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.

Feminine Folklore presents What’s Your Superpower? at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Jan 29-30

Feminine Folklore presents What’s Your Superpower? at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Jan 29-30

Feminine Folklore presents
What’s Your Superpower?

Friday, January 29, 2016 at 8:00pm
Saturday, January 30, 2016 at 8:00pm

Location: Joe’s Movement Emporium

Parental advisory: May not be appropriate for children under 13.

Feminine Folklore arrives at Joe’s Movement Emporium for the premiere of their new show, “What’s Your Superpower?” Joe’s Executive Director Brooke Kidd is, “thrilled to host this unique collection of voices at Joe’s.” Feminine Folklore founder Goldie Patrick is a Mount Rainier, MD resident and recently performed at Joe’s Movement Emporium with Taurus Broadhurst Dance. Tickets are $20 per adult.

“Dedicated to community, this piece is more than just a performance,” explains Goldie Patrick, recent founder of FRESHH, Inc. Theatre Company. “This interactive experience allows audience members to participate in dialogue with the actors, attend open rehearsals, and through social media, audience members can also help write the script.”

Audiences have met previous Feminine Folklore performances with positive acclaim, “I have never seen a show so honest, and raw, and hilarious and empowering for women, it was just what I needed.” While the show is female-centered, even men have had powerful experiences: “As a man, it was so great to feel included in the story and be able to laugh at myself at times and think about things I would have never thought about. It’s definitely a show by women, but not only for women.”

About “What’s Your Super Power”: Through poetry, music, and theater, this performance gathers some of the community’s strongest female artists to explore exactly what makes a woman so super. The performance run about an hour and may not be appropriate for children 13 and under. Refreshments will be available for purchase in the lobby.

Feminine Folklore was created to give voice to the experiences of a culturally diverse group of women. Aimed at capturing a variety of perspectives, experiences, and ideas, while breathing life to some of the universal themes of womanhood. Together our goal is to create a space where the narrative of the experiences as women growing and evolving, is captured by our own voices. We are diverse; in several ways. From class, to sexuality, to ethnicity, to political affiliation, to spiritual beliefs, there are several ways to “redefine” the ways we are different from each other. Find Feminine Folklore online at http://www.femininefolklore.com.

Tickets: $20.

Bowie High’s Got Talent at the Bowie CPA, Jan 29

Bowie High’s Got Talent at the Bowie CPA, Jan 29

Bowie High’s Got Talent
Friday, January 29, 2016, 7pm – 9pm

Presented by: Bowie High School
Location: Bowie Center for the Performing Arts

This talent show highlights the best of the best of Bowie High School students and staff. It’s a highly competitive try out and talent show that is both exciting and fun. Prizes to the top winners.

Tickets in advance are $5, at the door is $7 for all ages. (Cash only.)
For more information, please contact Ms. Stone at christetta.stone@pgcps.org

Twisted at Eleanor Roosevelt High School, Jan 27-29

Twisted at Eleanor Roosevelt High School, Jan 27-29

Twisted: The Untold Story of a Royal Vizier

Location: Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Greenbelt. Sally Wagner Performing Arts Space, Room 004 in ERHS.

Thursday, January 27, 2016, 7:00pm
Friday, January 28, 2016, 7:00pm
Saturday, January 29, 2016, 7:00pm

Hop on your flying carpet, because this musical parody retells the classic tale of Aladdin… from the villain’s point of view! Long ago in a Magic Kingdom, one misunderstood Royal Vizier will go on a quest to save his city from its bumbling sultan, an invading prince, and the most notorious thief to ever live! With the help of the Kingdom’s free-spirited, teenage Princess, the Vizier must find a magical lamp containing a wish-granting Djinn (who’s really funny, by the way) and defeat the city’s most-wanted criminal… Aladdin! This musical adventure celebrates and lovingly pokes fun at everyone’s favorite series of hand-drawn, animated films.

Tickets are $5 in advance, $7 at the door. Advance tickets will be sold at the school during all lunches.

Zombie Prom at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Jan 29-Feb 13

Zombie Prom at the Greenbelt Arts Center, Jan 22-Feb 13

Opening Weekend performances of Zombie Prom ARE CANCELLED

Given the predicted extreme blizzard event bearing down on the Mid-Atlantic region, and for the safety of our patrons, cast, and crew, Greenbelt Arts Center is very sorry to say we will be cancelling opening weekend performances of Zombie Prom (Friday 1/22 and Saturday 1/23).

For those who have pre-purchased tickets for this weekend, to the extent possible we will exchange your tickets for another performance during the run of the show at your request. We are looking at the option of adding additional performance dates within the run and will announce those if and when they are finalized.

If for some reason the storm does not materialize or downgrades to something smaller AND safer, we may announce the reinstatement of the Saturday performance.

Please stay safe, everyone.

Zombie Prom by John Dempsey and Dana P. Rowe
Directed by Jeffery Lesniak
Choreographed by Rikki Howie Lacewell

January 22- February 13, 2016
Friday and Saturday at 8:00
Sundays January 31 and February 7 at 2:00

It’s the atomic 1950’s at Enrico Fermi High, where the law is laid down by a zany, tyrannical principal. Pretty senior Toffee has fallen for the class bad boy. Family pressure forces her to end the romance, and he charges off on his mortocycle to the nuclear waste dump. He returns glowing and determined to reclaim her heart. He still wants to graduate, but most of all he wants to take Toffee to the prom. The principal orders him to drop dead while a scandal reporter seizes on him as the freak du jour.

Location: Greenbelt Arts Center

Ticket prices: $22 General Admission, $18 Students/Seniors/Military,
$14 Youth (12 and under with adult)

Buy tickets here.