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We are always looking for new places to explore and new sites to visit; we scour newspapers, magazines, and books for possible new adventures. Even after 10 years of exploring our immediate area, we still find places to add to our list.
In a Tucson newspaper dated Nov. 29, 2020, we found an activity that caught our attention: a new sculpture garden was hosting its inaugural exhibit from Feb. 13 through July 4! An outdoor exhibit, with limited attendance, met our criteria as a safe and interesting adventure and was immediately placed on our list of local places to see.
Ballet Tucson Pop-Ups. Last November,
Ballet Tucson dancers, who had not performed since March 2020, did a brief but magical nighttime concert at the Tucson Botanical Garden. They went on to dance in other unconventional venues, including the Reid Park Zoo, the St. Philip s Farmers Market, and a Tucson Museum of Art patio. The shows were a hit, and this month the dancers will once again perform a series of short outdoor concerts. This weekend, they ve got a gig at Brandi Fenton Memorial Park. Two company choreographers, associate director Chieko Imada and Balletmaster Daniel Precup, have created five new dances to be performed in all three concerts. Each show will feature nine dancers. Imada s Shall We Dance? is a comical duet about relationships, and her Trio is a contemporary jazz piece. Precup, formerly a full-time dancer in the troupe, will dance a romantic pas de deux with prima ballerina Jenna Johnson in his piece Rhapsody. (The two are married in real life.) He also choreogr