 Photo by Steve Shea Nannette Brodie and her dancers are happy to present NBDT's 25th Anniversary Concert. The concert will feature works from Nannette's extensive repertoire as well as a 25th Anniversary premiere piece.
Nannette Brodie Dance Theatre, a modern dance company of drama, wit, joy and invention capable of moving everyone in their audience, presented their first performance in 1986. The company has performed on a continual basis for the last twenty five years.
 Photo by Steve Shea Nannette Brodie is the artistic director and principal choreographer for the company. According to Nannette, "Dance should be a celebration, an exploration of ourselves and our environment, of our culture and our world." NBDT has given performances for over 275,000 people both within the Southern California area and by touring nationally and internationally, averaging 15 to 25 performances a year.
We are thrilled to be celebrating 25 years of bringing life to the stage through our passion and love of movement. We hope that you will join us in this joyous time of celebration for an exciting night of dance.
 Photo by Steve Shea Dance has always been a a part of Ishmael's life, but it wasn't until later in his life that he decided to make dance a permanent part of it. A strong, intense, joyous and passionate dancer, Ishmael continues to share his talents and gifts with audiences around the world.
Ishmael grew up in Mexico, where the colorful art of folk dancing is always present. While living there, he also explored other art forms such as poetry and painting. He came to the United States in the early 90‘s and studied dance and theatre at the College of the Desert and at Golden West College. Ishmael holds an AA degree in dance, music and theater arts. He has been a member of Grandeza Mexicana Folk Ballet since 2007. He joined NBDT in 2006 and has participated in tours in California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, and Europe.
 Photo by Martin Rodriguez How and why did you get into dance? Did you always want to be a dancer?
I have always loved to dance, it felt natural and the joy of freedom was awesome! It was not until late in my 30's, that I was able to take dance as a professional career.
How long have you danced with NBDT and how did you come to dance with us?
I have been dancing with NBDT for about 7 years! I was just beginning to take jazz classes, with Jennie Sustaita, a current NBDT member, and she told me of an open spot for a men's trio.
Who has been your biggest inspiration or greatest influence in choosing to have a dance career?
My inspiration is the freedom and joy that I am able to share with new generations! The gift to unite as one culture and with the art of dance in general.
 Ishmael performing Emigre - Photo by Scott Mitchell Did you always want to be a modern dancer?
I had no idea of the different categories of dance, I just cherish dance in all it's forms. However modern dance fits great with my lifestyle and my years of experience.
What is your favorite NBDT piece to perform and why?
All pieces are special, but one that comes to mind is: Emigre (because I'm totally related to the characters).
If you could take a dance class from anyone who would it be and why?
Carlos Acosta. Not only because of all his tremendous talent, but for his success in the world as a Latin Ballet, Principal Dancer.
 Photo by Martin Rodriguez Where is your favorite place you have toured to and why?
It has to be Finland. It is just full of nature, and so far away...
What is your favorite NBDT memory?
There are many, but our trips, national and international, are unforgettable!
 Hanging out during rehearsal In celebration of our 25th Anniversary, we are having open rehearsal December 6, 2012. You and your family/friends are invited to come and join NBDT, while we are rehearsing for our 25th Anniversary Concert.
Please feel free to stop in anytime between 6-8 pm, meet the dancers, ask questions, and see a sneak peek of our newest work, which will be premiered at the 25th Anniversary Concert.
The event is free and informal, only a parking permit will need to be purchased for $2. We will be having rehearsal at Golden West College.
 Rehearsing Emigre The dance room is located above the gym, across from the swimming pool, room #201.
For any question regarding this event please contact Nannette at nannette@nbdt.net or Erica at ericanbdt@gmail.com
Please keep checking back for all the latest information regarding our upcoming 25th Anniversary Concert taking place on January 18 and 19 at the Martha B. Knoebel Theater. We can't wait to see all of you there!
 Photo by Steve Shea Hello Everyone!
We are celebrating our 25th Anniversary this year and we would love to hear from all of you.
We know that there have been many who have danced with NBDT, seen us perform or come into contact with us in one way or another since our inception in 1986. If any of you have memories, fun thoughts or special words to share, please do. We would love to write up a blog including all of these wonderful things.
There also is an NBDT alumni list on our company members page, if you are interested in being included please let us know.
Just as a reminder if any of you are in the area and would like to see what the company is currently up to we are having an open rehearsal, December 6, 2012. You and your family/friends are invited to come and join NBDT, while we are rehearsing for our 25th Anniversary Concert.
Please feel free to stop in anytime between 6-8 pm, meet the dancers, ask questions, and see a sneak peek of our newest work, which will be premiered at the 25th Anniversary Concert.
The event is free and informal, only a parking permit will need to be purchased for $2. We will be having rehearsal at Golden West College. The dance room is located above the gym, across from the swimming pool, room #201.
For any question regarding this event please contact Nannette at nannette@nbdt.net or Erica at ericanbdt@gmail.com
Also we would love for all of you to continue to stay in touch, if you don't already please become a fan of us on Facebook for all of the latest information regarding NBDT.
We can't wait to see all you at the 25th Anniversary Concert!
What a busy fall season we have had so far. Each year more and more opportunities, both big and small, become available to us and we cannot wait to see what the rest of the year and future brings.
It has been a little bit since we have had the chance to update all you on what we have been up to but here is your chance to see and find out what has happened and what is coming up.
Collaboration with the Long Beach Opera - The Paper Nautilus
Nannette Brodie’s choreography was mesmerizing. The dancers moved smoothly across the stage while tossing the singers to and fro, as if they were singing in the waves or the currents of the ocean. It was a beautiful homage to both the strength and tranquility of the ocean  Photo by Doris Koplik We announced in our last blog to all you that we were preparing to perform in our fourth collaboration with the Long Beach Opera and what a unique and wonderful experience it was.
The opera took place at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, it was performed in the end of their entry way, in front of their large tank. With the fish, sharks and other sea creatures swimming behind us, we brought the complexity and beauty of the sea to life. Along with a beautiful and moving score by Gavin Bryars this was the perfect setting for the Long Beach Opera's, Outer Limit Series.
As always we are beyond thankful for this partnership with the Long Beach Opera. Every experience with them has taken us on a new and exciting journey and we hope to have many new journeys with them in the future.
2012 So Cal Dance Invitational
 "Polymorphic" - Photo by Steve Shea In September we helped co-produce the So Cal Dance Invitational. This was our second season inviting professionals exclusively from Southern California in an effort to produce an eclectic concert filled with local companies and to create a non-competitive concert where dancers of all genres/styles can collaborate, meet and network.
This year we were excited to host 16 different companies from the Southern California area. Each company brought different works that created two beautiful and incredible nights of dance to the public.
 "Emigre" - Photo by Steve Shea NBDT performed both nights, bringing four works, "Polymorphic", "Almost A Waltz", "Emigre" and "There and Back", to the Invitational.
This collaborative project helps to benefit the Golden West College Dance Department and their future efforts to produce quality dance performances, fund educational outreach projects and student scholarships.
Thank you to everyone as always for your constant support with our endeavors and please be on the lookout for some exciting news regarding next year's So Cal Dance Invitational! For more information please visit the So Cal Dance Invitational website: www.socaldanceinvitational.org or Facebook page: www.facebook.com/SoCalDance.
Next up for NBDT
 NBDT in rehearsal In celebration of our 25th Anniversary, we are having open rehearsal December 6, 2012. You and your family/friends are invited to come and join NBDT, while we are rehearsing for our 25th Anniversary Concert.
Please feel free to stop in anytime between 6-8 pm, meet the dancers, ask questions, and see a sneak peek of our newest work, which will be premiered at the 25th Anniversary Concert.
The event is free and informal, only a parking permit will need to be purchased for $2. We will be having rehearsal at Golden West College. The dance room is located above the gym, across from the swimming pool, room #201.
For any question regarding this event please contact Nannette at nannette@nbdt.net or Erica at ericanbdt@gmail.com
Please keep checking back for all the latest information regarding our upcoming 25th Anniversary Concert. We can't wait to see all of you there!
NBDT will be performing in their fourth collaboration with the Long Beach Opera this weekend, performing in the US Premiere of Gavin Bryars, "The Paper Nautilus".
Described on the Long Beach Opera's website, "The Paper Nautilus" is mysterious, vivid and stunning. It includes prose and poetry from great thinkers throughout the ages celebrate the beauty and power of the sea. Bryars' minimalistic score, full of exotic sounds, reflects the magic of the surrounding ocean life.
The opera is part of LBO's new Outer Limits series and will be taking place at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, California, on September 7, 8 and 9 at 8 pm.
We are beyond excited to have this wonderful opportunity to be of part the Long Beach Opera. We hope that you have the chance to come out and see this incredible show, that certainly pushes the outer limits and takes you on an imaginative and exciting journey into the depths of the sea.
Tickets are available via the following link: https://www.longbeachopera.org/tickets/
 We are excited to announce that NBDT will be performing in the 6th Annual MixMatch Festival taking place at the Miles Memorial Playhouse in Santa Monica on Sunday, August 26th and Sunday, September 2nd 2012.
The annual MixMatch Dance Festival is geared towards promoting accessible, professional dance to the LA Community. Originating at The Electric Lodge in Venice, CA in 2006, MixMatch quickly became an area favorite and is now entering its 6th year with their second run at The Miles Memorial Playhouse in Santa Monica.
Showcasing all forms of dance such as jazz, ballet/pointe, modern, contemporary, tap, belly, pole, lyrical, hip hop, folk, dance on film and much more, curious audiences can expect an evening packing a punch of excitement and energy, all for the price of a movie.
 "Polymorphic" Hart Pulse Dance Company aims to appeal to those looking for a fun, relaxed, nice night out with the guarantee of leaving the theater completely captivated by at least one of the evenings dance works!
NBDT will be performing company member Erica Villalpando's work "Polymorphic" on Sunday, August 26th and on September 2nd, Nannette Brodie's duet "Holiday" will be performed.
 "Holiday" We are thrilled to be sharing the stage with so many talented companies and hope that you can make it to see the show, it will be a captivating and invigorating evening of dance.
Information:
MixMatch Dance Festival
The Miles Memorial Playhouse
1130 Lincoln Blvd
Santa Monica, CA 90403
www.hartpulsedance.com
Tickets are $14 can be purchased at the following link: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/239532
 Hello NBDT Dance Friends and Fans!
The Dance in the Desert Festival in Las Vegas, was a great success. "Polymorphic", "Emigre" and "Steam Heat" were well received. We always have enjoyed being a part of this festival. Thank you to everyone who came out to support this great opportunity for dancers across the nation to come together and celebrate dance for a weekend.
This weekend we are off to Count|Point in Long Beach, California, performing August 11, 2012 at 730 pm. NBDT was asked and kindly invited to participate in this wonderful benefit dance concert amongst many other talented dance companies from the Los Angeles area.
Datugan Dance Theatre and Trade & Row will host "Count|Point", a community dance show, at the Long Beach Playhouse in Long Beach, California. Count|Point showcases the diverse dance genres in our community as well as a fundraiser for a wonderful charity, Dance Across America, which benefits the Andrea Rizzo Foundation.
The Andrea Rizzo Foundation, provides the opportunity for children with cancer and special needs to experience and enjoy the art of dance. Your attendance will help make this year's production a success and make a difference in the lives of so many children.
Come and catch a great show, cheer on NBDT and support a much needed cause!
Here is all of the information:
Count|Point
Long Beach Playhouse
5021 East Anaheim Street
Long Beach, CA 90804
Pre-sale tickets are $12 and $20 at the door. Tickets can be purchased at LBplayhouse.org or you can call the box office at 562-494-1014
Here is a list of all the companies performing at this year's event: Dorcas Roman Dance Theatre, Malice Dreaming, Nickerson-Rossi Dance, Robert Scott Dance Company, Tropicaleiza, Nannette Brodie Dance Theatre, Los Angeles Contemporary Dance Company, Datugan Dance Theatre, Yukiko & Abraham and Visual Artist: Jamie Kivisto & Traci Dufee.
*Sign Language Interpreters will be provided.
Hope to see you all there!
Oh, how time flies when you are having fun! We simply can't believe that it is already July! We have been so wonderfully blessed and are so thankful to have had so many great opportunities this season and we aren't done yet.
We wanted to take a moment to catch you all up with what we have been up to and what we are looking forward too!
Another great collaboration with the Long Beach Opera - Ainadamar
"The production, something that looked like waves of fabric going every which way, was conceived by Mitisek (who also directed), but it was Weiss who transformed it all into a living, breathing contemporary “installation” — a mesmerizing, almost sentient breathing space inhabited by Nannette Brodies’s wonderful dancers and the brilliant cast." - Opera West
 Photo by Keith Ian Polakoff Not only were we thrilled when we collaborated with the Long Beach Opera earlier this year for Maria de Buenos Aires, but we were offered another wonderful opportunity to do it once again and on May 20 and 26, we performed in Ainadamar at the Terrace Theater in Long Beach, California.
As described on the Long Beach Opera website, "Ainadamar (arabic for "Fountain of Tears") tells the story of the Spanish playwright and poet Federico Garcia Lorca who was executed in 1936 during the Spanish Civil War. Lorca's life and deaths are told in flashbacks by actress Margarita Xirgu, for whom Lorca wrote some of his greatest female roles. Xirgu remembers him during the last moments of her own life, which ended in 1969. Ainadamar becomes a gripping reflection on the undying faith of a people, the moral duty of the artist and the relationship between artistic and political freedom."
 The opera was beautifully conceived and all who worked on it gave it everything they could and the end result was marvelous.
We always have a wonderful experience working with the Long Beach Opera Performing in Ainadamar, gave us the chance to perform onstage with incredible talent, perform with a live orchestra and the boys even learned how to fly.
To have the opportunities to collaborate with this incredible company, gives us the chance to expand beyond our boundaries and it helps push us artists to another level.
Thank you to the Long Beach Opera as always, we can never say it enough!
Coming up for NBDT
 There are so many great things coming up for us already and we can't wait!
In July:
- We will be traveling to Las Vegas to participate in the Dance in the Desert Festival, taking place on July 27 - 7:00pm and July 28 - 2pm & 7:00pm at the Nicholas J. Horn Theatre, located on the CSN Cheyenne Campus in North Las Vegas. http://sites.csn.edu/finearts/dancefestival/index.html
In September:
- We will be performing in the The 6th Annual MixMatch Dance Festival, which takes place August 24th - 26th & August 31st - September 2nd at The Miles Memorial Playhouse located in Santa Monica. http://www.hartpulsedance.com/gallery.html
- We also are participating and producing the So Cal Dance Invitational, in conjunction with the Golden West College Dance Department, which takes place at the Robert B. Moore Theater in Costa Mesa, September 21 and 22. Submissions are currently being accepted until July 30. www.socaldanceinvitational.org
As always we thank you for your continual support of Nannette Brodie Dance Theatre, we hope to see you at one of our shows or events soon. Please keep checking back with us for the latest updates and news on NBDT!
 On Saturday, May 19, 2012 NBDT will be performing as guest artists at the Golden West College Spring Dance Concert,The Steps and Stories of American Dance.
We will be performing two works at this year's concert, Polymorphic, choreographed by Erica Jimenez Villalpando and Steam Heat, a work inspired by Bob Fosse and re-staged by Jeff Hendrix. We are excited for the opportunity to perform and be guest artists at this year's concert.
The concert will take place at Golden West College at the Mainstage Theater at 8 pm.
Tickets are $12 for General Admission, $10 ASB/GWC Students, Seniors and Children under 12.
They are available at www.GWCTHEATER.com or by calling the Box Office at 714.432.5880
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