Photo by L. Hanelin

ADAPTATIONS

NEW ARTiculations Dance Theatre presents “Adaptations,” a performance about change, making do, and reinvention.

April 16 & 17, 2010

ZUZI! Theater in the Historic Y
738 North 5th Avenue, Tucson, AZ

Dancing on bicycles! Live Afro-Brazilian beats! Falling, running, spinning, laughing! A modern dance performance exploring various ways we adapt to new times, change, and challenging circumstances. New and adapted works by Renee Blakeley, Kimi Eisele, LisaMarie McFarlane, Tammy Rosen, and Katie Rutterer. Also work by guest choreographers, Amanda Hamp of Luther College in Decora, Iowa, and Yarrow King, Dance Director of Tucson's Afro-Brazilian drumming ensemble, Batucaxé.

Given the dismal state of economic and environmental affairs (budget cuts to arts and education, global financial insecurity, and over-consumption of finite natural resources in the desert and beyond), how do we keep going? How do we change and adapt? This innovative evening-length performance features work by local choreographers and reflects the inherent ways we, as humans, can adjust to new circumstances.

As dancers we are always responding to changing circumstances by moving or rotating or shifting our weight. As performers, we adapt to uneven surfaces, bright stage lights, technical difficulties. We’ve always been good at doing what we do with very little monetary reward. How do we adapt? We lift up and lean on each other. We fall in love with our bicycles again. We learn new styles and forms. We change the music. We move. So, now we want to move you.

Showtimes: Friday, April 16 & Saturday, April 17 at 8 pm at ZUZI!
Theater in the Historic Y. $12/$15. Available at Brown Paper Tickets
(http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/102330)

 

NEW ARTiculations Dance Theatre
www.newarticulations.org  newarticulations@gmail.com