TucsonStage Blog: Tucson: Barbea Williams Performing Company presents Dancin' - The Black Atlantic

Thursday, February 09, 2012

From: Barbea Williams [mailto:dancebmw@cox.net]
Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 12:46 PM
Subject: Dancin' - The Black Atlantic - Part 1

Barbea Williams Performing Company, Inc.

P.O. Box 2775, Tucson, AZ. 85702

Press Release: For Immediate Release

Contact: Barbea Williams, (520) 628-7785, dancebmw@cox.net

“Dancin’ – The Black Atlantic – Part 1”

A Black History Month Celebration of Dance, Music and Culture

Barbea Williams Performing Company presents in three acts an exhilarating

flow of spiritual, powerful and seductive samples of acculturating through

belief systems, resistance and identity. “Dancin’” pursues the ancestral

vitality of the Egungun transcending oceans of emotion, love and fear through

the presence of the all-protective summoning by the Pantheon of Orishas.

University of Arizona – School of Dance’s premier African Centered

Performing Group - UA Afrikana Dance Ensemble and Barbea Williams

Performing Company, both under the direction of Barbea Williams present

highly acclaimed “Women, Art and Geometry” and Early Wonders” both

premiered with the UA School of Dance in their annual Spring Collection 2007

and 2011 respectively. Joining us for this notable feat are the phenomenal

members of Flight School Acrobats in the Quilombos of Brazil with the

subsistence of fishing in “Puxada de Rede”, intertwining the Ngolo-zebra

dance of Angola while working the land in their free societies with the precision

of Capoeira and the thunder’s trawl of Maculele_; complete with a traditional

flavor of carnival with Samba in the market dwellings, Acroyoga will be

integrated throughout the entire piece. Captivating us with Argentine Tango

are Milongueros Melissa Alejandra and Rusty Cline_; Salson’ style defining and

alluring rhythms under the direction Gerardo Armendariz brings us a Mambo

trio of intrigue_; Headlining the Finale’ with a Conga/Comparsa Line for the

audience who can no longer maintain the discipline of sitting, directly from

Spain via Cuba is Cabaret Dancer Leonel Sanchez along with Tucson’s own

Regla Albarran-Miller. What more can we ask for......... .Africa, Argentina, Brazil,

Caribbean, Cuba and Mesoamerica sounds satisfactory.

Friday and Saturday, February 24h & 25th, 7:30pm AND Saturday, February

25^th, 3pm Matinee, Dunbar Cultural Center, 325 W. 2nd Street, Tucson, AZ.

85705. Tickets: $12. - Advanced, $15. At the door. Call Barbea: (520) 628

for tickets and more information.

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