocktails begin at 6:00 p.m. Some of the Zoo’s exotic residents will be on hand for an up-close animal encounter to welcome everyone.

The Dining:
A decadent spread of Spanish-inspired cuisine and desserts created by Santa Barbara Catering Company is available at 6:30 p.m.

The Love:
Flamenco show with Yumi La Rosa starts at 7:00 p.m. followed by lessons and open dancing

The Price: $80 per couple, a wildly affordable price for a night of Valentine’s fun!

The Reservations:
602.914.4333 or click here. Limited to 50 couples. Groups of four are welcome.

Important Note: Adult audience only (ages 21+)

Bring reservation print out and valid driver’s license/identification with you for check-in.

Title: quasi cum aluminum dance unit
Location: ZUZI! Theater,  738 N 5th Ave Tucson, AZ 85705
Link out: Click here
Description: quasi cum aluminum dance unit
performs
NEGYPT

Tucson-based qCA artistic director and 2009 Arizona Commission on the Arts Individual Grant recipient, Brandon Kodama, stages NEGYPT, a fragmented dance performance-artifact of juvenile black holes, inhaling concepts of non-duality, exhuming human ultra-creativity.

qCA performs deletist choreography. Deletist choreography is a vocabulary of movement which seeks to destroy itself within the moment of its own creation.

Coupled with an original soundtrack featuring some of Tucson’s finest musicians, qCA’s NEGYPT promises a cross-genre performance of unexpected, high energy butoh-inspired dance unlike anything else taking the local stage.

Tickets $10
For more information contact:
Brandon Kodama
520-275-0287
moc.liamtohnull@acq-acq
Start Date: 2010-01-08
Start Time: 8:00 pm
End Date: 2010-01-10

Title: Dance for the Dancers – A Dance Jam Fundraiser for ZUZI!
Location: ZUZI! Theater in The Historic Y – 738 N. 5th Ave – Tucson, AZ
Link out: Click here
Description: ZUZI! Dance Company, School and Theater
presents
Dance for the Dancers
A Dance Jam Fundraiser for ZUZI!

It is time to boogie on the ZUZI! stage to the tunes of two jamming dance bands. On Friday, January 22nd, we invite you to dance with us and our special guests Drama Club and The Wayback Machine. The doors open at 7:30 pm to prepare for the jams which will commence at 8 pm with Drama Club laying down a coat of grooves before The Wayback Machine paves the way to dancing enlightenment!
Please come down and support ZUZI! as well as experience a night of fun and dancing. A suggested donation of $10 is requested, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds!
For more information, please contact ZUZI! at (520) 629-0237 or email us at gro.tievomizuznull@ofni. Also, you can visit us on the web at zuzimoveit.org.
Start Time: 7:30 pm
Date: 2010-01-22
End Time: 11:00 pm

The uncanny dancer-illusionists of MOMIX will showcase selections from the company’s most dazzling productions on Jan. 21–22, 2010, at Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts. Photo credit: John Kane

Title: Best of MOMIX
Location: Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, 7380 East Second Street Scottsdale, AZ 85251
Description: DANCER-ILLUSIONISTS OF MOMIX
SHOWCASE THEIR GREATEST WORKS

Best of MOMIX
Jan. 21, 2010, Thursday @ 7:30 p.m.
Jan. 22, 2010, Friday @ 8 p.m.
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts
The NEW Virginia G. Piper Theater

(SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.) – Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts will present MOMIX on Thursday, Jan. 21, at 7:30 p.m. and on Friday, Jan. 22, at 8 p.m.

Tickets are available for $47 through the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts’ patron services box office at (480) 994-ARTS (2787) or online at www.scottsdaleperformingarts.org.

The uncanny dancer-illusionists of MOMIX are internationally renowned for conjuring a magical fantasy world using props, light, shadow, humor and the human body. Best of MOMIX showcases selections from some of the company’s most dazzling productions, including its latest work Botanica and classics such as Baseball, Lunar Sea, MOMIX in Orbit, Opus Cactus and Passion.

Led by Artistic Director Moses Pendleton, MOMIX has performed throughout North and South America, Europe and Asia. Arizona has provided inspiration for several of the company’s signature works. In 1992, Pendleton created Bat Habits, developed with the support of the Scottsdale Cultural Council/Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts and the University of Washington to celebrate the opening of the San Francisco Giants’ new spring training park in Scottsdale. This work became the forerunner of MOMIX’s Baseball, which Pendleton created in 1994.

Originally a 30-minute piece commissioned for Ballet Arizona, MOMIX’s Opus Cactus is now a two-act suite of dances set to music derived from desert locations around the world. The work draws its inspiration from the landscape of the Southwest and magically interprets the imagery of the desert, from saguaros and tumbleweeds to lizards and rattlesnakes.

Moses Pendleton has been one of America’s most innovative and widely performed choreographers and directors for more than 30 years. One of the founding members of the groundbreaking Pilobolus Dance Theater, Pendleton formed MOMIX in 1981 and has since worked extensively in film, television and opera and as a choreographer for ballet companies and special events. He has received numerous honors, including the Positano Choreographic Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Best of MOMIX is part of the Art in Motion Series sponsored by the Daron and Ron Barness Family Foundation and is presented with support from Karen and John Voris.

MEDIA CONTACT: Bill Thompson | (480) 874-4626 | gro.straccsnull@tllib
BOX OFFICE & TICKETS: (480) 994-ARTS (2787)

Start Date: 2010-01-21
End Date: 2010-01-22

Title: Free Master Classes at SCC
Location: Scottsdale Community College, 9000 E. Chapparal Road, Scottsdale
Description: We will be hosting Chad Michael Hall during the week of January 11-15. He will be teaching a free master class to the community from 10-12 each day that he is here.

If you come – bring your knee pads.

For more info call Angela Rosencrans at (480) 423-6600.

Date: January 11-15, 2010
Time: 10:00am-12:00pm

Title: A Concert of Music for the Dance
Location: Stevie Eller Theatre UAz Campus Tucson, AZ
Link out: Click here

Description: As a featured event during the 20th Anniversary Conference of the International Guild of Musicians in Dance, this is a concert of music written specifically for dance, but performed without the dance! Special guest artists include composer and concert pianist Marjorie Landsmark-Delewis, Tucson Symphony Orchestra violist, Yvonne Creanga and illustrator David Christiani. Tickets are $15.00 for adults and $8.00 for students. Tickets may be purchased at the door or at www.igomid.camp9.org
Start Time: 7:00 pm
Date: January 15, 2010