Thoughts and Ideas 6/19
CONVERSATION Starter
Change, small decisions, . . . time travel? In conversation, map and improv the effect a small change in behavior or actions on your part, if done differently, might have affected another person or had a butterfly effect in a situation starting in the past. Then map how it might have affected you today. maybe it is a simple as a smile.
Exploratory
Try it with movement. Alone or with other dancers, go back in a movement sequence and insert a small change, observe the effect on all participants. Play with different categories of change. Discuss
Escape and Inspiration
Juneteenth exercise: tune in to the video around time marker 0:2:15, listen and see if you are not inspired to move, to Aldo Billingslea reading of the Emancipation Proclamation in the voice, not as Lincoln, but as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYxUfaX0XSo
Summer Solstice celebration! June 20 6pm, South Broadway Cultural Center, Enjoy original music across multiple genres - Electric Violins, Cello, Bass, Sax, and Electronics, and original video. Food trucks and vendors at 5pm. 1025 Broadway SE. https://www.cabq.gov/artsculture/south-broadway-cultural-center/events/summer-solstice-celebration Ticketed event.
Theater: The Vortex Theater brings the comedic play 'Parfumerie' to the stage Friday June 23rd through July 9. https://vortexabq.org/ . This Sunday's performance is pay-what-you-wish. 2900 Carlisle Blvd. NE
Art: '12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2023' at 516 Arts thru Sept. 2nd. https://www.516arts.org/ , 516 Central SW. Next door at 514 Central SW check out the Richard Levy Gallery exhibits "Surface Tension" and "Shifting Pitch" through July 15. https://levygallery.com/
Upcoming Dance, Music, and Art: Celebrate Disability Pride Month next month at North Fourth Theater, July 8th at 2pm by attending a performance of dance and music pieces featuring multi-abled artists. 4904 Fourth St. NW. Lobby open at 1pm to feature visual artists and organizations serving people with disabilities.
Advance planning: Stars of American Ballet comes to the Lensic Performing Arts Center in Santa Fe July 28th and 29th. https://performancesantafe.org/
Super Advance Planning: Giordano Dance Chicago at the Lensic next February. Among Popejoy's offerings next spring, Momix and Complexions Contemporary Dance.
