NEW ARTiculations Dance Theatre

Join us for the first Walk the Watershed tour.

Sunday, Jan. 29, 1-3 pm

Location: Arroyo Chico Wash

Park/meet on corner of
Santa Rita Ave. & 12th St. (in Lost Barrio)

Hosted by Eric Dhruv of the Ironwood Tree Experience and NEW ARTiculations dancers. Learn about your watershed in a lively walkin’/talkin’/groovin’ way!

Free and open to the public.

Activities will include: listening, observing, playing, marveling, moving, and learning. A short dance will also be performed for you! Wear comfortable shoes, a hat, and sunscreen. Bring water.

“Walk the Watershed” is a tributary of FLOW, a New ARTiculations project exploring the local watershed, the Santa Cruz River, and water conservation strategies through dance.

photo by Chris Noble

New ARTiculations Dance Theatre and Movement Salon present “Improvisologies” featuring the internationally-renowned improvisational troupe, The Architects, and Tucson’s very own Movement Salon.

Sunday, Jan. 8, 2012
7 pm, ZUZI! Theater
738 N. 5th Ave., Tucson, AZ
Tickets: $10-$15 (sliding scale), cash or check at the door only

Come practice the fine art of paying deep attention to the moment as you watch these performers create compositions of dance, music, and spoken word text on the spot with no prior plan, no set choreography, no memorized text, and no prepared music. In any given moment these works will make you think, laugh, remember, imagine, cry, and feel more alive. And that’s a nice way to start a new year.

Ready to move? Ready to make stuff up? Ready to pay attention like you never have before? Ready to collaboratively create funny, heartbreaking, poignant, goofy-silly, meaningful work?
Then…ring in the year with the Architects, right here in sunny Tucson, AZ- January 5-8, 2012!
(that’s right…January 5-6-7-8! )

Register for the WHOLE shebang…or for drop-in classes (see below for details).

This 4 day intensive balances in-depth individual exploration with rigorous practice in spontaneous ensemble dance-making. Fresh perceptions and new choices are set in motion daily through provoking, open-ended questions. Each kinesthetic conceptual proposition acts as an entrance point for the mover and composer, a window into authenticity, connection, depth, and range. Of particular interest here is THE EMERGING: compositional languages and modes of perceiving and engaging that are in-progress, unfolding, as-yet-unseen.

Throughout the intensive, the artistic integrity of one’s voice is sharpened in conversation with the whole and a dialogue emerges as individual aesthetics meet, interact, and expand. As time allows, group discussions contribute to conscious integration of the experiential and the conceptual. Even here, moving into words is an invitation to discover, to uncover diverse perspectives, spark the imagination, and to notice the aesthetic and poetic effect of our compositional choices.

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All workshops and events take place in the beautiful studios of the ZUZI! Dance Theatre in downtown Tucson and the peaceful studios of The Movement Shala. Out of town participants are housed in the funky and comfortable Roadrunner Hostel and Inn, walking distance away from the theater and lively 4th Ave, home to many cafes, restaurants, bars and boutiques.

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Tuition: $300
Housing: $17-$34 a night, at downtown hostel.
Scholarships are available. Please inquire for details.

Workshop schedule/locations
Thursday, Jan 5:
9-12 ZUZI
2-5 Movement Shala
7-9 ZUZI
Drop-in costs: $25/2 hour session; $35/3-hour session

Friday, Jan 6
9-12 Movement Shala
2-5 Movement Shala
7-9 ZUZI
Drop-in costs: $25/2 hour session; $35/3-hour session

Saturday, Jan 7 (No drop-ins)
9-12, 2-5, 6-8 all at ZUZI

Sunday, Jan 8 (No drop-ins)
9-12 Movement Shala
2-5 Movement Shala
7 pm evening performance at ZUZI, “Improvisologies: an evening of spontaneous compositions featuring members of the Architects and Movement Salon

APPLICATION (for full applicants only):
Please respond briefly to the following questions, in addition to providing a short resume of dance experience.

1. What do you find most challenging about improvisation?

2. How do you imagine this workshop might support your interest in improvisation?

Application and non-refundable deposit of $50 due by Dec. 10, 2011.

**Send deposit of $50 to:
New Articulations
PO box 43423
Tucson, AZ 85733

**E-mail application and/or registration inquiries to Katherine Ferrier at katherine@katherineferrier.net.

As a part of Kore Press’ Big Read Tucson, New ARTiculations Dance Theatre, with visiting dance artist Katherine Ferrier of The Architects and local sound genius Vicki Brown, present an evening-length dance & music performance inspired by the life and poetry of Emily Dickinson.

Featuring:

New works by Kimi Eisele, Erika Farkvam, Lisa-Marie McFarlane, Moriah Mason, Tammy Rosen, and Katie Rutterer and guest artist Katherine Ferrier

Original musical compositions by Vicki Brown (on violin and pedals)

Costumes designed and made by Barbara Seyda, lighting design by Don Fox.

Pima Community College Center for the Arts
Proscenium Theater
Nov. 12, 7 p.m.
Tickets $10 in advance, $15 at the door.
VIP tickets, which include special seating and private reception, $40.

Tickets can be purchased at the box office or online at http://korepress.org/danceperformance.htm. For more information, questions, or media inquiries, email Miranda at kore@korepress.org or call 520-327-2127.

On Oct. 22, New ART takes excerpts from our project about water, FLOW, to Saguaro National Park, joining thousands of others for the BioBlitz, a biodiversity festival to inventory the plants and animals of the park. The monsoons are over, but New ART will freshen up the desert with splashes of moving water, embodied!

Come watch us dance and join in our participatory performance!
Saturday, Oct. 22, 2:30-3pm

Red Hills Visitor Center, 2700 N. Kinney Road

The festival and inventory take place Friday and Saturday, October 21-22, 2012, 9am to 4pm. Science booths, demonstrations, and entertainment!

“a glee possesseth me”: Moving Emily Dickinson’s Poems
A Big Read workshop

Sat., Oct. 15, 10am-noon
The Movement Shala, 435 E. 9th St.
Cost: $15. Children, adults & elders all welcome!

Join dancer/writer Kimi Eisele and poet/publisher Lisa Bowden for a journey through Emily Dickinson’s poetry using movement and writing exercises. Invigorate your own writing, learn more about the choreographic process, get a little exercise, and gain a deeper understanding of Ms. Dickinson’s poetry. Activities are suitable for people of all ages and abilities. No prior dance experience necessary. This workshop will also give a sneak peek into the process used by New ART artists in creating the upcoming Nov. 12 performance of works inspired by the life and poems of Ms. Dickinson.

This event is part of The Big Read program, a nation-wide literacy project of the National Endowment for the Arts. To see a full listing of Big Read/Emily Dickinson events in Tucson, visit Kore Press.

To pre-register for the workshop or get more information, email us at info@newarticulations.org or sign-up here: http://www.korepress.org/BigReadWorkshops.htm

Watch excerpts from our latest work, which premiered at our April 2011 concert, “Watershed,” at Pima Community College Center for the Arts.

“NEW ARTiculations’ dance performance “Watershed” moved me deeply. As a water conservation professional in Tucson, I was honored to give input to the creation process and was very curious to see the result (my first modern dance experience!). I was particularly struck by the clarity of message throughout the dance and the diversity of movement expression I witnessed—truly mesmerizing. Thank you for sharing these important ideas with public!”
-Emily Brott, Project Manager, Sonoran Institute

Be sure to check out our Current Projects page for this season’s attractions!

Friday & Saturday, April 15 & 16, 2011
8 pm

Join NEW ART for our annual concert, featuring dances from our multi-year, water awareness project, “FLOW,” and other works.

Come watch dancers perform these amazing feats:

Lindyhopping to the Charleston!
Listening to each other’s feet and backs and knees!
Swimming on stage!
Sprouting wings and flying!
Challenging hundreds of plastic water bottles!
Dragging and drooping, dizzy with dehydration!
Pumping, drilling, and scooping the last drops out of the river!

and more…

With choreography by Kimi Eisele, Erika Farkvam, Tammy Rosen, Katie Rutterer, and Megan Shaffer. And additional works by guest artists Charlotte Adams, Thom Lewis, and Gayl Zhao

NEW ART joined Tucson’s spring Carnaval festival on Feb. 19 to share movement exercises related to water and rivers. We invoked Oxum, the Yoruba-Brazilian diety of love and rivers, played with equilibrium, followed the flow, and created a dance phrase about our recent experiences with water in the desert. Thanks to our lovely participants and the NEW ART dancers for their creativity!

Dancing with the River, Carnaval Style!

Join NEW ARTiculations for a movement workshop to awaken your own body rhythms and honor the Brazilian Candomble diety, Oxum, goddess of love and sweet waters. Presented as part of the company’s current project FLOW: Dancing for Water Awareness in the Desert, this interactive workshop incorporates modern dance, personal memory, and community stories to explore our connections to Tucson’s now-sporadic river, the Santa Cruz. Come share your story, dance with us, and pay tribute to the mighty river, in all her forms.

Where: Tucson Carnaval Armory Park, Celebration Village

When: 4:30-5:15

Wear comfortable clothing.

Open to all ages and abilities. No prior dance experience necessary!

For a map and schedule of the day’s events, visit www.TucsonCarnaval.org