Operating with 100% volunteer efforts since 1996 SonneBlauma is Santa Barbara’s most active, respected, and leading international contemporary dance company.

SonneBlauma’s mission is to inspire, uplift, and educate low and moderate-income artists and the audiences that they serve.

The company engenders and inspires the artistic experiences of a lifetime; presents and performs innovative, profound, razor-sharp, & riveting works of great integrity; and aims to foster a culture of tolerance, peace, and awareness in all that they do.

SonneBlauma balances artistic excellence with community service excellence via providing free dance education to those in need, providing free information through its online resource the Dance SOS Center (presently under re-construction) through production of its international bi-annual SB-ADaPT Festival & provision of low cost umbrella services to artists that serve low and moderate-income and underprivileged communities.

[so-neh-blou-ma]

Verb (used with object)
1. to ignite with inspiration: Their performance SonneBlaumaed the audience. Her choreography SonneBlaumaed her dancers.

Verb (used without object)

1. to breath it in and breath it out

noun

1. a number of passionate artists collaborating in joint action to make a difference in the world by harnessing their life work to create, perform & teach.
2. an assemblage of persons that use the name SonneBlauma to denote fostering the artistic experiences of a lifetime by creating and performing profound, razor-sharp & riveting work.
3. an international 501 (c) 3 entity based in Santa Barbara, CA founded by Misa Kelly in 1996.

origin: bef. 1996. Cathartic series of episodes in Ticinio Switzerland and surrounding valleys with Scuola Dimitri as the container. See sunflower.

Synonyms
Ingenious, quixotic, vivid, whimsical, wild, charming, seasoned, dramatic, emotional, daring, poetic, sensitive, exciting, innovative, metaphorical, mythical, magical.Latest Review!