GO Arts » Indochine http://blog.thenewstribune.com/arts Everything new on the walls, stage, screen and streets of Tacoma and South Puget Sound. Thu, 23 May 2013 21:38:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 The Barefoot Collective mixes up contemporary dance for free in unusual venues this month. http://blog.thenewstribune.com/arts/2012/11/01/the-barefoot-collective-mixes-up-contemporary-dance-for-free-in-unusual-venues-this-month/ http://blog.thenewstribune.com/arts/2012/11/01/the-barefoot-collective-mixes-up-contemporary-dance-for-free-in-unusual-venues-this-month/#comments Thu, 01 Nov 2012 18:17:52 +0000 Rosemary Ponnekanti http://blog.thenewstribune.com/arts/?p=4627

Contemporary dance isn’t stuck in a black-box theater anymore – at least, not this month in Tacoma. The Barefoot Collective, which over its four-year existence has moved from a home studio to a guest residency, a temporary Spaceworks location and finally a nomadic lifestyle, is presenting its fall program in a unique way: free concerts that mix up styles in non-traditional venues from bookshops to libraries to bars.

“We’re modeling it on the way a band would play a set,” says BFC co-director Katie Stricker. “They’re pop-up gigs in local establishments where people go who maybe would …

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