Schedule of Events

Current and Upcoming

2009-2010

Ariel Dance Theatre presents

Flush Logo

Friday & Saturday, August 21-22 at 8:00pm
Sunday, August 23 at 5:00pm
Thursday - Saturday, August 27-29 at 8:00pm
At the Rollins Theatre, Long Center for Performing Arts.
701 W. Riverside Drive, Austin, TX 78704
Tickets $17-37, Sliding Scale
BUY TICKETS - CLICK HERE
Or Call 512-474-5664 (LONG)

Please note seats are all GENERAL ADMISSION seats. A sliding scale is provided to give discounted rates to our patrons that may need it. We hope you will choose a price you are able to pay. All seats are excellent, and have full view of the stage.

Conceived and Directed by Andrea Ariel and Sonnet Blanton
Music by Graham Reynolds & Peter Stopschinski
Performed by Andrea Ariel, Jude Hickey, Adriene Mishler & Steve Ochoa
Production Design by Kirby Malone, Gail Scott White, Nick Keene, Colin Lowry, Natalie George, K. Eliot Haynes and Kari Perkins
Art Installation by Miguel Rangel
Produced in Association Cyburbia Productions and POPWORKS
Sponsored by High End Systems and Barco

FEATURE STORY ON KXAN by Jim Swift

FEATURE ARTICLE in Austin Chronicle by Robert Faires

KOOP RADIO SHOW with Lisa Scheps

FLUSH is a multi-media, dance-theatre experiment about you, about us, about the stories we all share, the things we want, and what we leave behind. FLUSH is a mystery, an invitation, and a hunt for treasure. FLUSH is where trash gets a lobotomy and a haircut. FLUSH wants to come over forGame Night and a movie. FLUSH thinks you can do better. FLUSH might be the end. FLUSH might change the world

This project is funded and supported in part by individual contributors, The City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division and by a grant from The Texas Commission on the Arts and an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.

Performance and Residency History

2008-2009

Nov. 8 at 8:00, 2008
Cabaret d'Ariel Starring White Ghost Shivers
A Fundraising Event
The Independent at 501 Studios, 501 N. IH 35

Sep. 5 -13 at 8:00pm, 2008
FIVE.TWO.TEN
A concert of short dance works
The Off Center, 2211-A Hidalgo St.

2007-2008

October 8-November 16, 2007
March 24-May 2, 2008
ARTSPLUS, arts-in-education programs at Metz and Robert E. Lee Elementary Schools in Austin, TX

September 3-December 14, 2007
Company in rehearsal for the final development of GYRE

2006-2007

August 5-August 12, 2007
Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble
Summer Company Retreat and Development of Spin to be performed Spring, 2008, NYC

July 30-August 4, 2007
Soujourn Theater Summer Institute
Devising Civic Theater: Performance and Dialogue
North American Cultural Laboratory, Highland Lake, NY

July 9-27, 2007
Teaching Residency at Creative Arts Studio, Brooklyn, NY

May 21, 2007
Performance of excerpts of GYRE for the annual Keep Austin Beautiful-Austin Clean-Sweep.

March 27-May 10, 2007
ARTSPLUS, arts-in-education programs at Metz and Robert E. Lee Elementary Schools in Austin, TX

March 1-4 and 8-10, 2007
GYRE
The Off Center, Austin, TX

Gyre Photo

Gyre is a collaboration of dance, theater, and video set to an original score by Peter Stopschinski and Graham Reynolds.

Jeanne Claire Van Ryzin, Arts Critic for the Austin American-Statesman wrote:
"'Gyre' spins a complex tale"

"Ariel and company did it with aplomb."

"'Gyre' spun a complex tale that touched on both the personal and the global, and wove it nicely together with a collaboration of creative talents."

See the full review at:
http://www.austin360.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/seeingthings/entries/2007/03/08/gyre_spins_a_complex_tale.html

Check out the great preview articles in the Austin Chronicle and American-Statesman
http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid%3A451530

http://www.austin360.com/search/content/arts/stories/xl/2007/03/1arts.html

October 23-December 8, 2006
ARTSPLUS, arts-in-education programs at Metz and Robert E. Lee Elementary Schools in Austin, TX

2005-2006

July 14-15, 2006
American Value, presented at North American Cultural Laboratory (NaCL) Catskills Festival of New Theatre, directed by Michael Rhod of Sojourn Theatre and created by five ensemble theater companies and community members of Sullivan County, NY.

June 2-18, 2006
Pocketful of Change with Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble
The Brecht Forum, NYC

May 4-6 and 11-13, 2006
GYRE
The Blue Theater, Austin, TX

January 9 – 31, 2006 and February 27 –March 31, 2006
ARTSPLUS, arts-in-education programs at Metz Elementary and Robert E. Lee Elementary, Austin, TX

November 14 – December 9, 2005
ARTSPLUS, arts-in-education programs at Metz Elementary and Robert E. Lee Elementary, Austin, TX

2004-2005

August 8 – 12, 2005
In residence with Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble, NYC

August 14 – 21, 2005
In residence with The Walter Thompson Orchestra, NYC

July 5 – 29, 2005
Teaching residence Creative Arts Studio, Brooklyn, NY

January 27 – 30 and February 3 - 5, 2005
DETOUR
Co-created with Leese Walker, Artistic Director of Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble, NYC
The Off Center, Austin, TX

November 29 – December 17, 2004 and January 31 - April 15, 2005
Teaching Residency at Metz Elementary and Brooke Elementary
ARTSPLUS, arts-in-education program
Austin, TX

2003-2004

September 24 – 26, 2004
Divine Dogma with singer/songwriter Patrice Pike
The Vortex, Austin, TX

February 2-March 12, 2004
Teaching Residency at Metz Elementary and Brooke Elementary ARTSPLUS, arts-in-education program Austin, TX

October 27 - December 3, 2003
Teaching Residency at Metz Elementary and Brooke Elementary ARTSPLUS, arts-in-education program Austin, TX

October 3, 2003
Performance of SPIN with Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble CUNY NYC

2002-2003

August 4 - August 29, 2003
Teaching Residency at Creative Arts Studio Brooklyn, NY

August 3, 2003
Soundpainting Performance with The Walter Thompson Orchestra Medicine Show Theatre NYC

July 27 – August 2, 2003
Soundpainting Artistic Residency and Performance with The Walter Thompson Orchestra and Performance of a new solo work Catskills New Theatre Festival Highland Lake, NY

May 1 - 3, 2003
Company Performance of Shoulder to Shoulder Austin Lyric Opera, Ducloux Hall

March 17 - April 11, 2003
Teaching Residency at Metz Elementary and Brooke Elementary ARTSPLUS, arts-in-education program Austin, TX

January 21 - February 7, 2003
Teaching Residency at Austin Lyric Opera Young Artist's Pre-Professional Program

January 20 - February 13, 2003
Teaching Residency at Metz Elementary and Brooke Elementary ARTSPLUS, arts-in-education program Austin, TX

October 14 – December 18, 2002
Teaching Residency at Metz Elementary and Brooke Elementary
ARTSPLUS, arts-in-education program
Austin, TX

September 10 – 26, 2002
Teaching Residency at Austin Lyric Opera
Young Artist's Pre-Professional Program

2001-2002

August 4 – August 12, 2002
Artistic Residency and Performance of SPIN
with Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble
Catskills New Theatre Festival
Highland Lake, NY

June 5 – July 10, 2002
Teaching Residency
University of Texas, Austin

June 15 – 16, 2002
Company On-Site Performance of In These Rooms We Wait
Hyde Park Homes Tour
Austin, TX

May 13 –18, 2002
Teaching Residency
Austin Lyric Opera Chorus

May 19, 2002
Cabaret d'Ariel
Company Fundraising Performance and Party
Austin, TX

April 26, 2002
Performance of SPIN
with Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble
St. Clement's Church
NYC

March 25 – April 11, 2002
Teaching Residency at Metz Elementary, Brooke Elementary
and Decker Elementary Schools
ARTSPLUS, arts-in-education program
Austin, TX

March 19 – April 4, 2002
Teaching Residency at Austin Lyric Opera
Young Artist's Pre-Professional Program

March 12 – 17, 2002
Performance of PEXO
with The Walter Thompson Orchestra
at HERE in NYC

February 10 – March 15, 2002
Rehearsals in NYC with The Walter Thompson Orchestra and Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble
January 14 – February 8, 2002
Company Rehearsals in Austin, TX

December 6 – 9, 2001
Company Performance, Ariel Dance Theatre in Concert
The Silent Circle and Boxed-In
Austin Lyric Opera, Ducloux Hall