World Dance Forms & Performance Art
emCee ArtActs
...promoting the joy and the freedom of self expression
through the performing arts since 1988.
Performance Art is...
"a visual act of art, a time based spectacle, or a site specific art happening."
Gothic BellyDance
...a fusion of raqs beledi and contemporary dance
photo Joey Callahan
ArtActs...
The ideas and material :
* we use dance, movement, sculpture, media, projection, music & sound.
* we use themes dealing with social healing; beauty, life, death, ritual, relationships, rites of passage and peace.
* our performance pieces are juxtaposed...surreal and abstract forms of art with life.
*Artacts performances are a statement about how we perceive our existence and the world; the present and the future.
*performances are presented in a way that children and adults can understand, enjoy and have some thoughts about.
Performance Art
"Reflection"
Performing Artist: Cynthia Ishizawa
Egyptian Folkloric Dance
This is what performance avatar "Mite" looks like at night on the streets. First created Summer, 1995 for Scott Lucci, co- owner of Metropolis Night Club, Cleveland, Ohio
Tahitian Tamure
Native American Friendship Dance
India's Folk Dance
Dandia Raas Stick Dance
Street performance Art...
taking art to the people of the streets
We make costumes from recycled material and organic materials
Performance Art in Theatrical Spaces
Cleveland Public Theater, Cleveland, Ohio
"Thread"
performed by
Mel James Someroski, Matthew & Cynthia Cupach, Mark Webster,
Metamorph Performance with clay ......MaPo Kinnord, CeramicArtist
Visual Acts of Art
"Web" performed @
Metropolis Niteclub, Cleveland, Ohio
Privilege Night Club, Ibiza, Spain
Queen Night Club, Paris France
Learning a dance from another culture helps students/participants to understand and appreciate that culture, develop personal aesthetics and have fun together.
BUTOH...
Japanese Contemporary Dance Theatre
@HoustonCommunity College
free expression &
enjoyment in using your body
Performance Art...can be exotic and mysterious too.
This performance piece is inspired by the Ancient Egyptian goddess Bastet... goddess of the ointment jar, the war goddess...the protector.
Contemporary Dance
Musical Dance
A Chorus Line
Houston Community College Repertory Dance Company
Education programs:
Giving people an opportunity get to know their bodies,
to let go emotionally...and be a kid again!
The opportunity to experience the joy of creating
and expressing something of themselves through
movement and performance
Dance can take us to a place of serenity and ecstasy.
Dance can unite people at a deep level of awareness.