Looking for a romantic getaway out on the town? Right in your backyard, Phoenix is host to many international dance and performance companies that promise to make your evening escape memorable.
We are so fortunate to have several international dance companies choose Phoenix to make their mark and dazzle local audiences.
Ballet Arizona, our home town ballet company, is an innovative and provocative professional ballet company that creates, performs, and teaches outstanding classical and contemporary ballet. The company began in 1986 with the merger of three Arizona ballet companies: The Phoenix Ballet, Arizona Dance Theatre, and Ballet West Arizona. Today, Ballet Arizona is dedicated to preserving and celebrating classical dance while creating and commissioning new innovative works.
This season Ballet Arizona partners with MOMIX, a New York dance company known internationally for presenting work of exceptional inventiveness and physical beauty. MOMIXtransports audiences from their everyday lives to a fantasy world through its trademark use of magical lighting and imagery. Artistic Director Moses Pendleton combines athletic dance, riveting music, outrageous costumes, inventive props and pure talent to create an entertaining multimedia experience.
Presented by both Ballet Arizona and the Desert Botanical Garden, Botanica follows the rhythms of the seasons, the changing shape of life on Earth and the passing of a day. Featuring an eclectic score ranging from birdsongs to Vivaldi, the performance is enhanced by spectacular costumes, projections and giant puppetry designed by Michael Curry, acclaimed production designer for Cirque du Soleil, Disney and the Metropolitan Opera making it the perfect show for the entire family.
Botanica
- Friday, January 27 - 8pm
- Saturday, January 28 - 28 2pm and 8pm
- Orpheum Theatre
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- Purchase Saturday matinee here
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Embarking on their first US tour, Ballet Folklórico de Antioquia, Colombia’s, performs at the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts.
They come to Arizona with the simple mission of promoting the multicultural richness of Columbia. A special guest at the Beijing Olympic games in 2008, Ballet Folklórico de Antioquiawas the first Colombian group to ever participate in such an event – and is enjoying a rapidly expanding international reputation for its virtuosic expression of Colombian Folklore. It has been hailed for its many manifestations in dance and physical theater, celebrating classical and contemporary performance styles.
It’s a fabulous treat for Phoenicians who will have the opportunity to see this gifted ensemble share the richness and diversity of the Colombian culture and feature authentic music, ritualistic dance, and physical theater as well as contemporary music and dance. Recognized for its elegance, excellence and breathtaking artistry, the magic of their dance movements transforms them into what audiences have called a “spectacular show of lights, music and dance.”
Ballet Folklórico De Antioquia, COLOMBIA
- Friday, February 3, 2012, 8 p.m.
- Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, Virginia G. Piper Theater
- Tickets: $29, $39
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Remember the fervor that surrounded Michael Flatley when he introduced Lord of the Dance to US audiences? You’ll feel that same excitement and more when Celtic Nights, a company of a dozen of Ireland’s finest vocalists, dancers and musicians take to the stage at the Scottsdale Center for the Perfoming Arts.
Celtic Nights: A Journey of Hope is a performance of traditional Celtic ballads and melodies, fiery fiddling and thundering step dancing. Celtic Nights expertly weaves together the dramatic story of the Irish journey to the New World.
Drawn from the history and folklore of Ireland and her Celtic cousins, Celtic Nights will bring the audience on a journey of a people leaving and arriving , their lives spent in a world of ships, trains and planes, coaches and horses, on foot; coming and going, saving for fares, writing of where they were, comparing what they had with what they might have elsewhere, visiting others, always moving on the surface of a foreign land, meeting, conversing, comparing --- searching for a place better than Ireland or half as good.
Celtic Nights: A Journey of Hope
- Saturday, February 4, 2012, 8 p.m.
- Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, Virginia G. Piper Theater
- Tickets: $39, $49
- Purchase tickets online
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