TURF at the Electric Lodge Anonymous November 5, 2016 Loading Map.... The Electric Lodge1416 Electric Avenue - VeniceEvents 33.991185 -118.46502700000002 Date/Time Date(s) - 11/05/201612:00 am Location The Electric Lodge Categories Arts and culture Misa Kelly Dances presents TURF at the Electric Lodge ARTISTS FROM SANTA BARBARA – LOS ANGELES – NEW YORK Expect to be moved, shifted, inspired, humored and uplifted! Choreographers from these 3 great cities, known for being hotbeds of creativity, co-produce these up close and intimate studio showings. September 1, 2016 – “TURF” at the Electric Lodge on November 5th at 4:00 pm. Tickets are $10 and are available at the door. Santa Barbara performance tickets available at mdkellydances.com. “An artist as one blade of grass, all alone, coping with the survival elements? Or, as a community with interwoven root systems, they have the potential to generate a powerful sense of turf. Turf because dancers are a fierce breed with courage, heart, poetry, and rich souls. As a dance maker, I liken them to wild horses. So, given it is my turn to lead in terms of community production, I wanted to use a metaphor that serves wild ponies well.” Turf tender Misa for the community. TURF is an outgrowth of a progressive arts community seeking sustainable ways to share their work with the world. The project builds on the base of Misa Kelly’s 20 years experience producing and co-producing locally, nationally, and internationally – initially as the Artistic Director of SonneBlauma Danscz Theater, then as a collaborator and co-creator with ArtBark International and co-producer with the HIVE initiative. It follows a streamlined cooperative model in which artists share production costs and tasks and receive a percentage of ticket sales. They co-produce with intention using a co-created value base and using principles of conscious leadership (conscious.is.) Artists will also share their creative offerings on November 6th at the Gail Towbes Center for Dance in Santa Barbara. Tickets for the Santa Barbara performance are $10 and are available at mdkellydances.com. DIGITAL PHOTOS: http://www.smugmug.com/gallery/n-JZhb2Q/ About TURF Artists: Santa Barbara Artists: Mindy Nelson, E. Bonnie Lewis, Ken Gilbert, Misa Kelly, Stephen Kelly New York Artists: Trina Mannino, Barbara Mahler Los Angeles Artist: Nancy Evans Doede The Creative Work Bonnie Lewis and Ken Gilbert (DramaDogs – a Theater Company) will present a theatrical work drawing from the theme of Hamlet, in the short form. Misa Kelly (ArtBark Co-Founder, Misa Kelly Dances) will be sharing QUENCH, premiered in May of 2016 at Triskelion Arts in Brooklyn. It is a multi-phase project with an interest in exploring concepts of vision tending and deepening collaborative and co-creative processes. PHASE ONE: The seed for this project was birthed in a Santa Barbara studio in response to the shock of the spring Paris tragedy. I improvised to Don McLean’s Babylon which helped facilitate processing the shock. It is a continuation of the meditation, “What’s the Solution.” This expression was developed collaboratively and co-creatively with ArtBarkers Joanna Nobbe, Cecily Stewart, Trina Mannino, and Yvette Johnson at our 2016 Dragons Egg residency. It premiered at Triskelion Arts for HIVE: New York. PHASE TWO: Interested in expanding the collaborative quality of the work Nancy Evans Dance Theatre will direct, shape, and refine the West Coast performance using the New York version as a point of departure to deepen the work. Dancers from both ArtBark International and Nancy Evans Dance Theatre will perform. Stephen Kelly (ArtBark Co-Founder) will be presenting a new work set on two local dancers, Nikki Pfeiffer and Nicole Powell. The dance will embody a juxtaposition of honed, demanding movement with spontaneous task-oriented challenges. Mindy Nelson will premiere a new modern dance solo carving through space with her bold, poetic, striking style of movement honed by a professional career in New York before returning to the area to start a family and settle down. Barbara Mahler’s interest, her passion, “is the body – the limitless possibilities of the body as an expressive instrument, to carry a story, create an environment.” Her primary interest is in solo work and she will perform a work from her extensive repertoire. Trina Mannino (ArtBarker) presents Ghost Duet, premiered at Triskelion Arts in Brooklyn in May of 2016. Ghost Duet investigates the challenges of maintaining details in a long distance dance collaboration and what pleasant surprises can emerge from physical separation. Artist/maker Ann Hamilton says: “In a time when successive generations of technology amplify human presence at distances for greater than the reach of the hand, what becomes the place and form of making at the scale and pace of the individual body?” Nancy Evans Doede is generating a new work that plays with the idea of uneven surfaces. She will also be directing the West Coast creation of Misa Kelly’s QUENCH in a collaborative effort. VENICE BEACH Event Information: TURF will take place on Saturday, November 5, 2016 at 4 pm Ticket Information: Tickets to TURF are $10 and are available at the door. Venue Information: The Electric Lodge is located in Venice Beach at 1416 Electric Avenue Venice, CA 90291. The venue strongly encourages alternative transportation to the theatre. Walk, bike, Blue Bus #1, Metro buses #33 or #733. However, there is also have free on-site parking. SANTA BARBARA Event Information: TURF will take place on Sunday, November 6, 2016 at 6 pm Ticket Information: Tickets to TURF are $10 and can be purchased online at mdkellydances.com Venue Information: The Gail Towbes Center for Dance is located in Santa Barbara at 2285 Las Positas Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93105. The venue is accessible via the 101 Freeway, the Las Positas exit. ### ABOUT THE ARTISTS Barbara Mahler has been an active member of the New York City dance community as a choreographer, performer, body-worker and movement educator for over 30 years. Her choreography draws upon the intricate possibilities, textures, time, space and the (her) body to create dances, which create architectural and emotional landscapes. Consistent with her teaching vision, her choreography seeks to explore the endless possibilities that the body can reveal. It is often spare and articulate. She has traveled extensively as a guest artist around the globe and has received support from the Gothenburg (Sweden) Cultural Council, a Sage Cowls Land Grant UWN; 92 Street Y and Hunter College, and others. Recent travels include Tel Aviv, Vienna, Ireland, Chile, and London. Her most recent space grant, August 2015, a LIFT OFF Artist for the creation of or re-visitation of movement material, funding to create new work at Wilson College, PA (March 2015) and resetting of “Etched Sketches” on the Company of Adrienne Clancy in Silver Springs MD, including Master Classes at Dance Place. Barbara was also a chosen artist for EMERGE 2014. A Movement Research artist in Residence for two seasons, her ongoing and consistent teaching status (2004-present) supports her artistic products and process. barbaramahler.net Mindy Nelson, after graduating from UC Santa Barbara with a degree in Dance and Business Economics, Mindy Nelson moved to NYC to pursue her dance career. She returned to SB a few years ago with her husband where they live with their two boys. sprucedbymindy.com Misa Kelly is an award winning, multi-disciplinary artist whose choreography, visual, performance and installation art has been exhibited across the USA and Europe. Passionate about community building her innovative program designs and organizational efforts have helped over 1,000 artists over the past 20 years. Her choreography in ArtBark’s Alma.Alone was described as “perfect dance poetics with superior movement vocabulary” in the Slovenian publication Parada Plesa. brutifuloutsiderart.us Stephen Kelly is a classically trained pianist who has performed solo concerts in France, Spain, and Costa Rica, as well as across the United States. As a choreographer, in addition to setting work on ArtBark, he has been privileged to work with some of the finest professional dancers from the Colorado Ballet, State Street Ballet, and Santa Barbara Dance Theater. artbark.org Trina Mannino has performed with Anabella Lenzu’s Dance/Drama, ArtBark International, Barbara Mahler, Dance Elixir and Laura Peterson Choreography. She presently studies with Barbara Mahler and Janet Panetta. Her performance in ArtBark’s Alma.Alone was described as “subtle, intellectual and sophisticated” in the Slovenian publication Parada Plesa. In addition to performing, Trina works as a writer for Dance Europe Magazine and The Dance Enthusiast. trinamannino.com Nancy Evans Doede studied and danced for modern dance pioneer, Hanya Holm, and then danced with the Nancy Hauser Dance Company under the direction of Nancy McKnight Hauser. She also taught and choreographed while with the company, and her choreography was included in the Hauser Company repertory. She conducted the pilot program for the Minneapolis performing arts high school and maintained her own dance company while in Minnesota. Nancy was an original member of Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre, where she was an actress and the company’s first female director. In Los Angeles, she was an assistant director at the Taper, Too, and a directing intern at the Mark Taper Forum New Works Festival. She was a producer of the Children of the World Project, which received a Grammy nomination in 1985; Managing Director, producer, director and actress with the Actors’ Company, as well as a founding member of Outpost Theatre Ensemble where she also wrote and produced her own plays. Nancy has been a guest teacher at the Pasadena Dance Festival since its inception, and was a guest festival teacher at the National High School Dance Festival in Miami in 2010. She launched Nancy Evans Dance Theatre in June of 2010. nancyevansdancetheatre.com ABOUT MISA KELLY DANCES Misa Kelly Dances is a project of ARTBARK Acclaimed as “forward thinking artists” by the Santa Barbara Independent, ArtBark International, builds on the travel, visual art and performance experiences of award winning California-based founders Misa and Stephen Kelly and their collaborators around the globe. Their present activities embrace innovative ways of organizing that serve to shift the paradigm of how professional artists come together and grow as they work across the United States and the Atlantic through the Internet, performances and residencies. They are committed to staying abreast of how the field is evolving by inviting artists to participate in the organization’s ADaPT Festival Series and Affinity Project in New York and California. ArtBark International’s work has been performed at AFL Kultur Merzkezi in Istanbul, ARC Pasadena in California, The Cankarjev Dom in Ljubljana, Center for Performance Research in New York, contraMASS Galerie and Palais Kabelwerk in Vienna, and studio Le Regard du Cygne in Paris, among others. Most recently, the collective premiered the evening length work Alma.Sama, described as “perfect poetry,” in Ljubljana, Slovenia and produced by the Cankarev Dom. artbark.org For more info: http://www.mdkellydances.com
