2023-2024 Art of Performance

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ART OF PERFORMANCE 2023/24 SEASON HISTORIC ASOLO THEATER SARASOTA, FLORIDA

THE RINGLING’S ART OF PERFORMANCE at the Historic Asolo Theater (the HAT) delivers broad access to provocative and timely performing arts that reflect a wide range of experiences, disciplines, and relevant cultural expressions. The series embodies The Ringling’s values of inclusion, inspiration, and excellence through performance programs that elevate community partnerships, social impact, and the plural exchange of ideas in tandem with visiting artists. The program supports Florida-based, national, and international performance makers in developmental residencies and creative research in our theater facilities.

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The Ringling respectfully acknowledges that we are located on the traditional Homelands and the ancestral territories of the Seminole Tribe of Florida and the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida, as well as the ancient tribes of the Calusa, Uzita, and Tocobaga. We also acknowledge the local freedomseeking community called Angola, and the people later known as Black Seminoles.

We honor the resiliency of Indigenous communities, and we extend our gratitude as we live and work on their Homelands. We pay our respect to the Elders, both past and present, who have stewarded these lands and waters through generations since time immemorial.

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THE HISTORIC ASOLO THEATER (THE HAT) • SARASOTA, FLORIDA

Dear Friends of the Art of Performance, In step with the adventurous history of performance at The Ringling, we are back in full swing with a lineup of borderless time-based arts and free-range storytelling.

Embark on excursions to Francophone lands, and join in heart-stopping Flamenco fests, fiery Florida get downs, clownish romps, techno trace dances, and smoldering jazz encounters! While you’re abroad in performance land, send word to loved ones with these artful postcards from the world within the hat!

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Israel Fernandez & Diego del Morao

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feb

Etienne Charles

22-24 Mazelfreten

mar BélO 8-9

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Un Poyo Rojo

18-21

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may ensembleNEW SRQ 9-11

oct 20

La Dame Blanche

dec

La Santa Cecilia

15-16

mar Rosie Herrera &

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21-24 Leah Verier-Dunn

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6-8

4-5

Rafael Ramírez

feb

La Famille GoldenCrust

nov

16-18

Les Francophonies

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Season Kickoff Party

OCT 20 7:30 PM

The Ringling Museum of Art Courtyard

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Neo-Latin vocal sensation La Dame Blanche’s expansive mix of hip-hop, female empowerment, and dancehall delivers a powerful sound that summons the spirits.

Singer, flautist, and percussionist Yaite Ramos Rodriguez triumphantly fuses her Cuban musical ancestry with fearless innovation.

See you there!!

Photo by Sven de Almeida Festineuch

Museum of Art Courtyard

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Israel Fernandez & Diego del Morao

Post Card Israel Fernandez + Diego Del Morao NOV 2, 7:30 PM

Experience cante jondo and Spanish classical and Flamenco guitar with two celebrated innovators. Israel rejuvenates the cante of yesteryear, and Diego sounds classical and modern at the same time. Positioned between the ancient and the contemporary worlds, their performance is a timely honoring of the natural evolution of Flamenco.

¡Olé con olé!

Photo by Carlos Reverte

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Rafael Ramírez

Lo Preciso

Post Card Rafael Ramírez Lo Preciso NOV 4, 7:30 PM NOV 5, 5:00 PM

Lo Preciso (Precision) is a rigorous contemporary Flamenco work by remarkable Spanish dancer and choreographer Rafael Ramírez. This intense solo dance work accompanied by live musicians is a dueling quest for artistic exactness and an ecstatic call and response delivery of the masculine prowess of the form.

Photo by Gabriel Asensio Castañeda

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Les Francophonies Congo Jazz Band

Post Card Les Francophonies Congo Jazz Band Nov 16, 11:00 AM Nov 17 & 18, 7:30 PM

A tragic century of the Congo is brought to life through razor-sharp text and interludes of Congolese music as a poetic reckoning.

Kouyate’s brilliant Leopold II, Patrice Lumumba, and other historical figures tumble through time, jam with the band, and deliver moments of grave seriousness and comedic irony to an upbeat sound.

Performed in French with English supertitles.

Photo by Christophe Pean

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La Santa Cecilia

Post Card La Santa Cecilia DEC 12, 6:00 PM Bolger Campiello

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La Santa Cecilia exemplifies the modern-day creative hybrid of Latin culture, rock, and world music. Pan-American rhythms including cumbia, bossa-nova, rumba, bolero, tango, jazz, and klezmer music pulse within the band’s Mexican heritage, resounding as the voice of a new bicultural generation.

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Creole Soul FEB 15 & 16, 7:30 PM

Jazz trumpet sensation Etienne Charles’s lush sound, varied compositional textures, and pulsating percussive grooves enable him to invoke trance as he soothes and excites listeners. Trinidad-born performer, composer, and storyteller Charles’s Sarasota premiere promises complexity and swing.

Photo by Laura Ferreira

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Mazelfreten

Rave Lucid

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Rave Lucid FEB 22, 11:00 AM FEB 23 & 24, 7:30 PM In a thrilling tribute to electro dance, Rave Lucid combines choreographed movements at 120 bpm that require unfailing concentration. Hypnotic arm games celebrate “rave” as a party, an organic trance, and “lucid” state where extreme control achieves perfect synchronization.

Photo by Jonathan Lutumba

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Post Card BélO MAR 8 & 9, 7:30 PM

Hailed as Haiti's musical ambassador to the world, BélO galvanizes the pride, cultural identity and resilience of the Haitian people.

This socially conscious singer-songwriter’s sound is a sublime mixture of jazz, worldbeat, rock, reggae, and Afro-Haitian traditional rhythms known as "Ragganga."

PA LAGE SA = NEVER GIVE UP

Photo by Hervay Petion

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Florida Woman

Post Card Rosie Herrera + Leah Verier-Dunn Florida Woman

Florida Woman is a dance theater elegy to the stereotypes and myths of Floridian life. Juxtaposing the lawlessness and freedom evoked by the “Florida Man” internet meme with the prevalence of restrictive laws on women's bodies, the performance interrogates the aesthetic beauty of Florida as a bastion for all things wild and hopeful.

Photo by George Echevarria

MAR 21, 11:00 AM MAR 22 & 23, 7:30 PM MAR 24, 5:00 PM

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Un Poyo Rojo

Post Card Un Poyo Rojo APR 6, 7:30 PM APR 7, 5:00 PM APR 8, 11:00 AM In an empty locker room, two men play with movement, an analogue radio and tiny shorts. The performers’ athletic bodies move fluently from wrestling to dance, acrobatics to physical comedy, in an irresistible distortion of the expectations of manhood.

A funny, raw, playful hour interspersed with competitiveness and camaraderie, as well as seduction and sabotage.

Photo by Ishka Michocka

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La Famille GoldenCrust

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La Famille GoldenCrust is a kitsch, fun, and humorous outdoor performance spectacle, trailer-park style! In their magnificent RV, the tacky and raucous duo presents a comedy and circus show worthy of the most prestigious campgrounds and shopping malls in Florida.

They have the heart and ambition—the only thing that's missing are the pyrotechnic effects, technicians, and entire cast of dancers.

Photo by Nicolas Descoteaux

APR 18–20, 7:30 PM APR 21, 11:00 AM

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ensembleNEW SRQ

Post Card ensembleNEWSRQ Parisian Refraction

MAY 9–11, 7:30 PM MAY 11, 2:00 PM Led by Samantha Bennett and George Nickson, this adventurous set of four distinct concerts explores works and composers that either embody the City of Light, have been commissioned by groups in Paris, or are deeply inspired by the French capital. Each performance highlights both the similarities and global differences of musicians who have been changed by Paris.

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Photo by Matthew Holler

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ART OF PERFORMANCE

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Post Card MicroWIP JAN 26, 7:30 PM @theHAT

Did you know that The Ringling is the State Art Museum of Florida? We take our commitment to Florida creatives seriously!

Join us for MicroWIP 2024, where we spotlight new performance being created in the Sarasota–Manatee area.

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Engagement + Related Programs MASTERCLASSES

Skill building and experimentation with visiting Art of Performance master artists in the Perret Performance Studio.

ARTIST TALKS

Intimate dialogues with artists, scholars, and community about themes and performance practice.

FILMS

Curated screenings of films related to performance and cultural identities of Art of Performance artists and genres.

Join us this season at the HAT’s pre- and post- show hang out in the Benfer Courtyard. Grab a drink, chat with friends, and discuss the performances in a casual, outdoor neighborhood space. See you @ the HAT Lounge!

Artist Residencies The Ringling hosts performance-based artists in residence from a variety of disciplines. Creative residencies reinforce the essentials for artistic development: time, space, and resources to experiment and iterate while prototyping works for premieres and touring.

These amazing performance makers will be in residence in 2023/24: Brinae Ali Tap Dancer, Choreographer. Baltimore, MD.

Leah Verier-Dunn Dancer, Choreographer, Director of Moving Ethos. Sarasota, FL.

Moira Finucane Performer, Director, Founder of Finucane & Smith. Melbourne, Australia.

John Heginbotham Dancer, Choreographer, Director of Dance Heginbotham. NYC, NY.

Rosie Herrera Dancer, Choreographer, Director of Rosie Herrera Dance Theatre. Miami, FL.

Modesto “flako” Jimenez Actor, Playwright, Founder of Oye Group. Brooklyn, NY. Companhia Urbana de Dança

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A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO OUR ART OF PERFORMANCE SPONSORS

This program is supported in part by the Art of Performance Fund, Arthur F. and Ulla R. Searing Endowment, Dorothy Jenkins Endowment at the John and Mable Ringling Museum, Ellin Family Art of Our Time Endowment, Ed & Elaine Keating Endowment, Ringling Art of Performance Endowment, Selby Foundation Ringling Museum Endowment, Cowles Charitable Trust, David and Mary Benfer, Warren R. and Marie E. Colbert, Leon and Marge Ellin, Judith and Stephen Shank, and Marge and Irv Weiser.

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