Family Day: Lights, Camera, Action!
April 11, 2010 (Performances at 10:30am, 11:30am and 12:30pm)
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC
FREE (no tickets required)
Arachne joins Cirque-Tacular Entertainment and American Magic Lantern Theater for a celebration of art, illusion, light and motion at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Audiences of all ages are invited to express themselves through art-making activities, experience the magic of illusion in the theater and tour the museum's newest special exhibitions Helios: Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change and Turner to Cézanne: Masterpieces from the Davies Collection, National Museum Wales. Performing three times during the day, Arachne will present one aerial duet from the company's repertory, followed by ribbon dancing, acrobatics and a 30-minute family theater performance.
The Places In Between (excerpt)
April 13, 2010 (50-minute peformance at 7pm)
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Tickets ($35 museum members; $40 public): www.corcoran.org.
In the spirit of Muybridge’s studies of motion and bodies in space, Arachnes returns to the Corcoran’s atrium with Washington's dynamic chamber ensemble, the Kenyon Piano Quartet (Grace Hong, Judie Lieu, Chase Maggiano and Jeremy Rissi) to perform excerpts from "The Places In Between." The program conjures places real and imagined, and the spaces in between. Featuring new and restaged works by Arachne set to live music by Johannes Brahms and Kronos Quartet and recorded music by Seattle's KGB and DC's The Low End String Quartet. Chamber music performed live by the Kenyon Piano Quartet creates a lush score for the great places and spaces of our lives.
The Beauty of Their Dreams
at the 19th Annual Northern Virginia Fine Arts Festival
May 15 & 16, 2010 (see times below)
Reston Town Center, Reston VA
FREE (no tickets required)
This year, the Greater Reston Arts Center (GRACE) has expanded its partnership with the Reston Community Center to present Arachne and Baltimore's In-Flight Theater (Bryce Butler, Mara Neimanis and Tim Scofield) in separate performances and together in a joint performance. The joint performance, “The Beauty of Their Dreams,” at the Reston Town Center Pavilion, draws inspiration from A Mid-Summer Night’s Dream, contrasting and combining the ethereal grace of duets by Arachne Aerial Arts on trapeze, hoops and fabric, with the aerial clown duets of In-Flight Theater on Tim Scofield’s industrial sculpture, The Tower. The 45-minute show, performed at 1:30pm daily, also features an original score by Jonathan Matis and costumes by Eric Gorsuch.
A sneak-preview performance by Arachne Aerial Arts will take place at 11am daily on trapeze in the Pavilion. Two brief performances by In-Flight Theater will take place at 3:30pm and 5pm daily in Town Square Park on a second industrial sculpture by Tim Scofield, The Flying Machine, exploring counterbalance as both metaphor and function. |
Ongoing
Private instruction Sundays 10am-12pm; Thursdays 7:30-9:30pm
Open studio (for current students only) Thursdays 7:30-9:30pm
To schedule: Email andrea@arachneair.com
Arachne offers ongoing private and semi-private lessons by appointment. No experience is necessary. Sign up alone, with a friend, or contact us and we will pair you with another student if requested. Hourly cost is $75/person for solos, $45/person for duets and $35/person for trios. Please inquire about rates for larger groups. Also contact us about open studio time, available to current students (permission of the instructor required). Fall workshops have begun already; check back soon for winter schedule. See Classes & Workshops for more information. |
