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HARDWOOD HIGH-STEP. Dubbed "champions of the hardwood," the UA Dance Ensemble celebrates its status with Dances on the Hardwood, highlighting faculty choreography.
Performances are 7:30 tonight and tomorrow in UA Centennial Hall, located inside the main gate east of Park Avenue. Tickets are $10, $7 for students and seniors, available at the Centennial Hall box office, Dillard's, or by calling 621-3341. COMEDIC FUSION. Belly laughs abound when funnyman Bobby Collins hits the stage at Laffs Comedy Caffé, 2900 E. Broadway. A nominee for the American Comedy Awards' Stand-Up of the Year, Collins has been on the way up since being hand-picked by Rosie O'Donnell to replace her as the host of her career-launching show. His material comes from the experiences of everyday life, spotlighting family and friends, and he often skewers himself with the punchlines. The New York Times labels Collins "the most natural comedian working today, and the New York Post calls him the "perfect fusion of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis." Performance is at 8 p.m. Tickets are $10 in advance, with reservations recommended. For information, call 323-8669. ANCIENT UPRISING. The year is 1496, the setting the small Spanish village of Fuente Ovejuna. On April 23, the long-suffering villagers storm their overlord's house in the name of liberation. The King orders a judge to investigate the incident and punish the guilty, with law enforcement taking the form of torture and interrogation. Repeatedly, the judge asks for the names of the murderers. "All are responsible," is the united reply in Fuente Ovejuna, Lope de Vega's timeless portrayal of oppression and revolt. Borderlands Theater brings this difficult tale to the stage with a preview at 8 tonight in the PCC Proscenium Theater, 2202 W. Anklam Road. The opening night celebration is at 8 p.m. tomorrow, with regular performances continuing at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday through April 11. There's a 2 o'clock matinee on Sunday, April 5. Preview tickets are $8, $6 for students. Opening night tickets, including a post-performance reception, are $15, $12 for performance only, $6 for student rush 15 minutes before curtain. Regular performance tickets range from $6 to $12, available at Antigone Books, the PCC Fine Arts box office, Borderlands Theater, or by calling 882-7406.
Friday 3
SPIRIT OF SPRING. The Tucson Parks and Recreation Department rings in the spring season with Another Day in the Glade, featuring selected scenes from Shakespeare performed by "spirits and fairies of the Stratford Forest."
DOWNHILL SLIDE. Best known for Swimming to Cambodia, a poignant monologue describing his movie role in The Killing Fields, Spalding Gray now tackles skiing and middle age in It's a Slippery Slope. With signature humor, Gray details his first uncontrolled plunge down an Arizona ski slope at age 53, then jumps back 35 years to New England, where he neglected free ski lessons to stay inside, snug and listening to Beethoven. His recounting includes tales of teaching old bones new tricks, a contrast of east- and west-coast sensibilities, and an unexpected reunion with nature. Enjoy the many shades of Gray's humor at 8 tonight and tomorrow in the UA Gallagher Theatre, located in the Student Union. Tickets are $25, available at the Centennial Hall box office, 621-3341.
Saturday 4
CREATIVE CAUSE. More than 150 nationally known artists and crafts people gather for a good cause at the third-annual Art Fest of Tucson, an American Cancer Society Arizona Camp Sunrise benefit.
Free event runs from 10 a.m. to PERMANENT PERSPECTIVE. Permaculture is a holistic way of living that incudes everything from passive-solar water and space-heating to rainwater harvesting, gray-water systems, organic gardening and earth and straw-bale construction. The Permaculture Drylands Institute highlights these and other methods for an earth-friendly existence with their Permaculture Home and Garden Tour, with self-sustaining homes ranging from a rammed-earth dwelling to a 1919 adobe bungalow. Designers and owners will also be on hand to field questions.
BIG WINDS. The stage will come alive with hearty bagpipes and high-spirited, traditional dancing when the Seven Pipers Scottish Society presents its annual community performance. Composed of veterans of the competition circuit, this top-flight band has countless awards, and regularly travels the Highland games circuit throughout the Southwest. Performances are 2 and 7:30 p.m. in the Berger Performing Arts Center, 1200 W. Speedway. Tickets are $12, $8 for children and seniors, and available at Scot Photo, or by calling 299-0701.
Sunday 5
A DIFFERENT PICTURE. Photographer Gary Auerbach has long advocated using materials that produce longer-lasting pictures. Now he puts that effort to the test, with his platinum photographs portraying Tucson and overseas destinations in a new exhibit at the Hacienda Del Sol Guest Ranch Resort.
Exhibit runs through May 2, with an opening reception from 2 to 5 p.m. today, at the Hacienda Del Sol Guest Ranch Resort, 5601 N. Hacienda Del Sol Road. For information, call 299-1501.
DESERT WARBLERS. Build up a little sweat and your knowledge
of our fine-feathered friends when Saguaro National Park hosts
a morning bird hike. The stroll will take in some of the sharpest
Free hike runs from 7 a.m. to noon in Saguaro National Park. Pre-registration is required. Register in the East District Visitor Center, 3693 S. Old Spanish Trail, or by calling 733-5153.
Monday 6
RICH HARVEST. Painter Barbara Rogers blends images of plant specimens with other organic shapes, colors and designs to address time and life cycles in Her Garden: Objects and Sites Remembered. Time is running out to see this powerful exhibit, on display at Etherton Gallery.
Ultimately, she examines the importance of the garden as a fundamental pivot where the sanctity of nature and culture convene, and a place where causal external encounters and internal finalities merge with the experience of simply being. "Rogers has moved from a conception of nature as a contrivance for exotic romance," says art historian Paul Eli Ivey, "to an idea of nature as the powerful provenance of creation and destruction." Exhibit runs through Wednesday in the Etherton Gallery, 135 S. Sixth Ave. Hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. Call 624-7370 for details.
Tuesday 7
LIFE AFOOT. The remarkable life and incredibly inspired works of Isadora Duncan are examined in Isadora, presented as part of the PCC Center for the Art's Inside Dance series. Led by Gray Montague, executive director of Ballet Arizona, the multi-media series examines dance "from its sacred beginnings to the great outburst of creative energy seen all over the world during the last 100 years."
This free presentation begins at 7 p.m. in the PCC Fine Arts Recital Hall, 2202 W. Anklam Road. For details, call 206-6986. PASSIONATE PORTRAYAL. An Easter tradition returns to the Tucson Convention Center, when more than 100 cast members and a full orchestra recount the life and times of Jesus Christ in the 20th-annual Simon Peter Passion Play. Free performance is at 7 p.m. in the TCC Music Hall, 260 S. Church Ave. Performances continue at 7 p.m. tomorrow through Saturday, April 11, with a 2 o'clock matinee on Easter Sunday, April 12. Call 327-5560 for information.
Wednesday 8
ELEMENTARY ENTERTAINMENT. Join the legendary sleuth as he weaves his way through puzzling twists and turns--and past several shrewd characters--in Gaslight Theatre's production of Sherlock Holmes, written by Peter Van Slyke. The musical melodrama stars David R. Fanning as Holmes, William F. Hubbard as the indomitable Mr. Watson, and a cast of Gaslight regulars including Tim Gilbert, Joe Cooper, John Brownlee, Glenda Young, Nancy LaViola and Brooke Davis.
Tonight's performance is at 7 p.m. in the Gaslight Theatre, 7010
E. Broadway. Performances continue at 7 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday,
7 and 9:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 3 and 7 p.m. Sunday, through
May 30. Tickets are $13.95, $11.95 for students, seniors and military,
$6 for children ages 12 and under. Calling 886-9428 for reservations
and information.
City Week includes events selected by Calendar Editor Tim Vanderpool. Event information is accurate as of press time. The Weekly recommends calling event organizers to check for last-minute changes in location, time, price, etc. To have material considered, please send complete information at least 11 days prior to the Thursday issue date to: Tucson Weekly, P.O. Box 2429, Tucson, Arizona 85702, or fax information to 792-2096, or email us at listings@tucsonweekly.com.
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Susan Quinn's "Concrete Motion" opens the performance,
followed by Nina Janik's celebration of her Mexican heritage,
"Sueños Encadenados." Guest artist Walter
Kennedy teams with Amy Ernst to showcase the third movement of
Kennedy's "Fault Boundaries." Choreography by Melissa
Lowe, Jory Hancock, John Wilson and Michael Williams round out
the show.
Free performances are 7 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, through April
11, in the Himmel Park Amphitheatre, 1000 N. Tucson Blvd. The
production moves to the El Rio Center Amphitheatre, 1390 W. Speedway,
on April 17 and 18; and to the Udall Center Amphitheatre, 7200
E. Tanque Verde Road, on April 24 and 25. Blankets and lawn chairs
are suggested. For more information, call 791-4663.
Original work on the block ranges from wood sculptures by Bob
Hassan to Bernhard Jansen's welded art-deco furniture, and jewelry
by Lynette Escobar. Kids' action will include the "Mini-Monet"
area and a moon bounce. There will also be live music, international
foods and beverages.
Tour begins at 9 a.m. at 813 N. Ninth Ave. Cost is $50, and pre-registration
is required. For registration and other information, call 882-9443.
Called "platinotypes," these prints were pioneered
by legendary photographers of the late 19th century, including
Alfred Steiglitz, Eduard Steichen and Paul Strand. The result
are works that, if protected, can last more than 500 years.
By recording her garden experiences, the artist compacts memories
of roots, seeds and exotic blooms into surreal enclosures, revealing
the processes of transformation in nature. Colors build layer-upon-layer,
allowing underlying pigments to bleed through, and the rectangular
or nearly square compositions often complete the image by incorporating
photographs.
Isadora continues that mission with a peek at the life
of the legendary doyenne of modern dance. Duncan was the first
to break away from the conventional classic form to an informal
self-expression she called "free dance." Her subsequent
influence on modern choreographers from Michel Pokine to Frederic
Ashton remains inestimable.
