| Event Name | Organization | Dates | City | | | Transtion Projects II | ASU Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts | 02/11/12- 02/12/12 | Tempe |
International NightPresented by Mijana Lebanese Grill and Lounge at Mijana Lebanese Grill and Lounge February 12, 2012 Experience the cultures of the world through live, authentic dance performances at International Night at Mijana Restaurant - hosted by Kandahar, while enjoying the finest Lebanese cuisine. Perfect for students, or anyone on a budget.
Each month on 2nd Sundays features a new show, with different countries and performers.
Sunday, February 12th features authentic Brazilian Samba, in honor of Brazil's Carnaval month, Spanish Flamenco, Bollywood from... | Mijana Lebanese Grill and Lounge | 02/12/12 | Tempe |
20th Anniversary of Sister Moses: The Story of Harriet TubmanPresented by Desert Dance Theatre, Inc. at Chandler Center for the Arts February 17, 2012 In celebration of African American History Month, Desert Dance Theatre presents the 20th Anniversary of Sister Moses, a beautiful story of a courageous woman's determination to free her people from slavery through the Underground Railroad. This powerful dance drama features Desert Dance Theatre with Renee Davis as Harriet Tubman, dramatic narration by Renee Morgan Brooks , African drumming and music direction by Step Raptis , accompaniment by String Sounds and traditional spirituals sung... | Desert Dance Theatre, Inc. | 02/17/12 | Chandler |
Cafe le SwingPresented by Savoy Hop Cats at Cafe le Swing February 2-February 23, 2012 Just as the name implies, Cafe le Swing is an entirely unique, vintage dance experience, meticulously decorated to transport you back to a time when wingtips were the footwear of choice, flapper dresses were in style and Swing was King! Boasting a huge wood floor, a free self-serve waffle station and espresso bar to keep you going all night long, Cafe le Swing has all the appeal of your favorite Coffee Shop combined with the authenticity of the greatest swing clubs of old!
| Savoy Hop Cats | 02/02/12- 02/23/12 | Tempe |
| Mesa Community College Dance Concert | Mesa Community College - Southern & Dobson Campus | 02/22/12- 02/24/12 | Mesa |
Savoy Night Swing DancePresented by Savoy Hop Cats at Ghost Lounge at Hotel San Carlos February 6-February 27, 2012 An age gone by, reminiscent of the hotels' glory days, is brought back to life each week for Savoy Night at the historic Hotel San Carlos in downtown Phoenix! Every Monday night event takes place in a Vintage Lounge that dates back to the 1920's and saw the likes of Marilyn Monroe and Cary Grant, but boasts modern drinks, fresh menu selections and a hip feel. The Ghost Lounge is an incredible dining and dancing space inside the hotel. With touches like vintage glass chandeliers, hand cut marble... | Savoy Hop Cats | 02/06/12- 02/27/12 | Phoenix |
Dance AnnualPresented by ASU Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at ASU Galvin Playhouse March 2-March 4, 2012 The Dance Annual highlights the 2011-12 season by presenting some of the most captivating work created throughout the year. This collection features the work of faculty, visiting artists, alumni, and graduate and undergraduate students in a variety of media. The Dance Annual illustrates the diverse creative practices evolving at ASU School of Dance.
| ASU Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts | 03/02/12- 03/04/12 | Tempe |
Bill T. Jones- Arnie Zane Dance CompanyPresented by Arizona Dance Coalition (ADC) at ASU Galvin Playhouse March 6, 2012 Two-time Tony Award winner and contemporary performance icon Bill T. Jones returns for year two of his Gammage Residency. Jones will present Body Against Body, which revives and reconsiders the duets and solos that launched Jones and Zane on the international dance scene of the early 80s and redefined the dance landscape of the day. These pieces remain some of the most significant examples of postmodern performance. Both physically and conceptually rigorous, they challenge performer and viewer... | Arizona Dance Coalition (ADC) | 03/06/12 | Tempe |
Spring Dance Concert '12Presented by Herberger Theater Center at Herberger Theater Center March 8, 2012 The Dance Department at Metropolitan Arts Institute will be performing their annual show, "Spring Dance Concert '12."
This concert consists of a vast array of choreography by faculty, students and guest artists to create a fun, uplifting and artistic performance filled with technical dance and theater.
| Herberger Theater Center | 03/08/12 | Phoenix |
Decades Of Cool - The Music Of Michael Buble and Frank SinatraPresented by SKYE at SKYE March 10, 2012 Buble and Sinatra...Decades of cool!
Join Skye in The Platinum Room as we take you back to simpler days featuring the sounds of two artists with very diverse backgrounds. Sinatra was from the tough streets of Hoboken, New Jersey, a long way from the Canadian neighborhood that gave us Michael Buble. There are many who have referred to Buble as the "heir apparent" to Frank Sinatra.
Sinatra will always be the Chairman Of The Board but with over 25 million... | SKYE | 03/10/12 | Peoria |
Taylor's Irish CabaretPresented by Mesa Arts Center at Mesa Arts Center Theaters March 16, 2012 Taylor's Traditional Irish Cabaret is a celebration of Irish music, laughter, song and dance. Ireland's greatest comedian, Noel V. Ginnity instantly sends audiences into fits of laughter with his brand of humor. Combined with traditional Irish ballads and dance, this will be a rollicking afternoon of good fun from the Emerald Isle.
| Mesa Arts Center | 03/16/12 | Mesa |
| Exotic Spring Ball | Alwun House Gallery and Garden Stage | 03/16/12 | Phoenix |
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater - Spring Break 2012 Dance ExperiencePresented by Arizona Dance Coalition (ADC) at Mesa Arts Center Theaters March 12-March 16, 2012 The ultimate experience for dance students ages 12 - 18. This spring break dance experience gives dancers the opportunity to take a week of master classes in a variety of techniques and learn from instructors at the top of their field in techniques like, modern, jazz/hip hop and West African. Your registration also provides you with two Alvin Ailey performance tickets to round out this exciting week at the Ikeda Theatre of the Mesa Arts Center.
| Arizona Dance Coalition (ADC) | 03/12/12- 03/16/12 | Mesa |
Batsheva Dance CompanyPresented by Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts at Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts March 22, 2012 Founded in 1964 by Martha Graham and Baroness Batsheva De Rothschild, Israel's Batsheva Dance Company has been embraced as one of the world's most exciting contemporary dance troupes. Now under the direction of visionary choreographer Ohad Naharin, the company has won praise for its fearless and moving performances that utilize Naharin's innovative movement vocabulary.
| Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts | 03/22/12 | Scottsdale |
Alvin Ailey American Dance TheaterPresented by Mesa Arts Center at Mesa Arts Center Theaters March 24-March 25, 2012 Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has performed for an estimated 23 million people in 48 states and in 71 countries on six continents, including two historic residencies in South Africa. Join the celebration as Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, America's cultural ambassador to the world, continues bringing African-American cultural expression and the American modern dance tradition to the world's stages.
| Mesa Arts Center | 03/24/12- 03/25/12 | Mesa |
Dance AZ/100Presented by Herberger Theater Center at Herberger Theater Center March 22-March 25, 2012 Celebrating Arizona's Centennial with new dances inspired by myth and folk tale.
In response to all the wonderful comments about Snow Queen, Center Dance Ensemble and Lunch Time Theater happily offer audiences excerpts from Dance AZ/100 with two pieces:
Western Footprints featuring Aaron Copland's music "Billy the Kid"
La Llorona from the Mexican folk tale of the weeping... | Herberger Theater Center | 03/22/12- 03/25/12 | Phoenix |
| SMCC Dance Concert | South Mountain Community College | 03/29/12- 03/30/12 | Phoenix |
Mujeres CuatroPresented by Yumi La Rosa Flamenco Co. at Tempe Center for the Arts March 31, 2012 Internationally acclaimed Flamenco and Belly Dance artists Yumi La Rosa and Ava Fleming present a journey of cultural music and dance with their forth annual Mujeres Production. Accompanied by special guests from across the nation. | Yumi La Rosa Flamenco Co. | 03/31/12 | Tempe |
Wild Wild West Steampunk Saloon and CabaretPresented by Alwun House Gallery and Garden Stage at Alwun House Gallery and Garden Stage April 6, 2012 Time-warping Intertemporalist fantasies, dancing saloon girls, exotic Middle Eastern tribal dancers, interlaced with steampunk dance music. Complimentary hors d'oeuvres, Wild West Cash Bar with "Rattlesnake Whiskey" drink specials. Also, a Venders Bazaar with crafts and costume accoutrement.
| Alwun House Gallery and Garden Stage | 04/06/12 | Phoenix |
Chunky Move: ConnectedPresented by Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts at Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts April 6-April 7, 2012 Australia's Chunky Move has earned an enviable reputation for its distinct yet unpredictable brand of genre-defying dance. Highly imaginative and seductive, the company's newest work, Connected, explores the movements of dancers tethered to undulating kinetic sculptures constructed from wood, re-cycled plastic, paper and steel that float above the stage.
| Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts | 04/06/12- 04/07/12 | Scottsdale |
Marrugeku: BuruPresented by Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts at Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts April 14, 2012 The Australian dance-theater company Marrugeku explores the past, present and future of indigenous cultures. A new production inspired by the seasons of the Western Australia's Yawuru people, Buru blends hip-hop, stilt dancing and storytelling with original songs and music reflecting life for young people in the community of Broome.
| Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts | 04/14/12 | Scottsdale |
| inextricably linked | CONDER/dance | 04/14/12 | Tempe |
| American Voices | Center Dance Ensemble | 04/15/12 | Phoenix |
DanceBrazilPresented by Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts at Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts April 26-April 27, 2012 Under the direction of Jelon Vieira, New York-based DanceBrazil has thrilled audiences around the globe with its dazzling artistry and unique fusion of Afro-Brazilian movement, dance and Capoeira, the daring martial-arts dance that evolved in colonial Brazil as a means of fighting enslavement.
| Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts | 04/26/12- 04/27/12 | Scottsdale |
The Kick-A Dance ShowcasePresented by Scorpius Dance Theatre at Phoenix Theatre May 3-May 5, 2012 Scorpius Dance Theatre's Director/Choreographer, Lisa Starry, is producing the first annual KICK-A Dance Showcase to promote choreographers from Arizona and other parts of the USA! Not your average repertory production, KICK-A will knock you out of your seat with genius dance compositions and stellar stage performances.
Note: Tickets starting from $25 will go on sale March 2012. | Scorpius Dance Theatre | 05/03/12- 05/05/12 | Phoenix |
Soiree de BalletPresented by Herberger Theater Center at Herberger Theater Center May 4-May 5, 2012 Soiree de Ballet features all levels of Scottsdale School of Ballet in "The Ballet Class."
Students from beginning to Pre-Professional Levels demonstrate the work and dedication it takes to become a ballet dancer This is followed by an original one-act ballet by directors Sibylle Acatos-Dadey and Donald Dadey with additional choreography by SSB faculty to highlight younger level students. To finish, they present one act of a truly classical ballet to showcase the Advanced... | Herberger Theater Center | 05/04/12- 05/05/12 | Phoenix |
| Inspiration | Movement Source Dance Company | 05/10/12- 05/11/12 | Scottsdale |
7 Fingers: PSYPresented by Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts at Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts May 18-May 19, 2012 Following the success of its awe-inspiring hit performance Traces, this cutting-edge circus from Montreal delves into the surreal underworld of the human psyche in its latest production, PSY. Using the life-affirming language of the circus arts, 7 Fingers' extraordinary acrobats and dancers take a humorous odyssey through a shifting landscape of distorted visions, fading dreams and fractured memories.
| Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts | 05/18/12- 05/19/12 | Scottsdale |
All BalanchinePresented by Ballet Arizona at Symphony Hall May 31-June 3, 2012 Three ballets by the genius choreographer, George Balanchine, set the bar for brilliant staging by director Ib Andersen, and dynamic presentation by the Ballet Arizona dancers.
| Ballet Arizona | 05/31/12- 06/03/12 | Phoenix |
Devonshire DancesPresented by Phoenix Parks and Recreation Department at Devonshire Senior Center July 8, 2009 - Ongoing Get into the swing every Wednesday at Devonshire Senior Center. Fun for singles and couples of the senior population. Listen and dance to the tunes of the '30s, '40s and '50s provided by various local musicians. Light refreshments are served.
| Phoenix Parks and Recreation Department | 07/08/09- Ongoing | Phoenix |
Swing Every Tuesday Night Avg. Event Rating(5.0 Stars): Presented by Arizona Lindy Hop Society at Fat Cat Ballroom June 17, 2008 - Ongoing Avg. Event Rating (5.0 Stars):  Join the Arizona Lindy Hop Society every Tuesday night for lessons at 7:30pm, and a DJ or live swing band at 8:30pm.
| Arizona Lindy Hop Society | 06/17/08- Ongoing | Phoenix |
Phoenix DMZPresented by Phoenix DMZ at Carly's Bistro January 27, 2011 - Ongoing Phoenix DMZ provides dance entertainment including downtempo, dubstep, and old school hip-hip.
| Phoenix DMZ | 01/27/11- Ongoing | Phoenix |