So Many Miles

Performed on May 30/31, 2008 at Pima Community College Center for the Arts

Choreography: Kimi Eisele, Amanda Morse, and dancers
Dancers: Amy Barr-Holm, Renee Blakeley, April Douet, Janine Holton, Amanda Morse, Laura Reichhardt, Tammy Rosen, Katie Rutterer

Chile & Salt

Performed on April 27, 2008 at the Tucson Botanical Gardens.
Choreography: Kimi Eisele and dancers
Dancers: Amy Barr-Holm, Amanda Morse, Katie Rutterer
Video: Jamie A. Lee

Pods to Pancakes

Performed on April 27, 2008 at the Tucson Botanical Gardens
Story: Amy Schwemm
Choreography: Kimi Eisele, Amanda Morse and dancers
Dancers: Maggie Barnes, Barbara Eiswerth, Varga Garland, Kimi Eisele, Michelle Kuhns, Jill Lorenzini, Julie Ray, Tammy Rosen, Kieren Smyers, Kelly Watters
Video: Jamie A. Lee

Comment on We Are What We Eat

If you are one of our audience members, we'd love to hear from you!

What did you enjoy about the show?

What surprised you?

Did the performance make you think differently about the food you eat and/or the food system? If yes, how so?

What did you want to see more of?

What did you want to see less of?

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3 Performances of We Are What We Eat

We Are What We Eat will be shown to the public on 3 occasion:

Thursday, April 24 5:00 pm (free, excerpts only)
Santa Cruz River Farmer’s Market (new location)
1390 W. Speedway Blvd.

Saturday, April 26 2:30 pm (free)
Community Food Bank, 3003 S. Country Club Rd.

Sunday, April 27 6:00 pm ($12/$15)
Tucson Botanical Gardens, 2150 N. Alvernon Rd.
Come early to enjoy the gardens, learn about Tucson food organizations,
and sample tasty food. Performance begins at 7:00 pm.

Tickets $12 in advance, $15 at the door. Available at Antigone Books,
411 N. 4th Ave. or online at www.newarticulations.org.

Information: 405-4138 or 882-6092

Supported by Tucson Pima Arts Council, Punch Woods Endowment Fund,
Community Food Bank, NEW ARTiculations, DanceLoft, and generous individuals.

One-liners about food

Dancers:
We're looking for some one-liners (or two) to help capture some of your food stories. Please respond to the prompts below, all four or just those that grab you. Keep your answers brief, as in a sentence or two...

1. A childhood memory of a food, food experience, or food relationship (either recurring or one-time, either eating or preparing or something else, either pleasant or unpleasant, could be something you were told, were fed, were prevented from eating, etc. ) Try to be as specific as possible.

2. Your favorite food and why.

3. Your comfort and/or temptation food. Please write a sentence about it...(e.g. when you reach for it, what it is, how it is that it became your comfort food, why you think you should or shouldn't eat it, etc.)

4. "I remember when I found out that... " (some food discovery you made, e.g. tuna was actually a HUGE fish and not something that originated in a can)

First Community Rehearsal Begins

Our first community rehearsal on Sunday counted 15 enthusiastic participants. Thank you all for your ideas and movements. We are thrilled to be working with you and we commend your willingness to dive into the "pot," so to speak.

We would like to use this space as a place for sharing, feedback, ideas, comments, and questions. Please check back regularly and post your thoughts!

A RECAP of Sunday's rehearsals:

After a brief warm up and introductions, we got to work discussing with partners one of the following topics: 1) how we feel about cooking, or 2) "Around the dinner table, we always..."

From those conversations our partners chose the most salient detail, recorded it on a recipe card, and added to the "pot." Each participant chose a card and created a single movement to represent the concept or word on the card.

Then we worked in groups to combine those single gestures into movement phrases and presto we had the beginning of a dance.

We'd love to hear from you about your experience....

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