Dance
In The Mood - A 1940's Big Band Musical Revue
ArtBeat
Tuesday May 6 / 7:30pmAll tickets $39.50 /$29.50 - 10% off for Mahaiwe Members
IN THE MOOD is the 1940's Big Band Theatrical Swing Dance Revue. It's the music of Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, Harry James, Erskine Hawkins, The Andrews Sisters, Frank Sinatra and other greats of the 1940's. Featuring a company of 21 including the In the Mood Singers and Dancers with the sensational String of Pearls Big Band Orchestra, the show's music arrangements, costumes and choreography are as authentic as it gets!
In The Mood features the music that moved the nation's spirit and helped win a war. This was the last time when all of America was listening and dancing to the same kind of music. IN THE MOOD takes a retro look at the life and time of America's greatest generation. With music and dance performed to up-tempo big band rhythms and mellow intimate ballads, a mood was set to inspire a future filled with hope, promise and prosperity. See video preview at artbeatshows.org
In The Mood features the music that moved the nation's spirit and helped win a war. This was the last time when all of America was listening and dancing to the same kind of music. IN THE MOOD takes a retro look at the life and time of America's greatest generation. With music and dance performed to up-tempo big band rhythms and mellow intimate ballads, a mood was set to inspire a future filled with hope, promise and prosperity. See video preview at artbeatshows.org
SUU Ballroom Dance Company presents - Simply Ballroom
Southern Utah University
May 14 / 7:30pm$20 Reserved Seating
The SUU Ballroom Dance Company will amaze you as they perform their award-winning showcase Simply Ballroom. Audiences will be treated to breath-taking lifts, beautiful costumes, and a variety of ballroom dances that range from the exciting Latin Samba of Brazil to the majestic Slow Waltz, the rhythmical Cha Cha from Cuba, the elegant American Foxtrot, the intense Spanish Paso Doble and many more.
With more than 100 performances each year, this professional-level ensemble delights and uplifts thousands throughout the country. Traveling all the way from Utah for this one-night engagement, this energetic group will keep you tapping your feet as you are entertained by wonderful music, beautiful costumes, and amazing formation ballroom dancing.
With more than 100 performances each year, this professional-level ensemble delights and uplifts thousands throughout the country. Traveling all the way from Utah for this one-night engagement, this energetic group will keep you tapping your feet as you are entertained by wonderful music, beautiful costumes, and amazing formation ballroom dancing.
Paul Taylor Dance Company
$20 Family Friendly Matinee / $50 Evening Performance ($45 Mahaiwe Members)
The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center presents the Paul Taylor Dance Company in two performances on Saturday May 31, 2008 at 2pm & 7:30pm. The 2pm performance is a one-hour family friendly matinee featuring Diggity and Cloven Kingdom. The evening performance features Diggity, Arden Court and the Company Premiere of Paul Taylor's newest work, Changes. Family Matinee Tickets: $20 All Seats. Evening Performance: $250 (includes post performance party with dancers) / $50 Reserved Seating/ $45 Mahaiwe Members. Tickets on sale to Mahaiwe Members Saturday, April 5. General Public sales begin Friday, April 11.
Set to songs of The Mamas and The Papas, Changes is accompanied by a program note that states: "We remember the Sixties as being defined by the demand for radical change. Rejecting politicians' fear-mongering and their disastrous war in Vietnam, young people questioned authority and embraced liberation movements. While this era seems singular, in fact it was not. The more things change, the more they stay the same." Changes has costumes by Santo Loquasto and lighting by Jennifer Tipton. The evening program also features the 1978 dance Diggity, a delightful romp in which Alex Katz-designed dogs on stage create an obstacle course for the dancers, and Arden Court (1981), an ebullient celebration of movement set to a baroque score.
Family friendly afternoon performance includes Diggity and Cloven Kingdom (1976), in which the choreographer reveals the animal nature lurking just beneath man's sophisticated veneer.
SPECIAL EVENING INVITATION: $250 per person for Preferred Seating for The Premiere of Changes to the music of the Mamas and the Papas, and Post Premiere Party including light supper and refreshments, along with meet greet and sweet retreat with the dancers of Paul Taylor Dance Company at Crissey Farm with this celebrated & talented dance troupe!
Set to songs of The Mamas and The Papas, Changes is accompanied by a program note that states: "We remember the Sixties as being defined by the demand for radical change. Rejecting politicians' fear-mongering and their disastrous war in Vietnam, young people questioned authority and embraced liberation movements. While this era seems singular, in fact it was not. The more things change, the more they stay the same." Changes has costumes by Santo Loquasto and lighting by Jennifer Tipton. The evening program also features the 1978 dance Diggity, a delightful romp in which Alex Katz-designed dogs on stage create an obstacle course for the dancers, and Arden Court (1981), an ebullient celebration of movement set to a baroque score.
Family friendly afternoon performance includes Diggity and Cloven Kingdom (1976), in which the choreographer reveals the animal nature lurking just beneath man's sophisticated veneer.
SPECIAL EVENING INVITATION: $250 per person for Preferred Seating for The Premiere of Changes to the music of the Mamas and the Papas, and Post Premiere Party including light supper and refreshments, along with meet greet and sweet retreat with the dancers of Paul Taylor Dance Company at Crissey Farm with this celebrated & talented dance troupe!