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*
An Evening of Flamenco Guitar with Daniel Ward
Friday, April 24th at 7:30pm
Performance held in Studio Theater/M-East Building
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*$4 additional ticket fee at the door 1‐hour prior to performance.
Daniel Ward is an accomplished musician, composer and educator, who has become one of the countries top clinicians and performers on the ‘ukulele circuit’. He is known for his command of Latin styles and teaches right hand techniques, adapting his style and knowledge from the classical and flamenco guitar. He has been a featured performer and workshop instructor at festivals across the country, including: Reno Ukulele festival, West Coast Ukulele retreat, Wine Country Ukulele Festival, San Diego Ukulele Festival, Port Townsend Ukulele festival, Albuquerque Ukulele festival and many More. With his wife, Heidi Swedberg, he has performed as an artist in residence at the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix AZ, and performed at Children’s Music Festivals around the country, including concerts in Los Angeles, New York City, Kansas City, Oklahoma City, and the Austin City Limits Festival. Heidi and Daniel we also featured performers at Music China in Shanghai in 2012.
As a guitarist, Daniel has toured the world playing flamenco guitar with Ottmar Liebert and Luna Negra (1997-2000) as well as performing with the flamenco dance ensembles of Maria Benitez, Dance Espana, and Yjastros (1994-present), and 20 years playing rock-n-roll electric guitar for Celebrity Enterprises corporate entertainment (1994-present).
As a commissioned classical composer, Daniel has penned two string quartets for the Del Sol ensemble of San Francisco, and a four-hands piano piece. He has scored music for film, television and video.
In the field of recording he has won awards (Parent’s Choice NAPPA, NM Recording Arts, Fids and Kamalies) on both albums he collaborated with his wife and is a sought after producer and arranger. His own CD “After the Storm” is an award winning virtuosic performance of original compositions masterfully played on electric and flamenco guitar.
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.
Art + Gender | Collective Art Project & Exhibition
PVCC students Katlynn McNab and Heidi Klotz pose in front of Kande Mickelsen's HERstory blog.
When the chance to organize a collective art project and exhibit on campus to celebrate Women’s History Month presented itself, budding curators Heidi Klotz and Katlynn McNab seized the opportunity.
Psychology faculty Caron Sada discusses the psychology of gender with the group.
Klotz and McNab became acquainted with one another this term as classmates in Dr. Caron Sada’s "Psychology and Culture" and Adria Pecora’s "Drawing" courses. Dr. Sada and Ms. Pecora entered into the spring semester eager to have their students collaborate on a creative project exploring gender for an activity of Women’s History Month, an idea that was also ignited by the enthusiasm of library faculty, Kandice Mickelsen who volunteered Buxton Library as the location and exhibition venue for the art project.
Sada’s students from “Psychology of Gender” and Pecora’s students from “Drawing” volunteered to participate in this extra-curricular project rooted in performance, specifically in conversation. Pecora has previously taught a course in “Gallery Operations” in which students have curated exhibitions on campus. She introduced the curatorial team to a type of art called “social practice” and to curatorial projects incorporating “relational aesthetics” that revolve around conversation. Klotz and McNab learned about the curators Nicolas Bourriaud and Hans-Ulrich Obrist and artists such as Rirkrit Tiravanija and the late Allan Kaprow (the creator of “happenings”).
Katlynn McNab and Heidi Klotz discuss social practice and relational aesthetics with Art faculty, Adria Pecora.
Pecora commented, “The idea of disrupting the regulated quietude of a library with a passionate discourse seemed suited to an artwork exploring gender.”
Moreover, the library’s new media lounge (a circular sofa with built in media station) suggested a more social role for the library, one in which exhibits might be rendered interactive by incorporating viewer feedback via messaging.
Library faculty Kande Mickelsen at blogging stations.
Mickelsen had been orchestrating a library guide entitled “HERstory” to function as an informational hub for Women’s History Month events. After meeting with Klotz and McNab, Mickelsen helped arrange for the guide to also serve as a blog site for the artwork featuring audio and video excerpts of the conversation. Sada’s students brainstormed thought-provoking questions to guide discussion. Pecora’s students brought or created images that resonated of gender and posted them on an idea board in the space.
Artistic inspiration came in the form of a lecture exploring “How gender roles affect relationships”, presented earlier in the week by Counseling faculty, Donna Mosher. The art students also drew enthusiasm from a visit by PVCC alumni curators, Collin Pressler (Exhibitions Manager, School of the Art Institute of Chicago) and Eric Heimbecker (Manager, Corporate Social Responsibility Group) from whom they learned more about curatorial practice and socially engaged work beyond the studio.
Counseling faculty Donna Mosher
PVCC alumni Collin Pressler and Eric Heimbecker visit Katlynn McNab, Heidi Klotz and PVCC art students in the painting and drawing studio to discuss their work with curating and social engaged projects.
The conversation lives online and awaits your thoughts. Please tag #pvccfinearts.
HERstory library blog: paradisevalley.libguides.com/HERstory
Twitter and Instagram: #artandgenderchatroom
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
Grass Roots Effort: ART 113 Color Installation
As artists, we must engage with our world. For this project students were asked to select a public issue that is important to them; it may be women’s issues, the environment, global warming, health care, a particular disease or disability, the homeless, politics, war. Within their theme, they were asked to make a series of mini "lawn" flags that were then displayed near classroom J141. Their set of 4 flags revolved around the central theme of their choosing.
Installation created by students in Ann Morton's ART 113 Color class.
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.
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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
