The Michele Brangwen Dance Ensemble Premieres Dancing The Blue Hour

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Michele Brangwen Dance Ensemble
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THE MICHELE BRANGWEN DANCE ENSEMBLE
PREMIERES DANCING THE BLUE HOUR
This summer you don’t have to wander into a field at dawn to experience the blue hour.

Friday July 19 at 8 p.m.
Saturday July 20 at 8 p.m.
MATCH, Matchbox 2 3400 Main Street

713 521-4533

Tickets: $20 General Admission & $15 Students & Seniors
$5 Art For All Tickets (25 available per performance)*

$35 Patron tickets*

https://matchouston.org/events/2019/dancing-blue-hour

Dancing The Blue Hour is a new dance and music performance work from the Michele Brangwen Dance Ensemble that explores what happens when people come together to experience the blue hour. Journey with us to a field in the French countryside, where crickets and night birds transport us from our frenetic daytime world to the softness of a summer night and communicate that a special time is approaching when the magic will be ours.

Dancing The Blue Hour features choreography & costumes by Michele Brangwen; music by nationally-known composer & bassist Thomas Helton and by Grammy-nominated composer & trumpeter Tim Hagans; and text by all performers. This is our most unique and experimental work yet, with the audience having the opportunity to engage and connect to the performance in new ways. Dancing The Blue Hour seeks to conjure the magic of a special shared experience with each performance.

The blue hour is the time just before sunrise at the end of the night, when the sky is a magnificent blue. Eric Rohmer’s short film L’Heure Bleue (from his Quatre Aventures De Reinette Et Mirabelle) focuses on the moment when the birds, crickets and creatures of the night cease to make noise as they sense the morning coming, and at the same time the creatures of the day are quiet as they have not yet sensed the sunrise. The intensity of feeling about this time by the characters in the film suggests that there is something special about experiencing the blue hour together.

Performers are Robin Gilbert Campos, Yuritzi Govea, Michele Brangwen, dancers; Danielle Reich Seale, voice; Tim Hagans, trumpet; Thomas Helton, bass; Joe Hertenstein, drums. Lighting Design by Kris Phelps. The program will also include original music from the Danielle Reich Seale Quartet.

The Michele Brangwen Dance Ensemble is a contemporary dance company  featuring all new choreography, live original music, and the integration of all our musicians into the visual imagery, so that dancers and musicians break the boundaries of traditional ensemble interaction. In 18 years, every performance has included live music and the musicians as integral parts of  the visual stage imagery. We believe that the artist’s role in society is to communicate, to challenge, to open a dialogue that can both unite us and inspire meaningful change. We function like a jazz band, and along with sections of choreographed movements and written music, we use improvisation that comes out of the form, concept, and emotional life of the work. The Michele Brangwen Dance Ensemble is based in Houston & New York City.

“Lovely dancers & intensely focused musicians.” – Mindy Aloff
Village Voice Choice, February 2017 (Written by Elizabeth Zimmer)

“A joy to watch” – Houston Press

*Sliding Scale Tickets:
We feel that art should be made available to everyone, regardless of their budget. So in addition to our $20 General Admission and $15 Student & Senior Admission prices, we have made available 25 tickets at the “Art For All” rate of $5 for each performance. Audience members can also purchase $35 patron tickets that include credit as donors in upcoming programs. We invite the audience to choose the level that is right for them.

Friday July 19 at 8 p.m.
Saturday July 20 at 8 p.m.
MATCH, Matchbox 2, 3400 Main Street
Tickets: $20 General Admission
$15 Students & Seniors

$5 Art For All Tickets (25 available per performance)*

$35 Patron tickets*

https://matchouston.org/events/2019/dancing-blue-hour