Thoughts and Ideas 4/17
CONVERSATION Starter
Keeping your head. Sometimes bad luck, unfairness, happens to you. Sometimes pure good luck happens. Luck and fairness, how to balance? How to define? How can you feel you have turned the first situation into the second? Explore and discuss.
Exploratory
Brainstorm a list of strategies to get out of a blocked situation i.e. polite quiet withdrawal, engagement: polite, assertive, negotiated, compromising, forceful, and so on. Play with movement and interactions between dancers on the dance floor. Dwell on places that produce results and places where you get stuck. Turn the second into the first with your list of strategies.
Escape and Inspiration
Film: 'Experiments in Cinema V18.4' at the Guild 2304 Central NE, Tuesday through April 22nd. https://www.experimentsincinema.org/
Music and Dance: Third Thursday Live at the Albuquerque Museum, free 5-8:30, 'The Origins of Jazz' with Frank Leto and his band with dancer Pilar Leto. https://www.cabq.gov/artsculture/albuquerque-museum/events/3rd-thursday-the-origins-of-jazz
Theater: West End Productions stages the comedy "April in Paris" at North Fourth Arts Center 4904 Fourth NW, starting Fridayrunning through May 7th. https://www.westendproductions.org/2020-season/
Dance: Festival Ballet's 'Sacred Journeys IV with Robert Mirabal and Jock Soto, April 21-23 at NHCC https://www.nhccnm.org/event/festival-ballet-albuquerque-sacred-journeys-iv/
Dance and more: The AfroMundo Festival: Resistance and Creativity is under way with a daily bilingual series of music, dance, films, literature, culinary taste feasts, panel discussions and more. Dance presentation Friday the 21st. https://abqtodo.com/event/2023-afromundo-festival-resistance-creativity/
Upcoming Dance: UNM student dance concert "Fearsome Creatures" April 28-May 6. https://finearts.unm.edu/event/fearsome-creatures/ .
Upcoming Dance: New Mexico Ballet presents 'Resilience' May 6th and 7th at NHCC. https://newmexicoballetcompany.com/event/resilience/
Upcoming workshop: Hawaiian dance Workshop with a world renowned Hawaiian arts practitioner Kuana Torres Kahele May 4-7. https://napalapalai.myshopify.com/collections/workshops-albuquerque-new-mexico
Earth Day: The Vegan Village at the ABQ Collective, 1321 Eubank Blvd. NE is hosting a day long celebration starting at 11a.m. and live music beginning at 4pm. or, get your hands dirty, help with gardening at the Rio Grande Food Pantry 9-12:30 600 Coors NW. Registration required, https://www.abqinvolved.org/events?view=calendar&month=04-2023
