RALLY premieres June 13-16, 2019
Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center – Auditorium
600 River St., Austin, TX 78701
Parking at the MACC is easy and it‘s FREE for all audience members! Permits will be given at the parking entrance. There is even lots of overflow parking for MACC events. So don’t let parking keep you from being there!
Performances:
JUNE 13-15 • THURSDAY | FRIDAY |SATURDAY at 8:00pm
JUNE 16 • SUNDAY at 5:00pm
Tickets for RALLY start at $15 and can be purchased HERE!
Tickets will also be available at the door.
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RALLY is a dynamic performance of live music, dance, story and song exploring our individual empowerment and collective strength.
Award-winning choreographer Andrea Ariel and her collaborators will present a new production in June at the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center. “RALLY” explores our personal perspectives and collective experiences as the multidisciplinary artists/performers ask what drives our passions individually and socially in local and global communities to rise up, unite and rally.
This new work aims to resonate with our current times, examining the catalysts for action and change. The performance combines choreographed dance with live, original music composed by Austin favorite Andrew Nolte. The audience is invited to take a deep dive physically, musically, and visually as each performance takes its own unique shape via a directed improvisation technique called Soundpainting, an ensemble conducting language used to compose dance and live music in the moment. No two shows are the same.
“When you look at the world around you through the lens of what change you want to see and what is preventing you from exercising your personal super powers, you get a lot of clarity around your passions and values” Ariel says. “This piece, RALLY, was born from the artists and community members sharing stories of great joy and exhilaration, as well as helplessness and defeat. In an effort to address how we can affect change in the world, how do our family and social rituals and our shared sense of space unite us, transform us, and empower us?
“RALLY” features an original score by Nolte, of Super Creeps, The Damned Torpedoes, Derrick Davis Band and about a dozen other musical groups. During RALLY, live music, both original pieces and covers of beloved protest songs, will be performed by Nolte (vocals, guitar, keys) with Claude McCan; (vocals, keys, electronics), Jason DeCuir (bass), and Garry Franklin (drums). The choreography by Ariel has been created in collaboration with performers Jun Shen (Sunny), Sandie Donzica, Ciceley Fullylove, and Rebecca McLindon. Andrea Ariel will conduct each performance’s Soundpainting composition.
About Soundpainting
Soundpainting is a “live composing” sign language that leads improvised performances for musicians, actors, dancers, visual and media artists. Created in the ’70s, Soundpainting uses over 1500 gestures to spontaneously guide, shape and remix material in real time. Now practiced widely across Europe in both professional and educational circles, AADT is the only company in this region working with this form. Because Soundpainting is improvisational in nature, no two shows are ever the same. As a Certified Multi-disciplinary Soundpainter and Educator, Andrea Ariel is well respected for her innovations with the form. She has worked with originator, Walter Thompson, since 1998 and was an instrumental part of the early development years at Think Tanks in Woodstock, NY from 1999-2005.
About Andrea Ariel & Andrea Ariel Dance Theatre
Andrea Ariel is the Artistic and Producing Director of Andrea Ariel Dance Theatre, based in Austin, TX where she produces, choreographs, and performs works that are created in collaboration with artists working in dance, music, theater, poetry, film, media and visual art. Ariel has created over 50 original works since first forming the company in 1990. Recent productions include “Locked-In” and the highly-acclaimed “The Bowie Project”. Her work has been presented in Texas, California, Illinois, Arizona, New Mexico, and New York and she has been a recipient of numerous project support grants and commissions including twenty-nine years of project funding by the City of Austin, Cultural Arts Program. Recent honors for her work include special citations from the Austin Critics Table, The Sound and Vision Award (2017), for accomplishments in the realm of dance and a commitment to visionary cross-discipline work, and the Site for Sore Eyes and Ears Award (2016) for invigorating collaborations of dance and music in site-specific performance.
Ariel has collaborated with cross-disciplinary artists such as Graham Reynolds, Peter Stopchinski, Cheryl Parrish, Patrice Pike, The Golden Hornet Project, composer/conductor Walter Thompson, the Super Creeps, and NYC’s Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble, and many more.
She is a member of the 2019 Creative Ambassadors Program, ten artists and art groups selected by the City of Austin to promote multidisciplinary art forms internationally to enhance Austin’s global profile as center of creativity, and facilitate dialogue between other regional, national and international arts agencies and their communities. Andrea Ariel Dance Theatre is a recipient of the City of Austin’s Artist Access Program for 2019 and is artist-in-residence this season at The George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center and the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center.
