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Who: ArtBark Local & Nancy Evans Dance Theatre

 

What:  Bridges of Exchange: Being the Change

A studio offering of creative games, storytelling and writing, and contemporary dance.  Stories and games by ArtBark Local, Choreography by Stephen Kelly, Hannah Ruth Brothers, and Misa Kelly, and SoCal GOLDEN BRIDGE guests Nancy Evans Dance Theatre

 

When:  October 3, 2015 at 5:00 pm

 

Where: Montecito School of Ballet, 529 E. Gutierrez, Santa Barbara CA

 

Cost: FREE, donations welcome!

 

Publicity Photos: https://www.smugmug.com/gallery/n-FSnpS5

 

About: ArtBark, after a triumphant premiere of Alma.Sama at the Cankarjev Dom in Ljubljana, grounds back into its local expression.  Continuing with its local tradition of nurturing artistic excellence via creating golden bridges of lush performing and teaching opportunity to artists living in other regions of the world, they continue to invigorate the local arts scene with a studio showing of inter-active creative play, storytelling, improvisation, and contemporary dance.  ArtBark Local is a project of the Future Traditions Foundation and builds on over 2 decades of giving to the Santa Barbara community.

 

MORE INFORMATION

ArtBark Local will share elements created this summer and invites the audience to participate in creative play experiencing the joys of the co-creative process.  Additionally, Hannah Ruth Brothers and Misa Kelly will share an excerpt from choreographic research they began this spring, and ArtBark choreographer Stephen Kelly will share a developing solo set on local dancer Nikki Pfieffer.    Keeping the energy of exchange alive, the critically acclaimed Sierra Madre based company Nancy Evans Dance Theater returns to share 30 minutes of their world class contemporary dance featuring the choreography of Nancy Evans Doede, Jenn Logan, and European based artist Nikolaos Crist Doede.  The following weekend Nancy Evans Dance Theater hosts their Family/Friends/Dance Festival at ARC Pasadena and ArtBark International will share a section from their next evening length project “What’s the Solution.”

 

Guest Artists: Nancy Evans Dance Theatre

Nancy Evans Dance Theatre is a modern-based company established in 2009 under the Artistic Direction of Nancy Evans Doede.  NEDT has produced WORKS 2010-2015 and FRIENDS/FAMILY/DANCE/FESTIVAL 2011-2015.  The company is in residence at Porticos Art Space in Pasadena.  Nancy Evans Dance Theatre has performed in various festivals, including the 4th-8th Annual Pasadena Dance Festivals, TriArt Festival, MixMatch, Roubans Rouges, Art Night Pasadena, AdaptFest, ArtBark International’s Show and Tell Series, SpectorDance Choreographer’s Showcase, and has been a guest company at Moorpark College’s Motion Flux concert.  NEDT is committed to creating community with the language of dance; to use it to search for common threads between people; to engage our souls and experience art as a living thing.  For without art, we are incomplete.  Find Nancy Evans Dance Theatre on Facebook, Google+, Youtube and at www.nancyevansdancetheatre.com. 

 

Nancy Evans Dance Theatre’s Creative Offering

“Shift In Expectations” [excerpt from SHIFT (2011)]
Choreography: Nancy Evans Doede
Original Score: Blake Colie
Danced by: Katrina Amerine, Ashleigh Doede, Jen Hunter, Karina Jones

This section deals with the ongoing expectations placed on women in societies to uphold the appearance of doing everything well and correctly, reflecting positively and politely on their societies. What happens when women begin to discover they have individual colors, don’t fit the mold, are no longer willing to be still? How will they deal with that new-found energy?

 

“Shifting Sands: Age vs Time” [excerpt from SHIFT (2011)] Choreography: Nancy Evans Doede
Original Score: Blake Colie
Danced by: Jenn Logan and Scot Tupper

Time is constantly bringing change. Women in many societies feel that time does not honor them as they age. They are not as beautiful, not as trim, not as valuable to the men in their cultures. Women often struggle with this inevitable change as time matures them. What happens when a woman turns her fear of time into a confrontation with time? Can she turn her struggles into victory?

 

“There Between” (2013)
Choreography: Nikolaos Crist Doede
Music by: Max Richter
Danced by: Katrina Amerine, Ashleigh Doede, Jenn Logan

Loss comes into everyone’s life. How does each person involved in that loss cope with it? How do we hold on when we have to let go?

“Lucy” (2015)
Choreography: Jenn Logan Music by: Ludovic Bource Danced by: Ashleigh Doede

Fun with a box.