ANTHOLOGY:
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photo by Armando Kiyama
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First Showing
Saturday November 16, 2024 2:00 pm (Matinee) Doors open 1:00 PM |
Second Showing
Saturday November 16, 2024 7:00 pm (Evening) Doors open 6:00 PM |
Anthology: Storytelling & Poetry in Motion
Hydrangea Sky Movement Arts Returns to OTCA
Hydrangea Sky Movement Arts is a multi-disciplinary movement company exploring the space from floor to air through dance, acrobatics, martial arts, flow arts, and aerial arts based out of Northern Arizona. Anthology follows the success of Ephemera (2022), Unfurl (2023), and CIRQUE (2023) – three original shows each premiered to sold-out audiences at Hydrangea Sky’s home venue, Old Town Center for the Arts.
Hydrangea Sky is a professional performance company dazzling audiences with high flying feats, mesmerizing movement arts, and a storytelling soul.
“Anthology” is a collection of stories shared through motion, music, and visual art, exploring a range from the poignant beauty in the mundane - life’s collection of simple sequential moments - to the ethereal magic of the otherworldly and extraordinary. A man grapples repeatedly with the Sisyphean task to wake up from a deep sleep. A forest spirit evokes ancestral knowledge, remembering the self and one's own deep magic and mystery, awakening in connection to all things. A dancer stricken with grief and loss navigates through a series of obstacles that ultimately give rise to joy, serenity, and acceptance. A flustered librarian pursues a cheeky mouse who has wrought chaos in her sacred reading space. Audiences will enjoy these stories and many more, guided through narration by ancient spirit and Story Collector, Clayre, who inhabits and stewards the Great Library - accessible to all beings of consciousness that may learn from one another in this vast, never-ending collection of stories... "Anthology" offers a glimpse of what it means to be human.
The event will include an intermission, concession stand with snacks, and signed cast posters available for purchase. Anthology features Storyteller and Narrator Clay Massey, live original music by William Eaton, Logan Turner, and Marie Turner, and artist exhibition of original paintings by local award-winning professional artist Ed Buonvecchio.
Hydrangea Sky is a professional performance company dazzling audiences with high flying feats, mesmerizing movement arts, and a storytelling soul.
“Anthology” is a collection of stories shared through motion, music, and visual art, exploring a range from the poignant beauty in the mundane - life’s collection of simple sequential moments - to the ethereal magic of the otherworldly and extraordinary. A man grapples repeatedly with the Sisyphean task to wake up from a deep sleep. A forest spirit evokes ancestral knowledge, remembering the self and one's own deep magic and mystery, awakening in connection to all things. A dancer stricken with grief and loss navigates through a series of obstacles that ultimately give rise to joy, serenity, and acceptance. A flustered librarian pursues a cheeky mouse who has wrought chaos in her sacred reading space. Audiences will enjoy these stories and many more, guided through narration by ancient spirit and Story Collector, Clayre, who inhabits and stewards the Great Library - accessible to all beings of consciousness that may learn from one another in this vast, never-ending collection of stories... "Anthology" offers a glimpse of what it means to be human.
The event will include an intermission, concession stand with snacks, and signed cast posters available for purchase. Anthology features Storyteller and Narrator Clay Massey, live original music by William Eaton, Logan Turner, and Marie Turner, and artist exhibition of original paintings by local award-winning professional artist Ed Buonvecchio.
DISCLAIMER; Parental Advisory: "Anthology" includes some strong language and explores some mature themes such as addiction, pain, suffering, and death as part of the human experience. Recommended age is 13+ for viewing. This show was not designed for children, parental discretion is advised.
Clay Massey as "Clayre", Anthology, photo by Armando Kiyama
Emerald Forest, Marie Turner, photo by Armando Kiyama
Ali Brae Boyd, photo by Armando Kiyama
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Emerald Forest, Marie Turner, photo by Armando Kiyama
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