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NEW
ARTiculations performs several times a year in Tucson and is available
for booking in other locations. See below for upcoming concerts:
We Are What We Eat
(Excerpts)
Sept 27, 2008
NEW ART will be
performing excerpts of "We Are What We Eat" on Sept.27 at the
Tucson-Pima Public Library. We Are What We Eat is a collaboration with
the Community Food Bank exploring the food we eat and the systems that
feed us through dance and community stories. It premiered last April at
the Tucson Botanical Gardens.
Invisible City
November 14-17, 2008
In
fall 2008 NEW ART collaborates with Kore Press, the 15-year-old
Tucson-based feminist press, to create The Invisible City, a 5-week,
site-specific, experimental arts lab exploring public space in Downtown
Tucson.
For four weekends,
beginning in mid-October, New ART dancers will join a collection of
women writers to create texts and dances within the downtown urban
environment in response to constraints, prompts, or thematic ideas put
forth by the project directors and fellow artists. Also joining the team
are Beth Weinstein, a professor of architecture at the University of
Arizona, whose research focuses on the intersections between
architecture and choreography; multi-instrumentalist, Vicki Brown; and
documentary filmmaker, Jamie Lee, who will film all the lab sessions.
Working collaboratively, the multi-genre ensemble will collect the
“results” from each lab experiment in the forms of writing, movement,
sound and video. Lab experiments will be shaped by artsts’ ideas,
interdisciplinary discoveries, public involvement, and the site itself.
Re-Visioning Downtown
Tucson
The Invisible City project
seeks to contribute to current conversations about the changing downtown
landscape and the role of arts and culture in creating economic growth
and regional identity. As urban growth in Tucson prioritizes highways
and tract housing developments over central plazas, affordable
live/workspaces, and desert landscape, public space becomes
decentralized, dehumanized, and “invisible.” Given the lack of literal
pathways for human contact and communication, the project asks women to
offer a new perspective of “city” through participation, engagement and
collaboration.
Some
guiding questions are:
What
new perspectives can women artists offer a city in flux?
How
might cross-genre artistic collaboration offer a model for creative
diplomacy?
How
does artistic practice and performance influence how we experience
public space?
How
does our relationship with public space and one another influence how we
move through and experience city?
How to See The Invisible
City:
All
Invisible City “experiments” will be open and visible to the public.
Some audience participation will be invited. Outdoor spaces include
parking lots, city sidewalks, intersections, and vacant lots. Indoor lab
spaces include the Design Lab studio, 174 E. Toole Ave., and Dinnerware,
264 E. Congress, among others.
Each
week audiences will find a schedule and map of where to view the artists
at work at the Design Lab studio, 174 E. Toole Ave. Additionally, a
mailbox with comment postcards at each lab site will be invite viewers
to “post” real-time responses to the artists’ work as well as share
their own ideas about public space downtown.
The
Invisible City lab results will be unveiled in a culminating experiment
atop the Parkwise Pennington Street Parking Garage, Nov. 14-16, 2008.
The Invisible City DATES
Open labs
Sundays, Oct. 19, 2-6 pm
Friday, Oct. 24, 5-7 pm
Saturday, Oct. 25, 7-9 pm (Downtown Saturday Night)
Sunday, Oct. 26, 2-6 pm
Friday, Oct. 31, 5-7 pm
Sunday, Nov. 2, 2-6 pm
Friday, Nov. 7, 5-7 pm
Sunday, Nov. 9, 2-6 pm
(Suggested donation $5/lab to participate, $2 to watch)
Final results
Friday, Nov. 14: Open “dress rehearsal,” 5:30 pm, Parkwise Parking
Garage at Pennington between Scott Ave. and Sixth Ave. (Suggested
donation: $5)
Saturday, Nov. 15: Raw footage film of lab processes, Dusk, TBA
(Suggested donation: $5)
Sunday, Nov. 16: Performance (presentation?), 5:30 pm, Top floor of
Parkwise Parking Garage at Pennington between Scott Ave. and Sixth Ave.
Plenty of parking below! (Tickets: $10)
Works of Art
June 5-6, 2009
Center for the Arts
Proscenium Theatre, PCC West
NEW ART's season will
culminate with “Works of Art”. This final show is a place for local
choreographers to create works that are theatrical, athletic, daring,
and new. This year, we also welcome guest artists Amy Ernst of the
University of Arizona, Amber Duke – a new dancer/choreographer to
Tucson, and Tucson favorite Charlotte Adams.
Dance! Tucson Sampler
four of Tucson's modern dance companies: FUNHOUSE movement theater, NEW
ARTiculations Dance Theatre,
O-T-O Dance
and ZUZI Dance Company
have banded together in a unique offer. Purchase a Sampler
Card from Dance! Tucson and see one concert by each company for only $35.
For more information , click here.
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