From: ZUZI! Dance <zuzisphere@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2018 5:15 PM
Subject: Don't miss Journeys... Friday & Saturday
A celebration performance honoring our interconnectedness
ZUZI! Dance
Presents:
A Summer Solstice Concert
"As we watch the field baking in the heat, as we feel the sun's power to burn as well as to bless, we can feel our own gifts, our own special abilities as they ripen and swell, and know that we, too, have the power to make a difference for growth or for destruction in the world…. We are all connected - people, planet, and sun.
~ Cait Johnson and Maura D. Shaw from Celebrating the Great Mother
Journeys
A Celebration of Body & Soul Migrations
A Summer Solstice concert highlighting performances touching on the deeper human experiences of love, loss, and letting go. These choreographers and companies will be focusing on themes of displacement, embodiment, and temporal presence through a collaboration of dance, music, and spoken word poetry.
A journey is a trip taken in either physical or spiritual space which causes the traveler to grow, change, and evolve. It is undertaken with a measure of faith that the universe will provide, with the intention that the person will not return unchanged, and with awareness that everything encountered on the path is relevant. ~Nanette Robinson, ZUZI! Dance
Every day across the world people make the difficult decision to leave their homes. War, persecution, environmental disaster, and poverty are just some of the reasons why a person might feel that they have to leave their family, community or country.
Refugees leave their country because they have no other choice and fear for their own life or safety or that of their family. Refugees also flee their country when their government will not or cannot protect them from serious human rights abuses.
Right now, as you read this, almost 10 million refugees around the world are fleeing political and religious persecution, ethnic conflict, and violence because of their sexual orientation.
There are many reasons that people become refugees, but only a few ways to obtain the protection they so desperately need. International agencies and local organizations do their best to assist everyone, but caring for the world's most vulnerable is a daunting task. We must all raise our voices to protect the persecuted.
June 15th & 16th at 7:30pm
The Scoundrel & Scamp Theatre in the Historic Y
738 N 5th Ave
Guest Dance Companies & Choreographers
Dancesequences Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dance organization registered in the State of Arizona with the mission to advance societal inclusion through dance. We are a partnership of people with diverse backgrounds and abilities who seek to promote and create community through the art and joy of movement expression. Our hope is to renew, reaffirm and reconnect persons and communities, dancing towards inclusion by celebrating our shared humanity, challenging intolerance and eliminating labels that divide us.
MAC & Company was founded from a shared passion for dance education and performance between Micaela Church and Li Pei Khoo in 2014. While being full time dance educators, Church and Khoo continue to be committed to the creative process and practice of dance as a performing art. Being both dancers and musicians, they have a particular interest in exploring the different processes that have been utilized in the integration between dance and music. With the common goal of presenting innovative work and nurturing professional growth in the field of dance and music, Church and Khoo hope to provide a platform for fellow dancers who share their passion.
Mirela Roza, Brazilian born dancer, choreographer, artist, and educator, considers herself a life-long learner. She is interested in exploring the neuromuscular/psychosomatic connections that exist between the mind and body in order to develop sound anatomical alignment, longevity, and injury prevention techniques. She is passionate about engaging in research as well as choreography. For the past two years she has been accepted to present at the National Dance Education Organization (NDEO). Mirela had the opportunity to share stories of student's empowerment and personal growth to improve learning through dance. Mirela currently serves as Adjunct Faculty in Dance at Pima Community College and as an instructor of Gyrotonic at Centerline Movement in Tucson, AZ. She feels that this method is unique in assisting people achieve full expressive body and spirit.
ZUZI! Choreographers, Dancers, & Guest Artists
Featuring Special Guests...
Julian Dombrowski, Poet - I am thirty-six years old, and a native of Tucson Arizona. I've always had a great love of the arts. As a child I developed a love of animation and wanted to be an animator when I grew up. Later I wanted to be an actor and director. As time progressed I started writing poetry and Science Fiction. High school was never my thing but when I went to college my eyes were opened. I decided to major in English literature and went on to receive a Bachelor's of English at the University of Arizona and later a Master's of Creative Writing through Southern New Hampshire University.
Music has always been a great love of mine and I played guitar for a few years when I was younger. I have now decided to take up dancing again after many years of not dancing. Many people probably wonder how someone in a wheelchair can dance but trust me it can be done. Being disabled does not mean you cannot do something like dancing for example. It just means you do it in a different way by adapting to your circumstances.
Dancesequences will be performing a spoken word piece based upon the original poem by Julian Dombrowski.
Margaret Regan, a longtime journalist in Tucson, is the author of two prizewinning books on immigration. Detained and Deported: Stories of Immigrant Families Under Fire (2015) investigates the fate of undocumented immigrants who are arrested long after they've established lives and families in the United States. Recounting the real-life stories of people caught up in the immigration dragnet, she takes readers into detention centers and to the border town of Nogales, Sonora, where deportees are stranded far from home. The Death of Josseline: Immigration Stories from the Arizona Borderlands (2010) chronicles the tragic deaths of migrants in the Arizona desert. It also looks at the impact of increased border enforcement on the civil liberties of Americans and on the fragile desert wildlands.
A writer for the Tucson Weekly and other publications, Margaret has won many journalism awards for her arts writing, her border stories and for her Arizona-Irish stories. She also reports regularly on the arts for The Buckmaster Show, 1030 KVOI radio.
Margaret will read from a work-in-progress on the refugee crisis in our own backyard, based on her recent visit to the U.S.-Mexico border at Nogales.
ZUZI! Dance | 738 N. 5th Ave., In The Historic Y, Tucson, AZ 85705
520.629.0237 | zuzisphere@gmail.com | www.zuzimoveit.org
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