CHOREGUS DANCE &
MUSIC ANNOUNCES
2017-2018 SEASON

Blogger's note: Choregus is an independent company that brings performers into Tulsa and has won the Governor's Arts Award. Choregus 2017-2018 Regular Season begins soon. Make sure you've got your tickets! And $ave with Memberships, including special Single and Couple Half-Year Memberships. Tickets Click here to download a Choregus Order Form. You may purchase tickets by calling the Choregus Box Office: 918-688-6112, or at myticketoffice.com. A tax-deductible Year (or Half-Year) Membership qualifies for 33% off your ticket prices! To download more information about our Membership program benefits, click here.

Click titles for information and videos. TU Dance October 13 & 14, 8:00 p.m. Williams Theatre Founded in 2004 by former Alvin Ailey principal dancers Toni Pierce-Sands and Uri Sands in Saint Paul, Minnesota, TU Dance is one of the leading voices for contemporary dance. The company aims to reveal the connective power of dance, celebrating a beautiful diversity on stage in work that often navigates complex themes of social change. The 10-member, professional company is acclaimed for its versatile artists, performing work that draws together modern dance, classical ballet, African-based and urban vernacular movements. Uri Sands was recipient of the inaugural 2005 Princess Grace Award in choreography. Aspen Santa Fe Ballet January 26 & 27, 8:00 p.m. Williams Theatre Since its founding in 1996, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet has carved a reputation as a dance-lover’s dance company. ASFB’s bold vision – top global choreographers, distinctive groundbreaking repertoire, and virtuoso dancers – has fostered a jewel of a dance company with an European sensibility glossed with American ebullience. The company has come to epitomize the contemporary-classical genre introducing new choreographic talent to national stages; fostering a new breed of exceptional dancer; and stimulating audiences with high-caliber performances Repeat engagements at the American Dance Festival, Harris Theater for Music and Dance, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Joyce Theater, The Kennedy Center, Saratoga Performing Arts Center, and Wolf Trap testify to the company’s popularity and ability to please audiences. Pasadena Roof Orchestra February 23, 8:00 p.m. Venue to be announced Swing is in. Top-name DJs are stocking up on old vinyl copies of the great big bands. Trendsetting clubs are vying to outdo each other with their swing and electro-swing nights. The Pasadena Roof Orchestra is the band responsible for starting the revival. The dance orchestra, with its authentic 1920’s 1930’s feeling, technically brilliant delivery, rousing atmosphere, and utterly unique light-hearted musical style, makes it the ideal band to dance the night away. Add dinner and drinks and you have a Choregus Productions party. Table seating. Food and drink available for purchase. Alicia Hall Moran: Black Wall Street May 24, 7:00 p.m. Williams Theatre Known for her passion and flair, mezzo-soprano Alicia Hall Moran has been heralded for both her beautiful voice and her bold programmatic choices. combining an intellectual inquisitiveness to her exquisite music-making. Black Wall Street premiered in New York City’s historic Federal Hall, after development the at the cutting-edge arts center, National Sawdust, and in concert at the Schomburg Center for Research In Black Culture/New York Public Library. With collaborator and husband, iconic pianist Jason Moran (Artistic Director of Jazz for the John F. Kennedy Center), and Historian and Collector Gene Alexander Peters (Co- Director, Slave Relic Museum, Waterboro, SC), Moran’s chamber work reconsiders the tragedy of the Tulsa Race Riot with in depth history, a new gaze and a new soundtrack.

Choregus is an IRS 501(c)3 not-for-profit corporation. Donations are tax deductible to the fullest extent provided by the law. Our mission is to present outstanding performing arts that would otherwise not appear on Tulsa stages and to engage the community with the visiting artists.