ARTISTS ON TOUR SD 41 Artists Directory 2013/2014 Artists on Tour travel to schools across BC with their performance or touring workshop created specifically for this school year. Artists on the ArtStarts roster represent an outstanding range of disciplines and cultural traditions, from world music and contemporary dance, to storytelling, theatre and much more. All are professional artists with a history of presentation and proven experience performing for, or working with, children and youth. How to Book This Directory includes all the information that you will need to bring performing artists into your school. Once you have made your selections, simply fax or email it to ArtStarts. We’ll contact the artists you have selected, schedule their touring dates and times and confirm their availability with you. Contact ArtStarts Tel: 1.855.292.7826 Fax: 604.683.0501 Email: [email protected] Visit the full Artists on Tour Directory online at artstarts.com/artists-on-tour-directory ArtStarts in Schools provides innovative arts programs for young people, practical resources for teachers and artists, and leadership in advocacy for arts in education. Learn more at artstarts.com Win ArtStarts Dollars! Book a performance through ArtStarts in Schools for 2013–14 by June 30, 2013 for a chance to win $800 ArtStarts dollars to go towards your choice of a performance in your school! The draw will be conducted in the first week of July and the winner will be announced in September 2013. The winning performance must occur in the 2013–14 school year. The artist and show selected must be from the 2013 ArtStarts Artists on Tour Directory. Discover More Artists Artists on the ArtStarts roster represent an outstanding range of disciplines and cultural traditions, from world music and contemporary dance, to storytelling, theatre and much more. All are professional artists with a history of presentation and proven experience performing for, or working with, children and youth. Visit the full Artists on Tour Directory online at artstarts.com/artists-on-tour-directory ArtStarts in Schools provides innovative arts programs for young people, practical resources for teachers and artists, and leadership in advocacy for arts in education. Learn more at artstarts.com Aché Brasil Aché Brasil Aché Brasil represents the culture, the traditions, the Aché Brasil represents the culture, the traditions, the beliefs, the music and movement of the people of beliefs, the music and movement of the people of Brazil. Equal parts music, dance, spectacle, Aché Brazil. Equal parts music, dance, spectacle, Aché Brasil has played to enthusiastic audiences and Brasil has played to enthusiastic audiences and critical acclaim from all over North America and critical acclaim from all over North America and Europe. The group's performances include Samba, Europe. The group's performances include Samba, Maracatu, and the famous Brazilian dance/martial- Maracatu, and the famous Brazilian dance/martial- arts Capoeira - an astonishing display of arts Capoeira - an astonishing display of ACROBATICS, performed to the rhythm of the ACROBATICS, performed to the rhythm of the Berimbau. Aché Brasil has performed before Berimbau. Aché Brasil has performed before thousands of audiences at Festivals, Theatres, thousands of audiences at Festivals, Theatres, Olympic games, Corporate events, and over 6,000 Olympic games, Corporate events, and over 6,000 schools. schools. AN EXPLOSION OF COLOUR! ENERGY! Capoeira Workshops AND MUSIC! Aché Brasil has extensive experience in teaching The musicians and dancers of Aché Brasil exhibit a Capoeira to young people. A typical class will begin rare combination of authenticity and excellence in with a light warm up followed by fundamental their performance, unmatched in Canada. movements such as "ginga", cartwheels, leg rotations Experienced and professional, Aché Brasil is and balance movements. The students also learn committed to presenting high quality performances Portuguese songs to accompany the game of which best exemplify Brazil's rich cultural heritage. Capoeira. While Capoeira can be an intensive activity, Combining stunning acrobatics, the hypnotic the classes are tailored to accommodate the physical rhythms of Afro-Brazilian dance and the awe- abilities of the students. Besides gaining discipline, inspiring art form of Capoeira, words like the students will also receive a solid workout. After breathtaking and colourful are inadequate to ten or more workshops students will have the describe this incredible group. Aché Brasil's high- opportunity to demonstrate what they learned with energy show is known to leave the audience a performance guided by our instructors on the last spellbound. day of their classes. Discipline Interdisciplinary Discipline Interdisciplinary Grades Primary to Secondary Grades Primary to Secondary Duration 45 - 55 mins. Duration 45 - 50 mins. Capacity 600 Capacity 1 workshop per class (max 25 students) # in group 5 # in group 1 Homebase Vancouver Homebase Vancouver Fee $730.00 + HST includes ArtStarts' fee Fee $205.00 + HST includes ArtStarts' fee Website www.achebrasil.com Website www.achebrasil.com Language(s) +French, Portugese Language(s) +French, Portugese ArtistStarts on Tour 20131 www.artstarts.com Axé Capoeira Axis Theatre Company Axé Capoeira (pronounced aH-shay cap-oh-AIR-ah) Over its 37-year long and richly creative history, Axis was founded in Brazil, first arriving in Canada to Theatre Company has amused, inspired, moved and perform in the Vancouver International Children's sometimes startled thousands of children, families Festival in 1990. Since then, they have become one and adults. Axis Theatre has actively pursued a multi- of the premier capoeira organizations in North disciplinary style of theatre that is underscored by America. With over ten performance DVDs, seven inventive text and music. Stretching the boundaries internationally acclaimed music CD's, a vibrant track of live theatre, Axis has produced over 52 original record of over 5000 school shows and stage works, toured all over the world and has been performances, and two years running as rewarded with 16 Jessie Richardson Awards by the choreography consultant to So You Think You Can Vancouver theatre community. Dance Canada, Axé Capoeirawill present a show unparalleled in its spectacular combination of dance, Raven Meets the Monkey King by Louise acrobatics, music, and educational entertainment. Moon JJ dreams of finding hidden treasure and until she's Viva Brazil! old enough, she explores thrift stores and yard sales. This interactive educational tapestry of Brazilian A mysterious box she buys hides a Raven mask history, culture, traditions and beliefs will entertain wrapped in an old Chinese opera poster. JJ thinks students of all ages. Expect to have your ears and their value will bring her fame but with the help of pulse stimulated by enlivening Brazilian percussion the spirits, Raven (First Nations) and the Monkey King music, including live vocals and drums; your eyes (Chinese), who were trapped in the box, she learns amazed by gravity-defying acrobatics; and your body the value of returning the items to their rightful and soul inspired as the show culminates in an owners. interactive dance including the entire audience. This Discipline Theatre performance is guaranteed to be unforgettable! Grades Primary to Intermediate Discipline Interdisciplinary Duration 50 mins. + Q&A Grades Primary to Secondary Capacity 500 Duration 45 mins. + Q&A # in group 4 Capacity 600 Homebase Vancouver # in group 6 Fee $720.00 includes ArtStarts' fee Homebase Vancouver Website www.axistheatre.com Fee $780.00 + HST includes ArtStarts' fee Website www.axecapoeira.com Language(s) +French, Portugese ArtistStarts on Tour 20132 www.artstarts.com Ballet Victoria Blues Berries Kids LOVE dance. But few of them know that The Blues Berries have performed before hundreds professional dancers train like Olympic athletes or of young audiences in schools, festivals and that studies link dancing to brain development. As community venues across North America over the Vancouver Island's premier professional ballet past seven years. The group has been nominated company, Ballet Victoria has been enlightening three times for West Coast Music Awards for their youth since 2002 on the benefits of dance to CDs "Little People Music," "Funky Blue Diner," and promote fitness, self-esteem, and appreciation for "Let's Jam." art, music, and culture. Under the direction of acclaimed artistic director and choreographer Paul Jazz, Jive and Wail Destrooper, Ballet Victoria continues to captivate Jazz, Jive, and Wail, covers the major styles and audiences of all ages. artists of the blues, jazz, and R & B genres who established themselves at the same time as rock and Intersections of Dance and Sport roll was taking root – the 1950s to the present. With Teachers and students alike are consistently an emphasis on upbeat, danceable music, the surprised at how fascinating ballet is - especially program illustrates the influence of the blues on rock since many have never seen it before. In our and vice versa. The performance incorporates demonstration and performance, professional student participation through call-and-response dancers show students the technique and training between singer and audience, clapping in rhythm, behind the art. We explain the 'art of line', flow, and and everyone gets a chance to show their dance dynamic of choreographic sequences. By the end, moves. students have