It’s Official Now

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With the now traditional “welcome” party Sunday Aug 18 in the beautiful verdant gardens of founder and driving force Dianne and always supportive husband Daniel Vapnek’s SB residence, Danceworks Santa Barbara 2019 with Doug Varone and Dancers is now officially underway. This always joyous occasion was also when Dianne announced…

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Mambo!

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A special feature of the Danceworks residencies is the Friday Club which gives fans a chance to experience the unique process of creating a new work with the unprecedented freedom of having a whole 4 weeks in the Lobero Theatre to work. Attendees also get a chance to hear insights…

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DANCEworks Rides Again!

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Year eleven and award-winning choreographer and director Doug Varone and eight dancers are in the Lobero for four weeks creating “Somewhere,” a new work that promises to bring high-energy dancing, “askew and off-kilter in form and vocabulary” to the Lobero stage for two performances Sept. 6 & 7. “Inspired by Varone’s…

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Make It Matter, Make It Fun!

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Among the core principles guiding Boxtales Theatre Company’s Summer Camps are these: “… make it matter, make it fascinating, make it meaningful, and make it fun.” The culmination of Youth and Teen camps this year featured performances created by the participants – Hans Christian Anderson’s “The Snow Queen” for the…

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