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34 CRITIC’S PICKS FROM THE GO ARTS BLOG ..................................... >> THENEWSTRIBUNE.COM/ART-CULTURE Friday, June 12, 2015 • Thenewstribune.com/Entertainment BLOOMSDAY AT KING’S BOOKS James Joyce fans, rejoice (reJoyce?) — Bloomsday has come to Tacoma. The annual worldwide literary tradition of reliving the events of Joyce’s mad-but-brilliant novel “Ulysses,” which was set on June 16, 1904, will happen this June at King’s Books. Actor and director Marilyn Bennett will read Molly Bloom’s lusty, lengthy monologue; her guitarist husband Peter Rosemary Ponnekanti Pendras will accompany. True to the Irish writer, neighboring Irish pub Doyle’s will offer specials for the night. 7 p.m. Tuesday. Free. King’s Books, 218 St. Helens Ave., Tacoma. 253-272-8801, kingsbookstore.com, jamesjoyce.ie/bloomsday. ‘DEFENDING THE CAVEMAN’ Broadway’s longest-running solo play comes again to Tacoma, bringing with it a comedic explanation of just why men and women seem to come from different planets. 7:30 p.m. Thursday and June 19-20; and 3 p.m. June 20-21. Tickets are $19, $36 and $49. Theatre on the Square, 915 Broadway, Tacoma. 253-591-5894, broadwaycenter.org. SALISH SEA EARLY MUSIC DOES BEETHOVEN Linda Melstead on baroque violin, Steve Creswell on violin and viola, harpsichordist Jonathan Oddie, and Jeffrey Cohan on baroque flute join together for “The Art of Modulation” next week in the Salish Sea Early Music Festival. The program includes music from Phillidor’s “The Art of Modulation,” as well as other baroque chamber music. 7 p.m. Thursday. Suggested donation $15-$25; $5-$10 students; free for 17 and younger. Trinity Lutheran, 12115 Park Ave. S., Tacoma. 253-537-0201, salishseafestival.org. METROPOLITAN BALLET PREMIERE Inspired by Clay Rice’s silhouette-style children’s picture book “The Stick,” Metropolitan Ballet has created a brand-new ballet based on the book’s visuals and on its celebration of the imagination of children. Thanks to the U.S. Open taking over the parking lot of the Met’s usual performance venue, the ballet “Imagination Lives Inside of You” will be at Pacific Lutheran University. 7 p.m. Friday (June 12). $12-$18. Karen Hille Center, PLU, 12180 Park Ave. S., Tacoma. 253-472-5359, metropolitanballet oftacoma.com, plu.edu. CIRCUS TROUPE SHOW OPENING THIS WEEKEND FEATURES TACOMA GYMNAST Not everyone would see teen gymnastics as a career path, but for Tacoma performer Laura Himes it’s worked out pretty well. The 22-year-old who made it to nationals with Puyallup’s Puget Sound School of Gymnastics (PSSG) and went on to compete for Stadium High School in cheer and diving has tumbled her way into a career in circus and stunts. She will be performing this weekend and next with renowned Seattle company The Cabiri in “Ezid” at the Seattle Center. Watching Himes rehearse, it’s obvious she’s doing what she loves. As she plays the part of a villager defending her turf against enormous giants in a plot based on ancient mythology (like all Cabiri shows), she whirls and flips around the Air Trak floor with grace and energy, working with three other gymnasts to create a finale for the show that’s as much dance and theater as gymnastics. And while she’s not so much involved with the other parts of “Ezid” — aerial circus, fire performance, stilts and the two huge giant puppets manipulated on trolleys — she’s been working with the group since last August, when she trained with them during a four-week course at the International Stunt School at the University of Washington. Now Himes, who still lives in Tacoma, balances her time between The Cabiri, coaching at Auburn Gymnastics and doing a lot of personal training. She spoke to The News Tribune about how her passion for tumbling landed her a circus gig, and where she hopes her love of stunt work will take her. Q: When did you start gymnastics? A: When I was 3. I was always climbing and doing flips at home, and my mom knew she had to get me into a program. I did gymnastics with PSSG until my freshman year, when I made it to nationals at Level Nine. Then the club changed and I got into cheer and dive. Q: So how did you get the idea to get into stunt work? A: One of my role models at Courtesy David Rose Photography, The Cabiri The Cabiri’s show “Ezid” opens this weekend at the Cornish Playhouse in Seattle. IF YOU GO What: “Ezid” by The Cabiri circus company When: 7:30 p.m. Friday (June 12), Saturday, Thursday and June 19-20 Where: Cornish Playhouse, Seattle Center, 201 Mercer St., Seattle Tickets: $50 director’s choice; $35 VIP; $25 general; $20 senior, student and children 14 and younger Information: 206-659-9307, ezid.brownpapertickets.com, cabiri.org PSSG is now a big stunt double working in (Los Angeles). I saw her and what she was doing on social media, and I realized that everything she’d done, I could do too. I thought I’d have to SEE A VIDEO Go behind the scenes with Tacoma circus tumbler Laura Himes as she rehearses with The Cabiri for their upcoming show. move to L.A. to train, but actually it’s right here in my own backyard, at the University of Washington. So I took a three-week utility course, followed by one week of aerial, last July and August. Q: What do you actually learn at the International Stunt School? A: Martial arts, weapon fighting, car stuff, rappelling on a wire, and I got lit on fire a lot. And high falls, I like that the best. We’d work from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day, with two days off per week. On the second day of the aerial week it was acrobatics on aerial equipment and The Cabiri came to teach it: rope, silk, hoop. There was a brief instruction of everything, then we’d get right into it. Q: Is that what led to you joining The Cabiri? A: The Cabiri had auditions the next Monday, and I got in. I’ve done two shows with them: “Ghost Game” at Halloween, and “Carpathian Dawn,” where I did bungee and trapeze — that was a lot of fun. We have another Halloween show coming up. Q: Has anything in the circus been radically new for you, physically? A: Tumbling-wise, no. But my dance has gotten way better with this, and the stuff on silks and hoop — we even learned a whole 10-minute routine. Q: How much do you train to stay in shape for this? A: The Cabiri rehearses every Sunday and Monday night, and then we have the shows. I also coach at Auburn Gymnastics, so I work on my own stuff there, and I go to the gym and Crossfit a lot — I’m trying to build arm strength. It’s a full-time effort … but it’s worth it. My favorite thing is the exposure to performance, the whole team aspect. Q: What do you want for the future? A: I want to do more with stunt work in movies and TV, move to L.A. FREE LUNCHTIME CONCERTS RETURN TO DOWNTOWN TACOMA CHURCH Summer is often a dead time for classical music, which is why the Listen Live at Lunch series, organized by pianist Duane Hulbert at First Lutheran Church in downtown Tacoma, is so welcome. The free lunchtime Wednesday concert series features local soloists from Hulbert himself to Irish folk music and lieder for soprano, all in the historic church’s superb acoustics. The series begins Wednesday, with Hulbert’s son Evan on double bass playing Beethoven and Koussevitzky, accompanied See ABLOG,35
IF YOU GO 35 What: “Riding the Express Bus 594” and “A Fable” Who: Lynn Di Nino and 24 other local artists When: 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Tuesday- Wednesday, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Thursday-Saturday through July 24 Where: Handforth Gallery, Tacoma Public Library main branch, 1102 Tacoma Ave. S., Tacoma Cost: Free Information: 253-292-2201, tacomapubliclibrary.org, lynndinino.com Courtesy University of Puget Sound Pianist Duane Hulbert organizes and performs in the weekly Listen Live at Lunch free concert series at First Lutheran Church in Tacoma. ABLOG From 34 by his father. Here’s the rest of the lineup: June 24: Colleen Raney and IF YOU GO What: Listen Live at Lunch concert series When: Noon Wednesdays from June 17- Aug. 19 Where: First Lutheran Church, 524 S. I St., Tacoma Cost: free Information: 253-272-1538, flctacoma.org; go to this story online for link to the event’s Facebook page. Hanz Araki, Irish folk music. July 1: Neil Hulbert, trumpet. July 8: Maria Sampen and Timothy Christie, violins. July 15: Duane Hulbert, piano. July 22: Una Hwang, organ. July 29: David Salge, clarinet and Coni Lijengren, piano. Aug. 5: Piano students of Paul Twedt. Aug. 12: Joyce Ramée and friends, strings. Aug. 19: Christina Kowalski, soprano. IMPERFECT IMAGE OF A CITY: SEE IT AT TACOMA LIBRARY GALLERY How many artists does it take to describe a city? No, it’s not a joke — it’s “A Fable,” a new exhibit at the Handforth Gallery in Tacoma Public Library’s main branch, where 24 local artists plus curator Lynn Di Nino each create their own autobiographical sculpture and text expressing what this city means to them. As a practical installation, it has a few problems, but as a concept — especially Courtesy Lynn Di Nino. Curator Lynn Di Nino’s “Chihuly on the bus” is among artwork featured at a Handforth Gallery exhibit in Tacoma Public Library’s main branch. working in tandem with Di Nino’s own solo show “Riding the Express Bus 594” — it sculpts a complex, lighthearted image of Tacoma. At first blush, “Riding the Express Bus 594” is the cleaner and punchier of the two shows. Di Nino, with her characteristically sharp wit, has condensed Tacoma’s population into 14 10-inch-high cement people sitting on gray concrete bus seats that jut out in relief from the wall. Behind them are parallelogram-shaped photographs of the view out of the windows of the Tacoma-Seattle bus, many worthy landscapes in their own right: the Puyallup River, shining on a blue-sky day with Mount Rainer behind; a mediation on SeaTac high-rises; blurry traffic. But it’s the people — just small enough in scale compared to their window-views to be adorable — that say the most. There are a couple of celebrities riding this bus, like Dale Chihuly clutching a macchia on his lap, staring with typical At Di Nino’s urging, she and other local artists have sculpted tiny figurines of themselves, each epitomizing how they see Tacoma. blankness as he rides past Di Nino’s own house (she’s waving cheerily from the upstairs window); or Tiger Woods, complete with golf clubs, staring bemusedly out the window at an Indian smoke shop. But the rest are “types,” epitomized with friendly humor: the politician with dorky glasses and suit, the shopper with purple-dot blouse, the spotty teen with phone and earbuds. Occasionally, the contrast with their window view is telling, like the youth in a hoodie who’s bent in despair, head in hands, as a serene forest drifts by. On the opposite wall, the story of Tacoma gets a little more complex and less direct. At Di Nino’s urging, 24 local artists (and herself) have sculpted tiny figurines of themselves, each epitomizing how they see Tacoma. Following the fable of the blind men discovering an elephant part by part, are installed climbing up a giant pink paper elephant taped to the wall. The installation itself is problematic, and takes away from the strength of the art. Most of the figures have their backs to the viewer, which means you can’t see some of the most artistic touches: the blind barn-owl face on Heather Cornelius’ exquisite clay gold-winged bird-woman; the intricate Sumerian-style mask on Becky Frehse’s artist decked out in a cacophony of colors and textures; the long-beaked nose on Claudia Riedener’s blonde self-portrait, ever curious. The simplistic paper elephant doesn’t help, either. Perhaps a better solution would have been some kind of clear elephant with a tiny model of Tacoma inside it, allowing each figure to be both touching it and viewable from all sides. Or maybe a mirror. The other issue with “A Fable” is reading the extremely informative, often-poetic texts provided by most artists on how they see our city. Currently arranged on the facing wall, this text would be easier to match with its sculptures on a printed sheet of paper, or even an app (hello, Tacoma Public Library?) that allowed an icon of each sculpture to reveal its own story. Nevertheless, the concept of a place as something only imperfectly understood from multiple viewpoints is extremely well-expressed. We have Di Nino herself, made of white concrete and wearing protective eye-goggles, discovering a peanut (elephant — get it?). There’s Marita Dingus, with a clear plastic piping torso and red crate legs, two black-fabric hands extended to the elephant like a prophet; and Di Morgan-Graves in a turquoise turban and kaftan, gesturing like a seer out of the “Arabian Nights.” Ruby Reusable is there, wearing an upcycled plastic headdress, and Elayne Vogel sports a diva outfit of feather-boa shoes and peacock hat. At the top, Jeremy Gregory in khaki skate clothes grins as he touches the saddle-cloth: an edition of The News Tribune itself. In other words, what each artist says about Tacoma through their art says as much about themselves — a perfect metaphor for the way we all view life. Rosemary Ponnekanti: 253-597-8568 rosemary.ponnekanti@ thenewstribune.com @rose_ponnekanti Friday, June 12, 2015 • Thenewstribune.com/Entertainment
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