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Greetings Dance Community,
It feels like every month when I send this out there is something heavy happening in our world. May we continue to find joy and community in dance.
Amanda
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March Dance Happenings
Group Shake Monday March 9th 6:30-7:45pm Morgan Community Center. $10, open to all, please arrive on time!
Saturday, March 14 at TPAC’s Polk Theater: Led by dance icons Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson, Complexions Contemporary Ballet has awakened audiences to an exciting new genre with their singular approach to reinventing dance and contemporary ballet. Armed with a rich Alvin Ailey lineage and a cadre of 16 stunning dancers, Complexions has been hailed as a “matchless American dance company” by the Philadelphia Inquirer and “game changing” by London’s The Guardian. 2 pm and 7 pm. Click here for tickets.
Shake it, Shout it, Draw it, Ground it is a new class from Amanda Cantrell Roche at Art & Soul.There’s so much going on, and our nervous systems are likely feeling it. Come do a little reset with me in this pop-up class that I felt compelled to offer again. Disrupt held stress, anxiety, or stuck energy and help move it out of your system using guided, whole-body shaking practices blended with sounding. Authentic mark-making offers a chance to visually express this process of noticing and moving energy in the body, and guided visualization and breathwork offers the opportunity for us to ground deeply in circle. Come and shake your body, use your voice, make marks, and regulate your nervous system in this welcoming, nonjudgmental community!
Sunday, March 22, 6:30 – 8 pm. Click here to register
Oz Arts presents Hiroaki Umeda assimilating and Moving State 1 March 26-28 Renowned for his “virtuoso melding of technology and movement” (Scotland Herald), choreographer and performer Hiroaki Umeda redefines the boundaries of dance and performance with his inventive use of multiple video projections and immersive sound art. A true interdisciplinary force — choreographer, dancer, and designer of audio, image, and lighting — Umeda creates high-velocity, visually stunning experiences that blur the line between installation and live performance. Following riveting performances in 2019, his thrilling fusion of body, light, and sound returns to OZ Arts with two internationally acclaimed multimedia works: his stunning solo assimilating is a high-octane visual spectacle, and his cinematic group work Moving State 1 highlights four female Hip-hop performers from his influential Somatic Field Project. Tickets $30-$37, or $20-$30 for Artist & Creative Community. Click here for more info.
Interplanetary Talent Show
Join us for the 4.6 billionth Interplanetary Talent Show! On March 27th at 8 PM, the planets will step through the portal and onto the stage at Eastside Bowl to compete for the coveted Cosmic Cup.
For one spectacular night, ten unique and mesmerizing acts showcase their out-of-this-world talents, featuring Interstellar dance, daring sword-swallowing, gravity-defying aerial arts, cosmic music performances, and surprises from every corner of the universe.
Arrive early to enjoy drinks, art vendors, tattoos, and tarot readings before the show begins.
The Interplanetary Talent Show is produced by Nocturne Dance featuring original choreography by Delaine Kylynn, Marcela De La Vega, Arelys Hernandez and additional art by Lily Szekeres, Autumn Wegner, and Anastasia LeDuc.
Guest performances by Scarlett O’Hair, Pyroglyphics, La Reine The Thrill, Cherry Berlin, Ashley Smith, Chelsea McGough, Meredith Combs, and Tajjon McDaniel.
Gather your fellow Earthlings and get ready for a night that will be an absolute blast.
https://wl.eventim.us/event/interplanetary-talent-show/681638?afflky=EastsideBowl
Ongoing
Global Education Center has adult dance classes in Bollywood, Shar Qui Belly Dance Workout, Zouk, Capoiera, many styles of Latin dance, and more. Click here for days, times, and registration.
Ecstatic Dance Nashville is the first and third Sunday of each month, 10:30 am at various locations. Click here for details.
New Dialect Community classes are back! March 2 – May 20
Mondays + Wednesdays
9:30 – 10:30 AM & 10:35 AM – 12 PM at Morgan Community Center.
Join us for a brand new series of somatic and contemporary movement sessions led by Nashville’s most innovative choreographers and instructors, and in a whole new format! This spring, thanks to major support from Metro Parks Dance, we’re offering 2 classes each morning. The day begins with a somatic warm up like Gyrokinesis® or Alexander Technique® to align and attune our minds and bodies, followed by a contemporary movement class like contact improvisation, floor work, or choreographic research, where dancers can deepen their creative practice and express themselves through movement. Folks of all skill levels and backgrounds, ages 16+, are welcome to join in one or both sessions.
Contemporary class instructors: March 2 and 4th Dog Eat Wind; March 9 and 11 Shabaz Ujima; March 16 and 18 Spencer Grady; March 23 and 25 Asia Pyron; March 31 and April 1 Alex Winer
Check out the April and May schedule and class fees here.
April Save the Date
Contact Improvisation 4-Class Series with McKay House
Wednesdays, 12:00-1:30 pm, April 8-29
Morgan Community Center
Series Registration: $40
Deepen your contact improvisation experience in a 4-class series dedicated to building a shared sense of trust and rigorous inquiry. This class series led by McKay House will explore momentum, weight sharing, and spirals within partnerships, group dynamics, and solo relating. Participants will work together to develop skills for tracking a partner’s momentum as well as acting and reacting within an ever-changing environment and ask, “When do we choose to soften, to resist, to release, to redirect, to disengage?”
This is a gathering of events I am aware of, submitted by those on the email list, and by no means represents all that is going on in the Middle TN area. I provide it as a volunteer service to the local dance community as part of an effort to help us stay connected and support each other by raising awareness of local dance performances, workshops, and events, and rely on those on the list serve to submit the listings.