2012

A Year of transition - after 15 years as SonneBlauma Danscz Theatre we morph into ArtBark International. 

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SANTA BARBARA

January 7th, 2012

8:00 pm at Yoga Soup
NECTAR: HOME
Tickets @ the door
$12 cash

Weslie and Tina premiere a remake of "Grit." It evolved into an entirely new work!  Fun stuff. Dancing in vintage bathing suits/caps, idiosyncratic movement, relationship rich, deeply psychological and walks the edge between scary and hysterical. Feedback? Folks LOVED the work.

 

February - Affinity Tour! Pasadena, Santa Barbara, New York

February 5th, 2012 
ARC Pasadena
4:00 pm Performance Celebration
SonneBlauma Danscz Theatre, Hart Pulse Dance Company, Rubans Rouge Dance, Christine Suarez, Movement Theater CoLab, Block & Block donate art gifts to unwrap!

February 7th, 2012
Center Stage Theater
6:40 Dante Elephante Pre-Show
7:00 pm Performance Celebration
SonneBlauma Danscz Theatre, Hart Pulse Dance Company, Rubans Rouge Dance, Christine Suarez, Nebula Dance Lab, Movement Theater CoLab, Block & Block donate art gifts to unwrap!

HUGE success!
Visit our Affinity page to see photos and read preview articles and reviews.


February 11th, 2012 - 8:30 pm
Green Space Studios
Take Root Series
SonneBlauma shares an evening of work with NY based Perceptions Contemporary Dance Company.  Works shared included Grit, Unzipped, Moki's Wedding and Falling and Flying. Huge thanks to dancers Kevin Deelen, Tina Corbett, Weslie Ching, Mojca Majcen, and Joanna Nobbe and especially Valerie Green for hosting such a wonderful series.  

February 12th, 2012 - 8:30 pm
Green Space Studios
Fertile Ground
SonneBlauma shares the stage with New York choreographers


While we were there - a bit of guerrilla style movement art in the streets and in museums - unannounced and uninvited, which is always a bit of a rush when on the quest to "unframe art" and bring to places and spaces one might normally not encounter.


 

Santa Barbara

NECTAR: Golden

May 12th, 8:00 pm, Yoga Soup
Both Stephen and Misa premiered new works! Caravan and Paint my Wrinkles Red! 

Venice Beach

June 4th, 7:00 pm The Electric Lodge
Venice Beach, CA
MAX10 
Misa performed Unzipped as a solo integrating the audience seating folks on stage and random chance integration of a poetess.

Celje, Slovenia

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June 4th & June 11th
ArtBark International Choreography Classes
Master classes in choreography and composition at Dance Theater IGEN's home studio in Celje, Slovenia. Classes facilitated by Stephen Kelly and Mojca Majcen.

 

Vienna, Austria

June 19th - June 30th 
RAW MATTERS: ADaPT Fest Vienna
Kabelwerks Theatre
https://sites.google.com/site/adaptfestvienna/
Yup! The ADaPT Festival sprouted in Vienna!

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PARIS

July 8th
studio Le Regard du Cygne
4:00 pm
ArtBark & Friends! Affinity Project
http://www.leregarducygne.com/

July 9th
The Museum Project - at the Lourve

 

PASADENA & SANTA BARBARA, CA

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July 22nd - Master Class with Nadar Rosano from Israel @ ARC Pasadena. 11:00 am. Reserve your space through eventbrite.

July 25th - Master Class with Nadar Rosano from Israel @ the Montecito School of Ballet. 9:45 am sign-in. Reserve your space through eventbrite.

 

Santa Monica, CA

 

MixMatch Festival produced by Hart Pulse Dance Company
Miles Memorial Playhouse
September 1st and 2nd
September 1st @ 8:00 pm Joanna Nobbe and Misa Kelly performed Unzipped
September 2nd @ 2:00 pm Stephen Kelly's work Caravan was performed by Joanna Nobbe, Misa Kelly and Stephen Kelly.  

Pure bliss to be backstage and chat it up with old friends and new friends and even friends who live merely miles away you never see because of the intensity of juggling so many occupations and tasks as working class artists.   Double bliss to view the other works on the programs from the wings and the sleepover with giggles long into the night at Noelle of Rubans Rouge Dance Company's home.

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SANTA BARBARA

October 6th, 2012
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Santa Barbara Dance Alliance Dance Day
1-3 pm
ArtBarkers at improvisational play!

 

SANTA BARBARA and PASADENA

 

October 17th-21st
ArtBark International Festival
Affinity III
Companies from Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Salem
Please visit our project specific website
https://sites.google.com/site/ftfaffinityproject/