HEAVEN - EARTH - ONE, Blue Lapis Light at the Long Center Terrace, May 19 - 26, 2013

May 19 - 26 nightly at 9 p.m. at the Long Center Terrace (701 Riverside at S. First)

Heaven-Earth-One is a site-specific aerial dance performance that carries the audience on a visual journey of transcendence. This piece features dancers on the terrace ring, columns, aerial silks, zip lines and plaza of City Terrace. A zip line stretches from the roof of the theatre down to the terrace ring, allowing dancers to descend over the heads of the audience. The beautiful Austin nighttime skyline serves as the backdrop for this mesmerizing show. Using aerial techniques informed by classical, interpretive and modern dance, Blue Lapis Light challenges physical limitations and inspires our audiences with a sense of wonder. For more information and to view videos of past events, visit www.bluelapislight.org

Tickets available on-line and at the Long Center box office

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Auditions for Actors and Performers for The Circus, Sky Candy Aerial Arts, March 22 - 24, 2013

Do you want to run away and join THE CIRCUS? Now is your chance!

Come audition for our next theatrical production! Auditions will be held at our studio by appointment only March 22nd-24th. E-mail Winnie at winnie@skycandyaustin.com to schedule your time!

All performers must come to the audition with a prepared monologue (2 minutes max) and ready to demonstrate any floor or aerial skills (3 minutes max) that may be applicable to the roles they are auditioning for. You may audition for a specific role or let us know if you are interested in/open to multiple roles.

Characters
Danielle – The Teenage Runaway (acting and parkour OR aerials)
Bruno – The Magnificent Lion (acting and parkour OR aerials)
Horatio Piccolo – The Ringmaster, father of Aldo & Zita (acting)
Joe – The Strongman (acting and feats of strength and aerials)
Zita Piccolo – Trapeze Artist Female (acting and static trapeze)
Aldo Piccolo – Trapeze Artist Male (acting and static trapeze)
Oscar – Gorilla (acting and aerials)
Wilde – The Man in Gorilla Suit (acting and aerials)
Anya – The Snake Charmer (acting)
Snake (aerials)
Commander Zippo – Clown #1 (acting and clowning)
Flippy the Happy Clown – Clown #2 (acting and clowning)
Sergeant Tippyhorse / Horse Puppeteer – Clown #3 (acting and clowning)
Miguel – The First Liontamer (acting)
Crew #1 (acting and aerial rigging lead)
Crew #2 (acting and stagehanding)
Rosemary – The Woman in White (static trapeze)

Auditions: Sky Candy seeks performers for A Land Without Evil, auditions September 16

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Auditions Sky Candy is casting A Land Without Evil. We're looking for aerialists, vocalists, actors, and dancers

Austin's Sky Candy and Agent Red are teaming up to craft a full-length stage show, A Land Without Evil, directed by Agent Red and Chelsea Laumen of Sky Candy. The show will feature numerous aerials, dance, capoiera, flow arts, acrobatics, spoken word, ASL, and singing/vocals. 

The show will be in production from mid September and will debut November 30th and run that weekend, December, 1st & 2nd and the following weekend December 8th and 9th with a total of 9 performances. In addition, the rehearsals and performance will be covered for an episode of a PBS documentary series on art co-ops in the United States. 

The show details the narrative of a boy's conflict between the missionary village life and the life of his dying tribe in the quest for a Land Without Evil.

We would like you invite you to audition next Sunday the 16th of September from 5:30 pm to 9:30 pm. The audition will feature a chance for you to perform a prepared piece of under 2 minutes as well as improvise with others. Please EMAIL chelsea@skycandyaustin.com AND red@agentred.net with the following info and any questions we might answer, so that we may give you a block of time on Sunday.

Name: Email: Phone: Role: if any (see below) Age: Height. Weight. Hair. Eyes
Availability: M, T, W, Th, F Tech Week - NOV 25-29 Nightly at 7pm - Available? Yes/No
Skills: Aerial, Fire, flow, dance, vocals, musicians, dancers of ALL kinds, ASL translators, juggling and isolation, and character performers are all welcome. We are also looking for fabrication, costuming, and visual art skills in addition to performance skills, so include any applicable production or artistic skills in your email.
Training/Education: Experience: Goals:

Walk-ins who have not emailed will be seen as time permits, and will NOT be guaranteed a space to audition.

If you know someone who you feel may be fitting for the show, they may email info to chelsea@skycandyaustin.com AND red@agentred.net to be considered.

Click 'to view a list of roles at AustinLiveTheatre.com

Heaven-Earth-One by Blue Lapis Light at the Long Center Terrace, September 9 - 19

by Dr. David Glen Robinson

The weather was cool, almost perfect for experiencing a site dance by Sally Jacques and Blue Lapis Light . It started late, as their shows always do. The scale and the complexity of these productions with their varied design fields, heavily dependent on technology, simply cannot mesh down to the minute of coordination. Plus last Sunday was the first public performance of the show; it was a new experience for all.



But the performance promised immediately to be a very colorful show.   The first performance segment was perhaps the most affecting. A lone human soul (Nicole Whiteside) danced somberly on terra firma when suddenly lights faded up on a celestial figure atop the arcing colonnade of the Long Center plaza (termed the Ring in the program) . The figure was positioned directly above the earthbound dancer and mirrored precisely the human’s movements. The figure danced by Theresa Hardy, guest artist of this show, could only have been the human’s guardian angel.

The color and light in which the two danced were spectacular, and that enchantment carried through the entire show. Lighting designer Jason Amato proved himself at least equal to the task of illuminating the monumental space of the Long Center plaza and helping solve the performance problems inherent to it. His painting in photons was powerfully imaginative, as always. Amato is privy to a semi-secret that others know but seem to employ but rarely in lighting design. It is that smoke or any other heavy, visible vapor will reflect light directed onto it. Amato released smoke from smoke machines on cue and then projected light patterns onto the smoke. Voila, patterns appeared in not-so-thin air. Performers made exits and entrances behind the patterns, seeming to disappear and appear magically. Such a simple concept, and used to such striking effect. I anticipate with pleasure many more awards for Jason Amato in the upcoming awards season.


Click to read more and view performance pictures at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Upcoming: The Red Shoes, Sky Candy Austin, May 6 - 8

Received directly:

Austin 's Sky Candy

presents

Hans Christian Ander's classic tale

THE RED SHOES

May 6 – 8, 7 p.m., with a 3 p.m. matinee on Sunday, May 8

ND at 501 Studios, 5th St. and Brushy, just east of I-35 (click for map)

Tickets for “The Red Shoes” can be purchased at http://theredshoes.eventbrite.com.

Sky Candy aerial arts collective is making its Austin debut with a cirque noir-style adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s classic fairy tale, “The Red Shoes,” May 6 – 8, 2011, at the ND at 501 Studios in Austin.

Conceived and directed by Sky Candy co-founder Chelsea Laumen, “The Red Shoes” follows the story of a young girl seduced by a pair of red shoes fit for a princess as she descends through the ranks of hell. Aerial acrobats, dancers and puppeteers interpret the classic story through a blend of traditional circus acts like trapeze and aerial silks, dozens of shadow puppets and a single giant marionette.

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Images by Kimberley Mead: The Elementals - Air, Vortex Repertory, February 18 - March 20

Images by Kimberley Mead, received directly from the Vortex Repertory:

presents the world premiere of

The Elementals: AIR

Feb.18 - Mar.20, 2011; Thursdays-Sundays @ 8 p.m.

Vortex Repertory, 2307 Manor Rd. (click for map)

Tickets: $30-$25 Priority Seating, $20-$15 General Admission, $10 Starving Artists
Thursdays and Sundays 2-for-1 admission with donation of 2 non-perishable food items for SafePlace Pantry.

Limited seating. Advanced purchase recommended.

Click to view additional images by Kimberley Mead at AustinLiveTheatre.com. . . .