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Title: CELEBRATING 35 YEARS OF DANCE: LOOKING BACK; MOVING FORWARD
Location: Tempe Center for the Arts, 700 W. Rio Salado Parkway Tempe, AZ 85281
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Description: A Ludwig Dance Theatre presents PROJECT 2012: Looking Back; Moving Forward
April 19, 20, 21 @ 7:30PM and April 22 @ 2PM

Tickets: https://tca.ticketforce.com/eventperformances.asp?evt=239
or call TCA Box Office: 480-350-2TCA (2822)
Thursday, April 19th: $22 Adults, $18 Seniors, $15 Students/Children
Friday, April 20th: $50 VIP Reception & Show, $22 Adults, $18 Seniors, $15 Students/Children
Saturday, April 21st: $22 Adults, $18 Seniors, $12 Students/Children
Sunday, April 22nd: $22 Adults, $15 Student/Children, $12 Seniors
ADC Member Price: $12 at any concert

Project 2012: Looking Back includes three works for the 80′s and 90′s and are still relevant today…toured East Coast, NYC, Europe. Project 2012: Moving Forward highlights the collaboration of five choreographers: Ludwig, Babs Case, Mary Fitzgerald, Kelly Roth, Karen Schupp, one sound designer: Brian Kunnari costume designer: Galina Mihaleva, six dancers, the ‘state of the union’ and an audience who texts the order of selected segements for each performance. Also on the concert is guest piece, “Someone” choreographed by the late Daniel Nagrin, reconstructed by his wife, Phyllis Steele and performed by David Barker. Each night is a special night.

Known for directly facing off with some of societies more perplexing events, this year’s production is no exception.

Towards that end, A Ludwig Dance Theatre continues collaboration with four diverse and exciting choreographers: Babs Case; Mary Fitzgerald; Kelly Roth; Karen Schupp.

They join Ann Ludwig on CELEBRATING 35 YEARS OF DANCE that examines the environment in which we find ourselves entrenched. Each choreographer has selected a direction from the issues surrounding today’s events. Divided into sections, audience involvement by text messaging determines how the political deck gets stacked for each concert.

Composer Brian Kunnari is creating the sound environment; he has worked with Ludwig on other events: The Cheese Stands Alone; ‘Til Death Do Us Part; Living Room Project: Kids. His work includes concert and commercial offerings and is a perfect fit for PROJECT 2012. Galina Mihaleva, award winning designer, joins the team to bring a challenging and ‘in your face’ production piece.

A Ludwig Dance Theatre is excited to bring to Tempe a solo work choreographed by the great Daniel Nagrin. “Someone”, an improvisational structure, will be performed by David Barker, actor, creator, professor at ASU. Nagrin left the rights to his wife, artist Phyllis Steele, to reconstruct.

Concert “Looking Back; Moving Forward” includes several dances taken from past repertoire. Opening with “Ain’t Over ‘Til the Fat Lady Sings” Ludwig recreates a work done in the mid 80’s for a European tour and subsequent performances. Bringing to the dance arena the on going struggle of women and their multiple roles in society with a “vivid, highly developed sense of theatre and a lot of daring”, New York Times.

“Five Poems for Computer, Narrator, Dancers and Bathtub” exudes the mystery and frolic of a stage born twilight zone. Three dancers cavort to the words of William Carlos Williams, Carl Sandburg, and Wallace Stevens read with panache by a narrator perched contentedly in an old claw foot bath tub. This work was first choreographed at ASU and selected for the American Dance Festival national performance in 1982.

The Gulf War, 1991, when US women found themselves on the front line of combat, formed the seed for “Xmas in the Desert”. The war’s long lived history is less in the past than anticipated at the time and relevant today some twenty years later.

Arizona’s longest existing dance company has been actively performing internationally in communities and universities, teaching in colleges and high schools, since its inception in California in 1977.

CELEBRATING 35 YEARS OF DANCE is supported, in part, by the City of Tempe; National Endowment for the Arts; Arizona Commission on the Arts; Schwartz Family Foundation; Emeritous College of Arizona State University.

https://www.aludwigdance.org
Start Date: 2012-04-19
End Date: 2012-04-22