Posts Tagged ‘Aszure Barton’

Shared Vision

Monday, August 10th, 2009

Read this great article in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune by Susan Rife.

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Accolades for Azure (& Artists)

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

Accolades for the artists performing in the Festival accelerate by the day.  Just today an article by Fast Forward Weekly, a leading cultural magazine in Calgary, Canada, features Canadian dance standout Azure Barton.  The feature  highlights Azure’s commissioned piece,  Busk, and mentions her performance at the Ringling Festival. Fast Forward Weekly describes Azure’s style as “… collaborative and project-based because she loves the nurturing intensity that comes with a commission. Her company, Aszure & Artists,  are her collaborators but her inspiration comes from any and all forms of art.”   Check out the article and learn more about Azure Barton. It is an enjoyable read.

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Summer is for Art Festivals

Monday, June 8th, 2009

Summer is the season for art festivals around the globe. From America’s most acclaimed Spoletto in Charleston, S.C., which just wrapped up another season yesterday, to Holland and Vienna, artists are filling schedules and selling tickets. Many of the emerging artists bound for Sarasota/Manatee in October are performing around these festivals. For instance, Deganit Shemy & Company received a new residence and commission by Dance @ DMAC (Duo Multicultural Arts Center) and Azure & Artists are in residency at the Bnaff Centre in Canada where they will also perform at the Bnaff Summer Arts Festival.  Elevator Repair Service just wrapped up performances of The Sound and the Fury (April Seventh, 1928) at the Vienna Festival yesterday and are off to the Holland Festival in Amsterdam this coming weekend.  With all the traveling this summer, I hope they have a chance to catch a trip to Siesta Key while in town for the Ringling festival in October. Sounds like they will need it.  What a mutually beneficial relationship for everyone-artists might have the chance to get some R&R on award-winning beaches and Floridians get to see highly sought-after artists without having to leave the state. 

 

Lynn Hobeck Bates, Public Relations Manager at the Ringling Museum

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Single Ticket Sales Off and Running

Monday, June 1st, 2009

Ticket sales are off-and-running and who’s the fairest of them all? Is it über-diva Meow Meow or Elevator Repair Services’ adaptation of Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises or perhaps it is María Pagés spicy Flamenco dancing? Let us know who you think is in the lead by sending us a comment.

Other performances include:

• Azure & Artists World Premiere of Busk performed with OtherShore’s Snowfalls in Winter
• Ella Hickson’s award-winning theater production Eight
• Peter Brook’s U.S. Premiere of Love is my sin
• Israel’s shining star Deganit Shemy & Company
• Chamber “A” and Chamber “B” featuring a piece by rising-star Mason Bates

You can help drive your favorite up in the polls by purchasing your tickets now. Single tickets and festival packages are available online or by calling the Historic Asolo Theater Box Office at 941.360.7399.

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I Want to Dance

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

Last night the Ringling Museum hosted a group of dance students from a Manatee County middle school for a dance recital. The Museum partners with Manatee County’s television station to film the recitals which air across the state. The group of six girls performed several classical pieces and one modern dance piece. This is a wonderful partnership between our Museum and the community.  As I watched them perform, I wondered if they would grow up to be the next Aszure Barton or Deganit Shemy. Would they perform in the Ringling International Arts Festival in years to come? Some of them definitely had the potential.

The dance teacher of these talented young ladies is much attuned to the Festival. She performs for a local modern dance troupe here in Sarasota and she couldn’t believe her eyes when she got a postcard showing that Aszure Barton is scheduled to be at the Ringling Museum. In fact, Aszure Barton’s new work is specially commissioned by the Ringling International Arts Festival.

A quote from the Village Voice sums up the excitement of both teacher and students alike:
“When I grow up, I want to dance with Aszure & Artists”

Posted by Lynn Hobeck Bates, Public Relations Manager, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art.

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So Much to Experience!

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

In less than five months, the Ringling International Arts Festival will be alive in Sarasota. The rich diversity of scheduled performances, exhibitions, and special events will provide an enriching experience for any arts enthusiast. The Festival will include world and US premieres, plus several works commissioned specifically for the Ringling International Arts Festival.

But who and what to see? Your choices include: contemporary art paired with Old Masters paintings, orchestra and chamber music, cabaret, traditional and experimental theater, Flamenco dance, contemporary dance, and so much more. Before single performance tickets go on sale this Friday, visit the Ringling International Arts Festival YouTube channel to preview video clips of the artists’ performances.

Then be sure to let us know who you plan to see.

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Aszure Barton & Artists / OtherShore

Friday, February 20th, 2009

Aszure Barton Artists

Aszure Barton Artists

Aszure Barton & Artists - World Premiere
OtherShore - The Snow Falls in the Winter

Thursday, Oct 8: 8:00 p.m.
Friday, Oct 9: 2:00 & 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, Oct 10: 5:30 p.m.
Mertz Theater
Tickets: $30, $25, $20, $10

One of Canada’s most talented young choreographers, Aszure Barton is rapidly carving out a place for herself on the international dance scene. Currently the Resident Choreographer for Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal, Ms. Barton has choreographed new works for Mikhail Baryshnikov, Sydney Dance Company, The Martha Graham Dance Company, and the Broadway stage. Drawing from classical ballet and contemporary dance vocabularies, Barton plumbs the human psyche to craft a new work that explores the visual architecture of movement, color and sound.

“Aszure Barton is a skillful choreographer with a very interesting mind.” – The Village Voice

“Barton is clearly brilliant… The layers of tension are disturbing and delicious.” 
– San Francisco Chronicle

Aszure Barton’s new work is commissioned by The Ringling International Arts Festival.

Founded by Sonja Kostich and Brandi Norton (former dancers with American Ballet Theatre and Trisha Brown Dance Company, respectively), OtherShore debuted in 2008 with a program of commissioned works, including The Snow Falls in the Winter. Created by Annie-B Parson and co-directed by Paul Lazar of Big Dance Theater, The Snow Falls in the Winter was named one of Dance Magazine’s “10 best choreographies in 2008.” A poignant dance-theater piece, it borrows from Eugene Ionesco’s The Lesson, exploring notions of training and teaching, examining the cusp between right and wrong, true and false, artifice and reality. 

“Riotously, beautifully more than its parts…” – The New York Times

“We’ll continue to wonder where else this ambitious troupe will take us.” – Dance Magazine

“The Snow Falls in the Winter reinforces two already-evident impressions: These dancers have many talents; this enterprising young group deserves a bright future” – The Village Voice

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