Threaded
a fundraiser performance by tbd. dance collective
General Admission - $40
General Admission ***Early Bird Special*** only available 9/18 - 9/20)
DETAILS:
Saturday November 4, 2023
Performance at 7:00pm
Doors at 6:15pm
@ The Staenberg Jewish Community Center of Omaha in the Alan J. Levine Performing Arts Theater.
333 South 132nd Street
After the performance, audience members are invited to stay and join us for our after party to mingle with tbd. dancers while enjoying a beverage and bites.
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ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE
Threaded will be performed at The Staenberg Jewish Community Center in the beautiful and newly renovated Alan J. Levine Performing Arts Theater. That’s right, tbd. will be performing on an actual stage for the first time in years!
This evening length performance will feature four unique choreographic works that we cannot wait to share with our audience! Two of the works are pulled from the archives of tbd.’s repertory and the additional two are brand new, never before seen pieces - including a commissioned piece by Austin based choreographer Alexa Capareda set on the full company.
Alexa Capareda (@acapareda)
is a choreographer, producer, dancer, educator, and artist. She began studying ballet in her native Philippines, eventually trained in Austin and Montreal, and danced professionally with Balet Bratislava in Slovakia. Alexa has worked in Austin since 2013 with Performa/Dance, Frank Wo/Men Collective, ARCOS, Magdalena Jarkowiec, Jennifer Sherburn, BLiPSWiTCH, Transitory Sound and Movement Collective, Austin Camerata, and LOLA Austin. She has collaborated with sound artists Steve Parker, Brent Baldwin, and Henna Chou, and visual artists Tom Suhler and Susan Scafati.
Alexa is Rehearsal Director for Ballet Austin TWO and the Butler Fellows and has restaged and choreographed multiple works for BA2 and the fellowship program. Maria and the Mouse Deer, her new ballet for BA2 based on Philippine folk stories, was awarded a Grants for Arts Projects award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Alexa has presented work at the Blanton Museum, Big Medium, Fusebox Festival, Austin Dance Festival, and Barnstorm Dance Festival. She was a prizewinner at the 2013 Festival of Choreographic Miniatures in Serbia and recipient of the 2017 Austin Critics Table Award for Excellence as Dancer. She has a BA English, minor in Theater and Dance from UT-Austin.
Alexa will set an 8-10 minute choreographic work entitled - Mycelia, on members of tbd. dance collective.
Inspired by mycelia and intelligent interconnected networks, the piece experiments with ways we interact/communicate with, and tether to, each other.
Image by Sarah Annie Navarrete
Threads
Originally premiered in July 2019 during The Under the Radar Festival
I Woke Up
tbd. will re-stage a 20 minute choreographic work entitled I Woke Up, which originally premiered in June 2018 as part of a collaborative performance within The Generator Series at KANEKO. The event paired tbd. with New York based artists Claire Cuny and Monte Weber in an evening length exploration of experimental sound and movement. The New York duos’ band, Reliant Tom, created an original sound score for I Woke Up.
The piece features 6 dancers and revolves entirely around a single painter’s canvas. The canvas acts as a shifting landscape beneath the dancers as they explore shape, negative space, and boundaries.
Image by Ben Semisch
tbd. dance collective
BACKGROUND + MISSION
tbd. formed organically based on a need for more performance and choreographic opportunities for dancers in Nebraska. From the beginning, our goal was to not only create, but also to develop work that challenged perceptions of dance as an art form. Since the group’s inception in 2014, tbd has created over 90 original choreographic works, 17 evening length productions, worked with nearly 178 collaborators, and created or participated in dance experiences in which 6,500 people have been in attendance.
Moving forward, we have a strong vision for tbd. dance collective and what we can accomplish within the community of Omaha. Our goals are to create more movement opportunities for artists in the region, pay professional rates to collaborators and dancers, and eventually, have a space of our own to generate new work and host performances + classes.
This is made possible through the generous contributions of our supporters like you!