Posts Tagged ‘Deganit Shemy’
Monday, August 10th, 2009
Read this great article in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune by Susan Rife.
Tags: "Ringling Museum of Art", Aszure Barton, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Compañia María Pagés, Deganit Shemy, Elevator Repair Service Theater, Ella Hicks, FSU Center for the Performing Arts, FSU College of Visual Arts Theatre and Dance, Historic Asolo Theater, Louise Fishman, Meow Meow, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Pedja Muzijevic, Peter Brook, Ringling International Arts Festival
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Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
Making headlines in her native Israel, Deganit Shemy has been making her way quite nicely in NYC’s burgeoning modern dance scene. As I dug around to find out more about this esteemed choreographer, I came across an article that sums up a performance of Arena and sheds more light on Deganit’s impressive talent. Enjoy and purchase tickets to her shows–I’m positive you won’t be let down.
Lynn Hobeck Bates, Public Relations Manager
Tags: Arena, Arts, Dance, Deganit Shemy, Festival, Israel choreographer
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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
Tags: Arts, Aszure Barton, Bnaff Centre, Dance, Deganit Shemy, Elevator Repair Service Theater, Festival, Holland Festival, Manatee County, Ringling International Arts Festival, Sarasota, SCVB, Siesta Key, Spoleto Festival USA
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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.
Tags: Aszure Barton, Chamber Music, Compañia María Pagés, Deganit Shemy, Eight, Elevator Repair Service Theater, Historic Asolo Theater, Maria Pages, Mason Bates, Meow Meow, OtherShore, Peter Brook, Ringling International Arts Festival, The Snow Falls in the Winter
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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.
Tags: "Ringling Museum of Art", Aszure Barton, Dance, Deganit Shemy, Manatee County, Ringling International Arts Festival, Sarasota
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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.
Tags: Anne-Marie McDermott, Arena, Arts, Aszure Barton, Cabaret, Compañia María Pagés, Cook Theatre, Dance, Deganit Shemy, Edward Arron, Eight, Elevator Repair Service Theater, Ella Hicks, Eric Ruske, Festival, Flamenco y Poesía, Florida State University Symphony Orchestra, Jennifer Frautschi, Maria Pages, Mason Bates, Meow Meow, Music, Ringling International Arts Festival, Robert Spano, Sarasota, The Snow Falls in the Winter, World Premiere
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Friday, February 20th, 2009
Deganit Shemy
Deganit Shemy & Company
Arena
Thursday, Oct 8: 2:00 p.m.
Friday, Oct 9: 2:00 & 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, Oct 10: 5:30 p.m.
Cook Theater
Tickets: $25, $20, $10
One of the most intriguing choreographers to emerge in the last several years, Deganit Shemy has captured attention in her native Israel–where she was named “Young Choreographer of the Year” by the Israeli Ministry of Education (2004)–and also in New York, where she founded Deganit Shemy & Company in 2005. In Arena, Shemy constructs an emotionally-charged world that blurs the lines between the real and the imagined. Performed within a tight square of light and set to the insistent ticking of a metronome, five women enact an unsettling and intensely physical game governed by strict, but mysterious rules.
“One of Israel’s most promising young choreographers…” – Dance Magazine
“A choreographer just beginning to unfurl her formidable talents.” – The New York Times
The evening length version of Arena is commissioned by The Ringling International Arts Festival.
Tags: Arena, Arts, Choreographer, Cook Theater, Dance, Deganit Shemy, Festival, Israel, Music, Ringling International Arts Festival, Sarasota, Visual Arts
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