Title: Application Deadline EXPRESIONES Cinco
Location: PO Box 37132 Phoenix, AZ 85069
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Description: Expresiones Dance Festival Application Deadline
December 31, 2011–Postmarked/drop in person.
Dulce Dance Company, PO Box 37132 Phoenix, AZ 85069

Dulce Dance Company, is proud to present Expresiones Dance Festival. Now in its fifth year, Expresiones is a curated dance production showcasing expressive, unique and artistic talent in contemporary modern form. The essence of fine performing arts in unique and non-traditional spaces.

In the past, Expresiones has been presented in art galleries, movie theaters, raw spaces, and “in the round”. These locations have undergone simple re-vamping, converting them to alternative performance spaces.

Part of the goal of Expresiones is to present Dance in its purest form. The opportunity for performing in alternate non-traditional spaces allow the audience to experience and share new perspectives of performance. The closeness of the dancers helps to cultivate a more intimate relationship with the audience and community. This broadens the horizons of dance and the people that connect with it.

Expresiones is the act of expressing, conveying, or representing in words, art, music, or movement, a manifestation or expression of rural values something that expresses or communicates, especially with eloquence, a showing of feeling or character. Expressiones is a look or intonation that conveys meaning in which one expresses oneself, especially in speaking, depicting, and performing.

Mail Application, footage, and fee to address listed below,
Postmark by December 31, 2011 to
Candy Jimenez
Dulce Dance Company
PO Box 37132
Phoenix, AZ 85069
If you would like to submit your application in person or online, please call (602) 570-7635

http://www.dulcedancecompany.com

Performance Dates & Description: Expresiones Cinco March 2 & 3, 2012 This is Expresiones’ fifth year: Expresiones Cinco. Expresiones Cinco will be hosted at Playhouse on the Park in Phoenix Arizona at the Viad Corporate Center.  The center is located at 1850 N. Central Ave.  This space offers many opportunities for unique perspectives.  The stage specifications are attached.  In addition, the park area outside will be available for presentations as well.  We challenge you to create work that is appropriate for the different perspectives you will have available to you.
Date: 2011-12-31

Coming Home (Photo by Heather Hill)

Title: Desert Dance Theatre Auditions
Location: Dance Theater West, 3925 E. Indian School Road, Phoenix
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Description: Auditions!!!!!

Desert Dance Theatre
is looking for male and female dancers
for its 2012 Spring Season.

December 5 & 7, 2011 (6:00pm-7:30pm)

The audition classes are FREE.

Dance Theater West
3925 E. Indian School Road, Phoenix, AZ

(Performances may start January 13, 2012.)

Requirements:
· Dancers must have flexible schedule
and available to rehearse and perform.
· Dancers must be versatile and have
performance experience in modern dance.
· Experience in ballet, jazz and other dance
and performing arts disciplines is a plus.
· Dancers must be responsible with reliable transportation.

Regularly scheduled rehearsals are on
Mondays and Wednesdays from 6pm-9:00pm,
Saturdays from 1:00pm-4:00pm.
Rehearsal schedule may vary or change as needed.

For more information, contact us at:
480-962-4584 or gro.ertaehTecnaDtreseDnull@asiL
www.DesertDanceTheatre.org

Date: 2011-12-05

Title: Center Dance Ensemble presents Frances Smith Cohen’s “Snow Queen”
Location: Herberger Theater Center, 222 E. Monroe St.
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Description: The Valley’s holiday favorite for the entire family, the magical retelling of the Hans Christian Andersen classic to music by Sergei Prokofiev.

Saturdays: Dec. 3, 10 and 17 at 2 p.m. & 7 p.m.
Sundays: Dec. 4, 11 and 18 at 2 p.m. & 5 p.m.

Ticket prices: $21.50 for adults, $17.50 for seniors and $9.50 for students,
all plus box office fees. 602-252-8497 or www.herbergertheater.org
Date: 2011-12-04

Title: Forever Tango
Location: UA Centennial Hall – 1020 E. University Blvd., Tucson
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Description: Luis Bravo’s Tony-nominated hit dance spectacular features an all-Argentinean cast of world-renowned dancers, an on-stage orchestra comprised of members of the Argentinean National Symphony and powerful vocalists. Over the past decade Forever Tango has returned to Broadway twice and has wowed audiences worldwide, repeatedly breaking box office records.

“A must see!” —The New York Times

“Forever Magical” —San Francisco Chronicle

“Torrid, tremendous and terrific!” —The Toronto Sun

Start Time: 08:00
Date: 2012-01-21

Title: National Dance Company of Colombia
Location: UA Centennial Hall – 1020 E. University Blvd., Tucson
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Description: Inspired by the cultural richness of the land and people, the National Dance Company of Colombia stands out from any other with its own style, elegance and movements that transform them into what audiences have called a “spectacular show of lights, music and dance!”
Start Time: 08:00
Date: 2012-02-04

Title: River North Dance Chicago
Location: UA Centennial Hall – 1020 E. University Blvd., Tucson
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Description: Founded by four visionary dancers/choreographers, River North Chicago is a young, dynamic company whose energy has catapulted it on to the international cultural landscape. The contemporary company’s jazz-based repertoire embodies a true flavor of “Americana,” showcasing highly skilled and emotive dancers, stimulating music and bold, commanding choreography.

“From high drama to low comedy, from torch songs to lyrical love duets, and from abstract modernism to jazzy ballroom style

– River North… can do it all, and do it with technical splendor, to boot.”

—Chicago Sun Times

Start Time: 08:00
Date: 2012-04-14

Title: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Location: UA Centennial Hall – 1020 E. University Blvd., Tucson
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Description: Join the millions worldwide who have experienced the Ailey company in person. Led by Artistic Director Judith Jamison, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has performed in 48 states and in 71 countries on six continents, including two historic residencies in South Africa. The company has earned a reputation as one of the most acclaimed international ambassadors of American culture, promoting the uniqueness of the African-American cultural experience and the preservation and enrichment of the American modern dance heritage.

Start Time: 08:00
Date: 2012-03-23

Title: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company
Location: UA Centennial Hall – 1020 E. University Blvd., Tucson
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Description: Director and choreographer Bill T. Jones — whose major honors include a MacArthur “Genius” Award, the Kennedy Center Honors and two Tony Awards for Best Choreography — returns to the stage in a new work for his renowned company. Inspired by legendary artist and composer John Cage’s “Indeterminacy,” a performance of 90 one-minute stories, Jones creates a landscape of dance, music and story, arranged anew for each performance by chance procedure. “Story/Time” finds Jones engaging in the time-honored art of storytelling while also questioning the structure of the form. Mentored by Cage’s modernist approach, randomness and structure trump the taste and personality of the artist to create a unique event that reflects on the relentless passage of time and our memory of it. Original music composed by Ted Coffey will accompany the diverse company of dancers.

Start Time: 08:00
Date: 2012-03-03

Title: Trisha Brown Dance Company
Location: UA Centennial Hall – 1020 E. University Blvd., Tucson
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Description: Ever a maverick, MacArthur Foundation and Guggenheim fellow and National Medal of Arts winner Trisha Brown’s “rich, ingenuous imagination” (New York Magazine) has never harbored assumptions about movement, space, or sound. Her dancers have careened off the sides of buildings, floated on a lake and undulated to metronomic pulses. The most widely acclaimed choreographer to emerge from the postmodern era, Brown celebrates four decades with a rare glimpse of her full body of work.
Start Time: 08:00
Date: 2012-02-18

Title: Marrugeku: Buru
Location: Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts
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Description: The Australian dance-theater company Marrugeku explores the past, present and future of indigenous cultures. A new production inspired by the seasons of the Western Australia’s Yawuru people, Buru blends hip-hop, stilt dancing and storytelling with original songs and music reflecting life for young people in the community of Broome.

Start Time: 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Date: April 14, 2012