Ticketholders Drive to Diverse Local Performances at New Event

Sat 8/15 @ 12:35PM

A couple of months ago, three mainstays of the area’s performing arts community, lighting/scene designer Trad Burns, dancer/ choreographer Sarah Morrison and Chuck Karnak of art/performance collective All Go Signs, put a call out for artists to participate in a new event called The City Is Our Stage. The idea was to give the area’s actors, musicians, dancers, and interdisciplinary performers an opportunity to get out in front of audiences during the pandemic when more than half of them are unemployed, unable to do what they normally do.

The idea is that audience members get in their cars and travel from location to location to see the performances. Ticket buyers can choose east side, west side, downtown or “surprise me.” Each circuit takes about two hours with short distances between locations.

There’s a wide range of artists and ensembles, each of whom will be doing a bite-sized performance. There’s music ranging from jazz by the Alba Trio to Cats on Holiday’s swamp rock, to ethnic folk from the Russian Duo to Italian opera by Lara Troyer. There’s belly dance by Aminah Louise, the distinctive choreography of Dancing Wheels, and performances by established ensembles Inlet Dance and Verb Ballet. Djapo Culture Arts Institute will bring their interdisciplinary African arts performances, Sky Aerial Works and Shanty Circus will present theatrical circus skills, and Robin VanLear Arts Acts Ltd will showcase the striking combination of performance and visual arts that she brought for so many years to Parade the Circle, an event she created. There’s a full list of acts here.

Tickets are $40 per vehicle, and the money made will be split evenly between the 28 acts performing. Go here to buy tickets. Rain date is August 16.

www.thecityisourstage.com

 

 

 

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