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
Courtesy Rialto Theater
Bit by bit, the arts are opening up in Tucson. And the arts organizations are dreaming up clever new ways to keep their artists and fans safe from COVID-19.
In the coming weeks, Ballet Tucson will send its dancers to perform in the great outdoors, and the Yume Japanese Gardens will host Funhouse Movement, performing Japanese Butoh dance among the plants.
Untitled Gallery opened last week after months in lockdown, and the Rialto, which doesn t plan to stage concerts until the end of summer or later, has temporarily turned its space into a gallery of rock-and-roll photos.
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This list of things to do around Tucson, Marana, Oro Valley, Sahuarita and more includes virtual events by local businesses and organizations, drive-in movies, open-air events and markets.
Remember to follow CDC guidance about protecting yourself and others from the spread of coronavirus. Pima County has mandated face coverings for everyone over age 5 in public if 6 feet of physical distancing cannot be maintained. A mandatory nightly curfew is in effect all throughout Pima County from 10 p.m. until 5 a.m. beginning Tuesday, Dec. 15 and expiring when the county s infection rate per 100,000 people falls below 100. The infection rate as of Tuesday, Dec. 15 was 1,300 cases per 100,000 people.Â
How about watching a Nut movie in the comfort of your car at a drive-in?
Or would you prefer watching the Sugar Plum Fairy and pals on your trusty computer at home?
In this crazy COVID time, you can do either one or both.
Megan Maltos, a tap dancer and owner of Danswest Dance Studio, is the mastermind behind the drive-in option. With a lot of help from her friends, she put together Not Your Ordinary Nut, a 45-minute movie of her studio’s young dancers performing a decidedly contemporary version of the venerable Nutcracker.
With the pandemic making it impossible to stage the annual production in a theater, a movie version was Maltos’ only choice.