April 07, 2010

Having a big dance organization is great, but it takes more than that to make what one can call an arts "community."

It is the off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway scene that makes New York a theatre Mecca. There, fans of the Great White Way can find experimental theater, the Actor`s Studio, soap operas or a one-act play festival.

It is in dance that Broomfield has come closest to forging an artistic identity. Not only does it have Ballet Nouveau Colorado making footprints beyond the confines of the county borders, but a slew of other dance groups and schools as well.

 November 20, 2009

Broomfield, Colorado’s Ascential Dance Theatre Colorado promises new, original works that span various genres of dance, music and culture in their latest concert called The Strangest Distance Between Any Two Points. The show will premiere at DL Parsons Theatre in Northglenn, CO on Saturday, December 5th at 7:30 PM and continues through Sunday, December 6th at 3 PM. It will include dance, theatre and vocal arts works featuring the choreography of local, visiting and transplanted dance-makers Jennifer Fagan Archer (MIA, ATL, Bermuda, CO), Rainey Welch (NYC), Augusto Soledade (NY, MIA), Candess Giyan (ATL, CO) and Leslie Merrill, MFA (CO, SF).

Ascential Dance fuses traditional, contemporary and ethnic dance forms in both their classes and choreography while incorporating physicality, emotion, and storytelling to secure a common thread and resonate to audience members of all ages. Miami’s Brazilian-born Augusto Soledade’s distinctive Afro-Fusion style incorporates elements of Afro-Brazilian and contemporary dance to create vibrant, inspired choreography. His work, The Diaries of an Outlaw (2004), which played in Miami during the Florida Dance Festival 2005, is inspired by the life of the 1930’s legendary outlaws Maria Bonita and Lampiao of Brazil. As in much of Soledade’s repertory, the blend of dance styles found in ‘Diaries’ yields a piece that is “at once athletic and nuanced, both percussive and fluid, as it captures the rhythms of the outlaw life.“

According to Rainey Welch, her piece, It Takes One, illustrates “women, where they are, where they want to go, and their nurturing spirit versus the reality of life and what it requires.” Forever in Three Days, by Candess Giyan is a comment on the pressures and stereo types placed on individuals by themselves, unhealthy relationships, and society. Leslie Merrill will debut a vignetted series of devices that reveal the internal hassles men & women endure while dealing with romantic feelings while local artist Jennifer Fagan Archer will premiere her new solo, Gone, which explores a journey into homelessness.

The Strangest Distance Between Any Two Points will have a 15-minute intermission and concessions will be available to raise funds for our scholarship program. Bring the family and enjoy an evening bursting with energy and invention.  Tickets are available online pre-sale or at the door for a suggested donation of $10 - $20.

Where: DL Parsons Theatre in Northglenn, CO.  (Off of 1-25 & 120^th)

Tickets : Suggested donation $10 - $20.

www.ascentialdance.com/tickets or call Jennifer Archer @ 303-410-6633.

November 6, 2008

And in the beginning, there was a beginning ... a first.

Ascential Dance Theatre Colorado is all about originality. Friday and Saturday nights, it will perform its debut company show "1:Begin Ag@in:1," which promises to be like no other dance performance.

The company is eclectic, original, at times quirky and purposefully educational. Acsential Dance Theatre can't even define itself.

"We all come together very well," said executive director and company dancer Tobi Johnson-Compton. "I don't know how to describe it. It's a melting-pot style."