2011
May 5, 10 am
3rd Law Performs at the D.L. Parsons Theater in the Northglenn Recreation Center
March
Bread & Salt
Lakewood Cultural Arts Center, March 11, 12
The Dairy Center for the Arts, March 18, 19, 20
2010
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6
3rd Law Dance/Theater and Denver Botanic Gardens
collaborate as part of Denver Arts Week's "Night at the Museums"
In celebration of the Henry Moore Exhibit, the Gardens will offer
free admission on Nov. 6, 5-10 pm with an immersive performance installation
by 3rd Law and Media Artist Darwin Grosse in Mitchell Hall @ 6, 7 and 8pm.
November 2010
3rd Law has begun a unique collaboration with Denver Botanic Gardens to create two special evenings honoring Henry Moore and the exhibition of his monumental bronze sculptures currently at the Gardens.
The first collaborative event
will be an evening of dance/theater performance (including the creation of original acoustic and visual objects) at "Night at the Museums" (November 6th) during Denver Arts Week. 3rd Law's performance will draw on ideas in Moore's writings to create a work inspired by Moore's astounding sculptures.
The second collaborative event
is planned for the Moore Exhibition's final week (January 24-31, 2011) and involve an original, commissioned dance/theater/media performance bidding farewell as the sculptures begin their return to England and The Henry Moore Foundation.
October 2010
3rd Law has been invited to be a featured guest artist at "Peak at the Arts: Global Artists Exchange Festival!"
From the Festival website:
"Peak at the Arts" is Colorado Springs' newest Arts Festival, coming to the Pikes Peak Center on October 8-9, 2010. The festival has invited the Art of the World to Discover, Create and Collaborate with Colorado Springs artists to produce 7 new collaborative works centering around Dance, Live Music, and Visual Art.
More on this upcoming event soon!
Summer 2010
3rd Law brings you a number of events in collaboration with the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art.
During the Wednesday Farmer's Market in Boulder on July 7 and August 4, the company will create a playful improvisation that will end in the downstairs gallery at BMoCA with a brief performance.
Begins around 4pm and will
be repeated at 5:15.
Come enjoy being nourished by
local produce and local art.
The Farmer's Market runs along 13th St. between Canyon and Arapahoe in Boulder and BMoCA is located at 1750 13th St. For more information call 303-938-8656 or email at grady@3rdlaw.org
April 9, 10, 11
3rd Law brings you
"In Pieces"
at The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut Street in Boulder. 3rd Law departs from its customary format of narratively-themed, evening-length concerts to present a joyous and exciting evening of forgotten favorites and new work which explores ideas for new full-evening concerts.
TICKET INFORMATION
- APRIL 9, 10 @ 7:30pm and APRIL 11 @ 4pm—ONE WEEKEND ONLY!
- The Dairy Center for the Arts (2590 Walnut Street, Boulder, CO)
- $22 Adult, $17 Senior/Student
- Purchase tickets through the Dairy Box Office, Tues-Fri, 1-5pm in person or by phone: 303-444-SEAT (7328)
- Outside of Dairy Box Office hours tickets may be purchased through Front Gate Tix for an additional service charge at 1-888-512-7469 or online at www.thedairy.org.
January 15, 16
3rd Law Brings you
"The CleanRoom"
January 15 & 16, 7:30pm at The Lakewood Cultural Center 470 S. Allison Parkway—at Wadsworth & Alameda in Lakewood, Colorado
Ticket information to follow! Hold the dates!
'10 Happy New Year
January 15th & 16th
Start the New Year right! See the premiere Denver-area staging of the original 2008 production
"The CleanRoom"
January 15 & 16, 7:30pm at The Lakewood Cultural Center 470 S. Allison Parkway—at Wadsworth & Alameda in Lakewood, Colorado
Ticket information to follow! Hold the dates!
'09
November
Katie Elliott sets "Winter " on an ensemble in Nancy Cranbourne's 40 Women Over 40 concert, Feels Like Falling.
November 6, 7, 8 and 13, 14, 15 at various times (check their website) at The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut Street in Boulder. For more information, see the 40 Women Over 40 website.
June 10 BMoCA Opening
The company will participate in the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art's opening week by staging a dance happening during the Farmer's Market on June 10th. The dancers will travel through the Market, arriving at the Museum, and give an impromptu performance there. Come and join them. The event begins at 5:30. The Market and BMoCA are located on 13th Street between Arapahoe and Canyon.
May 1,2 & 8,9!
"Till We Wake"
Read review here.
“Till We Wake” is a new dance/theater work conceived, produced and directed by Katie Elliott and Jim LaVita (artistic directors of 3rd Law Dance/Theater) in collaboration with Philip C. Sneed (Producing Artistic Director of the Colorado Shakespeare Festival) and Clare Henkel (CSF Costume Designer). The Colorado Shakespeare Festival is co-sponsoring this production with 3rd Law.
Based on a new reading of T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” the work exploits the echo in time and situation between the world as we are just experiencing it and the world of la Belle Epoque (the Gilded Age), the Roarin’ Twenties and The Great Depression.
The company of nine dancers, joined by Sneed and Elliott as performers, presents an evening that reflects on the uncanny similarities between the world we inherit today and the world just dawning when Eliot wrote “Prufrock”---considered by many the opening salvo of the modernist movement. As the modernist voice abandoned and rejected the past in hope of a better future, the creators of “Till We Wake” use imagist narrative and the malleable quality of Eliot’s poetical devices to develop an exciting and entertaining work of art during which the audience experiences the confusing and dislocating emotions of the historical cycles.
October 2, 3, 4
"The 2nd Law-Entropy Increases"
(Read the review here)
3rd Law Dance/Theater presents an evening of exciting, original work by its company members in the East Theater of The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut Street in Boulder. This eclectic evening contains new choreography and video showcasing the incredible range of talent resident in the Company. October 2 at 7:30; October 3, 4 at 8:00.
Choreographers: Lauren, Beale, Jennifer Golonka, Danielle Hendricks, Gina Jacobs Thomas, Michael Richman, Tara Rynders and Angie Simmons.
Additional cast members include Joshua Fink, Lara Hayes-Giles, Skye Hughes and Ben Schultz.
For tickets: Online at www.thedairy.org, or call Frontgate Solutions at 1.888.512.7469. $16 for adults, $13 for students (+ applicable fees).
2007-08 Season
July 19-Aug 2
Katie Elliott teaches modern technique and choreographs at the Boulder Jazz Dance Workshop and performances. Faculty from around the country will teach in Boulder.
Katie working with Interweave Dance Company
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Michael Richman prepares costumes for Interweave
June
3rd Law performs at the National Performing Arts Convention 2008 on Thursday, June 12th, in Gates Concert Hall at the Newman Center for the Performing Arts on the University of Denver campus. (review)
The company joins a variety of local and national ensembles in Mile High Movement I & II - Dance Showcases sponsored by The Newman Center, Stagestep and the Dance Agents Council of Dance/USA.
April/May
"The CleanRoom" An evening length ‘debriefing’ of the ‘digisphere’. Are we informed about information? At The Dairy Center, April 25,26 - May 2,3.
"The best show I've seen in my 16 years in Boulder."
Jenn Aiken presents the traditional crostada, baked by her, at the 3rd Law cast party.
Photos from the show to come!
More rehearsal photos
More recent photos from rehearsal.
Katie working with dancers for "The CleanRoom."
November 30th
See the student concert at CSU. 3rd Law sets Lost in Place (II) on the Student Tour Company. November 30 and December 1 at 8 pm at the Lory Student Center in Fort Collins.
Before the student concert at CSU
November
Katie Elliott sets "Evidence" on an ensemble in Nancy Cranbourne's 40 Women over 40 concert, Sweet Release.
November 9, 10 and 16, 17 at 8pm, November 11 at 2pm. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Wlanut Street in Boulder. For more information, see the 40 Women over 40 website.
October
3rd Law Dance/Theater presented “Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear” Friday and Saturday, October 5,6 at 8pm and Sunday October 7 at 2pm @ The Dairy Center for the Arts in Boulder.
(Read the review)
Produced and directed by Katie Elliott and Jim LaVita. Guest choreographers: Gabe Masson, and company members Lauren Beale and Angie Simmons. Featuring Grammy-nominated musician, Art Lande, and the Boy Girl Band in collaboration with 3rd Law and company
Performers include: Lauren Beale, Andrea Deline, Katie Elliott, Josh Fink, Lara Hayes-Giles, Danielle Hendricks, Eliza Kuelthau, and Angie Simmons. Musicians of the Boy Girl Band include: Art Lande-percussion and piano, Emily Takahashi-piano, Clare Church-woodwinds, Ken Bernstein-guitar and bass and guest artist Amy Shelley-percussion. Lighting design by Craig Bushman.
2011
Bread & Salt
Bread and salt ... the traditional greeting gift to the Czar in Imperial Russia ... was given as a token of health, wealth and prosperity. Using bread and salt as a metaphor for tradition, the concert speaks to the contestation between traditional sets of values and modern sets of values.
In Bread & Salt the clash is imagined as occurring between the demands of customary, long-established, time-honored, accepted norms and the practices of globalized peoples such as ourselves. In a world roiled by cultural and economic turmoil, perspective, patience and understanding are virtues to be cultivated.
The clash of perspectives is made real through a single, universal life passage: marriage. In former times, and in some places today, marriages are arranged by parents and relatives and are not primarily the choice of the bride and groom. Here in America on the other hand, marriage is usually thought of as a love match between two people who find themselves through social participation.
Do the cultures of two disparate worlds have wisdoms that we each can learn from? Do other peoples have wisdoms that we cannot appreciate? Are socially isolated peoples unable to cope with the demands of modernity?
2010
Surreal images from "Night at the Museums" at Denver Botanic Gardens
Photos by Gwen Phillips
<<3rd Law at Denver Botanic Gardens
The company is developing a number of collaborative events with Denver Botanic Gardens in conjunction with the wonderful exhibition of Henry Moore's monumental sculptures. Members of the company participated in the July Art Camp (directed by Josie, the Camp Coordinator, in sunglasses) and led the children through a a process of creating shapes in movement drawn from the images of Henry Moore.
Grady and Katie start the tour; Josie looking on.
Katie engaging with the children in a shady spot.
Grady making shapes with motifs drawn from the children's explorations.
<< Summer Events
Photos from Lakewood
'10
Dec 2nd
Lives Lived in Dance---2nd in the series
Jim interviewed Nancy Cranbourne, founder of 40 Women Over 40 productions.
New in Oct/Nov!
And This Just In!
Just recently we received word that the Denver Ballet Guild, a major supporter of professional dance in the Denver Metro area, has awarded 3rd Law a grant towards the January concert in Lakewood.
Award(s)!
The Colorado Dance Alliance, Colorado's leading professional dance organization, has selected 3rd Law and its artistic co-directors, Katie Elliott and Jim LaVita, to receive the 2009 "Cutting Edge" Award for innovation and creative use of twenty first century artistic and technological tools in dance.
The Denver Foundation (a community foundation dedicated to improving life in Metro Denver) has awarded 3rd Law a grant to support our artistic work. The Foundation is a major funder of projects in the Rocky Mountain region.
The Boulder Cultural Council of the Scientific And Cultural Facilities District has awarded two grants to 3rd Law: one for 2010 operating expenses and a special Discretionary Fund Grant to collaborate on a year-long, innovative, artistically cross-modal project with our sister arts organization, The Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art.
The Jefferson County Cultural Council (of the SCFD) has made a grant to 3rd Law to support our production of "The CleanRoom" at the Lakewood Cultural Center in January.
Oct/Nov
Colorado State
Between events in Reno, Katie and Jimmy are resident at Colorado State University preparing a set of pieces for their fall concert in November. Company member Eliza Kuelthau is assisting with rehearsals. They are setting "Winter," which draws on an excerpt from "Barometric Pressure" (2003) and a piece from "Bread & Salt" (2004).
Reno, NV
3rd Law is in the midst of their Residency at the University of Nevada, Reno. Artistic Co-Directors, Katie Elliott and Jim LaVita have just returned from setting two pieces, company favorite "Chairs" from "Bread & Salt" and a new piece drawn from the 2008 premiere, "The CleanRoom." Our visit is hosted by the Program in Dance and Assistant Professor of Dance, Cari Cunningham (MFA, University of Colorado).
In November, company members Jenn Golonka, Michael Richman and Tara Rynders will appear in Reno to coach and clean the pieces for the fall concert as well as themselves perform in the concert. Katie will make a new duet for Jen and Michael and Tara will perform "The Typewriter Solo."
July
Artistic Directors, Katie Elliott and Jim LaVita, and 3rd Law Dance/Theater company members were at Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts School and Camp in July to teach and perform. Company member Jen Golonka is on Dance Faculty at Perry-Mansfield. Company members Tiffany Halay, Michael Richman and Mason Lawrence Taylor accompanied Katie and Jim.
The company performed (among other works) the piece "Chairs," which they showed at the National Performing Arts Convention "Movement Showcase" in Denver in June, 2008.
Some camp photos (Katie and Jenn) follow:
June
Here are some photos from the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art opening week: 3rd Law's performance through the Farmer's Market and in the BMoCA building.
April
Katie Elliott and 3rd Law will hold a week-long Residency and set a piece for the Spring Concert of the Department of Theatre and Dance at Colorado State University. 3rd Law's Artistic Directors, Katie Elliott and Jim LaVita, will be in residency the week of April 13th.
January 9th SPARK Gallery
3rd Law participates in SPARK Gallery's 30th Anniversary Celebration. Tonight, beginning at 6pm. SPARK Gallery, 900 Santa Fe Drive.
'08
The New Year
New Company Members!
3rd Law has accepted three new dancers for the '09 spring concert season: Tiffany Halay, Stephanie Kobes and Mason Lawrence Taylor
October 25-28
Katie Elliott is giving a number of Workshops and Master Classes in the Santa Fe/Albuquerque area. Stay tuned for times and places. Santa Fe classes are open to the public; Master Classes at the University of New Mexico probably not.
June 25
Over the last seven years 3rd Law has made nine original, evening-length works as well as numerous special presentations. In recognition of that extensive body of work, this spring Katie received a Neodata Endowment Fellowship for Dance, which is awarded every three years for “artistic excellence of accumulated work, and evidence of artistic achievement.”
It was presented on June 25th.
May 16
Opening of the veil project: The Veil: Visible and Invisible Spaces. Curated by Jennifer Heath at The Dairy. Click here for more information. 3rd Law performs at the opening.
After the opening the dancers from the Monday class and the company celebrate in the dressing room:
March/April
The kids who will perform in the Global Warming Expo at the Boulder Theater on April 3rd get ready for their performance!
February
Katie starts work with the kids who will perform in the Global Warming Expo at the Boulder Theater on April 3rd.
January-February
3rd Law did a residency in late January at Middle Tennessee State University. Katie set "Chairs" from Bread & Salt on MTSU student ensemble as well as "Evidence," the piece premiered in November at Nancy Cranbourne's Sweet Release concert for her "40 Women Over 40" ensemble.