2009-2010
Saturday Morning Children's Series
(formerly Kaleidoscope Family Series)
Saturdays at 11:00 am

Great fun-filled family performances! NEW theater location!

We are pleased to announce our new performance home at Montgomery College!

This year, join us at the brand new Takoma Park/Silver Spring Performing Arts Center at Montgomery College, with a parking garage on site, comfortable seating and great acoustics.

All performances (except The Snow Queen) will be at the NEW
Takoma Park / Silver Spring Performing Arts Center
Montgomery College
7995 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20910

The Snow Queen will be presented at the Robert E. Parilla Performing Arts Center,
Montgomery College,
51 Mannakee St., Rockville, MD 20850

Tickets/Information:240-567-5775 (240-567-5301 for Rockville performance only)
M-F, 10 AM - 6 PM
VISA, MC/DISC/AMEX

Performance Information

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November 7
Native Pride Dancers
American Indian Dance, Drum and Song

Rainbow-colored headdresses...pulsating drumming...fancy footwork...experience the excitement of a Native American powwow! World Champion Fancy Dancer Larry Yazzie of the Meskwaki Nation, and the Native Pride Dancers perform music and movement passed down by their ancestors for centuries. Enjoy the beauty, skill, and majesty of the flamboyant Fancy Dance, featuring free-style movement with lots of energy, spectacular costumes, and sacred songs from the Northern Plains. Enhanced by indigenous vocal and flute music, other dances like the Buffalo, Eagle, and Round Dance celebrate various animals, crops, the sun, and the wind.

January 23
at Robert E. Parilla Performing Arts Ctr, Montgomery College/Rockville
51 Mannakee St., Rockville, MD 20850
Tickets: 240-567-5301

In-Flight Theater
The Snow Queen

Set atop floating ice castles, amidst magical masked and flying forest creatures, this spectacular athletic performance is "theatre-in-the-air"-a sixty minute, multi-dimensional experience for all! The cast, both hearing and deaf, retells this famous Hans Christian Andersen tale about love, friendship, and courage through eloquent speech and signing...moving both on the ground and in the air. With characters and a set that goes beyond "normal limits," you'll be wowed by acts using the trapeze and invented aerial floating sculptures immersing you in a rich, fantastical fairy tale world. Exploring real and imagined risk, The Snow Queen inspires us to move beyond perceptions of physical "limitations" in a truly delightful way. The performance is supported by a grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency dedicated to cultivating a vibrant cultural community where the arts thrive.

NEW DATE - February 20

Lesole's Dance Project
Zulu, Gumboot and Street Dances from South Africa

Dance your way to the tip of the African continent! Experience three exciting cultures...Traditional Ndlamu dance from Zulu villages that give a snapshot of the clothing, customs, live drumming and high energy of South Africa...the moves and percussive sounds of Gumboot, a kind of "instant messaging" dance slapped out on gold miners' rubber boots...and Pantsula, an upbeat urban dance like American hip-hop but with a cultural twist, that audience volunteers are invited to learn! Lesole's Dance Project is a traditional and modern dance company founded in 2003 by native South African Lesole Maine.

March 6
Urban Artistry
Fast Feet, Spin and Glide: Into the World of Urban Dance

B-Boying/B-Girling, Hip-Hop, Popping, House Dance, Locking...this is the world of Urban Dance-speak. All ages will be amazed by Urban Artistry's high energy moves - spinning and flipping - that are interpreted in a seriously cool way that showcases their historical and international influences. African and Latin cultures, American social dances and even martial arts are among the many inspirations behind these dances that have taken off across the globe. This international collective of choreographers, freestyle dancers, musicians and historians are also professional economists, anthropologists, writers and IT experts - who enthusiastically share their passion for Urban Dance.

April 17
DinoRock Junkyard Pirates
A 40th Anniversary of Earth Day Celebration!

DinoRock's Junkyard Pirates is presented by puppets created from recyclables, who discover that one person's trash is another person's treasure. They meet a recycler named Nettie who inspires them to fight the dreaded Landfill. Nettie explains that a pirate's favorite letter R stands for Reduce, Reuse, Repair and Recycle. Nettie's goal is to shrink Landfill and she enlists the help of the Junkyard Pirates to do just that. With songs like "Reduce The Use," "More Trees, Please" and "You Don't Have To Throw It Away," Nettie and the Junkyard Pirates bring fun and mischief to the task of recycling. Rrrrrr!