January

Three Events!  Studio Showing in Santa Barbara at the Montecito School of Ballet, Santa Barbara Dance Alliance's New Works Concert, Dance and Guerilla Movement Explorations in NYC and Brooklyn

Santa Barbara, Get Down Get Groovy

We got off to a rip roarin’ start with a Studio Showing at the Montecito School of Ballet with guest artists from Rubans Rouge Dans sharing work alongside SonneBlauma choreographers Misa & Stephen Kelly.  In that there is ample opportunity for locals to get their work out there in the community there is scant chance for lesser known out of town artists to share their work with the community. For this reason we like to open up the space and welcome others to share their work with Santa Barbara in an intimate studio setting.  Good for them, good for us!

Santa Barbara Dance Alliance’s 2010 New Works Concert

For the fifth year running Misa had a work in the New Works concert performing her latest solo Ranunculus.  A piece dedicated to the memory of Hughes Morton that was created, in part, to celebrate Misa’s 50th birthday.  Anaya Cullen did an awesome job on the costuming.  The highlight of the event was a patron coming up to Misa after the concert and putting a piece of paper in her palm congratulating her on the work.  When she opened it up she found a check made out to the dance company for $5,000!  That sort of external affirmation and confidence shored up all that much more in company members as well as in the community at large!  We love angels!!! 

New York City, COOL New York Dance Festival, the MET and MOMA

Yup!  Our dream come true.  It had been on our to do list for a number of years to get work to the big apple & finally our time arrived with a trip to NYC to perform in the COOL New York Dance Festival.  While there we also took a risk at the MET & MOMA engaging in one of SonneBlauma’s Perceptions of Performance in Guerilla Spaces expressions.  Misa concluded she would have had a MUCH different career had she chosen to move to NYC rather than return to her home town after getting her masters from Cal Arts.  With that said, Santa Barbara is a great community to ground into to carve out one’s life work as an artist.  Thank you Santa Barbara for your support of SonneBlauma!