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Affinity: SB-ADaPT Fest Sprouts!

SonneBlauma Danscz Theatre Celebrates its 15th Season
Affinity: SB-ADaPT Fest Sprouts
WHEN: Sunday, February 5th, 4:00 pm
WHERE: ARC Pasadena, 1158 East Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91106
TICKETS: FREE! Reservations at www.sonneblauma.com

ABOUT: Recharge and refresh with a dynamic Los Angeles – Santa Barbara exchange
SonneBlauma celebrates its 15th (& final) season with Affinity - SB-ADaPT Fest Sprouts. Building on the phenomenal success of the inaugural year of the critically acclaimed Festival, SonneBlauma implements phase two of the project via continued artistic exchange intended to build local, regional, national and international community. Performances in Pasadena, Santa Barbara and New York keep the creative flow between communities vibrant and the spark of inspiration alive in the hearts of participating artists and audiences alike. The ARC performance features SB-ADaPT Fest 2011 artists: Block & Block, Christine Suarez, Hart Pulse Dance Company, Movement Theater CoLab, Rubans Rouge Dance Company, SonneBlauma Danscz Theatre. Mojca Majcen Returns from Celje, Slovenia to perform with SonneBlauma.
Don’t miss out on this FREE performance celebration.
Bring memories to share and hopes for the future as we take on a new look and a name change to ArtBark.
PHOTOS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2hqzYuW8qE

ABOUT THE ARTISTS
http://www.sonneblauma.com/participating-artists
Block & Block
Christine Suarez
Hart Pulse Dance Company
Movement Theater CoLab
Rubans Rouge Dance Company
SonneBlauma Danscz Theatre - Stephen Kelly
SonneBlauma Danscz Theatre - Misa Kelly


DESCRIPTION OF DANCES
http://www.sonneblauma.com/description-of-the-work

SonneBlauma Danscz Theatre
SonneBlauma Danscz Theatre will be presenting a selection of repertory and new choreographic works by Co-Artistic Directors Misa & Stephen Kelly. Stephen, a classically trained pianist, composer and choreographer has created a trio for three or more dancers Falling & Flying based on themes of isolation and solidarity. The work will be set to an original score by Kelly. His work has been described as “brilliant” and “incredibly imaginative” by the press while Misa’s has been described as “witty”, “gutsy & searching”, “gorgeously multi-layered”, “striking and surreal.” Misa is presenting four works:

Whisk, an emotionally rich solo set on Slovenian dancer Mojca Majcen which takes both the dancer and audience on a cathartic journey through the shadow lands of humanity’s consciousness abiding in the “crack between the worlds between dreamtime and waking.”

Grit – a spunky and raucous duet performed in retro style swimwear and bathing caps that wrangles with all of the things we love and hate about sibling rivalry, suppressed temper tantrums, and explosive relationships between individuals thrust together by no choice of their own.

Under No Certain Circumstances - a playful, abstract, multilayered duet that draws inspiration from a gamut of random sources. Sources ranging from YouTube tango demonstrations, The Three Stooges slapstick routines & guerrilla style performance explorations that took place in a Westin Photographic exhibit at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

Block & Block
The mother/daughter dance company Block & Block will perform their newest duet Chaperone. A funny and touching duet created by Melissa Block (mom) and Sarah Block (11 year old daughter) about the power struggles between mothers and daughters.

Christine Suarez
Christine Suarez choreographs and performs in The Mothers I know and maybe you know too, a solo and self-portrait of her own transition into motherhood. Her words punctuate moments that range from mundane observations to profound surrenders. Her movement both devours space and rigorously spirals in on itself. With The Mothers I know and maybe you know too Suarez reveals a personal narrative that sheds light on the absurd and poetic life of a mother.

Hart Pulse Dance Company
Hart Pulse Dance Company will be presenting "Possibility Lost" poetically defined by choreographer Amanda Hart as “meeting in blindness, catching fire with touch. Finished before they ever became. Knowing what could have been but will not be."

Movement Theater CoLab
Choreographer Robert Salas will be presenting Hindsight. A contemporary modern piece that explores the realities and perceived realities of individuals as they struggle with memories, relationships and the outcomes of their choices as visited via hindsight.

Rubans Rouge Dance Company (ARC & CST)
Rubans Rouge Dance Company will feature the work of Artistic Director Noelle Andressen-Kale. At ARC Pasadena she will perform a short and sweet solo Gethsemane and The Stand - a quartet that questions whether we will fold or stand when human compassion is tested.

Dates:
Feb 5 - 4:00 pm

Pricing Info:
FREE

Location:
ARC Pasadena
1158 E. Colorado Blvd.
Pasadena, CA 91106