Title: Intermediate Modern Dance Class with Frances Cohen
Location: Dance Theater West, 3925 E. Indian School Road, Phoenix
Description: Intermediate Modern Dance Class by Frances Cohen
Dance Theater West, 3925 E. Indian School Road, Phoenix
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
6:00pm-7:30pm

Frances Cohen, artistic director of Center Dance Ensemble is offering her Tuesday night Intermediate Modern Dance class as part of the Arizona Dance Festival (ADF) activities.

The class is free and open to the general public with purchase of a ticket to one or more ADF performances at Tempe Center for the Arts on October 7-8. Bring your ticket to the class for proof of purchase or buy tickets before the class begins.

TCA Box Office: 480-350-2822 or www.tempe.gov/tca

The class is free to ADC Members and to ADF Participants who are performing in the show.

Please RSVP by Monday, October 3, 2011.
For more information call Lisa Chow at 480-962-4584.
Date: 2011-10-04

Frances Smith Cohen (Artistic Director of Center Dance Ensemble) is a teacher, choreographer, administrator and dance graduate from Bennington College in Vermont. She was dance director of the Jewish Community Center in Tucson for 18 years, and directed the first touring dance company in Arizona, the Kadimah Dancers. In 1963 Frances helped create Arizona Dance Arts Alliance in Tucson and in 1972 she co-founded the dance program at the University of Arizona. She was the recipient of a National Opera Institute grant to tour regional opera companies as choreographer and assistant director. Plus, she was director of opera at George Washington University from 1981 to 1986. Frances began Wolf Trap in Arizona, the placing of performing artists in Head Start classrooms. She has been the regional director for this program since 1986. Frances was honored with the Outstanding Artist Fellowship Award for Choreography from the Maryland State Arts Council. She also created Dance Theater West with partner Susan Silverman, and directs CDE, housed at the Herberger Theater Center. Cohen is the proud recipient of the 1994 Arizona Governor’s Outstanding Artist Award, and the 2004 Women Who Care lifetime Achievement Award. She is co-author of “Dance Essential Skills” and “Performing Dance Standards” for the Arizona Department of Education. In 2010, she was awarded the Childsplay’s Pied Piper Award for her contributions to art education.

Title: Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company’s Polychromatic
Location: Del E. Webb Center for the Performing Arts, Wickenburg
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Description: Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company “Polychromatic”

Del E. Webb Center for the Performing Arts, Wickenburg
Friday, October 28, 2011
7:30 pm
FREE

Polychromatic features the world premiere of Artistic Director Charlotte Boye-Christensen’s new dance about the great American West, created here in Wickenburg, and four diverse repertory pieces. Always striving to be at the forefront of contemporary dance, the company provides audiences with a variety of choreographic styles from pure dance to multi-media in a single evening.

Tickets to this event are FREE however, seating is reserved. Limit 4 tickets. Please review the complimentary ticket policy below before reserving seats to this performance.

Complimentary Ticket Policy All previously issued complimentary tickets are valid until 10 minutes prior to curtain. At that time, vacant seats may be released to persons on standby.

Wellik Series: This Wellik Series performance and residency has been made possible through financial support from the Wellik Foundation.

Family Fun: This performance is enjoyable for all ages.

Presented with support from The National Endowment for the Arts
Ririe-Woodbury received direct support from the NEA and designed this project to engage our community in the experience of dance.

Flying E Ranch Residency & Open Rehearsals
Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company will take up residence at The Flying E Guest Ranch in Wickenburg from October 15 – 29. While in residence the company will create a new dance with Artistic Director, Charlotte Boye-Christensen.

Watch Charlotte and the Company create a new dance by attending Open Rehearsals – Free.

Open Rehearsals: 2 PM – 5 PM, October 19, 21 & 25
Warehouse Studio, Benner-Nawman, located at 3450 Sabin Brown Road, Wickenburg.
Start Time: 7:30pm
Date: 2011-10-28

Title: ASU Undergraduate Project Showings
Location: Arizona State University, Margaret Gisolo Dance Studio PEBE 132, Tempe
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Description: Undergraduate Project Showings
October 27, 2011 at 7:30 p.m.
October 28, 2011 at 7:30 p.m.

ASU School of Dance
Location: Margaret Gisolo Dance Studio PEBE 132
Campus: Tempe
Cost: FREE

This free performance is presented, performed, and produced by the School of Dance Undergraduate Students.
Start Date: 2011-10-27
End Date: 2011-10-28

Title: Pilobolus Dance Theatre in Scottsdale
Location: Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, 7380 E. Second Street, Scottsdale AZ 85251
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Description: PILOBOLUS DANCE THEATRE CELEBRATES
40 YEARS OF INNOVATION

Friday, October 21, 2011, 8 p.m.
Saturday, October 22, 2011, 8 p.m.
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts

(SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.) – Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts will present Pilobolus on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 21–22, at 8 p.m. in the Virginia G. Piper Theater.

Tickets are available for $49 and $59 online at www.ScottsdalePerformingArts.org or through the Patron Services Box Office at (480) 499-TKTS (8587).

Named after a sun-loving fungus that grows in barnyards and pastures, Pilobolus began in 1971 as an outsider dance company and quickly became renowned the world over for its imaginative and athletic exploration of creative collaboration. Now celebrating its 40th anniversary, this unique American company has created one of the most popular and varied bodies of work in the history of dance and continues to thrill audiences with its gravity-defying performances of extreme balance, contortion and illusion.

Based in Washington Depot, Conn., Pilobolus tours internationally, performing on stage and television, and has earned numerous awards. The company also is known for its groundbreaking collaborations with an eclectic variety of individuals and organizations, including author Maurice Sendak, puppet master Basil Twist, SpongeBob SquarePants head writer Steven Banks, cartoonist Art Spiegelman, the rock band Ok Go and MIT’s Distributed Robotics Lab.

Pilobolus’ Scottsdale performance will feature both classic and recent works, including Particle Zoo (1990), a quartet for men with an odd-man-out theme; The Transformation (2009), a shadow piece in which a young woman is transformed; Duet (1992), an exploration of themes of intimacy, misunderstanding and union; Rushes (2007), a surrealist animated dream sequence; and Korokoro (2011), one of its newest productions.

This performance is presented with support from The Saguaro. MetLife Foundation is the official tour sponsor of Pilobolus Dance Theatre.

GROUP DISCOUNTS
Attend with family and friends, or bring a group from your business, civic or religious organization. Save $4 per ticket and at least $27.50 in handling fees when purchasing 15 or more tickets to the same event (subject to availability; some restrictions apply). Instead of $2.50 per single ticket, the facility fee is only $10 total for group orders.

Start Date: 2011-10-21
End Date: 2011-10-22

Title: CMC’s Dusk to Dawn II
Location: Coconino High School Mini Auditorium, 2801 N. Izabel Street.  Flagstaff  86004
Description: Canyon Movement Company and guests Velocity Dance presents Dusk to Dawn II: Vampire Legends and More Creepy Tales

Coconino High School Mini Auditorium
Friday-Saturday, October 28-29, 2011 at 8:00pm
$8/$6 Students

Saturday at 3:30pm
$7/$5 Students

Tickets at the door or call 928-774-3937
$1 off in Halloween costume
Start Date: 2011-10-28
End Date: 2011-10-29

Title: Desert Dance Theatre at GateWay
Location: GateWay Community College, 108 N. 40th Street, Phoenix
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Description: Desert Dance Theatre
Gateway Community College
108 N. 40th Street, Phoenix
October 24, 2011
11:30am-12:30pm
FREE

Desert Dance Theatre performs a lecture demonstration including excerpts of its current repertory as part of the GateWay to the Arts Series. Free to the Public.

Desert Dance Theatre, 480-962-4584
Date: Monday, October 24, 2011

Title: Arizona Dance Festival 2011
Location: Tempe Center for the Arts, 700 W. Rio Salado Parkway Tempe, AZ 85281
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Description: DESERT DANCE THEATRE presents
Arizona Dance Festival 2011
Friday-Saturday, October 7-8, 2011
Friday 7:30pm, Saturday 2:00pm and 7:30pm

Tempe Center for the Arts – Studio
700 West Rio Salado Parkway, Tempe, Arizona 85281
$18 Adult, $15 Senior, $13 Student, $25 for 2 shows, $12 Group of 10+.
VIP Deals – $10 Friends of Desert Dance Theatre (DDT),
Arizona Dance Coalition (ADC), Arizona Presenters Alliance (APA)

TCA Box Office: 480-350-2822 or www.tempe.gov/tca

For concert information contact Desert Dance Theatre, 480-962-4584 or go to www.DesertDanceTheatre.org.

Arizona Dance Festival 2011

Desert Dance Theatre presents the Arizona Dance Festival 2011 at the Tempe Center for the Arts Studio on Friday-Saturday, October 7-8, 2011 (Friday 7:30pm, Saturday 2:00pm & 7:30pm). Each performance will showcase a different set of individual dance artists and emerging artist groups as well as professional companies from all genres and styles of dance, featuring dance artists and dance companies from Arizona and other states.

A FREE Intermediate Modern Dance Class on Tuesday, October 4th at 6:00pm-7:30pm by Frances Cohen is offered as part of the ADF activities to ADC members, and to dancers with ADF ticket purchase.

A post-performance Q & A will be facilitated by the Arizona Dance Coalition directly after the show.

Performance line-up for each show (in alphabetical order):

Friday (7:30pm)
Ava Fleming
AZ FlamenKathak
Crossroads performance Group
Desert Dance Theatre
Diane McNeal Hunt/Nicole L. Olson
Dulce Dance Company
Harper Piver/H Lab Performance
Human Nature Dance Theatre
MarioCo. Dance
Movement Source Dance Company
Step’s Junk Funk
The Opal Collective

Saturday (2:00pm)
Ballet Etudes
Crossroads Performance Group
Desert Dance Theatre
Dulce Dance Company
Kelly Roth & Dancers
Nevada Repertory Dance Theater
Range-of-(e)Motion
Silambam Phoenix
Step’s Junk Funk

Saturday (7:30pm)
Astarte Belly Dance Troupe
Ballet Etudes
Bernadette Gaxiola/School of Ballet AZ
Britta Joy Peterson
Desert Dance Theatre
Dulce Dance Company
Kelly Roth & Dancers
Nevada Repertory Dance Theater
Range-of-(e)Motion
Step’s Junk Funk

DESERT DANCE THEATRE
P.O. BOX 25332, TEMPE, ARIZONA 85285-5332

CONTACT: Lisa R. Chow
Phone: 480-962-4584
E-Mail: gro.ertaehTecnaDtreseDnull@asiL
www.DesertDanceTheatre.org.

Date: October 7-8, 2011

Title: FREE Presentation – Step’s Junk Funk
Location: Night Gallery at Tempe Marketplace
Description: Free Event!

Step’s Junk Funk presentation with audience participation.

Night Gallery at Tempe Marketplace

7:30pm
8:00pm
8:30pm

Bring your friends and family!
Date: 2011-09-17

Title: Free Arts of AZ and Dance Theater West’s Storybook Ballet
Location: Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, 7380 E. 2nd Street, Scottsdale
Description: Wonderland at Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts

A Magical Ballet Performance presented by Free Arts of AZ and
Dance Theater West’s Storybook Ballet Company…and featuring Free Arts Dancers

Sunday, September 18, 2011 at 1:00 PM
Reception with Refreshments and Art Projects to follow
Admission Free

Call Free Arts at 602-258-8100 for reservations
Date: 2011-09-18

Title: East Valley Tribune Get Out Performing Arts Expo
Location: Mesa Arts Center, One East Main Street, Mesa, AZ 85211-1466
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Description: September 10, 2011 (10:00am-3:00pm)

East Valley Tribune’s
12th Annual Get Out Performing Arts Expo
Mesa Arts Center, One East Main Street, Mesa, Arizona
Info: 480-970-2381 or www.getoutaz.com
Cost: Free

Over 50 Valley performing arts groups will be participating to promote, show previews, and sell tickets to their 2011-12 season events.

Desert Dance Theatre performs from 10:45am-11:00am

Date: 2011-09-01