Schedule of Events

ARIEL DANCE THEATRE PRESENTS
SHIFT SWITCH GO
FRIDAY / SATURDAY / SUNDAY
SEPTEMBER 17-19 at 7:00 PM • EARLY SHOWTIME!!!

Kenny Dorham’s Backyard – OUTDOOR THEATER!
1106 East 11th Street, Austin TX
- 3 blocks east of I35, right next door to the historic Victory Grill
- Lots of Free Parking!

$10 Online / $12 at the door
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ARIEL DANCE THEATRE Presents SHIFT SWITCH GO
Directed and Choreographed by Andrea Ariel
Sound Design by K. Eliot Haynes
Production Management by Natalie George

Featuring the talents of Jude Hickey, Adriene Mishler, Jacob Trussell, Jennifer McGowan, Stephanie Chavez, Amy Myers Martin, Scott Roskilly, Morgan Taylor, and Mackenzie Taylor

SHIFT SWITCH GO is a 55-minute excursion of DANCE, STORY and SONG about PEOPLE, how we MEET and CHANGE through CHANCE and CIRCUMSTANCE. Created in collaboration with a nine-member ensemble of dancers and actors, Director/Choreographer, Andrea Ariel crafts visually engaging, complex patterns of dance and physical theater inspired by our cyclic routines, using chance and circumstance to create the intersections that provoke our meetings, the conversations we have, and the stories we share.

Eliot Haynes’s evocative sound score shifts the environment like “channel-changing,” moving from lively percussion pieces, to ambient electronics, to field recordings from around the world. The outdoor environment becomes the stage where life and art merge, and layers of our thoughts and conversations emerge through story and song.

In the development of SHIFT SWIFT GO our conversations were infused with asking three questions of ourselves and through outreach to others: What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think of water? What do you most desire? What are you most willing to give up/live without as a consumer? What is the most important issue that concerns you about the environment? Audiences will be invited to add their responses on written notes that will be used in the performance.

SHIFT SWITH GO is a jumping point… an experiment. And your participation is part of it. It cannot happen without you. Come travel into the sunset with us.

Produced in Association with Diverse Arts and funded in part by individual contributors, the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division, a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts and an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.

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Performance and Residency History

2009-2010

Ariel Dance Theatre at the Big Range Dance Festival
June 25 & 26, 2010 at 8:00pm
Salvage Vanguard Theatre

2009-2010

August 21-29, 2009
FLUSH, The Gyre Part III
At the Rollins Theatre, Long Center for Performing Arts.
701 W. Riverside Drive, Austin, TX 78704

FEATURE STORY ON KXAN by Jim Swift

FEATURE ARTICLE in Austin Chronicle by Robert Faires

KOOP RADIO SHOW with Lisa Schep

2008-2009

Nov. 8 at 8:00, 2008
Cabaret d'Ariel Starring White Ghost Shivers
A Fundraising Event
The Independent at 501 Studios, 501 N. IH 35

Sep. 5 -13 at 8:00pm, 2008
FIVE.TWO.TEN
A concert of short dance works
The Off Center, 2211-A Hidalgo St.

2007-2008

October 8-November 16, 2007
March 24-May 2, 2008
ARTSPLUS, arts-in-education programs at Metz and Robert E. Lee Elementary Schools in Austin, TX

September 3-December 14, 2007
Company in rehearsal for the final development of GYRE

2006-2007

August 5-August 12, 2007
Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble
Summer Company Retreat and Development of Spin to be performed Spring, 2008, NYC

July 30-August 4, 2007
Soujourn Theater Summer Institute
Devising Civic Theater: Performance and Dialogue
North American Cultural Laboratory, Highland Lake, NY

July 9-27, 2007
Teaching Residency at Creative Arts Studio, Brooklyn, NY

May 21, 2007
Performance of excerpts of GYRE for the annual Keep Austin Beautiful-Austin Clean-Sweep.

March 27-May 10, 2007
ARTSPLUS, arts-in-education programs at Metz and Robert E. Lee Elementary Schools in Austin, TX

March 1-4 and 8-10, 2007
GYRE
The Off Center, Austin, TX

Gyre Photo

Gyre is a collaboration of dance, theater, and video set to an original score by Peter Stopschinski and Graham Reynolds.

Jeanne Claire Van Ryzin, Arts Critic for the Austin American-Statesman wrote:
"'Gyre' spins a complex tale"

"Ariel and company did it with aplomb."

"'Gyre' spun a complex tale that touched on both the personal and the global, and wove it nicely together with a collaboration of creative talents."

See the full review at:
http://www.austin360.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/seeingthings/entries/2007/03/08/gyre_spins_a_complex_tale.html

Check out the great preview articles in the Austin Chronicle and American-Statesman
http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid%3A451530

http://www.austin360.com/search/content/arts/stories/xl/2007/03/1arts.html

October 23-December 8, 2006
ARTSPLUS, arts-in-education programs at Metz and Robert E. Lee Elementary Schools in Austin, TX

2005-2006

July 14-15, 2006
American Value, presented at North American Cultural Laboratory (NaCL) Catskills Festival of New Theatre, directed by Michael Rhod of Sojourn Theatre and created by five ensemble theater companies and community members of Sullivan County, NY.

June 2-18, 2006
Pocketful of Change with Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble
The Brecht Forum, NYC

May 4-6 and 11-13, 2006
GYRE
The Blue Theater, Austin, TX

January 9 – 31, 2006 and February 27 –March 31, 2006
ARTSPLUS, arts-in-education programs at Metz Elementary and Robert E. Lee Elementary, Austin, TX

November 14 – December 9, 2005
ARTSPLUS, arts-in-education programs at Metz Elementary and Robert E. Lee Elementary, Austin, TX

2004-2005

August 8 – 12, 2005
In residence with Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble, NYC

August 14 – 21, 2005
In residence with The Walter Thompson Orchestra, NYC

July 5 – 29, 2005
Teaching residence Creative Arts Studio, Brooklyn, NY

January 27 – 30 and February 3 - 5, 2005
DETOUR
Co-created with Leese Walker, Artistic Director of Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble, NYC
The Off Center, Austin, TX

November 29 – December 17, 2004 and January 31 - April 15, 2005
Teaching Residency at Metz Elementary and Brooke Elementary
ARTSPLUS, arts-in-education program
Austin, TX

2003-2004

September 24 – 26, 2004
Divine Dogma with singer/songwriter Patrice Pike
The Vortex, Austin, TX

February 2-March 12, 2004
Teaching Residency at Metz Elementary and Brooke Elementary ARTSPLUS, arts-in-education program Austin, TX

October 27 - December 3, 2003
Teaching Residency at Metz Elementary and Brooke Elementary ARTSPLUS, arts-in-education program Austin, TX

October 3, 2003
Performance of SPIN with Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble CUNY NYC

2002-2003

August 4 - August 29, 2003
Teaching Residency at Creative Arts Studio Brooklyn, NY

August 3, 2003
Soundpainting Performance with The Walter Thompson Orchestra Medicine Show Theatre NYC

July 27 – August 2, 2003
Soundpainting Artistic Residency and Performance with The Walter Thompson Orchestra and Performance of a new solo work Catskills New Theatre Festival Highland Lake, NY

May 1 - 3, 2003
Company Performance of Shoulder to Shoulder Austin Lyric Opera, Ducloux Hall

March 17 - April 11, 2003
Teaching Residency at Metz Elementary and Brooke Elementary ARTSPLUS, arts-in-education program Austin, TX

January 21 - February 7, 2003
Teaching Residency at Austin Lyric Opera Young Artist's Pre-Professional Program

January 20 - February 13, 2003
Teaching Residency at Metz Elementary and Brooke Elementary ARTSPLUS, arts-in-education program Austin, TX

October 14 – December 18, 2002
Teaching Residency at Metz Elementary and Brooke Elementary
ARTSPLUS, arts-in-education program
Austin, TX

September 10 – 26, 2002
Teaching Residency at Austin Lyric Opera
Young Artist's Pre-Professional Program

2001-2002

August 4 – August 12, 2002
Artistic Residency and Performance of SPIN
with Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble
Catskills New Theatre Festival
Highland Lake, NY

June 5 – July 10, 2002
Teaching Residency
University of Texas, Austin

June 15 – 16, 2002
Company On-Site Performance of In These Rooms We Wait
Hyde Park Homes Tour
Austin, TX

May 13 –18, 2002
Teaching Residency
Austin Lyric Opera Chorus

May 19, 2002
Cabaret d'Ariel
Company Fundraising Performance and Party
Austin, TX

April 26, 2002
Performance of SPIN
with Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble
St. Clement's Church
NYC

March 25 – April 11, 2002
Teaching Residency at Metz Elementary, Brooke Elementary
and Decker Elementary Schools
ARTSPLUS, arts-in-education program
Austin, TX

March 19 – April 4, 2002
Teaching Residency at Austin Lyric Opera
Young Artist's Pre-Professional Program

March 12 – 17, 2002
Performance of PEXO
with The Walter Thompson Orchestra
at HERE in NYC

February 10 – March 15, 2002
Rehearsals in NYC with The Walter Thompson Orchestra and Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble
January 14 – February 8, 2002
Company Rehearsals in Austin, TX

December 6 – 9, 2001
Company Performance, Ariel Dance Theatre in Concert
The Silent Circle and Boxed-In
Austin Lyric Opera, Ducloux Hall