True: Three Dance Pieces by Experimental Choreographers at the Barclay
Irvine Barclay Theatre (4242 Campus Drive Irvine, CA 92612)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00*
* Additional fees apply.
All offers for The Wooden Floor: True have expired.
The last date listed for The Wooden Floor: True was Saturday June 4, 2011 / 8:00pm.
Currently at Irvine Barclay Theatre:
The Wooden Floor's Youth Dance Work Tuned In
- Full Price:
- $20.00 - $50.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00 - $25.00
Leave your expectations at home for this inspired collaboration that pairs top creative talent with under-served youth. The Wooden Floor arts organization unites professional choreographers, lighting designers, set designers and costume designers with hundreds of young, aspiring artists yielding an original, inventive and distinctive output that will move and delight you. Tuned In is a contemporary dance piece that seeks to break down stereotypes about who can create art and is every bit as meaningful for the audience as it is for the dancers. Learn More
Goldstar Member Tips
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Arnie Hershman on Other
Very comfortable setting with good view lines.
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Arnie Hershman on Where to Eat
There was a concession area as you entered with fair pricing
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Arnie Hershman on Where to Park
Easy parking $6.
4 Goldstar Member Reviews
Arnie Hershman
It was fantastic seeing these children enjoying themselves being creative and establising pleasant memories for the future. The program was very engaging and positive. The childern showed much self esteem and made you glad there is an organization to help further their life's journey in a positive way. Well worth seeing.Written on Jun 03 2011
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I was looking for an event to take my sister and family out for her birthday, a "Girls Day Out", and this was the perfect fit. This was a great value for the money! Goldstar provided an accurate account of what to expect from the performance, and we enjoyed it thoroughly.Written on Jun 06 2011
Everyone had a great time, the seats were perfect, and the venue was beautiful. I had never been to the Irvine Barclay Theater, so it was really great to find a new venue to explore. Thanks, Goldstar!!!
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Judy
exceptional foundation and values. choreagraphy and disipline of these fine young men and women is to be applauded!Written on Jun 03 2011
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More Information About The Wooden Floor: True
Website
http://saintjosephballet.org/view/Dance/True
Description
Too - Susan Rehorst, Choreographer
Statement from the choreographer:
"Grounded in 23 individual solos, the work uses radical juxtaposition of both movement and sound. Ranging from spooky to saucy, the movement is pulled from the everyday and speaks of the beauty in the mundane, right here right now. In creating the solos for each dancer involved in the work, Rehearsal Assistant, Karinne Kiethly and I looked for where we could 'meet' each participant, to find their strengths, humor and power. These are scattered through the piece, framed by groupings that range from contained and eerie to near chaos. I never begin making work from a specific intention. I take images to the dancers and respond to what arises to enter into a dialogue with the piece as it takes on life. The work became 'about' its dancers, their energy and the contexts I could create for it and out of it. I invited the arbitrary, the ridiculous, the exaggerated, the uncool."
Pieces of Wood - John Heginbotham, Choreographer
Statement from the choreographer:
The title for Pieces of Wood took a long time. Other titles including Terrarium, Africanized Bees, and Woody made the short list. This was a situation in which the difficulty came from too many possibilities rather than too few. As a result, the three movements of the dance each have a name. Clapping and Square Dance will speak (hopefully loudly) for themselves, and Swarm emerged as the likeliest title for a dance which features ninety-nine performers. Each movement is set to the music of the legendary American composer, Steve Reich. His percussive, elegant scores provide the backbone of the piece. In his Clapping Music, the dancers first provide the music and then later the dance. In Music for Pieces of Wood, performed by the Horangee Blut Quartet, the dancers behave like a rigorously organized insect colony; each individual dances necessarily to realize the goal of the the hive.
True or False: I Was Born in the Nederlands - Melanie Ríos Glaser, Choreographer
Statement from the choreographer:
"The initial intent of the work was to capture the youth as I saw and heard them in their day to day lives. I wanted to get to know them again, learn what it was like to walk in their shoes and hear their natural voices. We sang, we made noises, we danced, but mostly we talked.
Through this process we created material that was later deconstructed and re-assembled to show the nuances in their lives, teasing out how pop culture has influenced their walk, their talk, and their song.
The art we make at The Wooden Floor usually involves an intense process of discovery and risk, often unveiling difficult themes. From those themes social commentary emerged on the stereotypes that affect minority youth. In the larger talking parts the dancers are improvising, having just then received the topic or determining for themselves what they will talk about, again, with courage, they are assuming risk. Seeing what emerges in improvisation, which is a learnt skill, can be thrilling and fresh. The True or False statements in the piece became emblematic of the intent of the work; they challenge possible assumptions, they reveal information while protecting the speakers, and they can deliver messages that will hopefully engage the viewer in having to access an internal dialogue in regards to the issues raised. My job will be done if you leave feeling like you got a whiff of who these wonderful young people are."