NPN Coming to Dallas National Performance Network to present dance, theater and spoken word from North and Central America.bypublished Friday, November 26, 2010The is having its 25th anniversary meeting in Dallas in December, and as a result, we'll get a chance to see some work that would otherwise not tour to this area. The NPN meeting, Dec. 9-13, is designed for networking, strategic planning and professional development for the touring artist.The highlight of the meeting will include two showcases in which NPN will invite art patrons throughout North Texas to attend. The showcases will feature five performers that have received NPN funding to create their production. There will be a public presentation of theater, dance and spoken word Dec. 10-11 at the Majestic Theater.

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There'll also be a special presentation on Dec. 9 at the Latino Cultural Center.In addition to the performances, the Visual Artists Network (VAN), a program of NPN, will present five site-specific installations at the Fairmont hotel in the Dallas Arts District.Here's a breakdown of the performances, with descriptions from the NPN:8:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec.

9 at the Latino Cultural Center ($15):. Antonio Salinas of Mexico City presents Toneladas de Luz one night only as a guest artist of NPN’s Performing Americas Program. Antonio Salinas is one of the most prestigious young soloists of Mexico, conceiving of drama and movement inseparably. His beautifully crafted solo is a furious portrait of heartbreak and self examination, utilizing voice and movement, as he sings along with an MP3 and recounts the curious story of a labrador that disappears in an internet cafe. With music from the English group Placebo to the very Mexican Chavela Vargas, and passing through Wagner, he makes us feel the confusion and the torrent of conflicting emotions that anyone is bound to experience in the breakup of a relationship.

Since its opening in Venezuela during the XII International Festival of Western Theater in 2005, this piece has continued to be presented in the most prominent stages of Mexico and Latin America. The work is performed in Spanish with English supertitles. 10 at the Majestic Theatre ($12.50):. Brian Freeman and the Pomo Afro Homos of San Francisco, Calif., present A Fierce Love: Stories from Black Gay Life.

The Pomo Afro Homos (Post Modern African-American Homosexuals) was originally the trio of Brian Freeman, Djola Branner, and Eric Gupton with additional company members Marvin K. White and Joan Jett Blakk. The performance group began in 1990 out of growing frustration at the lack of black gay voices and a deep need to express that richness of experience. The group has been dedicated to making their voices heard ever since. The result of their coming together was the highly successful show Fierce Love: Stories from Black Gay Life, an exploration of the racial and sexual identities of black gay men. Fierce Love is a jazzy mix of wicked humor and personal narratives exploring the joys, conflicts, pleasures, pains and contradictions of African American gay life in the U.S. The published scripts are regularly taught as part of African-American, LGBT and contemporary American theater history classes in colleges across the country.

Elia Arce of Costa Rica presents Little sister, little brother may I present to you the first woman on the moon. Elia Arce is an internationally known artist working in performance, theater, film/video, writing and installation. She is the recipient of the J.

Paul Getty Individual Artist Award, grants from The Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and was a 1999 nominee for the Herb Alpert/CalArts Award in Theater. Since 1986, Arce has been creating, directing and performing solo theatre works, as well as creative collaborations with HIV positive immigrants in Houston, house-keeping staff in Banff, Canada and the homeless of Los Angeles’ skid row as a founding member of the Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD). Little sister, little brother has been selected by MACLA because they are personal performance pieces that become universal experiences when they meet an audience. Arce’s pieces are important markers in the evolution of culturally and politically identified performance art through the last 25 years. Pat Graney Company of Seattle, Wash., presents Tattoo.

Pat Graney has been creating movement based work—including ballet, martial arts, and gymnastics—since 1979. An icon in the experimental performance community, Graney has received Choreography Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts for 11 consecutive years, as well as from Artist Trust, the Washington State Arts Commission, the NEA International Program, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

The Pat Graney Company, incorporated in 1990, has toured to most major American cities as well as internationally to Japan, England, Scotland, Germany, Singapore, Chile and Brazil.7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 11 at the Majestic Theatre ($12.50):. Jane Comfort and Company of New York City presents F aith Healing.

Jane Comfort and Company creates dance theater works that push the intersection of movement and language to a new form of theater. Called by the New York Times 'a postmodernist pioneer in the use of verbal material in dance,' artistic director Comfort addresses contemporary social and cultural issues with compassion and wit. The company is an extraordinary group of dancers, actors and singers whose multiple talents allow Jane Comfort to create deeply layered works utilizing a wide range of theatrical elements, from pure dance to chanted texts, a capella singing, film, lip-syncing, cross dressing, acted scenes and puppetry.

The company creates theater in which transformation occurs through many voices. Faith Healing is an original dance/theater piece that takes the storyline of Tennessee Williams's play The Glass Menagerie as its point of departure. Marc Bamuthi Joseph of Oakland, Calif. Presents Word Becomes Flesh.

Marc Bamuthi Joseph is one of America's leading voices in performance, arts education, and artistic curation. In the fall of 2007, Bamuthi graced the cover of Smithsonian Magazine after being named one of America's Top Young Innovators in the Arts and Sciences. He is the artistic director of the seven-part HBO documentary 'Russell Simmons presents Brave New Voices' and an inaugural recipient of the United States Artists Rockefeller Fellowship, which annually recognizes 50 of the country's 'greatest living artists.' He has entered the world of literary performance after crossing the sands of 'traditional' theater, most notably on Broadway in the Tony Award-winning The Tap Dance Kid and Stand-Up Tragedy. His evening-length works have been presented throughout the United States and Europe. Please complete some of the basic information below to sign up for our weekly newsletter.

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