ACLU Drops Lawsuit Against Indiana BMV
An ACLU lawsuit against the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles has been dismissed, paving the way for the Indiana Youth Group to take new action. The organization, which supports gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth, has hopes of a specialty state license plate.
County commissioners in the state’s largest city are considering a resolution against sexual bias after one of their own called gay people “sexual predators.” The Mecklenburg County Commission will discuss the measure Tuesday, The Charlotte Observer reported Monday. Republican Commissioner Bill James last week wrote that “homosexuals are sexual predators” in an e-mail exchange among commissioners about the Pentagon’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy that barred gays from serving openly in the military. James opposed a proposal that the county commission send a letter thanking members of Congress from North Carolina who supported repealing the policy. County board chairwoman Jennifer Roberts, a Democrat who proposed the thank you letters, has since decided to send them herself after colleagues of both parties objected. www.biggaynews.com
UPCOMING MEETINGS AND CONVENTIONS IN TAMPA BAY
Tampa Bay & Company is pleased to welcome the meetings and conventions that are being held in Tampa Bay from Saturday, Jan. 8 through Friday, Jan. 14. In all, over 17,000 delegates will attend these meetings, conventions and events, which will produce over 9,000 hotel room nights to create an estimated delegate spending of $17.7 million.
One example of these meetings and conventions is the Florida Music Educators Association’s Annual Convention. Approximately 6,500 delegates will attend the conference, producing 4,500 hotel room nights and creating $5.7 million in delegate spending.
Florida Music Educators Association (FMEA) is a not-for-profit, professional association that serves and supports music educators across Florida. FMEA promotes and publishes the Florida Music Director as well as music education research, organizes in-service programs, and broadens teachers’ knowledge and interest in their profession through affiliation with colleagues.
January’s event marks the 26th consecutive year that the Florida Music Educators Association has held its Annual Convention in Tampa Bay.
Please join us in welcoming this group, as well as all meetings and conventions, to the Tampa Bay area! The focus of the Convention Sales team of Tampa Bay & Company is to bring conventions and meetings to Tampa Bay to create positive economic impact for Hillsborough County.
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School of Visual and Performing Arts
Hillsborough Community College Ybor City
Presented in Association with HCC Student Activities
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Keith Arsenault
January 4, 2011 (813) 253-7695
NEW YORK CITY COMES TO TAMPA AS DANCE YBOR PRESENTS MONICA BILL BARNES & Company
Tampa, FL, – Hailed as “one of the wittiest young choreographers around” (Deborah Jowitt, The Village Voice), Monica Bill Barnes brings her trademark blend of theatricality, intelligence, humor and physicality to Hillsborough Community College, Mainstage Theater, January 20 – 22nd at 7:30 pm. Barnes and her dancers will perform Mostly Fanfare, a work that premiered at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival last summer. The work is inspired by Nina Simone and delves into the various ways in which who we are on the outside- what we wear and what we allow people to know – reflects who we actually are and what we feel inside both onstage and off.
Monica Bill Barnes is a New York based choreographer and performer. She has created twelve evening-length dance works, numerous site-specific events and several cabaret numbers for her company, Monica Bill Barnes & Company. Since moving to New York from her native California in 1995, Barnes choreography has been produced in over twenty venues in New York City including Danspace Project, Symphony Space, Dance New Amsterdam, Dance Theater Workshop, Dixon Place, Dancenow/NYC/The Festival, Movement Research at the Judson Church and La Mama. Her work has been presented in 30 cities throughout the United States and abroad, including The International Fabbrica for Choreographers (Florence, Italy), The Fourth International Dance and Movement Festival on the Volga (Yaroslav, Russia), Tanz Festival (Karlsruhe, Germany), Sushi Performance and Visual Art (San Diego, CA), DancePlace (Washington, D.C.) and The Philadelphia Museum of Art. She has been the invited Guest Artist at the North Carolina School of The Arts, University of California at San Diego, Shenandoah University, University of California at Riverside, Vassar College, Virginia Commonwealth University, Florida State University, James Madison University, Steps on Broadway and Dance New Amsterdam’s Modern Guest Artist Series (1999 to present). Barnes holds an MFA from New York University/Tisch School of the Arts and a BA in philosophy and theater from the University of California at San Diego.
What others have said:
Barnes (is) one of the wittiest young choreographers around. Although she can stir your heart as well as make you laugh, Hollywood Endings is essentially a charmingly outlandish revue in which nothing is predictable.
-The Village Voice (Deborah Jowitt)
There’s a reason comedy and dance are rarely paired. But Barnes is the mistress of such mischief and has the technical dance ability to make it all work. She breaks all the rules, but also tempers the clowning around with enough darkness and pity to make us care.
-San Diego Arts (Kris Eitland)
Barnes has made zippy and understated magic. When we were pretty specializes in comic gangliness … but when Lydia Martin stands on a chair and, sings with absolute, childlike faith, as if she meant the words for her mother, it’s hard to imagine anything prettier.
-The New Yorker (Apollinaire Scherr)
The Company: Monica Bill Barnes & Company is a contemporary American dance company under the artistic direction of choreographer Monica Bill Barnes. The company is committed to creating dance that realizes her vision and bringing it to the public through annual performances in New York, touring, artistic residencies and various teaching opportunities. Its mission is to celebrate individuality, humor and the innate theatricality of everyday life.
Originally built upon a repertoire of solos and duets, MBB & CO. has since grown to include evening-length works and large-scale site-specific performances. Danspace Project has commissioned and presented three works; When we were pretty (2002), The Happy Dance (or what started out ok) (2004) and Suddenly Summer Somewhere (2007). Other commissions include Another Parade (2009) commissioned and presented by the 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Festival, Game Face (2008) presented by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s SITELINES Festival, Thank You and Good Night (2006) co-presented by Dance New Amsterdam and Philadelphia Live Arts Festival, Limelight (2005) co-presented by San Diego Dance Theater’s Trolley Dances and From my mother’s Tongue (2001) presented by Dancing in the Streets at Wave Hill. Through the past ten year, the company has performance in over twenty venues in New York City and has been presented in 30 cities throughout the United States and abroad. In addition, the company creates work outside of the city through extended artistic residencies (The Yard, Dancenow/NYC Silo Project, Joyce Soho Artist Residency, Jacob’s Pillow and the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography), college guest artist residencies and performance projects with local community members. Through various site-specific projects and intergenerational large group works, Barnes has brought over hundred people to the stage.
Recent funding includes three consecutive grants from the Greenwall Foundation, four grants from Bossak/Heilbron Charitable Foundation, two grants from The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the Manhattan Community Arts Fund administered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and The Puffin Foundation. Major support has come in the form of creative residencies awarded by the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography at Florida State University (2006-2007 Choreographic Fellowship), a residency provided by The Joyce Theater Foundation (2005-2004), Sushi Performance and Visual Art (2005), Dancenow/NYC Silo Residency (2008, 2004), Acadia Summer Arts Program (2003-2007) and The Yard (2002).
For more information on Monica Bill Barnes & Company visit her website at www.monicabillbarnes.com
Performance Times: Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 7:30pm
$ 10 General Admission $5 Seniors and $5 Students. HCC Faculty Staff and Students Free with ID
The Mainstage Theatre is located in the Performing Arts Building of the Ybor City campus of Hillsborough Community College.
It is located at the corner of Palm Ave and 14th Street (Avenida Republica de Cuba) in Historic Ybor City.
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Keith Arsenault
Theatre Manager
Hillsborough Community College – Ybor City Campus
2112 N. 15th Street, YPAB 305
Tampa, FL 33605-5096
813 253 7695 office
813 205 0893 cellular
Member;
International Dance Council – Conseil International de la Danse – UNESCO
Florida Dance Association
United States Institute for Theatre Technology