SonneBlauma: Save These Dates!

SonneBlauma Danscz Theatre

To:        SonneBlauma Danscz Theatre and Friends
From:     Misa Kelly, Artistic Director
Subject: SAVE THESE DATES!

Happy New Year & New Decade All!

This decaded is off to a rip roarin’ start and we are generating a lot of positive energy to send your way facilitating the process of a stellar new decade unraveling under your feet and blossoming in your soul. 

Let those dreams be manifest!  We’re rootin’ for ya!

Hoping you can come to any and all of the following in physical form & if you can’t get there, welcoming all that will attend in their hearts, spirits, and imagination.

Santa Barbara

• January 16th: SonneBlauma’s 1st event of the Decade: Get Down, Get Groovy


• January 28 & 31st: Santa Barbara Dance Alliance New Works Concert


• February 7th: Company Auditions

New York

• January 28th & 31st:  COOL New York Dance Festival


• January 30th:  Whole Foods, Union Square:  Shopping Cart project (guerilla style) & other collaborative jaunts with our NYC peeps.

Get Down, Get Groovy

Date:  January 16th
Time:  7:30 pm
Place:  Montecito School of Ballet, 529 E. Guttierrez, Santa Barbara, CA
Cost:  $10 suggested donation at the door

About: Pull up a chair, plop down a pillow, stretch out on a bright Oaxacan carpet, grab a few snacks and have a good time.  SonneBlauma opens its workspace to the community with an invitation to join them in an intimate studio showing of new works, repertory, and the choreographic process.   Joining SonneBlauma will be local choreographer Erin Martinez & the budding L.A. based contemporary dance company Rubans Rouges Dances.  Seating is really limited, so we suggest getting there early.  There will be one work on the program by Rubans Rouge Dans that is not suited to children.  When the work is shown kids can be taken into the other studio while the piece is going on.

Santa Barbara Dance Alliance:
New Works Concert

Dates:  January 22nd, 23rd
Times:  January 22nd: 8:00 pm, January 23rd 2pm & 8:00 pm
Place:  Center Stage Theater, Santa Barbara, CA
Cost: $50 patron, $25 general, $22 SBDA members, students and seniors
Get Tickets: Center Stage Box Office

About: Celebrating the incredible good fortune of our sixth consecutive year in the Santa Barbara Dance Alliance’s annual New Works concert Misa will be joining Alonzo Johnson & Brittany Castillo, Cybil Gilbertson, Christina McCarthy, Elizabeth Schwyzer & Robin Bisio, Erin Martinez, Lauren Serrano, Melanie Johnson, Misa Kelly, Robert Salas and Valerie Huston in presenting new choreographic work.  This event is a local favorite in the dance community.   Last years show sold out all three performances so get your tickets early!

COOL New York Dance Festival

Dates:  January 28th & January 31st
Times:  January 28th: red eye – 9:00 pm 
January 31st: my kind of time – 4:00 pm
Place: John Ryan Theater, 25 Jay St Brooklyn, NY
Cost:  FREE
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About:  SonneBlauma is achieving its next goal in getting the work out there in the world!  We’re headed to NYC to perform in the COOL New York Dance Festival.   Around 60 contemporary dance companies and choreographers will be presented over 19 performances at the John Ryan Theater.  This is a stellar opportunity to introduce our work to New York City as well as others in the festival from all over the U.S. as well as abroad.  We are hoping to network and make the connections necessary to take our work to communities we have not been to as well as scope out exceptional work & provide opportunity for other dance companies to share their work with our community. 

Shopping Cart Project

Date: January 30th
Time: TBA
Place: Whole Foods, Union Square

About: an exercise in constructing/deconstructing the concept of performance. SonneBlauma will be hooking up with NYC peeps for their first exercise in what is intended to become a global project.

Company Auditions

Date: February 7th
Time: 6:00 pm
Place: Montecito School of Ballet, Santa Barbara

Please bring a cd with your bio and a selection of high resolution images of yourself dancing on it. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask!