Tucson: Barbea Williams Performing Company presents Dancin' - The Black Atlantic - Part 1

 

From: Barbea Williams [mailto:dancebmw@cox.net]
Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 10:59 PM
Subject: Dancin' - The Black Atlantic - Part 1.... Photos attached

 

Greetings….

 

Dancin' - The Black Atlantic – Part 1……

 

February 24th and 25th, Friday and Saturday, 7:30pm AND Saturday 3pm Matinee

@Dunbar Cultural Center, 325 W. 2nd Street.

 

Advanced Tickets $8 for Children, $10 Student and $12 General Admission. $15 at the door.

Group Tickets are available for 10 or more.

 

Asante Sana, Barbea 
Call: (520) 628-7785 for your ticket (s) reservations.

 

Barbea Williams Performing Company, Inc.

presents

 

“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, 3pm Matinee, Dunbar Cultural Center, 325 W. 2nd Street, Tucson, AZ. 85705.

 

Tickets: $12. - Advanced, $15. At the door. Student and Family

Discounts available. Call Barbea: (520) 628-7785 or Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1343500588

for tickets and more information.

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