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Arts Connection for November 3-4, 2006 Previews of events this week - Voci Dance at City Arts Factory, productions at Orlando Theatre Project and Seaside Music Theatre, the 2nd Orlando Puppet Festival and the DeLand Original Music Festival.
Voci Modern Dance will be the first arts group to perform in the new theatre space at CityArts Factory in downtown Orlando. Out of the Box is a collaborative event featuring dance, visual art and performance poetry. Special guest is Seattle poet Christa Bell, the 3rd ranked performance poet in the country. Performances are Friday & Saturday, 11/3-4 at 7:30 and Sunday, 11/5 at 1:30; the audience is invited to enjoy cocktails and a live painting demonstration a half-hour before the performance. For information, call 407-616-8775. Click here to read the Orlando Sentinel article on the resurgence of contemporary dance in Orlando.
Seaside Music Theatre has begun their Winter Season which includes 3 productions. The first, George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man, closes this Sunday. Then opening Thursday, November 9 is a brand new musical show, Million Dollar Quartet, re-creating the recording session on December 4, 1956, with Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins. There will be a Lunch and Learn event with the creators of the new musical on Friday, Nov. 17. For information, call 386-252-6200 or 1-800-854-5592. SMT performs at the News Journel Center in Daytona Beach. The 2nd Orlando Puppet Festival opened Wednesday, with 5 days and 19 shows and films at Mad Cow Theatre and the Orlando Public Library. It features a series of live puppet shows for adults as well as a Family Series. There’s also workshops, demonstrations, Puppet Potpourri, an open-mic event with impromptu performances by the guest artists and audience members, and closing the festival Sunday night with Puppets from the Edge avant garde pieces in the style of a slam. For information, call 407-297-8788
The DeLand Original Music Festival is the largest one-day festival in the Southeast. It's Saturday, Nov. 4 from 1pm to 2am, with 18 stages throughout downtown DeLand. To learn about original music and independent artists, we hear a piece first aired in 2002 by singer/songwriter, and radio producer, Logan Belle.
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