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Title: Alvin Ailey American Dance TheaterLocation: UA Centennial Hall – 1020 E. University Blvd., TucsonLink out: Click hereDescription: Join the millions worldwide who have experienced the Ailey company in person. Led by Artistic Director Judith Jamison, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has performed in 48 states and in 71 countries …

Title: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company Location: UA Centennial Hall – 1020 E. University Blvd., Tucson Link out: Click here Description: Director and choreographer Bill T. Jones — whose major honors include a MacArthur “Genius” Award, the Kennedy Center Honors and two Tony Awards for Best Choreography — returns …

Title: Trisha Brown Dance Company Location: UA Centennial Hall – 1020 E. University Blvd., Tucson Link out: Click here Description: Ever a maverick, MacArthur Foundation and Guggenheim fellow and National Medal of Arts winner Trisha Brown’s “rich, ingenuous imagination” (New York Magazine) has never harbored assumptions about movement, space, or …

Title: Marrugeku: Buru Location: Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts Link out: Click here Description: The Australian dance-theater company Marrugeku explores the past, present and future of indigenous cultures. A new production inspired by the seasons of the Western Australia’s Yawuru people, Buru blends hip-hop, stilt dancing and storytelling with …

Title: Circa Location: Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts Link out: Click here Description: Internationally recognized as one of Australia’s most innovative ‘new circus’ companies, Circa offers a bold new vision blending bodies, light, sound and new media. Synchronized to stylish music, the troupe’s seven members perform daredevil acrobatics and …

Title: Circa Location: Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts Link out: Click here Description: Internationally recognized as one of Australia’s most innovative ‘new circus’ companies, Circa offers a bold new vision blending bodies, light, sound and new media. Synchronized to stylish music, the troupe’s seven members perform daredevil acrobatics and …

Title: Circa Location: Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts Link out: Click here Description: Internationally recognized as one of Australia’s most innovative ‘new circus’ companies, Circa offers a bold new vision blending bodies, light, sound and new media. Synchronized to stylish music, the troupe’s seven members perform daredevil acrobatics and …

Title: Chunky Move: Connected Location: Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts Link out: Click here Description: Australia’s Chunky Move has earned an enviable reputation for its distinct yet unpredictable brand of genre-defying dance. Highly imaginative and seductive, the company’s newest work, Connected, explores the movements of dancers tethered to undulating …

Title: Trisha Brown Dance Company Location: Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts Link out: Click here Description: Maverick dancer Trisha Brown forever changed the art world when she founded her revolutionary company in 1970. Known for incorporating everyday movements into her avant-garde dances and for her creative partnerships with artists …

Title: Batsheva Dance Company Location: Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts Link out: Click here Description: Founded in 1964 by Martha Graham and Baroness Batsheva De Rothschild, Israel’s Batsheva Dance Company has been embraced as one of the world’s most exciting contemporary dance troupes. Now under the direction of visionary …

Title: DanceBrazil Location: Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts Link out: Click here Description: Under the direction of Jelon Vieira, New York-based DanceBrazil has thrilled audiences around the globe with its dazzling artistry and unique fusion of Afro-Brazilian movement, dance and Capoeira, the daring martial-arts dance that evolved in colonial …

Title: DanceBrazil Location: Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts Link out: Click here Description: Under the direction of Jelon Vieira, New York-based DanceBrazil has thrilled audiences around the globe with its dazzling artistry and unique fusion of Afro-Brazilian movement, dance and Capoeira, the daring martial-arts dance that evolved in colonial …