Rogue Festival 2014

Feb 2014 22

Ananka Dance Company: Moments of Myths & Mythology At Rogue 2014

2014 Articles, Arts & Entertainment

by Ely Buffin
& Patricia Krikorian

This is Ananka's 12th happy year performing at the Rogue Festival. Although the Ananka Dance Co. performs in classical ethnic and cabaret belly dance, during the Rogue ...the favorite is “Fantasy Spirit”...dancing with beautiful belly dance techniques and capturing moments in a variety of themes in a variety of ways. This year, we have the creative challenge in bringing, in dance, 'Moments in Myths and Mythology.'

Feb 2014 20

The Great Green At Rogue 2014

2014 Articles, Arts & Entertainment

by Joanna Rotkin

The Great Green is a thorny narrative of social codes, false pretenses, quirks and incongruities. Amid the uproar of vexing topographies, this solo work unearths, disputes, and relishes in a skewed conversation of gluttony and greed. By investigating the demarcation of ownership through landscape and power, The Great Green is a world that traverses between absurd stand-up comedy, starving despair, and choreographic upheaval. Through rich imagery, dialogue, repetition, and fourth wall break down, The Great Green codifies personal, familial, and cultural gesture using an illogical and bizarre theatrical arc to convey the vast disconnect between the grandiose power of greed and ownership with everyday existence in our consumer driven culture.

Feb 2014 19

No Strings & Friends At Rogue 2014

2014 Articles, Arts & Entertainment

by Harriet Wagner

She was an only child for the first ten years of her life. The winters in Philadelphia were snowy and damp and every winter she was ill, wistfully watching the other children careening down the hill beside her house on their magic carpets better known as Flexible Flyers. She was, in those long-ago days before television, blanketed on the carpet next to the big, bay window, in front of a huge Westinghouse radio that sat on the floor, as tall as she was in the beginning. She kept busy with coloring books and paper dolls and listening to music

Feb 2014 19

The Awkward Art of Flying Lands at Fresno’s Rogue Festival 2014

2014 Articles, Arts & Entertainment

by Claire Patton

We created The Awkward Art of Flying in a month and a half of whirlwind rehearsals. The whole thing began innocently enough. I sent my colleague, Lucia Rich, an email in a fit of enthusiasm, suggesting we collaborate on a project together. We've been friends and colleagues for years. We share the same physical theater training and love of quirky theatre. We'd collaborated on projects together–numerous examples of other people's visions. This would be different, I assured her; this project would be ours!

Feb 2014 15

Highway 41 At Rogue Festival 2014

2014 Articles, Arts & Entertainment, Music

by Sayre Miller

She travels on cruise ships and scenic trains, jamming all hours of the day. He’s hauled his guitar around the world on his back, entertaining locals and fellow travelers. She’s lain awake in a converted monastery in Spain, constructing a song in her head about jet lag and moonlight. Together they are Highway 41, the local folk band.

Feb 2014 15

Strictly Belly Dance Celebrates the Style That Never Goes Out Of Style At Rogue 2014

2014 Articles, Arts & Entertainment

by Annette Federico

Belly dancing is the oldest form of dance, dating back thousands of years, although it has only been known in our country since the late 19th century. The solo form, or Cabaret style (also known as American Cabaret Style), has its roots in the 40’s and 50’s casinos and supper clubs on the banks of the Nile River. Egyptian belly dancing stars, such as Badiaa Masaabni, Samya Gamal, Tahiya Karioka and Naima Akef’s talents spread to American shores via Egyptian movie musicals that sought to mimic popular Hollywood films.