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KC Stage Magazine spotlight on Felicia Londré $5 september 2012 www.kcstage.com Notes Auditions More Arts News at www.kcstage.com/blog WWW.KCSTAGE.COM/AUDITIONS Brent Kimmi Named Blue Springs City Theatre C Babes in Toyland: a Musical by Ruth Perry & Ann Smit: Development Director for KC Sep 24-25: 7 pm Mon-Tue Fringe Remember the wonderful Victor Herbert music? Remember The KC Fringe Festival has named Brent Kimmi the lyrics? “Toyland, toyland, little girl and boy land.” There are wonderful characters: Mary, Mary, Quite as its new development director. Brent has been Contrary; Jack and Jill; Little Miss Muffet; Wicked Uncle a volunteer for the festival since its inception in Barnaby who runs the toy shop and can turn children into 2004. In his eight years with the festival, he’s dolls and sell them for gold; and lovable Jane and Alan worked in almost every capacity of the event who are his next victims. The adaptation uses the original including artist liaison, planning, administrative music of Victor Herbert and much of Glen MacDonough’s support, and event execution. Brent has been libretto and lyrics. Directed by Mick McNabb. Blue Springs involved personally in theatre and the arts since Civic Center, 2000 NW Ashton Dr, (816) 228-5806, he was a child. He is currently a student at www.bluespringscitytheatre.com the University of Kansas earning a degree in communications studies. River City Community Players C A Little Murder Never Hurt Anybody by Ron Bernas: Sep 17-18: 7 pm Mon-Tue Mid-America Emmy Awards in It’s New Year’s Eve and Julia and Matthew seem to have it all. Matthew plans to murder her by years’ end. While KC in September Julia dodges his devious murder attempts, the Perry friends The National Academy of Television Arts & and staff are dying off mysteriously. Matthew is successful Sciences (NATAS) Mid-America announced in murdering everyone but Julia. Enter Detective Plotnik, that The Weather Channel’s Mike Bettes will a Sam Spade type who suspects everyone, but not a clue. host the 36th Annual Emmy Awards Gala. Until he stumbles upon Julia and Butler Buttram in what he mistakenly perceives as a compromising situation. He For the first time, the Gala will be held in jumps to the conclusion she is the murderer. Directed by Kansas City. The 2012 Mid-America Emmy Jeff Adams. Cold readings from the script. Leavenworth Awards will be held Sept 22 at 6:30 pm at Performing Arts Center, 500 Delaware St, the Midland Theatre. The black-tie affair is (913) 651-0027, www.rccplv.com open to the public. A limited number of gala tickets are now on sale for $125, including Theatre Lawrence C dinner. They are exclusively available by calling The Sound of Music by Rodgers & Hammerstein: (314) 533-2993. The Mid-America chapter of Oct 1-2: 7 pm Mon-Tue NATAS includes television markets primarily in The world’s most beloved musical! When a high-spirited Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Arkansas, Illinois, and postulant serves as governess for the seven children of a surrounding DMAs. widowed naval Captain, her energy and joy capture the heart of the stern Captain. With a Nazi threat looming, the family’s narrow escape over the mountains to Switzerland MAC Seeks Arts Award on the eve of World War II provides one of the most thrilling and inspirational finales ever presented in the Nominations theatre. Performance dates: Nov 30, Dec 1, 2* 6, 7, 8, 9* The Missouri Arts Council is seeking nominees 13, 14, 15, 16* (*matinee). Directed by Terrance McKerrs. for their 2013 Missouri Arts Awards. Online Multiple Roles for men and women available. Roles for 7 nominations are due midnight, Sept 3. children available, from ages 5-18. Scripts are available Nominees must be current Missouri residents or now for a 3-day checkout. $10 deposit required. Theatre Lawrence, 1501 New Hampshire St, (785) 843-7469, a Missouri-based organization or community. www.theatrelawrence.com Nominees in the Philanthropic category may be a non-Missouri residents, but their A Academic E Equity philanthropy being honored must benefit a C Community P Professional nonprofit Missouri arts organization. The total contribution or body of work of the nominee and the effect this effort has produced on the cultural climate of the city, region and/or state of Missouri are the primary criteria utilized in the selection of the award recipients. Find out more at www.missouriartscouncil.org/page/94. B KCSTAGE The Global Music Fest KC On Sept 8, the Global Music Fest KC will feature musicians from a spectrum of communities of Kansas City. It will be a Saturday of sonic diversity that will make the grassy playing field of St. Paul’s Episcopal Day School a musical playground for fans and families. The $20 ticket gets an adult and accompanied child into the Global Music Fest KC grounds at 40th Spotlight on & Walnut, as well as access to the children’s Felicia Londré area, seven music acts on the main stage, and 3 a chance to win a guitar from Big Dude’s Music The Kansas City Cover photo by Bob Compton City. Gates open at 10 am. Proceeds benefit The Pilgrim Center for The Arts. For more Renaissance information, visit www.globalmusicfestkc.com. Festival 5 Charlotte Street Fellows Announced Charlotte Street Foundation announced Notes 1 the selection of two Kansas City generative performing artists to receive unrestricted cash awards of $8,500 each in 2012. The 2012 Fellows are composer/musician Pat Auditions Alonzo Conway and theatre creator and B performer Heidi Van. They were selected by a panel of local and national performing arts professionals through a highly competitive 2 process, beginning with an open call for Calendar 10 applicants, and including in-person visits with 10 semi-finalists. A public performance of the work of this year’s Generative Performing Awards Fellows is planned for fall 2012. For Film Clips more information, visit www.charlottestreet.org. 13 4 MAC Annual Report Online The Missouri Arts Council’s annual report, Events 15 covering July 1, 2010 to June 30, 2011, is available online at MAC’s website. The report shows how the Missouri Arts Council supports the state by increasing arts participation, Performances do growing Missouri’s economy, and strengthening 10 Missouri’s education using the arts. For more si information, go to www.missouriartscouncil.org la and click “News and Releases” under “About MAC”. Cast of Characters Scott Bowling ............................Webmaster Tricia Kyler Bowling ...............Subscriber Rep Richard Buswell .................Managing Editor Vol.KC 15 • No. 11stage • Issue 157 • September 2012 Bryan Colley .......................... Blog Curator [email protected] • (816) 23-STAGE Jamie Lin .........................Editorial Assistant Angie Fiedler Sutton ............ Associate Editor PO Box 410492 • Kansas City, Missouri 64141-0492 Cassandra Whitney ......... Graphic Designer October Deadline: September 10 Letters to the Editor ...... [email protected] www.kcstage.com © Copyright 2012 by KC Stage. All material contained in this pub- lication is the property of or licensed for use by KC Stage. Any use, duplication, or reproduction of any or all content of this publication is prohibited except with the express written permission of KC Stage or the original copyright holders. Printing by Alphagraphics. www.kcstage.com SEPTEMBER 2012 1 Bellydance: Connecting Cultures by Amy Jo Field Bellydancing has a rich history, full of connections to many cultures. It also has a history with controversy, as evinced by the very word ‘bellydance’. Many dancers who study Raqs Sharki, Middle Eastern dance, and all its modern incarnations, don’t use the term bellydance because it so often brings unwanted associations to the forefront. In past centuries, when many Europeans and Americans were accustomed to social dances where the body was held rigid and only footwork and stylized arm movements were used, bellydance’s abdominal, rib cage, and hip movements were unfamiliar and scandalous: the type of thing only seen in places of ill repute. No matter the dress of the dancer (and many were clothed head to foot), how traditional and artistic their art form, or how respectable the artists, Western audiences often assumed things about bellydance and its dancers because of their unique type of movements. From this beginning, bellydance got its nickname, highlighting a physical focal point, and immediately acquiring an association with titillation. In the early 20th century, Hollywood helped to popularize bellydance in the modern consciousness, although certainly not in a historically accurate way. Some dancers also realized the sex appeal of the art form and drew it farther away from its roots in order to profit (we’ve long known sex sells). Today, many artists who draw on influence from the Middle East and surrounding regions still work against popular perceptions of bellydance as a bit tawdry. Thanks to growing popularity in the past few decades, many people have been newly exposed to the art of bellydance and have gotten to see its true nature. I believe the dichotomy between bellydance’s reputation and its true nature comes down to something fairly simple. In order to make money, gain notoriety, or for any number of other reasons, some people tried to make bellydance about the viewer. The Western gaze, the male gaze, the shocked but fascinated gaze. But bellydance is not about the external; it’s about the internal. It’s done as ritual dance as celebration, it’s done in homes in the kitchen to have fun while cooking. It’s done, historically and currently, by men, women, children, the old and young. It is about a joy only accessible through a moment of mind and body unity, internal to the dancer.
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