winter 2010

W&L Repertory Dance Concert
January 28 & 29 at 7:30pm; January 30 at 3pm
The Lenfest Center for the Performing Arts, Lexington VA
Tickets ($25 general admission): www.lenfest.wlu.edu or call 540-458-8000

Arachne joins the Washington & Lee University Repertory Dance Company as guest artists in a showcase of student and faculty works. Arachne will perform two works from the company’s diverse repertory, evoking a winding river and a journey through the desert. W&L artistic director Jenefer Davies invites audience members to a guest artist talk back session immediately following each performance.

Arachne Featured on Holly Morris Live
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
See it on video: http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/mornings/holly_live/holly-morris-arachne-aerial-arts-011910

In case you missed the live broadcast, check out Arachne and our talented students teaching Holly Morris the ropes on FOX-5 News. Catch all three segments on video (trapeze, silk and lyra). Thanks to everyone who made the morning such fun!

Teaching Residency at Washington & Lee University
January 30 & 31, 2010
Washington & Lee University, Lexington VA
To register: sharon@arachneair.com.

Arachne will offer workshops in introductory aerial technique, injury prevention and conditioning to W&L dance department students and participants in the regional 2010 Writing the Body Festival, hosted by Washington & Lee University. Participation is by registration only. For more information on the festival, visit www.wlu.edu.

fall 2009

My ocean is never blue
October 8 & 9, 2009 at 8pm
Clarice Smith Center for the Performing Arts, College Park MD
Tickets ($37 general admission): www.claricesmithcenter.umd.edu or call 301-405-ARTS (2787)

Exploring humanity's multi-faceted relationship to water, this work initiated by Daniel Burkholder is a new collaborative version with Daniel Burkholder/The PlayGround, Arachne Aerial Arts, Coyaba Dance Theater and Devi Dance Theater. Combining traditional and contemporary dance techniques with live music, spoken word and video, My ocean is never blue is a collage of movement, images, information and sensory input. Live music performed by the Kenyon Piano Quartet, Jonathan Matis and Sam Turner.

Theater Grand Opening Concert
October 17, 2009 at 8pm
Joe’s Movement Emporium, Mount Rainier MD
Tickets ($100 adults; $25 youth): www.joesmovement.org or call 301-699-1819

Arachne Aerial Arts joins DC Drum Core, Soul in Motion Players, Gamelan Mitra Kusma, Silk Road Dance Company and Taratibu Youth Association for a benefit concert to celebrate the grand opening of Joe’s Movement Emporium’s beautiful new theater. Enjoy performances by Joe’s artists, light refreshments and dancing to the Afro-Cuban beats of DC Drum Core. Saturday’s performance forms the centerpiece of the weekend’s opening festivities (see Joe’s website for more information).

The Places in Between
December 17, 2009 at 8pm
Reston CenterStage, Reston VA
Tickets ($15 residents of Fairfax County; $25 non-residents): www.restoncommunitycenter.com or call 703-476-4500 (option “3”)

Combining the aerial artistry of Arachne Aerial Arts with live music by Washington’s Kenyon Piano Quartet, this evocative program conjures places real and imagined and the spaces in between - from a journey through the desert to the edges of sleep. The program features new and restaged works by Arachne Aerial Arts set to live and recorded music by classical and contemporary composers. Johannes Brahms’ Piano Quartet in C Minor (Opus 60), performed live by the Kenyon Piano Quartet, creates a lush score for the great places and spaces of our lives.

Arachne’s Students Perform
October 30, 2009 at 7pm
Dance Place, Washington DC
Tickets ($100 general admission): www.danceplace.org or call 202-269-1600

Shhh…TELL EVERYONE! Arachne’s students, Sonya Melissa Schwab and Kate Winston, perform at a SURPRISE PARTY to support the NEXTgeneration Youth Programs at Dance Place. We don't want to give anything away - but you can expect the unexpected at any moment all evening long! Jugglers, steppers, singers, dinner and dancing, dj's, live and silent auctions, live bands, tappers, drummers, crooners, hip hoppers, mambos, soloists, duets, and of course, AERIALISTS!

Fieldwork Showing
November 21, 2009 at 2:30pm
Joe’s Movement Emporium, Mount Rainier MD
Tickets ($5 suggested donation): RSVP to sharon@arachneair.com

This informal showing of works-in-progress concludes a 10-week choreographic workshop convened this fall, hosted by Arachne Aerial Arts and facilitated by Laura Schandelmeier. Fieldwork is a nationally recognized process that supports the development of new artistic works; this informal showing concludes the workshop process, but the creative process continues. Workshop participants include Ann Behrends, Andrea Burkholder, Raquel Hernandez-Sevier, Therese Keegan, Mara Neimanis, Eleanor EChO Ory, Sonya Melissa Schwab, Lizard Walker-Keegan, Kate Winston and Sharon Witting.