“Momentary Flight’ is one of five Blue Moves premiers for our upcoming show on the theme of air, “Blue O2″, which will be part of SIDESHOW Fringe Festival August 1-4th, 2013.

Momentary Flight. Photo by Martin O'Connor

Blue Moves at Cave Springs

Tickets for the sampler show, which includes a variety of performing artists, are $10, and also require the one-time purchase of a Fringe button for $5.  The show is 10:30 p.m. For schedule info on all the Fringe performances, visit www.sideshowfringe.com

Saturday, May 5th, 2012

Looby Theater, 7:30 p.m. Admission $5

For more info on the entire Women’s Works Festival, click here.

“This film is really best viewed on the big screen with some live dance accompaniment,” explains Roche, “but I thought it was time to make it widely available on the internet.”

Confluence

Choreography and concept:  Amanda Cantrell Roche with improvisational contributions by the dancers

Videographer and editor:  Mallory Mapes

Videographer:  Ernie Gray

Music Composition and Recording:  J. Ray Sparks

For more information, visit the Untitled website.

“Confluence” premiered in May at “Women’s Works 2011″ and was also performed in Blue Moves’ recent production, “Deep Blue” at the Darkhorse Theater. It explores soul mates, loss and commitment. The film is the brainchild of Blue Moves co-founder Amanda Cantrell Roche.

“In the spring of 2010, I was yearning for a fresh choreographic challenge,” Amanda relates.  “One day I had this sudden knowing that I needed to do a piece in water. The distance and difficult accessibility of the place I chose made a live performance unrealistic, but film was a wonderful way to bring a river into the theater. Water has such a rich tapestry of symbolism, and for me, it is a metaphor for love, for immersing oneself in life, standing strong in the current, sometimes fighting it, sometimes being carried by the flow but always connected to the vigor, the awareness and the immersion of the river of life.”

Amanda is thankful to the many talented individuals who came together to make this project possible:  Mallory Mapes, film editor and videographer, Ernie Gray, videographer; J.Ray Sparks; music composition and recording; Holly, Kristen, Christy, Valerie, Rachel and Stephanie for dancing and making improvisational contributions, and Thomas Roche as grip.

“Deep Blue” features four new dances, a monologue and a film by Blue Moves members, as well as guest choreographer Marci Murphree, all related to that flowing, powerful, exquisite, destructive, cleansing element ~ water.  Through an open call for water-themed art the company selected musician Uncle Don Clark, visual artists Mary Sartain, Amanda Damaschun and Michael Grine, poet Solita Morris and dancer/videographer Mary LaBianca to be a part of the production. Just-added musical guest artist is Kristen Hubbard. The company has thoroughly enjoyed playing and dancing in water, literally and metaphorically, in the process of creating this show.

Debuting are Holly Cannon-Hesse’s Waiting for Calm Seas and Rachel Taliaferro’s Rain Dance. Cannon-Hesse is dedicating her work to her mother, who she says has been stuck at that point between the ebb and flow due to health issues and is now seeking calm seas. The performance also includes two short films, Mary LiBianca’s  Adapting, and Cantrell-Roche’s Confluence which premiered at Women’s Work 2011. Confluence is Blue Moves’ first foray into film as well as dancing in water. Jacqueline Springfield will perform an original monologue inspired by the website Plenty of Fish.

Angela Armstrong’s Eye of the Storm and Valerie Hackworth’s The Translator will be making their Nashville premiers. Armstrong’s work delves into the spiritual, meteorological, and physical characteristics the term storm connotes.  The Translator, asks us “to think about how  water shows us the invisible wind and reveals the shape of the land,” explains Hackworth.

Additional guest artists include photographer Michael Reagan, whose work will be featured in a slide show before the performance, and musician Scott Carter and Dria Cook Carter performing at an after event. Audience members are invited to join the company and members of Good Food for Good People in their Community Garden next to the LOVE building  immediately after the show for an informal wine reception and interactive water art. The LOVE building is located directly behind the Darkhorse Theater.

For reservations, call 615 300-8580.

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photos by Michael Reagan

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Past Events

Blue Moves will be premiering “Confluence,” a short dance film, at Tennessee Women’s Theater Project “Women’s Work 2011″ Festival Saturday, May 14th at the Looby Theater in Nashville, 7:30 p.m. This project was filmed in June of 2010 at Rutledge Falls and is Blue Moves’ first foray into dance in water, as well as for film. Thanks to all who contributed as dancers, videographers, music composers, film editor, equipment haulers and inspiration. We had a great time making this project.

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Watch The Making of  “Confluence” — outtakes and behind the scenes

We’ve been thinking about water quite a bit lately, and our next show will explore water imagery, its power, its metaphors. “Deep Blue,” a dance and multi-media exploration of water, will be performed on Friday, August 26th, 7:30 p.m. at the Darkhorse Theater in Nashville.

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