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May 10, 2017 · 11:15 am

NYC Theatre Co. Brings Indie Rock Shakespeare-Inspired Play to Cincinnati Fringe Festival

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The Functional Shoes, a New York City theatre company, presents their original indie-rock Shakespeare-inspired play ROMEO + JULIET + ANYBODYS June 6-10th at the 14th annual Cincinnati Fringe Festival.

ROMEO + JULIET + ANYBODYS takes the tragic love story you think you know by heart and rips it a new one. At the center is Anybodys, musical theatre’s most overlooked heroine, fighting for her glimpse of the spotlight and grappling with the reality that in most stories, “you ain’t somebody, you somebody’s girl.”

ROMEO + JULIET + ANYBODYS received a workshop production at the Manhattan Repertory Theatre in New York City in 2016. Featuring original live music, roller-skating, and the perfect white dress, this 50 minute mosh-pit-play is one show you won’t want to miss at the Cincy Fringe Fest.

Fun fact: The playwright is a native Ohioan and alum of The Ohio State University. Nearly a decade ago, she played Anybodys in her high school’s production of West Side Story. Now she returns to finally give this tomboy her say.

ROMEO + JULIET + ANYBODYS is performing at the Know Theatre for the Cincinnati Fringe Festival on June 6th at 8:30pm, June 8th at 6:30pm, and June 10th at 7pm. Tickets are available at: www.cincyfringe.com

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May 4, 2017 · 7:02 pm

FloatBrilliance @ 2017 Cincinnati Fringe Festival

Cincinnati Fringe Festival PRESENTS dropshift’s:
FloatBrilliance at Memorial Hall Ballroom, Cincinnati

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Photo Credit: Rosa Gaia

CINCINNATI- dropshift dance, celebrating its 7th Anniversary Season in 2017 and praised for creating work which is “…playful and alluring” (Art Intercepts, Chicago) and “…an ingenious offering…” (Laura Molzahn, The Chicago Tribune), premieres FloatBrilliance: an immersive performance uniting movement, original musical score, and textural costume piece. Showing May 31 at 7pm, June 3 at 3:30pm, and June 4 at 4:45pm.

When:

  • Wednesday. May 31, 7pm
  • Saturday. June 3, 3:30pm
  • Sunday. June 4, 4:45pm

Where:

Memorial Hall Ballroom
1225 Elm Street
Cincinnati, OH

Tickets: $15 general admission, available online at knowtheatre.com.

Program:
FloatBrilliance
Directed by Andrea Cerniglia
Movement creation in collaboration with dancers

Featuring:
Andrea Cerniglia, Weichiung Chen-Martinez, Jill Moshman and Colleen Welch

Original Score: Elliot Cless, Luke Gullickson
Costume: Collin Bunting
Lighting Design: Richard Norwood

FloatBrilliance explores honest physicality, how we embody fulfillment, and sense being whole. The immersive evening length work examines fulfilling space physically, visually, and sonically while investigating the blurring of roles between movers, composers, and video artists. Dancers explore when movement is exhaustive, thorough, and fulfilled. Movement vignettes reveal refined spatial relationships, anticipatory response, and sensory feedback through touch and aural elements. The performers rely on one another to fulfill choreographic sequences while creating a playful, organic community amongst movers. Physical partnerships are built from playful shifts of time and weight and explore the sensations of tossing, diving, and catching to physicalize gravity’s stabilizing/mobilizing effects on the body.

The overall work looks at the spectrum of physical states that exists in response to fulfilling a role, existence within a synergetic partnership, and physicalizing honest movement. Movers combine in duet, trio, and quartet sequences to explore timelessness, a soft sternum and heart, and quirky gestural conversations between bodies. For the musical element of the project, dropshift engaged composerperformers Elliot Cless and Luke Gullickson to undergo a longitudinal collaboration with each other and the company. The resulting music is a dynamic tapestry of folk-inspired acoustic instrumentals, lo-fi electronica, and environmental sounds that place the artwork within its own germination. Musical ideas return, develop, and unfold in response to the subtle individuality of gesture that courses through dropshift’s movement.

FloatBrilliance’s collaborative team includes artistic architect and director of dropshift dance, Andrea Cerniglia, composers Elliot Cless and Luke Gullickson, designer Collin Bunting, and lighting designer Richard Norwood.

dropshift dance (DSD) is a provocative, inquisitive and authoritative investigator of movement. Conceived through a collaborative incubation laboratory of movement, sound, and visual installation, the work engages audience with dialogue, choice and experimental practice. DSD works through a rigorous process of studio investigation to create work that energizes the space and creates an alternate world for the performer and viewer. dropshift was founded in 2009 by Chicago based artist Andrea Cerniglia as a movement project dedicated to a collaborative and investigative studio practice and pushing boundaries of the art form in performance. The company mines abstract concepts that dissect societal structure, dynamics, and events that surround and impact us. Collaboration extends beyond dance into the realm of film, visual art and installation piece, and musical composition. This multi-disciplinary approach engages audience in a visual, aural, and human experience in order to move audience towards a transformative experience.

For reservation information call dropshift dance at 978-317-5577 or visit www.dropshiftdance.com

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May 3, 2017 · 6:48 pm

Alton Brown: Eat Your Science | Sat, Oct. 21 | Aronoff Center

CAA_Alton Brown promoALTON BROWN EXTENDS NORTH AMERICAN TOUR

EAT YOUR SCIENCE COMING TO CINCINNATI’S
ARONOFF CENTER ON OCTOBER 21

Tickets on sale Thursday, May 11 at 10:00 AM

(Cincinnati, OH) – Television personality, author, and Food Network star Alton Brown has announced that his Alton Brown Live: Eat Your Science tour will visit the Aronoff Center’s Procter & Gamble Hall on Saturday, October 21, 2017 at 7:30 PM.  Brown created a new form of entertainment – the live culinary variety show – with his “Edible Inevitable Tour,” which played in over 100 cities with more than 150,000 fans in attendance. The Eat Your Science tour has sold over 200,000 tickets in over 80 cities.

Tickets go on sale Thursday, May 11 at 10:00 AM at www.CincinnatiArts.org, (513) 621-ARTS [2787], and the Aronoff Center Ticket Office.  Group discount tickets for 10 or more are available by calling (513) 977-4157.

Brown says fans can expect “all-new everything including songs, new comedy, new puppets, and bigger and better potentially dangerous food demonstrations.” Critics and fans have raved about the interactive components of Brown’s shows. He promises “plenty of new therapy inducing opportunities during our audience participation segments. I don’t want to give too much away, but this time we’re going to play a little game.”

Brown has a knack for mixing together science, music, and food in to two hours of pure entertainment. “Plus, you’ll see things I’ve never been allowed to do on TV.”

Although Alton Brown is best known as the creator, writer, and host of Good Eats, which ran for fourteen years on Food network, he also hosted Cutthroat Kitchen and served as the culinary commentator on Iron Chef America. He’s written eight books on food and cooking (including his newest, EveryDayCook), and is currently touring the country with his second live culinary variety show, Eat Your Science.

Information about Alton Brown or the Eat Your Science tour can be found on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or use the tour hashtag #AltonBrownLive.

Those with an appetite for more Alton Brown can find additional show and ticketing information at www.altonbrownlive.com.

About MagicSpace Entertainment
Alton Brown Live is produced by MagicSpace Entertainment. The company is headed by Lee D. Marshall, Joe Marsh, John Ballard, Steve Boulay, and Bruce Granath, and has been producing and presenting national tours, Broadway shows, concerts, and museum exhibits worldwide for over thirty years. Consistently one of the top promoters in North America, MagicSpace Entertainment typically produces and presents more than 250 events in 75 cities per year.  They have offices in Park City and Salt Lake City, UT. www.magicspace.net

Cincinnati Arts Association SPONSORS

Season Sponsors:  AMERITAS (Founding Season Sponsor), FIFTH THIRD BANK (Lifetime Endowment Partner), FURNITURE FAIR, LOCAL12 WKRC, THE P&G FUND of The Greater Cincinnati Foundation

SEASON PRESENTING SPONSORS:  21C Museum Hotel, Cincinnati Herald, CityBeat, Heidelberg Distributing, Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza, Hyatt Regency – Cincinnati , Macy’s, Pepsi, Skyline Chili, TriHealth, Ultimate Air Shuttle, Wells Fargo Insurance Services USA, Inc.

Alton Brown: Eat Your Science Media Partner:  WARM98-FM

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May 1, 2017 · 7:08 pm

Troy Resident to Receive National Theatre Award

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Gerri Nichols.

Gerri Nichols of Troy, Ohio is being honored with the Robert E. Gard Superior Volunteer Award from the American Association of Community Theatre (AACT). The award will be presented at an awards ceremony during the AACTFest 2017 national festival in Rochester, Minnesota June 26-July 1, 2017.

The AACT Robert E. Gard Superior Volunteer Award is presented to individuals above the age of 65 who have faithfully served community theatre on a non-paid basis for over 25 years. Visit aact.org/awards for information on all AACT National Awards, 2017 AACT Award winners, and previous honorees.

Gerri Nichols is a founding member of Troy Civic Theatre (TCT), established in 1965, and is the only original member still continuously active with productions. Over the past 50 years, she has worked tirelessly as the theatre’s primary costumer, providing the costumes for over 110 productions. As the theatre’s stock of costumes and props has grown, an off-site storage warehouse—the Gerri Nichols Annex—was obtained, and Gerri has taken on the often-thankless task of Annex Supervisor. Over the years, she has been recognized for her designs, earning countless Barnstormer Awards (determined by audiences), as well as Dayton, Ohio community theatre awards, and Ohio Community Theatre Association regional and state level awards. Beyond her work in costuming, Gerri is also director of the TCT Repertory Company, which brings performing art into the community through readers theatre and song. “Theatre – it’s a case of Love,” she says. “A response to real live people, not just shadows on a screen, but sheer pleasure, hilarity, terror, life. The Barn in the Park – Troy Civic Theatre has been my opportunity to be part of that theatre!”

AACT provides networking, resources, and support for America’s theatres. AACT represents the interests of more than 7,000 theatres across the United States and its territories, as well as theatre companies with the U.S. Armed Services overseas.

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April 26, 2017 · 9:48 am

Pones Shares Stories of Cincinnati Immigrants through Performance

CFF_PlaceSetting promoCINCINNATI, OH– Pones is known for using unconventional methods to tackle difficult social themes. You may recall the company’s 2014 award-winning Fringe Festival production Traffick which addressed the topic of human trafficking by stripping the audience of traditional theatre etiquette and delivering highly-evocative creative pieces in a dark church. For its tenth Fringe Festival production, Pones addresses the current political climate by sharing stories of fellow Cincinnatians to help build understanding and bridge divides in PLACE/SETTING.

Food – it connects us all. But, where is your seat at the table?

Performers from Pones, visual artist Pam Kravetz, and documentarian, Ian Forsgen invite you to sit down, share a meal and discover stories of local immigrants around our table.

This fast-paced piece changes from family dinner to art gallery, cooking show to dance. PLACE/SETTING breaks down barriers, diffuses stereotypes, cultivates empathy and challenges us to explore ideas of belonging and home. In February and March, Pones hosted four workshops with 14 immigrants from around the world, who now call Cincinnati home. Led by the artistic team and community organizer, Dan Joyner, these workshops involved story harvesting, deep learning, and, of course, the sharing of food.

Audience members will play a role in the show, as they sit at a Judy Chicago-inspired table, set with ceramic pieces created by 12 local ceramicists, including Didem Mert, Melissa Molasses, Carla Lamb,and Katie Swartz. In typical Pones fashion, we are not solely creating a dance show. Spoken word artist, Jyreika Guest will be joining the cast from Chicago; local musician Ian Gullet has composed an original piece using recorded language from around the globe; and the show involves 3 actors, 9 dancers, 4 choreographers, 1 playwright, and a documentary video. Each course is another story that prompts conversation, leaving the audience with a callto-action to start dialogue on social issues currently alive in the city.

WHEN: 

  • Thursday, June 1st 7-8:00pm
  • Saturday, June 3rd 3-4:00pm
  • Tuesday, June 6th 9-10:00pm
  • Thursday, June 8th 7-8:00pm
  • Saturday, June 10th 8:30-9:30pm

Show length: 60 minutes

WHERE: 1201 Main Street, Cincinnati, Ohio

TICKETS: For passes visit http://www.cincyfringe.com/tickets/. Individual show tickets go on sale in May.

Pones provides artistic opportunities for community growth by creating engaging new ways for audiences to experience dance. Founded in 2008, Pones has collaborated with over 200 artists and 100 art and service organizations.The company creates site-specific performances through a fusion of movement and dance with other art forms. Pones performers use their bodies to speak their minds and use their signature pedestrian-inspired movement to spark collaboration, connection, and community.
Pones believes that art creates powerful change. www.ponesinc.com
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