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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.

 


"
NEW ARTiculations Dance Theatre has made a name for itself around town for quirky, experimental work" -Margaret Regan, The Tucson Weekly

"NEW ARTiculations is a company that merits not only watching, but backing." --Jennifer Lee Carroll of Arizona Daily Star

"…an edgy group of dancers who fling themselves into an experimental field between dance and performance art,"  Jennifer Lee Carroll, Arizona Daily Star

 

 

Contact NEW ARTiculations                 P.O. Box 43423 Tucson, AZ  85733          520.270.4352
 

(C) NEW ARTiculations, Inc. 2008     Photos by L. Hanelin