New Stages 2013:  Narrative in Motion

Inspect the Unexpected!  The Ringling Museum’s 2013 New Stages of contemporary performance at the Historic Asolo Theater heralds the welcome return of storytelling in the new theatrical and choreographic forms for the 21st century.  By embracing the power of language, gesture, character, and emotion, artists are moving beyond the inscrutable abstractions of the experimental to once again explore the narratives of human relations.  The authentic embodiment of those narratives in motion – when combined with poetry, media, and a renewed sense of musicality – emerges into new forms that explore and exemplify the rich diversity of ideas at play in the world today. 

Photo © Keira Heu-Jwyn Chang

A CONVERSATION WITH...

The Curator of Performance:  Dwight Currie

January 8, 2013 at 7:00 p.m., Historic Asolo Theater

Join Dwight Currie as he shares insights into the artists and the works presented in NEW STAGES 2013

Free of Charge

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Photo © Jati Lindsay/Hip-Hop Theater Festival

Word Becomes Flesh by Marc Bamuthi Joseph

January 24 - 26, 2013 at 7:30 p.m., Historic Asolo Theater

Presented as a series of performed letters to an unborn son, Word Becomes Flesh documents nine months of pregnancy from a young single father’s perspective.  It is a powerful and passionate plea for social responsibility and understanding that critically, lyrically, and choreographically examines the experience of fatherhood in America’s black community...

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Photo © Benjamin Heller

Beyond Words by Bill Bowers

February 7 - 9, 2013 at 7:30 p.m., Historic Asolo Theater

One the most acclaimed multi-disciplinary artists in America today, Bill Bowers employs an eloquent mixture of music, monologues and mime in his on-going investigation of the silence surrounding the enigmatic matters of gender in our culture today...

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Photo © Heiko Kalmbach

LEO by Circle of Eleven

February 21 - 23, 2013 at 7:30 p.m., Historic Asolo Theater

From Berlin, the Circle of Eleven blends music, acrobatics, dance, and theater into a sophisticated form of entertainment that carries on the spirit of classic German variety theater at a contemporary circus level...

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Photo © Keira Heu-Jwyn Chang

Kate Weare Company

March 7 - 9, 2013 at 7:30 p.m., Historic Asolo Theater

Kate Weare Company returns to the HAT with new works.  With both rawness and precision, Kate Weare maps a humanism that is contemporary and profoundly stirring...

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ViewPoint: The Interplay Between Music and Dance

Elizabeth Weil Bergmann

A Co-production with the Sarasota-Manatee Dance Alliance

January 19 at 10:30 a.m., Historic Asolo Theater

Choreographer Elizabeth Weil Bergmann presents a duet danced by Moving Ethos directors Courtney Smith Inzalaco and Leah Verier-Dunn to illustrate how music influences the way we experience modern dance.  The session explores the dancers' experience, the choreographer's process, and the audience’s response.  Bergmann will also preview the Ringling Museum's upcoming Contemporary Performance series, New Stages: Narrative in Motion.   Elizabeth Bergmann has had a distinguished career as a teacher, performer, award-winning choreographer, and administrator.  Most recently she directed the Dance Program at Harvard University and served as Chair and Professor of Dance at Florida International University. 

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Photo © Jon Nalon 

FSU Dance Theatre

March 22 & 23, 2013 at 7:30 p.m., Historic Asolo Theater

Works by the renowned Florida State University resident faculty, alumni, and guest artists performed by the highly skilled students of this top-ranked university dance program.

Please call the HAT Box Office at 941.360.7399 for more information.

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THANK YOU TO THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS, FOUNDATIONS, AND BUSINESSES FOR THEIR SUPPORT:

Art of our Time / New Stages is supported by Gulf Coast Community Foundation.

NEW STAGES SEASON PRESENTER
•  Charles and Charlotte Perret

NEW STAGES SPONSORS

• Macy’s 

• New England Foundation for the Arts