Above and Beyond Dance presents SEEKING, a dramatic, theatrical evening blending dance with circus arts techniques. This performance is action-packed and equally appropriate for adults, children, and families.

PERFORMANCES:

Above and Beyond Dance premiers its new trio for two dancers in aerial harnesses and a dancer on the ground.

Created by Chriselle Tidrick in collaboration
with Emily Smyth Vartanian and Andrea Skurr

Apparitions
This abridged and appropriately ghostly version of our trio will be part of Demons are a Ghoul's Best Friend, a Halloween Benefit for the Streb KIC program (Kids in Control).

Saturday, October 25, 2008 at 8pm
Sunday, October 26, 2008 at 7pm
at Streb Lab for Action Mechanics
51 N 1st Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
(L train to Bedford Ave.)

Tickets: $20 Adults, $15 Children
available at www.streb.org

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and also

Soaring
The full length and less ghostly version of our trio will be performed to Waves, music by Andy Monroe from his album Joyful Noise Disc 2

Sunday, November 2, 2008 at 7pm

at Above the Belt - a monthly aerial showcase

at The Zipper Theater, located at 336 West 37th St.,
between 8th and 9th Avenues in Manhattan

Tickets: $20 Adults, $10 Children
To order tickets call (212) 352-3101 or visit
The Zipper Factory website: www.thezipperfactory.com

For more information about this performance, visit: www.abovethebeltentertainment.com

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Emily Smyth Vartanian in her harness piece Hover
photo: © Julie Lemberger 2008

Entangled
an aerial duet created by Chriselle Tidrick and Emily Smyth Vartanian

as part of Above the Belt - a monthly aerial showcase

Sunday, September 14, 2008 at 7pm

at The Zipper Theater, located at 336 West 37th St.,
between 8th and 9th Avenues in Manhattan

Tickets: $20 Adults, $10 Children
To order tickets call (212) 352-3101 or visit
The Zipper Factory website: www.thezipperfactory.com

For more information about this performance, visit: www.abovethebeltentertainment.com

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And Yet So Far Away
a duet created by Chriselle Tidrick and Luis Gabriel Zaragoza for Seeking:

as part of Pi Dance Theatre's 2008 season
Coincidental Decade

Friday, April 4, 2008 at 8pm
Saturday, April 5, 2008 at 8pm

at University Settlement, Speyer Hall. University Settlement is located at 184 Eldridge Street (at Rivington St.) on the Lower East Side. (F train to 2nd Ave., 1st Ave. exit).

Tickets: $15

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at Tea Dances, an informal performance event hosted monthly by Emily Faulkner and Jody Sperling.

Saturday, April 12, 2008 at 3pm

at 525 @. 22nd St., #5A, between 10th and 11th Avenues. There is a $10 suggested donation which includes tea and cookies following the performance

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Seeking

Friday, February 29, 2008 at 8pm
Saturday, March 1, 2008 at 3pm and 8pm
Sunday, March 2, 2008 at 3pm
at Kumble Theater, Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus
One University Plaza, in the Humanities Building,
between Dekalb and Willoughby
(Across from Junior's; entrance near the large metal sculpture)
Q,B,R,M trains to DeKalb Ave.

Tickets: Adults $20, Children $10. Group rates also available.

To order tickets or for detailed directions visit: www.brooklyn.liu.edu/kumbletheater/february2008.htm
or call (718) 488-1624.

Above and Beyond Dance is proud to introduce Seeking, an evening of choreography designed to push the boundaries of dance by blending modern and ballroom dance techniques with circus arts. Seeking brings together a diverse group of ten New York City based professional performing artists in a creative collaboration led by Artistic Director Chriselle Tidrick and advised by Toni Taylor. The artists are unified by a theme—the human struggle to meet and form relationships contrasted by the inevitability of finding ourselves essentially isolated. A tango milonga scene opens the evening and reappears throughout, threading the various elements together, with dancers meeting and parting, entering and exiting.

Seeking is action-packed and appropriate for all ages, featuring dance, acrobatics, stilt and aerial work.

Please contact Above and Beyond Dance if you are interested in bringing Seeking to your theater. DVDs are available upon request.