West Side Story going East
November 25, 2008 by admin
Filed under Entertainment, Featured, Performance, performing arts
West Side Story
Much-loved American classic features interdisciplinary cast
Review by Josue Meneses
West Side Story, the groundbreaking musical that combines on stage performances, live music and drama was one of the best performances I ever seen, at least for the past decade at the Irvine Barclay Theatre. A great experience indeed, including lavishing production numbers, great portable sets, dazzling costumes, excellent choreographies and superb performances. A must see for the on-going theatre lover of just the occasional aficionado. Read more
WEST SIDE STORY
November 12, 2008 by admin
Filed under Dance, Featured, Openings, Performance, performing arts
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE
CLAIRE TREVOR SCHOOL OF THE ARTS
The Claire Trevor Show
West Side Story
Music by Leonard Bernstein
Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by Arthur Laurents
Directed by Eli Simon
Musical director: Daniel Gary Busby
Conductor: Stephen Tucker
Choreographed by: Tracey Bonner
Evenings: Nov. 14 - 22, 8 pm
Matinee: Nov. 16 & 22, 2 pm
For tickets go to: ticketmaster.com
Irvine Barclay Theatre
$28 general audiences/ $25 seniors & UCI staff & faculty/$12 UCI students & children
Join us for a 51st anniversary celebration of America’s greatest modern era musical!
This Claire Trevor School of the Arts production of “West Side Story” features Leonard Bernstein’s breathtaking score for full orchestra, with thrilling dance numbers and favorite songs including “Maria,” “Tonight,” “I Feel Pretty,” “One Hand, One Heart,” “Cool” nd “Somewhere.” “Something’s Coming” indeed, as a pair of star-crossed lovers face the gripping tension between the Jets and the Sharks. Bristling with the energy and passion of the streets of New York, UC Irvine’s vibrant production will stir your heart and bring a fresh appreciation for this unparalleled musical masterpiece.
UCI ARTS BOX OFFICE
(949) 824-2787
THE OLD AND THE NEW
May 28, 2008 by admin
Filed under Dance, Entertainment, Performance, performing arts
Claire Trevor School of the Arts
Department of Music
UCI Symphony Orchestra
presents
THE OLD AND THE NEW
June 6 & 7, 8 pm
Pre-concert conversation: June 6, 7 pm
Irvine Barclay Theatre
Stephen Tucker, conductor
Richard Strauss – Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche
Ralph Vaughan Williams’ - Tuba Concerto, with Fred Greene, soloist
Manuel de Falla – El Amor Brujo - with the UCI Dance Department’s restaging of the 1944 version created by La Meri
UCI Arts Box Office (949) 824-2787 (noon – 4 pm weekdays)
http://www.arts.uci.edu/events
PHYSICAL GRAFFITI
April 30, 2008 by admin
Filed under Dance, Entertainment, Openings, Performance, Special Events, performing arts
UNDERGRAD CHOREOGRAPHERS CREATE “PHYSICAL GRAFFITI”
EVENT: “Physical Graffiti,” presented by UCI Department of Dance
WHEN: Opens 8:00 p.m., Thursday, May 8;
repeats 8:00 p.m., Friday, May 9 and Saturday, May 10;
matinee 2:00 p.m., Saturday, May 10
WHERE: Claire Trevor Theatre, Claire Trevor School of the Arts
INFORMATION: Tickets: $11/$10/$9; UCIArts Box Office, (949) 824-2787;
www.ticketmaster.com
www.arts.uci.edu/events
BACKGROUND: Fifteen undergraduate choreographers present 13 original works – ranging from tap and ballet to modern/contemporary – in this annual showcase of talent. Assistant Professor Loretta Livingston serves as artistic director for this 90-minute program.
The UCI Department of Dance was founded on the principle that aspiring professionals need substantial experience in more than one form of dance and in more than one academic area to succeed in the field of dance. Dance at UCI reflects the research and preservation of dance history, the exploration of choreography in the present, and the cutting edge technology of the future. Student choreography, teaching, and scholarship benefit from exposure to many styles and approaches, all aiming to inspire and prepare the next generation of dance professionals.
Photo by Rose Eichenbaum
Linda McCrerey
Interim Director of Communications
Claire Trevor School of the Arts
UC Irvine
(949) 824-2189
Dance Escape 2008
April 16, 2008 by admin
Filed under Dance, Events, Featured, Performance, performing arts
Claire Trevor School of the Arts
Department of Dance
presents
Dance Escape 2008
April 24 - 26, 8 pm
matinee performance: April 26, 2 pm
Claire Trevor Theatre, $11/ $10/ $9
New works by UCI graduate choreographers
UCI Arts Box Office (949) 824-2787 (noon - 4 pm weekdays)
www.ticketmaster.com
For more events visit our Events Calendar
Tierrita Flamenca Live
April 2, 2008 by admin
Filed under Dance, Events, Fundraiser, Music, Special Events, performing arts
Claudia de la Cruz children dance company “Tierrita Flamenca” will be performing Saturday April 5th, 2008 at 7pm at the CSUF Grand Central Art Center.
Tierrita Flamenca is another Claudia de la Cruz’ project on an effort to preserve the passion of flamenco dance through children and teenagers. Tierrita Flamenca is the petite version of her formal Adult Tierra Flamenca Dance Company founded in 2004 with 4 of her most talented students. Currently formed with 11 members the company continues to grow with more choreographies and challenges every day!
FUNDRAISING EVENT
Sat Apr 5th, 2008
Tickets $20
7:00 pm
Limited Seating
CSUF Grand Central
125 N Broadway
Santa Ana, CA 92701
RSVP 714.543.1370
info@culturalstageofart.org
Navidad Flamenca
November 16, 2007 by admin
Filed under Events, Performance, Special Events, performing arts
CLAUDIA DE LA CRUZ FLAMENCO INSTITUTE
8th Annual Christmas Recital
Grand Central Art Center Theatre
125 N Broadway, Santa Ana CA 92701
RSVP 714.543.1370
Fri Dec 14 - 7pm
Sat Dec 15 - 7pm
Sun Dec 16 - 2 pm
$15 school members and guests
$20 general admision
Limited Seating, reservations strongly suggested.
Enjoy the Festival atmosphere of Navidad Flamenca Recital with Spanish food & Refreshments before and after each performance. Also visit our gypsy style studio in the lower level & check out our flamenco boutique for great holiday specials up to 50% off!
For your convenience we are accepting reservations online through Paypal by adding $2 transaction fee per ticket.
Please click the DONATE button at our main page here:
http://www.tierra-flamenca.com
CLAUDIA DE LA CRUZ FLAMENCO INSTITUTE
Cultural Stage of Art | Foro Cultural de las Artes
CSUF GRAND CENTRAL ART CENTER
125 N Broadway Lower Level
Santa Ana, CA 92701
714.543.1370 studio
714.750.8157 mobile
SON JAROCHO CONCERT
October 31, 2007 by admin
Filed under Entertainment, Events, Special Events, performing arts
Los Cojolites are a collective of soneros who currently work and live together in Jaltipan, Veracruz, Mexico. They started in 1997 as a workshop studying their regional dance, a poetry and music known as Son Jarocho. Following the release of their first album “El Conejo” in 2001, they traveled throughout much of Spain, France and the United States playing at such places as the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C, and appearing on the soundtrack of the film “Frida.” Although no longer children, they continue to inspire a younger generation of soneros. By keeping respect for tradition and by having the courage and creativity to innovate based on those traditions, Los Cojolites will continue to contribute quality music to the 400 year old genre known as Son Jarocho.
The name “Los Cojolites” comes from a bird, a kind of pheasant that was venerated as a god of the trees by the ancient Nahuatl speaking people who lived around this area. The Cojolite Bird is especially known for the length of is song, a full uninterrupted five minutes of it, at the crack of dawn.
Among the hills and fields, villages and small cities in the southern part of Mexico’s Veracruz state, the lively string band music known as the “Son Jarocho” is the characteristic musical and dance expression of the region’s people. It is a genre that fuses the three great cultures that blended so flavorfully into today’s Mexico” Spanish (which is itself a blend of Christian Europe and Muslim North Africa), Black African and the indigenous. Around these parts community spirit is forged in the heart of its fandangos, fiestas, which amalgamate a strong social metal with its own special kind of spirituality and life style.
Son del Centro
Son del Centro is a group of companeros and camaradas who are students, musicians, activists, dancers, friends and organizers from various parts of Santa Ana, California.
The group was formed to create a space for youth to explore their traditions, creativity and consciousness, through son jarocho music. Inspired by the Jarocho groups from Mexico brought to Southern California by El Centro, this group of youth began attending son jarocho classes about two years ago, and fell in love with the music.
Soon they began performing at different events throughout Orange County.
Come enjoy a night of son jarocho music from the Veracruz region of Mexico!
Friday, November 2nd at the Yost Theater
Tickets availabe for sale at Calacas. Only $5!
Calacas, Inc.
3374 S. Bristol St.
Santa Ana, CA 92704
714.662.2002
www.calacasinc.com
Halloween Bash with ETEREUM
October 16, 2007 by admin
Filed under , Art, Entertainment, Music, Performance, Special Events, performing arts
ETEREUM is the brainchild project of Choreographer & Flamenco Dancer Claudia de la Cruz and Mixed Media Artist & Graphic Designer Josue Meneses aka XOSU3. CORROSION Art Show was their first formal live appearance together with this experimental music project introducing an extreme fusion of flamenco performance and junk percussions.
INKSURGENT a multimedia event that includes an array of different themes, poetry reading, installations and ground-breaking performances such as “Beautifully Rebellious” and “Circusmtance” it’s an ongoing project that back in 2003 started this odyssey of unknown fate that in one way or another had shaped ETEREUM as is today: a continuous metamorphosis act.
Claudia de la Cruz established her own FLAMENCO INSTITUTE at the heart of the Artist Village in the City of Santa Ana, California where she teaches since 2000. Around the same year Josue Meneses, (Graphic Designer) along with his brother, Israel Meneses (Web Master), started APARATVS web medics + graphic surgeons and CIRUJANOS GRAFICOS, their own Graphic Design and Web Development Lab in Orange California and have created dozens of sites for artists, businesses and so forth.
XOSU3 graduated as professional graphic designer in 1995 from Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico City with a Visual Arts Master Degree in 2002 from Coastline Community College is also founder, publisher, editor, writer and designer of ESPACIOALTERNATIVO an underground bilingual magazine since 1997.
The Eclectic Company and OCCCA present
Experimental Music Concerts #15
Special Halloween Bash!!
An Evening of Art, Crafts, Music & Dance:
Sat OCT 27: doors 8pm
*e t e r e u m Gothic Flamenco Dance Performance with Claudia de la Cruz
*Shiloe
*Joy Shannon & the Beauty Marks
*Mystery Hangup
FREE admission
Call for spooky Art & Crafts:
Halloween show Oct 27th
Bring your creations on a first come first hung evening!
Limited Space.
*Drop off 5-7pm
*Take down same night 11-midnght
*Max size 11″x14″ inches
*No entry Fee.
*20% sales commission
dowload entry form at, www.theeclecticcompany.com
Great Art on the walls: last day of.
Dana Lovell - Legacy A Retrospective
Orange County Center for Contemporary Art
117 N. Sycamore
Santa Ana, Ca 92701
Telephone: 714-667-1517
www.theeclecticcompany.com
www.myspace.com/theeclecticcompany
www.occca.org
Al Sur del Corazon
July 16, 2007 by admin
Filed under , Entertainment, Events, Music, Openings, Performance, Shopping, Special Events, performing arts
Claudia de la Cruz presents:
Al sur del Corazón
(To the South of the Heart)
A Passionate Flamenco Journey
Thursday July 26th, 2007
6:00 Reception (Appetizers & Sangria will be available)
7:30 Performance
$25 General Admission
$35 Preferred Seating
Also Introducing CDLX Flamenco Boutique
with original Claudia de la Cruz Clothing Designs,
exclusive flamenco garnments, accesories, music and much more.
Al Sur de Corazón explores the inner journey of the flamenco dance
as one of the most passionate performing arts.
Claudia de la Cruz is your guide through the various rythyms
where all gypsy souls will follow. Space is limited,
Reservations are strongly suggested.
Dancers: Claudia de la Cruz, Elena Vilchis, Laura Michiels, Eiko Barnhill
Guitarist: Bobby Solakov
Singer: Ana Quintero
Percussion: Carlos de Rosas
Guest artists TBA
Cal State University Fullerton
Grand Central Art Center Theatre
125 N. Broadway Ave
Santa Ana, CA 92701
RSVP 714.543.1370
info@culturalstageofart.org
CLAUDIA DE LA CRUZ FLAMENCO INSTITUTE
Cultural Stage of Art | Foro Cultural de las Artes
http://www.culturalstageofart.org
http://www.tierra-flamenca.com
