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Tempe Center for the Arts Grand Opening
AMERICAN UTOPIA
ARIZONA WIND SYMPHONY directed by Bill Richardson; A LUDWIG DANCE THEATRE directed by Ann Ludwig
When: 12:30pm and 1:45pm Sunday, September 9, 2007

TANGO
A Ludwig Dance Theatre
When: 3:15pm Sunday, September 9, 2007
Where: Tempe Center for the Arts STUDIO (700 W. Rio Salado Parkway. On the south bank of Tempe Town Lake, east of Hardy Drive) 480-350-TCA(2822)

May 4, 5 2007
Variance
College of Southern Nevada, Las Vegas

Spring 2007

Tempe Performing Arts Center
A Ludwig Dance Theatre

When: April 26, 27, 28 @ 7:30PM and April 29 @ 2PM
Where: Tempe Performing Arts Center (132 E. 6th St., Tempe, AZ 85281. Map 480-966-3391)
Tickets: www.aludwigdance.org (PayPal); Jack's Ticket Agency 480-968-3939
            General: $16; Senior: $14; Student and Group: $10 (open seating)
Contact: Tom Dezelsky @ 480-966-3391; dezelsky@aludwigdance.org

"Too many cooks spoil the broth"? Consider three choreographers and one composer all working on the same dance...not "a section for you, another for the next, and this for me" kind of thing....but a weaving in of the ideas and the movement language, different as it is bound to be, into one cohesive work reflecting all but showcasing no individual, like four sculptors, molding, pinching, pushing the same hunk of clay into a shape each accepts; a think tank or dance.

VARIANCE will be seen in the A Ludwig Dance Theatre concerts April 26-28 at 7:30 and April 29 at 2:00 at the Tempe Performing Arts Center, 132 East 6th Street in Tempe, Arizona, and May 4, 5 at the Nicolas J. Horn Theatre in Las Vegas. See choreographers/composer notes on the making of  VARIANCE.

A Ludwig Dance Theatre choreographer and artistic director Ann Ludwig says this might be the most difficult way she has ever chosen to work. "It pushes my thoughts and possibilities to the outside limits. I have to consider ways and means and movement I would possibly have discarded early in the process". Joining Ludwig are choreographers Babs Case, Dance Wyoming in Jackson, WY and Artistic Director of Contemporary Dance Wyoming; Kelly Roth, Chair of the Dance Program at the College of Southern Nevada and Director of Kelly Roth and Dancers; and Robert Kaplan, composer and ASU professor. All have done collaborative works during their lengthy careers, but none in this way.

The other dances are GLASS BLOCKS, a collection of solo portraits that evolve individually but emerge collectively, building a wall difficult to penetrate but open to inner views. Glass Blocks has become a pilot study for a large future project.

AMERICAN UTOPIA, with guest narrator Gus Edwards, actor, playwright joins the dancers in a look at the individuality of American towns. This work premiered in April, 2006, with the sixty member Arizona Wind Symphony.

Completing the programming, SUITE TANGO, shares the excitement and the passion of the wonderful tango tunes as dancers seductively cavort through the paces of this time honored, but Ludwig skewed, dance series.

Performers are Aroldo Fernandes, Frances Goritsas, Beth Lessard, Nancy Happel, Nancy Langsner, Shouze Ma, Claudio Ribeiro, Karen Schupp, Jennifer Walker, Jia Wu. Read about them at www.aludwigdance.org.

Grants in assistance for these A Ludwig Dance Theatre performances come from The City of Tempe, Arizona Commission on the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts and The Emeritus College of Arizona State University. The College of Southern Nevada is sponsoring three performances of VARIANCE May 4, 5.

UPCOMING PERFORMANCE............

September 20, 21, 22, and 23 2007
A Ludwig Dance Theatre
Variance
Where: Nova: A New Trajectory: Galvin Playhouse, ASU

March 6-9, 2008
GLASS BLOCKS/STEEL BARS (TICKETS ON SALE NOW)
A project of major proportions in collaboration with:
Ann Ludwig, Choreographer; Nancy Happel and Tom Eldridge, Videographers; Roberta Burnett, Writer; Laurie Herman, Attorney; and Company.
Where: Tempe Center for the Arts STUDIO (700 W. Rio Salado Parkway. On the south bank of Tempe Town Lake, east of Hardy Drive) 480-350-TCA(2822)

March 21, 2008
A Ludwig Dance Theatre Concert and Conversation
Sponsored by the Emeritus College of ASU
Memorial Union, ASU