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Summer Hiatus for Aerial Dance classes

We will be taking a break from aerial classes for the month of June (all remaining classes on a previously purchased card will be honored). Due to the Memorial Day holiday, the final Saturday class will be May 19, and the final Monday class will be May 21. Check back soon, we’ll be posting some additional class times and all kinds of extra workshops on new equipment (trapeze, lyra, hammock, invented apparatus, etc.) that will start up July 2. And if you’d like to be added to our email list to stay updated on new classes, workshops, or any schedule changes, just let us know!

Broken Cymbals

This Saturday (April 28, 8:00pm), at Belmont’s Black Box Theater , FALL will be headlining The SideShowcase, a new monthly fringe arts show, presented by the SIDESHOW Fringe Festival. We’ll be debuting a new full length work that explores movement creation through a blending of genres and disciplines, as we look into the potential that lies in allowing limitations to fuel creativity. Broken Cymbals is also a step further in our desire to collaborate with other artists, and in addition to featuring music by local composer Andrew Collins, make-up design & costume consulting by Nicole Lim, it also includes an experimental dancer/ninja hybrid duet, performed by Audra Harvey, and guest performer Justin Harvey. We’re very excited about this performance, and hope you’ll join us. (Tickets available online or at the door.)

FRIDAY, MARCH 16, FALL will be performing as part of the abrasiveMedia artist showcase: works in progress. This event will feature exhibitions by all of their resident artists, including new choreography by FALL. The evening will culminate in a multi-genre presentation combining illustration, dance, live music which is not to be missed!

In other, completely unrelated news, aerial class on SATURDAY, MARCH 17 is cancelled Feel free to come to our Monday class (8:30-9:45pm), or we will see you again on Saturday, March 24.  HAPPY ST. PATRICK’S DAY!!

Aerial Classes starting Feb. 4!

This is what you’ve been waiting for!

FALL is thrilled to partner with The Brick Factory to offer aerial dance classes to the community starting February 4, 2012.  There are a limited number of spots in each class, so contact us for more info or to register.  We’re looking forward to “hanging” out with you soon! (somehow, that joke never seems to get old). Check the Aerial Classes page for class descriptions & times.

SAVE THE DATES!

The past month or so has been full of meeting with other artists about potential collaborations, strategizing for our spring performance season, and catching up on both sleep and sci-fi shows.

More details to come soon, but below are our currently scheduled performances and events for spring 2012. And check back soon for more info as well as an exciting announcement regarding aerial classes…

Sat, Feb. 18, Chattanooga Aerials - FALL will be participating in a showcase performance sponsored by Chattanooga Aerials as part of the Food For Play aerial dance workshop.

Fri, Mar. 16, The Brick Factory - abrasiveMedia Gala featuring exhibitions by all of their resident artists, and new choreography by FALL.

Sun, Apr. 1, Ingram Center for the Performing Arts – Rebekah Hampton, Audra Harvey & Jessica Cavender of FALL will perform with Company Rose in Fads And Fancies In The Academy, a historical tribute to legendary composer John Cage, in collaboration with Blair School of Music and the VORTEX percussion ensemble.

Help us find a home!

In collaboration with abrasiveMedia, we are working to create a location that will function as a multi-genre art space in order to gives lots of Nashville based artists (FALL included) a place to house, practice and create our art. It will include a dance (and aerial) rehearsal space, sound-proofed recording areas for musicians, studio space for visual artists, and anything else we can think of. If you watch the video above, you’ll notice that our current rehearsal space is slightly less than ideal. With your help, we can move into a space where we can offer aerial classes to the community, as well as be surrounded by artists of all genres in an environment that will encourage collaboration & creativity of all kinds. Please consider either supporting our Kickstarter campaign for the buildout of the space, or donating directly to abrasiveMedia. (abrasiveMedia is a 501(c)(3) organization and all donations are tax deductible). Thanks!!

We have the privilege of getting to work with some pretty stinkin’ phenomenal people.  At our recent performance for the SIDESHOW Fringe Festival, we were thrilled to get to share the evening with some real life ninjas. A group of guys, headed up by Justin Harvey, showed off their superhuman moves that incorporate a mixture of martial arts, gymnastics & break dancing. Check out the video below for an excerpt of their performance at the Fringe Fest…and since we’re always looking for new ways to to defy gravity, there are definitely some potential collaborations with these guys in our future.

We’ve always said that one of our main goals is to collaborate with other artists to create truly original works. Well, our performance for the Untitled Artist’s “Glow Show” is turning out to be just that…the FALL debut of a new dancer (Kelly Landry), with new choreography by FALL’s artistic director (Rebekah Hampton), performed on a sculpture by a local visual artist (Robert Cortner), set to original music by a local composer (Kent Smith), and featuring a guest performance by a local poet (The Tavius). We hope you’re as excited and inspired as we are for the amazing potential of what’s to come.

Check the Projects page for performance details…hope to see you there!

It’s the feeling that something is just behind you, past your peripheral view… creativity can feel a lot like paranoia. It’s that constant burning desire to be a maker, to bring something into existence that wasn’t there before, to take one thing and turn it into something else – and in the struggle to complete our process we often fight battles against enemies that are only in our own perceptions.

This Saturday, Oct 1, 8:30pm, at the Belmont Black Box Theater, come see the debut of Fighting With Windmills.

NEW SHOWS ANNOUNCED!!

Fri, Sep. 30, 8:15pm, Black Box Theater – Serendipity 3 encore performance by Company Rose (Audra Harvey, Jessica Cavender & Rebekah Hampton of FALL as featured performers).

Sat, Oct. 1, 8:30pm, Black Box Theater – FALL debut of a brand new aerial piece performed on a brand new apparatus, as part of the SIDESHOW Fringe Festival.

Sat, Oct. 7, 9:30pm, Avenue 9 – FALL will be guest performers at Untitled’s annual Glow Show.

Check the Projects page for more info on tickets and locations. Can’t wait to see you all there!