Blue Lapis Light

 

PRIME SEATING: ALMOST GONE $25 Prime Seating for COMMUNITY NIGHT is almost sold out! If you want those front and second row seats, don’t wait! We’ve only got a few left...Prime Seating for Sunday, September 21st is also COMPLETELY BOOKED! Don't wait, y'all! These tickets are flying out the door! Sept 18-21 & Sept 25-28 8:15PM | Doors at 7:45PM 1320 Art Dilly Dr.  Austin, TX 78702 Click HERE for Tickets! Click HERE for Community Night Tickets! Urban Dreaming is an immersive movement opera that transcends traditional storytelling, drawing its audience into a visceral journey through our shared human experiences, the constraints that bind us, and the timeless pulse that unites all living beings. Set against a backdrop of Austin’s urban landscape, this opera fuses contemporary and aerial dance with music to explore the confinement of the human spirit, through walls both physical and invisible. It unearths personal memories and collective trauma, transforming them into movement. At its core, Urban Dreaming is about connection - how, despite the barriers of time, identity, and circumstance, we remain linked by an invisible thread of universal energy. Through this opera, we invite audiences to remember, to feel, and ultimately to dream together. THANK YOU TO OUR HOSTS! We'd like to shout out our incredible building hosts, the RBJ Residential Buildings! RBJ Senior Housing is an Austin-based nonprofit that has provided affordable housing to older adults for 57 years. Nestled along a scenic stretch of Lady Bird Lake, its flagship location is named in honor of President Lyndon Johnson’s mother, Rebekah Baines Johnson. In partnership with Blue Lapis Light, RBJ Senior Housing is celebrating the re-opening of its campus following a decade-long transformation which includes the renovation of the iconic 16-story tower, now renamed The Rebekah, and the addition of a new apartment building, The Lady Bird. This project reflects RBJ’s enduring commitment to provide affordable housing for older adults and to uphold the legacy of President Johnson, who originally envisioned this community. Learn More! FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA Get all the updates, insights, and behind the scenes footage featuring our entire creative team. Join the family online and share in the creative movement joy! THANK YOU ATX! We'd like to take a moment to thank ACME and the Texas Commission on the Arts for making this show possible. Without your support, these vital works of art could not happen. Thank you for keeping ATX an artistic ground of supported community and vibrant growth!  In Peace, Sally Jacques Artistic Director of Blue Lapis Light   Classes | Studio Rental | Booking | Press Inquiries | Support Blue Lapis Light is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization Photography by Earl McGehee 512.280.6688 | www.bluelapislight.org

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Hedydd Company

Flyaway Productions

Thank you for your support of Flyaway Productions!

Up Next! DOWN ON THE CORNER Created in partnership with the TurkXTaylor Initiative, Composer Melanie DeMore, Filmmaker Leila Weefur, and Flyaway’s Artistic Team Free Performances Honoring the site of the 1966 Compton’s Cafeteria Riot; conjuring its liberation and a just transition for the future.  October 3-4 and 9-11, 2025 Shows run at 7:30 PM and 8:30 PM, with a pre-show historical introduction each night at 7:15 Tenderloin, San Francisco Meet on the South East Corner of Turk and Taylor Streets Flyaway Productions is proud to announce the world premiere of DOWN ON THE CORNER presented near the site of the 1966 Compton’s Cafeteria Riot. Directed by Flyaway Artistic Director Jo Kreiter in partnership with the TurkxTaylor Initiative (TxT), Down on the Corner features a cast of queer, transgender, and female performers, commissioned music by singer and songwriter Melanie DeMore, and a film by Leila Weefur. Down on the Corner includes live performances by dancers Ai Yin Adelski, Gabriele Christian, Becca “B” Dean, Quinn Dior, Sonsherée Giles, MaryStarr Hope, Jhia Jackson, Megan Lowe, and Saharla Vetsch. A total of ten 35-minute shows are scheduled over the course of the run: October 3, 4, 9, 10, and 11 at 7:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. each night. Audiences are invited to gather on the Southeast corner of Turk and Taylor. All shows are free with no reservation required. Down on the Corner is a new public art project that aims to honor the history of the transgender uprising that took place at 111 Taylor Street – one of the first documented protests of police violence against queer people anywhere in the United States – while also serving to reimagine what the building could be today. Since 2004, 111 Taylor has been operated as a for-profit reentry service facility by GEO Group, a private prison corporation with a long record of labor abuse, human rights violations and immigrant detention. Additional collaborators include lighting designer Jack Beuttler, rigging designer Dave Freitag, prop designer Devon LaBelle, and costume designer Haus of Jubilee. At 7:15 p.m. before the first show each night, TxT will conduct a short talk covering the history of 111 Taylor from the period of the Compton’s Cafeteria Riot through today. Youth Visual Art Exhibit by GIRLFLY LOVE AROUND THE CORNER In collaboration with Adrian Arias September 7, 2025 2PM-3:30PM PinHole Café 231 Cortland Ave, San Francisco, CA 94110 Join us to celebrate the opening of GIRLFLY’s visual art exhibit in Bernal Heights. Sweets and coffees on offer to those who come. See More About GIRLFLY Flyaway Recommends RUPTURE DIASPORADICA August 22-30, 2025 Multiple Days/Times Fort Mason - Festival Pavilion, Pier 3 San Francisco, CA   A three-hour immersive performance where audiences become part of an “interactive odyssey of mutiny and belonging.” Get Tickets to See RUPTURE Donate to Flyaway Share Tweet Forward

Media Credits: 1) Brechin Flournoy of GIRLFLY 2025; 2) RJ Muna of Sonsherée Giles for Down on the Corner - 2025; 3) Art by Adrian Arias and GIRLFLY 2025; 4) Chani Bockwinkel of josé e. abad, Styles Alexander, Gabriele Christian, Clarissa Rivera Dyas, & Stephanie Hewett for DIASPORADICA - 2025 Copyright © 2016 Flyaway Productions, All rights reserved. For more information please visit: flyawayproductions.com

Hedydd Company

Pre-show Touch Tour & Meet the Artists Hiraeth Show

Please book the Pre-show Touch Tour and Meet the Artists 

via email hedyddcyf@gmail.com or phone 07962424410

Fully accessible to visually impaired audiences

 Galeri, Doc Victoria, Caernarfon, LL55 1SQ

Aeriosa Dance Society

August Brings New Collaboration  Aeriosa welcomes guest artists from Urban Jazz Dance Company led by Mx. Antoine Hunter (Oakland, CA) & Deaf Theatre Artist Landon Krentz (Calgary) to Vancouver this August for New Artists and Approaches in Vertical Dance | Volume II.  ASL Dance Workshop with Guest Artist Mx. Antoine Hunter The Roundhouse, Vancouver ASL Dance Workshop with Guest Artist Mx. Antoine Hunter Monday, 18 August 2025, 4pm - 6pm The Roundhouse Community Centre - 181 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver Free - Registration Required RSVP Join award winning Black Deaf Disabled Two-Spirit led PurpleFireCrow and Urban Jazz Dance Company as they lead a FREE American Sign Language dance and movement workshop. Deaf and hearing dancers of all levels are invited to join in this ASL movement workshop.  This workshop will guide participants in exploring the arts through a combination of movement, dance and sign language. All levels of movers welcome – from novice through professional. You will be learning, creating your own work and learning choreography from Antoine Hunter. Promoting full embodied movement and connection and bridging between the hearing and deaf communities, this immersive experience invites Deaf and hearing movers of all levels to explore how the body tells stories through rhythm, culture, and community. Don’t miss this workshop and get down with us! View the Vlog Workshop Description  This workshop will be led in ASL with ASL interpretation. Presented in partnership with the Roundhouse Community Centre. Please RSVP through the link above to attend.  Learn more about the workshop —> here Photo: Urban Jazz Dance Company artists Mx. Antoine Hunter and Zahna Simon Photo by Matt Haber.  Open Studio Showing & Artist Talk ANNEX, Vancouver New Artists and Approaches in Vertical Dance | Volume II Open Studio Sharing Saturday, August 23 2025, 2pm ANNEX, 823 Seymour St, Vancouver Free TICKETS Join Aeriosa for the next installment of this dynamic collaborative series investigating and sharing new methodologies in Vertical Dance, in partnership with guest artists from Urban Jazz Dance Company led by Mx. Antoine Hunter (Oakland, CA) & Deaf Theatre Artist Landon Krentz (Calgary). Followed by an Artist Talkback. Lean more —> here Photo: Aeriosa artists Alex Tam and Juan Duarte, photo by Colin Zacharias. Introduction to Vertical Dance for Adults The Roundhouse, Vancouver Photo by Tonya Ng. Intro to Vertical Dance 6-Week Session  Fridays, 5:30-7:30pm   November 14 - December 19  181 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver Join Aeriosa Dance Artists for a 6-class introductory series using rope and harness systems to explore vertical dance. This beginner-level progressive class is designed to introduce the exhilaration of vertical dance while developing safety awareness and practicing rope and harness systems.  Registration opens Aug 12th. Learn More Connecting Artist to Artist Ucluelet, BC, located on the traditional homelands of the Yuułuʔiłʔatḥ A Coastal Visit  “This August long weekend I had a lovely visit with my friend and artistic collaborator Landon Krentz. He and his partner Dima traveled by plane, ride-share, ferry and rental car across several mountain ranges and the Salish Sea to arrive at our home on the Esowista Peninsula near Pacific Rim National Park. We explored the beautiful coast together and shared some lovely meals made with food from local farms. It was such a treat to connect artist to artist before heading into the studio next week. And, I was thrilled to have a rare chance to work on my ASL skills with a fluent, patient partner. After Landon had a tour of the Aeriosa cargo van, he was inspired by the pink and white logo art, and bestowed Aeriosa Dance Society with our very own ASL sign name. Super cool! It is truly an honour for the company. Keep an eye on our instagram for the Aeriosa Sign Name reveal!” - Julia Taffe, Artistic Director Photo: L-R Julia Taffe, Dima, and Landon Krentz enjoy cloudy views looking towards Hitacu, from the Whisky Dock in Ucluelet. More from the Community Check out some of the exciting workshops & performances  our colleagues are sharing… Aerial & Acrobatic Dance Classes with  Corporeal Imago  Underground Circus & The Scotiabank Dance Centre Starts September 22, 2025 Corporeal Imago offers free aerial and acrobatic dance classes for professional dancers seeking to further their strength and range of expression through aerial and acro dance training. Learn More TvT Interlink | International Choreographic Symposium Scotiabank Dance Centre and Vancouver Art Gallery September 5-6, 2025 | 1-8pm The symposium brings together artists, curators and producers to reflect on the evolving intersections of choreography, cultural exchange and transnational collaboration, with panels, workshops and work-in-progress showings. Learn More

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