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Don't miss Al-Bahira Middle Dance Theater in

Kinetic Kitchen!

Presented by Sarah LaRose-Holland at Patrick's Cabaret

Friday December 14 & Saturday December 15, 2007

Showtime: 8 p.m.

Tickets: $6 in advance, $8 at the door

(see advance ticket info below!)

Location:

Patrick's Cabaret

3010 Minnehaha Ave. S.

Minneapolis MN 55406

(Additional parking is available between the cabaret and the police station)

Why buy tickets in advance?

A limited number of tickets will be available at the door the night of the show, but buying tickets in advance gets you a better price and it helps the artist (that's us!) Al-Bahira gets a small portion of walk-in ticket sales, but when you buy in advance, the entire ticket price of $6 goes to support the Al-Bahira organization and to help us in our mission to create dance and music programming!

How can I buy tickets in advance?

You can buy tickets directly from Al-Bahira at a cost of $6 per ticket (make checks payable to "Al Bahira Dance Theater") in the following ways:

We will also have tickets for sale at the Holiday Dazzle Hafla on December 2.
Mirah will bring tickets for sale to Aalim School classes and class rehearsals on 11/28, 11/29, 12/1, and 12/5.
You can arrange to buy tickets and pick them up from an Al-Bahira troupe member directly, or contact Mirah at mirah@aalimschool.com if you would like to make arrangements.
You can purchase tickets online using PayPal and have them mailed to your home. To do this, email your name, mailing address, and the number of tickets you want to mirah@aalimschool.com, then watch your email for a PayPal Invoice from the AalimSchool/AlBahira to complete your ticket purchase. (Note: there is a $1.00 fee for postage and processing for these orders).

Al-Bahira Dance Theater and Aalim School of Dance, LLC.

P.O. Box 19342

Minneapolis, MN 55419

612-703-7002

or 763-229-7801

info@aalimschool.com

Featured Artists

Al-Bahira Dance Theater

Jeffrey Peterson Dance

Kinetic Evolutions

Lindsay Anderson

Featured Works

Al-Bahira will perform selected performs selected contemporary works including:

El Haggalla! Youthful energy abounds in this folkloric presentation of a form of dance done by young women in the Western Desert regions of Egypt and Libya.

Women's Work "Belly dance" and other Middle Eastern dances grew out of the celebration traditions and day-to-day life activities of the people and especially women. Women would dance for one another, improvising to the music, and would pass the dance down from one generation to the next. This piece celebrates that spirit...with a wicked vintage American sit-com twist.

Dancing Drums: Improvisation with live percussionists and a solo dancer. Play along as the dancer and drummer engage in call and response with each other and with you, the audience!

Awakening A theatrical piece using Isis wings. This piece is part of a larger dance fairy tale work-in-progress. In this scene, we are introduced to a dark and powerful figure: the queen djinniye, or fire-spirit, and her sizzling sisters. Somehow I think this is who the Wicked Witch of the West wished she could have been....

For descriptions of other artists works, click here.