Welcome Back Dance Festival!

Center Stage Theater/ UCSB New & Reimagined Work present:Welcome Back Dance Festival:A celebration of dance, during a time when we all need to celebrate! June 17-20th Brandon Whited, Curator/Artistic Director All dance forms, styles, genres, traditions are welcome and encouraged to submit – Do not self-eliminate send in your ideas and let us decide. We are

Digital Arts Festival In April of 2020 Center Stage Theater began our Digital Arts Festival. During these challenging times we wanted to create an outlet for artists of all kinds to share their work, and for our audiences to get to know them. We had dance, theater, music, film, visual arts, poetry, story telling, and

Day 38 – Mauricio Vera

Jim Sirianni interview with Mauricio Vera A recent feature of Mauricio Vera in the International Gala of Classical and Contemporary Ballet: Chilean ballet dancer, Mauricio Vera began his studies in 1998 with Hugo Urrutia Academy In 2000 He was accepted at the Chilean Opera House School of Ballet of the Teatro Municipal de Santiago, under the artistic

Day 37 – Harout Aristakessian

Jim Sirianni interview with Harout Professional Video Reel: Like A Virgin Dance  Growing up in Los Angeles as the son of Armenian immigrants, Harout Aristakessian, Founder & Artistic Director of the Dance with Harout (DWH) Performance Company, took his first hip-hop class at the age of ten and was soon identified as a prodigy.  At

Day 36 – Deborah Bertling

Jim Sirianni interview with Deborah Learn more about Deborah through the links below: Earthquake Country (film) | RESCUED (film) | Extreming! (podcast) Youtube | Fan page | Clip from Next to Normal | LinkedIn | Facebook Deborah Bertling has performed on stages throughout Central California in operas, plays, concerts and staged readings. She has also

Day 35 – Lark Batteau

Jim Sirianni interview with Lark Batteau Video of Lark’s 2000 production of Shakyamuni Life of Buddah Video of Lark’s 2001 production of Shakyamuni Life of Buddah Lark Batteau was classically trained at Longey School of Music, Boston Ballet and The Actors Institute in NYC. She’s performed internationally, nationally and locally with Theatre of Process Theatre,

Day 34 – Daniel French

Jim Sirianni interview with Daniel French Daniel French is a music teacher and audio engineer. Chronosphere Fiction is a story telling podcast where writers’ creations come to life with sound effects and music. Youtube | Spotify | Website | Podcast

Day 33 – Selah Dance Collective

Jim Sirianni interview with Meredith Cabaniss Selah Dance Collective performing Pivot during the Nebula Dance Lab HH11 Festival at Center Stage Theater in February of 2020. Our Mission Statement Selah Dance Collective, Inc is a contemporary dance company dedicated to producing original work, creating educational experiences through performance, and maintaining a platform for community dance

Day 32 – Ellyette Iverson/eji experiences

Jim Sirianni interview with Ellyette Iverson ellyette “elly” iversonowner | event producer I am a Santa Barbara native with international style, having explored and lived in a variety of vibrant metropolis spaces like New York, DC, San Francisco, San Diego, Athens, Greece and Lima, Peru (to name a few!) Those spaces provided me with access

Day 31 – James Paul Brown

Jim Sirianni interview with James Paul Brown In 1970 Brown published the first edition of Earth Magazine, and later that same year introduced Earth News Radio and established the similarly formatted Rock News syndication. In 1980, Brown sold Earth News, divorced, remained involved in radio syndication for his bread and butter, and moved to a