Category Archives: Dance

Adrain Bolton Dance presents Desert Storm at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Aug 4-7

Adrain Bolton Dance presents Desert Storm at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Aug 4-7

Adrain Bolton Dance Production & True Talents of the Arts Dance School Presents “DESERT STORM”

Thursday August 4th, 2016 at 10am
Thursday August 4th, 2016 at 1pm
Friday August 5th, 2016 at 8pm
Saturday August 6th, 2016 at 3pm
Saturday August 6th, 2016 at 7pm
Sunday August 7th, 2016 at 3pm
Sunday August 7th, 2016 at 7pm

Location: Joe’s Movement Emporium

Adrain Bolton Dance Production & True Talents of the Arts Dance School Presents “DESERT STORM”, a spectacular animated anointed gospel dance drama production centered around a woman named Righteous, who’s steps are ordered by the Lord to journey through a sand storm to a weary desert land to receive the gift of God’s precious jewels. She encounters a conniving viper whose mission is to possess the gemstones, Righteous spirit becomes weary, she is restored with the anointing zeal to witness unto the viper through the word of God. Viper is convicted and transformed to a changed soul. Together Righteous and Viper reveal the Glory of God to be the most precious gift one will ever acquire.

“Desert Storm”, is performed by professional and pre-professional dance artists as well as the youth of Adrain Bolton Dance Production and True Talents of the Arts Dance School Summer Dance Intensive. “Desert Storm” is spiritually uplifting and enjoyable for All ages.

Tickets: $15 general admission, or $10 seniors. For Advance tickets and group rates please call/text 404-632-4865, 301-456-3246 or 240-595-2151.

Upspring Studio presents SCIENCE / Fiction at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Jun 5 at 4pm

SCIENCE / Fiction at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Jun 5 at 4pm

UpSpring Studio presents SCIENCE / Fiction

Location: Joe’s Movement Emporium

What would you do in an apocalypse? UpSpring Aerial Lab explores how individuals respond to the end of the world. Featuring performances in aerial fabric, trapeze, poi, and more.

Tickets: $20 adults, $10 children and seniors, Children 2 years and under free in adult’s lap. Buy tickets here.

Mount Rainier Elementary PTO will sell concessions before the show and during intermission to raise money for arts programs at the school.

Nootana presents Looking Glass at Joe’s Movement Emporium, May 21

Nootana presents Looking Glass at Joe’s Movement Emporium, May 21

Nootana presents Looking Glass

Nootana presents their 4th annual spring showcase, and original dance drama, “Looking Glass,” on May 21, 2016, at Joe’s Movement Emporium.

Location: Joe’s Movement Emporium

PARENTAL GUIDANCE: Dramatic scenes presented. Show may not be appropriate for children.

In this captivating tale of a beautiful queen transforming herself and her kingdom from an environment of love, beauty, friendship, and compassion to the embodiment of vengeance, mystery, drama, and disintegration, Nootana continues to present the DC Metropolitan area with innovative renditions and perspectives of live Indian classical music and dance, incorporating perspectives and styles from all over the world.

As a dedicated, respectful, and talented group of artists, Nootana brings the Washington DC Metropolitan area its premier Indian Classical Music and Dance Ensemble, under the direction and vision of Rishi Das. Sanskrit for “Innovation,” Nootana is the first DC based ensemble performing these two traditional art forms together live, tastefully juxtaposing innovation and tradition but continuing to reinforce the roots of this historic tradition, in our unique multidisciplinary environment.

Limited VIP tickets are available for front row seats with refreshments included for $50. Advanced tickets $20, door tickets are $25, student/senior $15 and children $10. Buy tickets here.

Tags: Joe’s Movement Emporium, Mount Rainier Maryland, Nootana, Dance, Looking Glass

Alice in Wonderland by Ballet Theatre of Maryland at the Bowie CPA, Apr 23

Alice in Wonderland by Ballet Theatre of Maryland at the Bowie CPA, Apr 23

The Ballet Theatre of Maryland presents: Alice in Wonderland
Saturday, April 23, 2016, 7pm

Location: Bowie Center for the Performing Arts.

Journey with Alice to Wonderland where you will enter a “Caucus Race,” laugh at the antics of TweedleDee and TweedleDum, attend the zany Mad Hatter’s Tea Party, Paint the Roses Red, Play Croquet with the Queen of Hearts and her Jabberwocky Raven, meet the mysterious Cheshire Cat, and rescue the Mad Hatter from the Red Queen when he goes on trial for stealing her tarts.

Lewis Carroll’s “classic” tale is transformed as the Ballet Theatre of Maryland meshes dance, theater and music together to bring all of these whimsical characters to life through the power of dance.

For subscription or single tickets to the BCPA shows, please visit the BTM website: http://www.balletmaryland.org or call 410-263-8289.

Tom in the Machine and My Devil Dance at Clarice Smith, Jan 29-30

Tom in the Machine and My Devil Dance at Clarice Smith, Jan 29-30

Tom in the Machine and My Devil Dance

Fri, Jan 29, 2016 . 7:30PM
Sat, Jan 30, 2016 . 3:00PM
Sat, Jan 30, 2016 . 7:00PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Dance Theatre, General Admission.

Tom in the Machine
by Matthew Reeves

Tom in the Machine, a new dance-theatre show, parallels the allegory of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath to modern day challenges felt inside the American workforce. What are the great social divides of today? How do we represent the Haves and the Have-Nots? What is majestic still about the American spirit and what stirs our human dignity? When is it the powerful versus the powerless?

My Devil Dance
Choreographed and performed by Sudesh Mantillake

Colonizers labeled ritual dance of Sri Lanka as “devil dance”. Subsequently, it was commodified and brought to Europe as part of “colonial exhibition”. Colonial exhibitions exposed Sri Lankan dancers as exotic creatures along with animals brought from different parts of the world. This piece tries to capture some oppressions that Sri Lankans and other colonized nations had gone through. The piece proposes “mindfulness” for co-existence of humans, while acknowledging personal and cultural histories of oppressive events in the past.