AZDance Group, under the artistic direction and founder Kenda Newbury, presents their spring collection concert during VISITING on Sunday May 3, 2015 at Paradise Valley Community College.
Guest artists along with the professional dancers of AZDance Group and their children's, apprentice and dance program for both at-risk teens and young adults with disabilities brings seasoned audience members and newcomers delightful, inspiring and creative works for all ages.
In VISITING, the company brings a positive message of support and caring in their remaking of excerpts from Moving Through Domestic Violence(premiered 2009, financially supported in part by the City of Phoenix Office of Arts & Culture, The Hansen Trust and generous anonymous supporters), excerpts from Water (premiered 2014), and familiar & brand-new works by choreographers Kenda Newbury, Katie Rennell, Deserae McCall, Nicole Person-Rennell, Ray Vogel and others.
Tickets $20 adults, $12 seniors/students, children 10 and under FREE*
Radium Girls (play) - Based on a True Story
In 1926, radium was a miracle cure, Madame Curie an international celebrity, and luminous watches the latest rage—until the girls who painted them began to fall ill with a mysterious disease. Inspired by a true story, Radium Girls traces the efforts of Grace Fryer, a dial painter, as she fights for her day in court. Her chief adversary is her former employer, Arthur Roeder, an idealistic man who cannot bring himself to believe that the same element that shrinks tumors could have anything to do with the terrifying rash of illnesses among his employees.
RADIUM GIRLS (play) by DW Gregory
DIRECTED BY GARY ZARO
April 17th - 26th
Friday & Saturdays 7:30pm
Sundays 2:00pm
$4-$10 Admission.
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*$4 additional ticket fee at the door 1‐hour prior to performance.
Student Spotlight: Jo Van Loo, Fabric Artist
Jo VanLoo is a fabric artist, specifically working in the medium of quilting for eighteen years. Her quilts have been exhibited in national shows, and are currently showing in the Center for Performing Arts Gallery.
From Jo's blog:
Some of my quilts emphasize aesthetics and craft; others meaning and relationships, and others make socio-political statements. Some speak to all three.
Tomb of the Unknown Quilter
I love the inter-mingling passion, storytelling and, tactile nature of fabric arts. Using commercial and hand dyed fabrics I am able to express my feelings using a variety of manipulations and methods.
Ceiling View. Inspired by Jo's trip to Hagai Sophia in Instabul, 2011.
Because I was a teacher for more than thirty years, I love to share my passion for quilting with others through quilting classes. I have taught quilt making in Canada, the United States, Uganda, Haiti, and Nicaragua. Through teaching the art and craft of quilting, I have become a learner of culture, of values, of life.
Las Cocinaras
View Jo's complete gallery, blog and shop at her website: www.jomamavl.com
AN EVENING WITH GRUPO LIBERDADE: The Music of Brasil - Fine & Performing Arts Scholarship Fundraiser
The Division of Fine & Performing Arts is pleased to welcome back Grupo Liberdade for an evening of music from Brasil. Held on Saturday, March 28th @ 7:30pm, this event is our annual Fine & Performing Arts Fundraiser with a silent auction beginning at 6:30pm.
>> ADVANCED TICKETS HERE
Grupo Liberdade is a performance group dedicated to freedom of expression through Culture, Movement & Sound. We promote COMMUNITY, DIVERSITY & EMPOWERMENT drawing upon the traditional & contemporary rhythms of Brasil and beyond while bringing an original sound & energy to our desert metropolis. Specializing in Batucada including the Afro-Brazilian styles of Samba, Samba Reggae, Côcos and Maracatu, Grupo Liberdade strives to share the infectious sounds of Brasil with Arizona to further enrich, move & inspire.
Silent Auction begins at 6:30pm.
Musical Performance begins at 7:30pm.
$8-$20 Admission.
*$4 additional ticket fee at the door 1‐hour prior to performance.
The Ballad of Downtown Jake
The Ballad of Downtown Jake centers around the charming but helplessly drug addicted Jake Delmonico as he traverses the streets of New York City in a desperate search for eternal fame. In his struggle to become the next greatest saxophone player in history, the lives of Delmonico’s friends and enemies tangle and become the fire that destroy and rebirths love, lust, and hope in this skillfully crafted tale of the human experience.
Inspired by the poetry collection High Notes, written by PVCC Creative Writing Program founder, Lois Roma-Deeley, The Ballad of Downtown Jake mixes rhythmic prose with the spirited jazz of the 1950s, composed by PVCC Fine and Performing Arts Division chair, Christopher Scinto.
March 12th – 14th @ 7:30pm
Sunday March 15th @ 2:00pm
$8-$15 Admission.
*$4 additional ticket fee at the door 1 hour prior to performance.
ADVANCED TICKETS HERE: bit.ly/1BCKflW
The Center for Performing Arts
Paradise Valley Community College
18401 N. 32nd St
Phoenix AZ 85032
FREE Commercial Music Workshops @ PVCC
Open Mic Night @ PVCC | February 28th
What I Did Last Summer - A Play by AR Gurney
In What I Did Last Summer fifteen year old Charlie is “captured” by an artsy woman who gives him a summer job in 1945, when World War II is still raging and there are fewer men around to work on her land. The boy’s employer is part bohemian and part Native American, and her values open him up to a world of natural simplicity and freedom very different from the contained and respectable world he is used to.
February 20th, 21st, 27th, 28th @ 7:30pm.
February 22nd & March 1st @ 2:00pm.
$4-$10 Admission.
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Maricopa Community Colleges District-Wide Dance Competition
Each year, the Maricopa Community Colleges sponsors a district-wide student competition to encourage and recognize choreography and dance. Entry deadline: Monday, February 9, 2015. http://mcli.maricopa.edu/arts/dance
Musicians Wanted: The PVCC Community Band | MUP161 #36984
This course is a modern American approach to the American Wind Band tradition.
Our mantra is: Living Music by Living Composers.
This ensemble, while rooted in the past traditions of the Great American Band, is a look forward to its place in the 21st century. The band is going to perform music by living composers sometimes before the ink is even dry! There will also be a mixed media component, ranging from student-driven video content to live dance and visual art being performed with the ensemble.
Our faculty has a wide open approach to guiding our students in whatever direction their imaginations come up with.
PVCC Community Band performances will be an event, an experience. Selections for MUP161 come from some of the most famous living composers of Movie and Wind Band music, such as Michael Giacchino (Lost, Star Trek, Up), Rossano Galante (3:10 to Yuma, Live Free or Die Hard), Robert W. Smith, Eric Whitacre, John Mackey and Dan Bukvich.
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR MUP161: COMMUNITY BAND