ArtBark International
A collaborative and co-creative endeavor, an outgrowth of my work as SonneBlauma Danscz Theatre.
Collaborators and Co-Creators
Professional Company
Misa Kelly
Stephen Kelly
Mojca Majcen
Trina Mannino
Joanna Nobbe
Cecily Stewart
Mindy Nelson
Michelle Cotrina
Community Company
Hylla Fischer
Tessa Jacobs
Chris Rahwles
Melissa Block, Sarah Block, Noah Block
SBCC Project Cast
ADaPT Festival Cast
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
2019
March
HHII Festival
Center Stage Theater
March 2nd at 8:00 pm
Stephen Kelly will offer up Rivers of the Wind performed by Robin Wilson and Nicole Powell
March 3rd at 2:00 pm
Misa Kelly will offer up The Van Gogh Project: Episode VI
April
Earthdance E|MERGE Creative Residency
Misa Kelly travels to Massachusetts for personal research. Creation of 4 short dance films as medicine.
November
Monthlong creative residency in NYC
ArtBark launches development of its next evening length collaborative and co-creative work
2018
NECTAR 10: October 13th, 2018
YOGA SOUP
Hosted by Cybil Gilbertson
Stephen Kelly offered up a new duet created in collaboration with Nicole Powell and Robin Wilson
Michelle and Misa presented an art installation of new work under the auspices of Leilani & Miele as a part of ArtBark's pilot Art Peer Support project #theVanGoghProject: a multi-year experimental endeavor.
Triskelion Arts Collaborations in Dance Festival
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL: https://www.triskelionarts.org/collabfest-2018
Misa Kelly and Michelle Cotrina represented ArtBark International the first week of the Festival curated by Trina Mannino with the art installation and performance ritual "Van Gogh Goes to Brooklyn.
PODCAST: http://www.nycradiolive.org/misa/
ONE NIGHT ONLY: May 19th, 2018
NECTAR: God: 7:30 PM
Yoga Soup $15 at the door
ArtBark International will be represented by Stephen Kelly presenting a solo set on Robin Conrad, Michelle Cotrina and Misa Kelly are offering their second shared show under the auspices of Leilani & Miele, and "Dylan Michael Anthony Wahinialoha Pu'u" will be sharing a stripped down experimental work performed by Misa and Hylla called The Museum Project 2.0.
May 11th and 12th @ 7:30 pm
State Street Ballet: Modern Masters
Stephen Kelly performed live to a new work generated by State Street Ballet (and ArtBarker) Cecily Stewart's latest choreographic work at the NEW VIC.
Preview Article: by Charles Donelan
May 6th @ LACMA
Museum Project 2.0
Family Performance Art - Guerrilla Style, gathering memory and imagery for NECTAR: God. Puu and Cotrina Family.
HHII Festival
Stephen Kelly represented ArtBark International presenting "Look to the Sky" performed by Nicole Powell
Santa Barbara Independent Review
2017
CALENDAR
Alma.Sama. Pasadena & Santa Barbara
April 28th, 7:30 PM, ARC Pasadena
ArtBark International reprises Alma.Sama. with Guest Artists Hubbard Dance Collective
Tickets: $5 children, $10 adults, $100 patron tickets
April 29th, 6:00 PM, Gail Towbes Center for Dance
ArtBark International reprises Alma.Sama. with Guest Artists Hubbard Dance Collective
Tickets: $5 children, $10 adults, $100 patron tickets. Plus a pop-up shop post performance featuring art from the Chunky Teacup.
Santa Barbara
HHII Festival, Center Stage Theater
February 19th, 2:00 PM
Misa shared a 20 minute work on the HHII festival program performing Sunday February 19th at 2:00 pm at Center Stage Theater. The work was a creative mediation on the question, "What's the Solution?", and in part, was a reaction to the global stress of the shift in the political environment in the United States.
NECTAR: Rise Santa Barbara
September 23rd, 7 pm
Stephen Kelly shared choreographic work and Misa Kelly and Michelle Cotrina had their first sibling shared art show.
Monterey
July 29th at 8:00 pm
July 30th at 2:00 pm
20th Anniversary of the SpectorDance Choreographer's Showcase
PRESS QUOTES: 2017
SEE Dance
Jeff Slayton
“Misa Mandigo Kelly, Marijan Pušavec and Stephen Kelly have created an inspiring work that traces Ms. Karlin’s travels around the world, exposes her hopes and fears, and celebrates her talents. It is a wonderful tribute to an amazing person.”
“The choreography by Stephen Kelly, Misa Kelly and Trina Mannino is beautifully structured”
“Mojca Majcen is a beautiful dancer and excels during her solo..”
“Mannino works with ArtBark International while based in Brooklyn, NY. Her performance throughout Alma.Sama. is steady, direct and stunning.”
“Kelly is an experienced performance artist and a seasoned performer who brings life to Karlin through her acting and being comfortable working with props. She is Alma Karlin in one scene and then beautifully performs musically on brass bowls, a gourd, rocks in a jar and with her own vocals as Trina Mannino dances.
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“Stephen Kelly’s original sound score greatly contributes to the where and when of Karlin’s life and Paul Tran did a wonderful job of creating the various atmospheres and environments. I am sure that Alma Karlin would have enjoyed and honored by this production.”
2016
TOURING
Moorpark, CA
Ledyard, CT
Brooklyn, NY
Los Angeles, CA
EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH
Santa Barbara, CA
CO-PRODUCING/Shifting Paradigms
Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, Brooklyn
CALENDAR
MOORPARK, CA
West Coast
April 23rd, 8:00 PM, Moorpark College
2016 Motion/Flux
Joanna Nobbe and Cecily Stewart performed ??? in a duet form, choreographed by Misa Kelly
LEDYARD, CT
May 21st – May 27th
Dragon's Egg Residency with Showing
ArtBarkers Trina Mannino, Stephen Kelly, Misa Kelly, Yvette Johnson, and Joanna Nobbe Creation of 3 new works: QUENCH (Misa directs), Ghost Duet (Trina directs), Highly Unlikely (Stephen directs)
BROOKLYN, NY
May 29th, 4:00 PM
Hive: New York @ Triskelion Arts
organized by Trina Mannino and Misa Kelly in collaboration with the artists grounding into principles of conscious leadership. Creative offerings by ArtBark: Stephen Kelly, Misa Kelly, Trina Mannino, Joanna Nobbe, Cecily Stewart and Sarah Lass, Kristen Hatleberg, Garnet Henderson.
SANTA BARBARA, CA
West Coast
September 10th
EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH
Guest Master Class and Studio Showing
Master Class 3:30 pm with Nancy Evans Doede
Studio Showing 5:30 pm
organized by Stephen Kelly
Creative work by Stephen Kelly and NEDT
BROOKLYN, NY
September 24th, 2 pm, Triskelion Arts
Dragons Egg Annual Concert
Trina Mannino and Joanna Nobbe perform Mannino’s Ghost Duet
SANTA BARBARA, CA
TURF PROJECT
EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH
Barbara Mahler Master Class
Thursday November 3rd, 11:00 am, Montecito School of Ballet
TURF: ARTIST CO-PRODUCTION
Misa Kelly Dances presents TURF - a project of ArtBark International a collaborative production grounding into principles of conscious leadership.
November 5, 2016 at 1pm at Pieter, Los Angeles, CA
November 6, 2016 at 6pm at Gail Towbes Center for Dance, Santa Barbara, CA
Participating Artists:
Santa Barbara: Mindy Nelson, Misa Kelly, Stephen Kelly, Ken Gilbert and E. Bonnie Lewis
ARTISTS FROM
SANTA BARBARA – LOS ANGELES – NEW YORK
3 great cities known for their dynamic art communities
Expect to be moved, shifted, inspired, humored and uplifted!
"An artist as one blade of grass, all alone, coping with the survival elements? Or, as a community, with interwoven root systems, the potential to generate a powerful sense of turf. Turf because dancers are a fierce breed: courage, heart, poetry, rich soil. As a dance maker, I liken them to wild mustangs. So, given it is my turn to lead in terms of community production, I wanted to use a metaphor that serves wild ponies well. Turf tended with principles of conscious leadership.bee-ing the change we wish for the world!" Turf tender MD Kelly Dances for the community A project of artbark.org.
PRESS
Santa Barbara Independent
http://www.independent.com/news/2016/oct/27/santa-barbara-choreographers-premiere-unified-work/
LA Weekly
https://www.culturalweekly.com/barak-ballet-messing-with-nasas-mars-rover/
SEE Dance
https://seedance.com/news/misa-kelly-presents-turf-pieter-studio-los-angeles/
PROGRAM
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bzj6azOVFBWKUXR4djBNWmtucXM/view?usp=sharing
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY
Saturday, November 19 Green Space, Long Island City
B R E W I N M O T I O N
Brew in Motion was back with more brewers and artists with Trina at the helm organizing this exciting event. Contributing Artists: Trina Mannino, Meghan Frederick, and Maya Orchin, visual artist Miles Yoshida and homebrewers Matt Federico, Andrew Berman and Alex Dolginko for an afternoon of contemporary dance and craft beer.
PROMO TRAILER: https://vimeo.com/189867852
Events - 2015
2015
PASADENA, CA
Porticos Art Space, Pasadena, CA January 31, and February 1, 2015
Family/Friends/Dance/Festival
Misa performed Manatee: Ode to My Beloved
Produced by Nancy Evans Dance Theatre
CELJE and LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA
June 1 - June 23rd, ArtBark International 3 week creative residency
The Alma Karlin Project – completion of evening length work Alma.Sama
Celje, Slovenia – rehearsals held at IGEN Dance Theater Studios, Baletna Sola, Tamara Divnjak
Ljubjlana, Slovenia – rehearsals and premiere at the Cankarjev Dom
A co-production between the Cankarjev Dom, ArtBark International and Celje, House of Culture.
Performances June 18, June 22, 2015
PHOTOS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoZCbcX86Z0
TRAILER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSsRjeM03pY
PRESS
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0Bzj6azOVFBWKZzZSSEFtY2NlSk0?usp=sharing
SANTA MONICA, CA
Miles Memorial Playhouse, August 30, 2015
MixMatch Dance Festival
Performance of ??? by Misa Kelly
Produced by Hart Pulse Dance Company
SANTA BARBARA, CA
Center Stage Theater, September 3, 2015
CRIT 001
Performance of ??? by Misa Kelly
- Produced by Weslie Ching
Montecito School of Ballet, October 3, 2015
ArtBark Local Studio Showing
Choreographic games, performance of “What’s the SoLOVETion?”, co-created with Hannah Ruth Brothers
- Produced by ArtBark Local
PASADENA, CA
ARC, Pasadena, CA October 10, 11, 2015
Family/Friends/Dance/Festival
Performance of ??? by Misa Kelly
- Produced by Nancy Evans Dance Theatre
EVENTS - 2014
LOS ANGELES
Awakenings & Beginnings Festival, produced by Rubans Rouge Dance Festival
February 1st - Diavolo Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
ArtBark International premiered "Alma" - an ensemble study for their developing evening length work Alma Sama/Alma Alone. The work was co-created with ArtBark's "Community" collective: Melissa Block, Tess Jacobs, Karyn Laver, Hylla Fischer, Chris Rahwles, Misa & Stephen Kelly. Additionally, Misa performed with the Nicole McKenzie Improv Group. Photos by Lisa Flory compliments Rubans Rouge Dance Festival & the Awakenings and Beginnings Festival.
SANTA BARBARA
Kinesis, produced by the Santa Barbara Dance Alliance
February 21st, 22nd - Center Stage Theater, Santa Barbara, CA
The Community collective had a second opportunity to share ALMA!
West Coast La Combadura Residency, March 1-22nd, to move the Alma Karlin Project forwards, with rehearsals at the Montecito School of Ballet and Santa Barbara Dance Arts.
Mojca ventured from Celje, Slovenia and Trina from Brooklyn, NY for a residency focused on developing the Alma Karlin Project. The professional branch of the collective developed two new sections and drew from repertory setting Nadar on Mojca. Joining the collective at this time was emerging artist Yvette Johnson. Both Trina and Mojca resided at the Kelly La Combadura residence for the duration of the residency, hence the name of the residency, La Combadura. Photos by Misa Kelly
PHOTO GALLERY OF REHEARSAL IMAGES BY KATHEE MILLER on our Facebook Page HERE
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.743295699028158.1073741851.364071636950568&type=3
NECTAR: The Art of Healing, March 8th - 7:00 pm, produced by Cybil Gilbertson - Yoga Soup,
Per their usual rhythm ArtBark contributed production assistance the day of to NECTAR and also contributed creative work sharing two sections developed during the La Combadura Creative Residency and installing a one person show of the collective member "Dylan & Friends" visual art, photography, and sculpture.
La Combadura Residency Studio Showing, March 19th - 7:30 pm, Montecito School of Ballet
It was a fabulous turn out for a fabulous FREE event! ArtBark International shared work developed during the second week of its residency as well as excerpts from what was developed the first week. As an inter-generational collective performers ranged in age from Noah Block (10) to Hylla Fischer and Misa Kelly both in their 50s, Chris Rawlhes aged 67, and the two young dancers of the day were Mojca Majcen (in her 30s) and Yvette Johnson (in her 20s). Kathee Miller was there to capture the moment beautifully.
IMAGES by Kathee Miller HERE
https://www.facebook.com/pg/WeLoveArtBark/photos/?tab=album&album_id=743295699028158
1st Thursdays, hosted by the Santa Barbara Downtown Organization
ArtBark International was invited by the Downtown Organization to organize 3 hours of entertainment by local movement artists and poets. It is always a joy to bring art to places where not normally encountered as a way of expanding audiences.
New York
BAAD/Bronx Academy of the Arts and Dance's "Boogie Down Dance Series" May 2 -17
Misa and Hylla toured from the West Coast to meet up with East Coast ArtBarker Trina Mannino to share an excerpt from the Alma Karlin Project performing Saturday May 3rd. GREAT fun!
Ledyard, Connecticut
July 19-July 26th
Dragons Egg Residency, Ledyard, CT
compliments of Marya Ursin and her wonderful Board
West Coast and East Coast ArtBarkers gathered to move projects forwards at what has become our favorite residency spot on the globe! The Dragon's Egg. The professional branch of the collective moved multiple projects forwards creating both in the studio and conducting movement research in open spaces.
Pasadena
August 9th @ 7:00 pm
ARC Pasadena
Summer Showcase 2: "Secrets & The Silent Rose"
Presented by: Rubans Rouges Dance Company
ArtBark premiered a new work: Manatee - Ode to my Beloved performed by Misa Kelly, Stephen Kelly, Hylla Fischer & Marcia Sherman. So grateful to Noelle Andressen for the gracious opportunity.
Santa Monica
Miles Memorial Playhouse: Santa Monica
The MixMatch Festival, produced by Hart Pulse Dance Company
Saturday August 30th 7:30 pm as ArtBark International
Sunday August 31st 2:00 pm with the Nicole McKenzie Improv Group
New York
September 27th @ 2:00 pm
Triskelion Arts: Brooklyn, NY
Dragon's Egg Annual Showcase
Trina, Misa, & Joanna will offer up a trio from the D.I.D. Project
Santa Barbara
November 2nd @ 7:00 pm
Center Stage Theater, Santa Barbara, CA
The Hive: BUZZ
ArtBark embraced collaborative and co-creative action with like hearted creatives. Maria Rendina Frantz, Melissa Block, Meredith Cabaniss and ArtBarkers Stephen and Misa gathered to discuss the need to ensure an annual Santa Barbara choreographers showcase was in place anticipating change in the community resulting in THE HIVE! Fluid and flavorable with Maria serving as the Queen Bee this time around and Motion Theatre Dance Company serving as the 2014 Project umbrella.
2014 Program
Program Designed by Weslie Ching
2014 Press
Santa Barbara News Press
We were featured in Scene Magazine with a full page! CLICK here to purchase article
Santa Barbara Independent
The indy wrote a stellar preview article about us CLICK here to view the article for free
The Montecito Journal
Also wrote a wonderful preview article!
2013 RECAP
2013 was a GREAT year: Awakenings and Beginnings Dance Festival, our 8th Kinesis, NECTAR: Love AllWays, Green Space Blooms Festival, Residency at the Dragon's Egg in Connecticut including a studio showing, 1st Thursdays event outside in front of Marshall's with a bunch of peeps, ADaPT Festival in NY and on the West Coast including an awesome round two with the Cut the Edge Emerging Genre Installation, Red Ribbons and Memories Dance Concert, our 4th MixMatch Festival, our tri-city Minty showing, and the Family/Friends/Dance Festival.
LOS ANGELES
Awakening & Beginnings Dance Festival @ Diavolo Theater, Moulton Ave, Los Angeles - January 19th
We had a fabulous time premiering "One World is Never Enough". Thank you Beth Megill for the lovely write up on your Blog Dancing Poetess and congratulations Noelle on doing an incredible job filling the house to OVERFULL!
http://dancingpoetess.blogspot.com/2013/01/review-awakenings-and-beginnings.html?spref=fb
We loved hearing the collective "aww" when Dolby the Dauchsie trotted out onstage behind ArtBarker Karyn Laver for his part in the process.
SANTA BARBARA
Santa Barbara Dance Alliance Kinesis concert - February 1st & 2nd
What a tremendous gift to be able to perform this work thrice alongside other SB choreographers.
Very special thanks to Hylla Fischer and Alberta Fujihara for helping ArtBarker's out with props set-up.
SOOOOO Much positive feedback!
Misa & Stephen Kelly’s piece “One World is Never Enough” engaged the audience and engaged my poetic self to a deeper understanding of true Kelly talent. The piece “One World is Never Enough” stood out in the Kinetics 2013 dance production like a diamond on a newlywed woman. I would recommend The Kelly Twins to any person who wishes to think on a deeper level and be inspired. Bravo 10/10
Chris Hoffman
(Santa Barbara, CA)
Dear Misa and Stephen,
I didn't get a chance after the show last weekend to speak with you about how I enjoyed your piece. It had a feel of a kind of cross between Meredith Monk and Pina Bausch to me.
Nancy
Artistic Director Nancy Evans Dance Theater (Pasadena, CA)
Hi Misa,
After our hurried conversation in the hallway yesterday, I wanted to follow up by saying that I think it's fantastic that you're doing such innovative work, and that you are not afraid to take risks! That's one reason why I say I think you are our (SB) most inventive choreographer, and I'm always delighted to see your work! I applaud your effort whole-heartedly (and of course I'm including Stephen in this also), and remain your devoted groupie! BRAVA!!! for EVERYTHING you do in the SB Dance community!
Huge hugs and much love,
Susan
Susan Alexander Teaches, Santa Barbara CA
Dear Misa,
I loved the piece last night, by the way!
Delila
Delila Moseley, owner Montecito School of Ballet, Director UCSB Dance Company)
Under the newly formed performance collective, Art Bark (formerly Sonnenblauma), Misa and Stephen Kelly co-choreographed One World is Never Enough. This piece had it all: charming children at the beginning, a cute Dachshund running across the stage and paper airplanes thrown by the audience! Set to a complex soundscape (that I can't even begin to recreate in my memory), this piece played like an abstract impressionist painting, offering the audience a series of images and scenarios that hinted at travel and relationships, but left the majority of the meaning to be formed by the observer. Very Art Barkian!
Beth Megill,
Dancing Poetess Blog
Faculty Moorpark College, Director Beth Megill and Dancers
“Thought-provoking...eliciting joy”
Weslie Ching
Nebula Dance Lab dancer
NECTAR: Love Always - February 9th @ 8:00 - Yoga Soup
We had opportunity yet again to not only share creative work but to assist Cybil Gilbertson in her administrative process in producing the event. We also had the good fortune to be there to provide technical support lending NECTAR our video projector, Stephen managing sound, Misa helping set up and coordinate the day of. GREAT community effort!
VENICE BEACH
MAX10 @ the Electric Lodge - April 1st, Venice Beach CA
We previewed a wonderful new solo set to a sensitive score collaboratively created by Phillip A. Mergatroide and Isa Topete.
LONG ISLAND CITY/QUEENS
Green Space Blooms Dance Festival in NY!
ArtBark International is performed Friday April 19th (Misa premiered Patchwork Chameleon) & Sunday April 21st (Jo and Misa performed Unzipped)
What an awesome time in NYC! So cool that we have an office in Brooklyn. Gnarly schedule for Misa but she returned to the West Coast quite refreshed with a heart full of gratitude.
"In her grey costume with a peek of mustard yellow, the dancer’s wide eyes pan the intimate space tothe group of serious audience members. I’m pulled into the performer’s tale, and I can’t help elicit a smile of wonderment.
The dancer invites us into her world. At first glance it seems lighthearted and youthful. She bounces across the stage; her pigtails bobbing up and down. A high-pitched screech escapes her lips as an infant would when experimenting with sound. What is she trying to tell us?
The dancer appears frustrated at times; slapping her foot against the floor and thrashing her arms above her head. I can identify with these moments of intensity, and the mover deals with them honestly and with integrity.
Patchwork Chameleon is an insightful exploration of communication—demonstrating the unconventional ways people interact with the world around them. We can all learn a tremendous amount from this unique perspective of sound and touch. It’s a gift to witness."
By Trina Mannino, Brooklyn NY choreographer, writer and ArtBarker!
SANTA BARBARA
May 2nd - 5-8 pm, 1st Thursdays, in front of Marshalls:
ArtBark International & Friends presented 3 hours of dance, physical theater, music, magic and improvisation with ample opportunity for audience participation. Participating Companies/Artists include: Ajde, ArtBark International, DramaDogs – a Theater Company, Got Country?, Honeysuckle Possums, Montino Bourbon, Nicole McKenzie Improv Group, Noah Block. Please see our facebook page for photos and video.
LEDYARD, CONNECTICUT
May 22nd - May 29th - Residency at Dragon's Egg in Conneticut!
The Residency, in short, rocked our orbits so much so it will take many moons to adjust to the new expressions stirred in our beings. Mojca Majcen reunited with the Kellys and carved out two new works and revived repertory. Trina Mannino arrived to tidy up the duet she set on Stephen and Misa remotely via use of skype rehearsals and other internet resources. Mariko Reynolds arrived to work on the Life Drawing Score. While there they made new friends and hosted a studio showing for the Ledyard and Mystic communities. The Dragon's Egg is also home to the Mystic Paper Beasts Theater company and the Kellys made good use of the opportunity for a photo shoot.
BROOKLYN, SANTA BARBARA, PASADENA
ADAPT FESTIVAL in three cities
Center for Performance Research (CPR), Brooklyn, NY
ADaPT Festival 2013: Program Orson
Center Stage Theater, Santa Barbara, CA
ADaPT Festival 2013: Artist Brunch, Master Class, Program Jules, Program Arthur
– Producer, Choreographer (Patchwork Chameleon, Unzipped, One World is Never Enough), Performance, Organizer
ARC Pasadena, Pasadena, CA
ADaPT Festival 2013: Program Ray
The Pescadrome, Santa Barbara, CA
ADaPT Festival 2013: Cut the Edge Emerging Genre Installation
Montecito School of Ballet, Santa Barbara, CA
ADaPT Festival 2013: Master Class Series – Barbara Mahler, Rainbow Underhill
PASADENA
August 17th
ARC PASADENA Rubans Rouge Dance Company - Guest Artist
Red Ribbons & Memories Dance Concert
ArtBark International offered up "Patchwork Chameleon" with the work equally well received as it had been in New York and Santa Barbara.
Audience Feedback "I was so moved!" Wendi Baity - Relentless Dance Theater.
SANTA MONICA
August 24th
Miles Memorial Playhouse
MixMatch Festival
On the matinee show Stephen and Misa Kelly performed Trina Mannino's "Recall is Never Replay" In the evening the Kellys again performed "Recall is Never Replay" and Misa had yet another opportunity to perform Patchwork Chameleon.
Audience feedback "they won"
(husband of Emily Watson Dance Company about his favorite work on the program)
"I loved that"
(what Stephen heard as the lights faded)
Director Amanda Hart's feedback
"the audience adored you. And this makes me SO happy because you present excellent modern dance and people can't get enough. You make the modern dance world so much stronger."
Dance Writer - Beth Megill: Fulll Review
"If you have not seen Misa and Stephen on stage, you should! This husband and wife duet is quirky and thoughtful, nonsensical and endearing. The movement and choreographic structure was non traditional, including gestural phrases set to spoken text that seemed related only by chance at times, but it also felt entirely appropriate. The ending, in which the two slowly entwine in a reclined embrace, wraps up the dada-like piece with a string that can't be explained in words and can only be felt in the gut."
G R A T I T U D E!
It was wonderful to make new friends and equally wonderful to deepen the relationship with fellow creators.
BROOKLYN
Dragon's Egg Concert at Triskelion Arts
Sunday September 29th
118 N. 11th St. 3rd Fl
Brooklyn, New York 11211
New York ArtBarker Trina Mannino will share work on the program
TICKETS: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/435662
BROOKLYN, SANTA BARBARA, CELJE
November 3rd
Minty
TRI-CITY Studio Showing
NYC, Santa Barbara and Celje, Slovenia
ArtBark International and Friends
Event One: Celje, Slovenia - IGEN Dance Studios
Event Two: New York - time/place TBA
Event Three: Santa Barbara @ Yoga Soup 2:00 pm
2012
A Year of transition - after 15 years as SonneBlauma Danscz Theatre we morph into ArtBark International.
SANTA BARBARA
January 7th, 2012
8:00 pm at Yoga Soup
NECTAR: HOME
Tickets @ the door
$12 cash
Weslie and Tina premiere a remake of "Grit." It evolved into an entirely new work! Fun stuff. Dancing in vintage bathing suits/caps, idiosyncratic movement, relationship rich, deeply psychological and walks the edge between scary and hysterical. Feedback? Folks LOVED the work.
February - Affinity Tour! Pasadena, Santa Barbara, New York
February 5th, 2012
ARC Pasadena
4:00 pm Performance Celebration
SonneBlauma Danscz Theatre, Hart Pulse Dance Company, Rubans Rouge Dance, Christine Suarez, Movement Theater CoLab, Block & Block donate art gifts to unwrap!
February 7th, 2012
Center Stage Theater
6:40 Dante Elephante Pre-Show
7:00 pm Performance Celebration
SonneBlauma Danscz Theatre, Hart Pulse Dance Company, Rubans Rouge Dance, Christine Suarez, Nebula Dance Lab, Movement Theater CoLab, Block & Block donate art gifts to unwrap!
HUGE success!
Visit our Affinity page to see photos and read preview articles and reviews.
February 11th, 2012 - 8:30 pm
Green Space Studios
SonneBlauma shares an evening of work with NY based Perceptions Contemporary Dance Company. Works shared included Grit, Unzipped, Moki's Wedding and Falling and Flying. Huge thanks to dancers Kevin Deelen, Tina Corbett, Weslie Ching, Mojca Majcen, and Joanna Nobbe and especially Valerie Green for hosting such a wonderful series.
February 12th, 2012 - 8:30 pm
Green Space Studios
SonneBlauma shares the stage with New York choreographers
While we were there - a bit of guerrilla style movement art in the streets and in museums - unannounced and uninvited, which is always a bit of a rush when on the quest to "unframe art" and bring to places and spaces one might normally not encounter.
Santa Barbara
NECTAR: Golden
May 12th, 8:00 pm, Yoga Soup
Both Stephen and Misa premiered new works! Caravan and Paint my Wrinkles Red!
Venice Beach
June 4th, 7:00 pm The Electric Lodge
Venice Beach, CA
MAX10
Misa performed Unzipped as a solo integrating the audience seating folks on stage and random chance integration of a poetess.
Celje, Slovenia
June 4th & June 11th
ArtBark International Choreography Classes
Master classes in choreography and composition at Dance Theater IGEN's home studio in Celje, Slovenia. Classes facilitated by Stephen Kelly and Mojca Majcen.
Vienna, Austria
June 19th - June 30th
RAW MATTERS: ADaPT Fest Vienna
Kabelwerks Theatre
https://sites.google.com/site/adaptfestvienna/
Yup! The ADaPT Festival sprouted in Vienna!
PARIS
July 8th
studio Le Regard du Cygne
4:00 pm
ArtBark & Friends! Affinity Project
http://www.leregarducygne.com/
July 9th
The Museum Project - at the Lourve
PASADENA & SANTA BARBARA, CA
July 22nd - Master Class with Nadar Rosano from Israel @ ARC Pasadena. 11:00 am. Reserve your space through eventbrite.
July 25th - Master Class with Nadar Rosano from Israel @ the Montecito School of Ballet. 9:45 am sign-in. Reserve your space through eventbrite.
Santa Monica, CA
MixMatch Festival produced by Hart Pulse Dance Company
Miles Memorial Playhouse
September 1st and 2nd
September 1st @ 8:00 pm Joanna Nobbe and Misa Kelly performed Unzipped
September 2nd @ 2:00 pm Stephen Kelly's work Caravan was performed by Joanna Nobbe, Misa Kelly and Stephen Kelly.
Pure bliss to be backstage and chat it up with old friends and new friends and even friends who live merely miles away you never see because of the intensity of juggling so many occupations and tasks as working class artists. Double bliss to view the other works on the programs from the wings and the sleepover with giggles long into the night at Noelle of Rubans Rouge Dance Company's home.
SANTA BARBARA
October 6th, 2012
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Santa Barbara Dance Alliance Dance Day
1-3 pm
ArtBarkers at improvisational play!
SANTA BARBARA and PASADENA
October 17th-21st
ArtBark International Festival
Affinity III
Companies from Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Salem
Please visit our project specific website
https://sites.google.com/site/ftfaffinityproject/
