Looking for something exciting to do this week? Check out VelocityDC’s Dance Picks for 01.22.10 – 01.25.10.
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WAM! (wolfgang amadeus mozart)
Time: January 23rd & 30th at 8pm & January 24th & 31st at 3pm
Location: Atlas Performing Arts Center – 1333 H St. NE, Washington, DC
Tickets: $19.00 and up. Tickets available at inseries.org. More info at washingtonballet.org.
WAM! (wolfgang amadeus mozart) chronicles the childhood of the prolific composer in this witty, effervescent ballet. Audiences experience Mozart’s compelling and astonishing early childhood experiences throught the artistry of The Washington Ballet’s Studio Company dancers and In Series vocalists. TWB Artistic Associate David Palmer, TWB Artistic Director Septime Webre, and TWB Company Member Jared Nelson collaborate to choreograph this frolic through 18th century Salzburg!
Mint Condition – Jane Franklin Dance
Time: January 23rd at 8pm & January 24th at 2pm
Location: The Athenaeum – 201 Prince St., Alexandria, VA
Tickets: $16.00 – $28.00. Tickets available online at janefranklin.com or by phone at 703.933.1111.
Jane Franklin Dance in a shared concert with Washington Saxophone Quartet. Mint Condition revisits what is left behind when we must move on, with a collection of objects long past usefulness. The evening with Washington Saxophone Quartet marks the second appearance at Alexandria’s historical landmark building, the Athenaeum, by the two groups combined.
LEVYdance
Time: January 23rd at 8pm & January 24th at 4pm
Location: Dance Place – 3225 8th St. NE, Washington, DC
Tickets: $22.00 general admission; $17.00 members, seniors, students, teachers, artists; $8.00 children (17 and under); $50.00 VIP Tickets. To purchase VIP tickets, please call the Box Office at . Tickets available online at danceplace.org.
Have Facebook and Twitter forever changed human to human connections? California-based choreographer Benjamin Levy explores how social networking sites and other technological innovations impact our interpersonal connections in a new work, Everyone Intimate Alone Visibly, premiering at Dance Place.
Don’t forget to attend a pre-performance reception on Saturday, January 23 at 6:30pm. Ticket price includes reception and entrance to the show.
TAP Kids
Time: January 24 at 3pm
Location: Alden Theatre – 1234 Ingleside Ave., McLean, Virginia
Tickets: $20.00. Tickets available online at aldentheatre.org.
Eight of the nation’s most talented young tap dancers take to the stage in this rousing, joyous celebration of American youth culture.
Ballet By Bienert
Time: January 25th at 7pm
Location: Embassy of Austria – 3524 International Court NW, Washington, DC
Tickets: FREE – RSVP required. Register at acfdc.org or call 202.895.6776.
The Austrian choreographer Bernd Roger Bienert has made works for the stage and screen, pieces that employ classical technique but also some that explore movement beyond the ballet tradition. At the Embassy of Austria he will show “The Moldau”, to Smetana’s famous tone poem, as danced on screen by the Zurich Ballet; “Tides”, a dance specially for film; from his Zurich “Nutcracker” a film excerpt with American Ballet Theatre star Ethan Stiefel; his “Bolero” as performed on screen by Netherlands’ Introdans to Maurice Ravel’s unique tone poem. Premiered live will be Bienert’s solo “SCHRIFTzeichnen” (”Signings”), starring Washington Ballet’s Jonathan Jordan.
In the new “Signings”, international sign language serves as a point of departure for expanding the range of dance movement. From abstract to concrete, the dancer’s body becomes a vessel of emotion.
House Blend
Time: January 25th at 8pm
Location: Round House Theatre Silver Spring – 8641 Colesville Rd., Silver Spring, MD
Tickets: $15.00 general admission; $12 for Round House subscribers, senior citizens, patrons under 25, and groups of 10 or more. More info at 301.270.6700.
A program of new and developing dances from the artists of Liz Lerman Dance Exchange. Feauturing choreography by Elizabeth Johnson, Liz Lerman, Cassie Meador and Keith Thompson.
*Includes some mature content
