NUGENT DANCE PRESENTS
THEN AGAIN
An evening of new and in progress choreography by Esther Baker-Tarpaga / Olivier Tarpaga, Carmela Hermann, Stephanie Nugent, Emily Proctor, and Kristen Smiarowski

Los Angeles and Santa Barbara choreographers Esther Baker-Tarpaga / Olivier Tarpaga, Carmela Hermann, Stephanie Nugent, Emily Proctor, & Kristen Smiarowski join forces in THEN AGAIN, an evening of new dances and works-in-process on July 3, 2005 at 8 :00 P.M. at Center Stage Theater. This event is the second in a tradition of process-oriented dance events at Center Stage Theater. Stephanie Nugent initiated THEN AGAIN in November 2004 as a venue for independent professional choreographers from throughout southern California to interface with the Santa Barbara public in the sharing of new ideas in dance. THEN AGAIN is a sister series to LA's THEN presented annually by Carmela Hermann and Cid Perlman at the Electric Lodge.

This truly contemporary program features six choreographers and four dance works, at various stages of completion. The works shown in early stages of development will provide a window into the raw, uninhibited creative process of the choreographer, while newly completed works will offer audiences an opportunity to engage in dialogue with the artists while the creative process is still fresh in the choreographer's memory. The six choreographers bring eclectic influences to their work: Hermann an improviser and former collaborator with Judson Church founder Simone Forti; Proctor, a recent transplant from NYC, who has worked with artists including Jeremy Nelson and Meredith Monk; Baker ­Targaga a choreographer, dancer, and filmmaker whose creative work has been presented at venues throughout Senegal and Southern California; Tarpaga, a choreographer who has presented his tradition-bending choreography in New York City and throughout Africa; Los Angeles-based choreographer Kristen Smiarowski a choreographer of theater-based and site-specific dances and an instructor in the Department of Theatre Arts & Dance at Loyola Marymount University; and Nugent, a professor of dance at UCSB, who currently performs with LA-based Keith Johnson and Dancers, Victoria Marks and Dancers, and her own company Nugent Dance

About the works:

Kuilenga/The Door is an ongoing collaboration with Olivier Tarpaga and Esther Baker-Tarpaga. Punctuated by the rhythms of live Djembe drumming and melodic Kora music, the dancers trace their paths of power and migration in a time where the door is not always open to the "third world body."

Untitled Interior created and performed by Stephanie Nugent with original music by NYC composer Eve Beglarian, is an expressionistic journey through Nugent's ongoing investigations of dance as prayer. Initially inspired by various practices of veiling and cloistering as a path to God, Nugent seeks to recognize the potential power of these practices when made as an individual choice. Untitled Interior, still in its infancy, is also being developed in collaboration with religious studies scholar Aysha Hidayatullah, visual artist Catherine Siri Nugent, and lighting designer Vickie J. Scott.

Open is a solo work-in-progress, created and performed by Emily Proctor. Based on and reconstructed from an improvisational session, this work is about opening a channel from within and releasing positive energy. Open captures the choice of embracing the moment and recognizing the beauty in all things.

Kristen Smiarowski and Carmela Hermann collaborate on It's Good, a solo for Smiarowski with original text.  The piece examines the limitations of time through cyclical attempts to control, resist, and stave off the inevitability of ending. 

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Take Highway 101 to Carrillo Street, exit and turn toward the mountains (northbound turns right, southbound turns left). Proceed to Chapala Street (fourth light) and turn right. Proceed 1-1/2 blocks and turn left into either of two entrances to Paseo Nuevo. Park near the elevator, or proceed to roof-level parking.