Argentine dance concert


Published on Thursday, March 13, 2008 9:28 AM MDT

National Hispanic Cultural Center Presents an Exciting Night of Aerial Dance from Argentina.

The National Hispanic Cultural Center is proud to present the Brenda Angiel Aerial Dance Company in their newest production Air-Condition on Friday, March 28 at 8 pm in the NHCC’s Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts. Brenda Angiel Aerial Dance Company is internationally recognized as an important part of Argentina’s avant-garde dance movement. Based in Buenos Aires, the troupe has appeared at the International Arts Festival of Costa Rica, at the Urban Landscape Festival in Barcelona, at the First International Aerial Dance Festival in Boston, and at the American Dance Festival, where they first performed in 1998 and where Angiel as commissioned to create new work in 1999, 2002, 2003, and 2005.

Since February 2001, when the company made it Kennedy Center debut, it has returned annually to the United States for engagements that have included multiple performance runs at Spoleto Festival USA and in New Haven, Connecticut; Dallas, Texas; at the Walton Arts Centre in Fayetteville, Arkansas; and in Atlanta, Kansas City, and Omaha, Nebraska. During the spring of 2005, the company performed at the Carlson Center in Overland Park, Kansas, at the Premiere Dance Theatre in Toronto, and at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Canada. In the fall of 2005, the company participated in the fall for Dance Festival at New York City Center, and then appeared in an extended engagement at the Holland Festival.

In January 2007, the troupe returned to the U.S. for an engagement at Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts.

This performance is supported by the Western States Arts Federation and the National Endowment of the Arts.

Tickets for this production are $20, $30, $35 with a $5 NHCC member discount and are available at Ticketmaster locations,

Ticketmaster.com or in person at the NHCC box office. For show information call 724-4771.

For additional information visit: www.aerialdance.com To make reservations please call (505) 247-9480.

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