Welcome to Soulocentric Performing Arts Society
CURRENTLY AT SOULOCENTRIC...
Bach, Tots and Tiptoes is pleased to annouce Session 3 will run Feb 22-Mar 28 and Session 4 April 11-May 16 Wenesdays at 10am at the Currie Barracks in Calgary. Afro-Brazilian dance, Ballet, Trumpet, Flamenco Guitar, Street dance, physical theatre and violin are all in the line up with many repeat artists. Register or drop-in with your babies, toddlers and pre-schoolers for the best "artsy" playdate in town. Please visit our PARENT-TOT page to learn more about the program and its artists. You can also see the video from our past workshop to get a sneak peek at the program.
Soulocentric Festival 2011 is over for another year. Special thanks to all the artists and audience who participated. Visit the FESTIVAL page to see who participated. Visit our Facebook page to see photos and learn about the artists involved.
Soulocentric also helped wrap up another Slammenberry Jam Hip Hop Festival. Events ran alongside Soulocentric Festival events and was tons of fun. You can visit the www.calgaryurbanfestival.com to stay posted of further Urban Arts events
If you are an artist looking to perform for Bach, Tots and Tiptoes, please click here for more info.
ABOUT US
Soulocentric is a performing arts company that knows no boundaries between theatre, dance and music. We love to create original works in all of these performing disciplines and even like to mix them together in each of our shows to engage you, our audience, with a diversified performance that will speak to your soul on many different levels. We aim to expose music lovers to dance, dance lovers to theatre, theatre lovers to music- arts lovers to more arts! And we cherish our local artists and strive to showcase their talents at every opportunity.
Soulocentric Performing Arts Society is a small company that has been in existence since 2002. We began as an exclusively 'solo' performance based company called Solocentric Theatre and Dance, that ran a yearly festival showcasing independent performing arts creating new theatre and dance works or presenting new original music.
With our new identity as Soulocentric Performing Arts we want to go beyond the festival and include diverse programming that will invite people from all walks of life to be a part of our community and enjoy our productions. While we continue to produce an annual festival of solo performance, we endeavour to grow our performance programming into original new creations that integrate theatre, dance and music and cater to a variety of people seeking arts and cultural events in the city and surrounding area.
CREATIVE TEAM
Soulocentric Performing Arts was founded by Artistic Director, Jenny Repond Peters along with David Friese and Katherine Saunders. Today, Soulocentric operates under Artistic Director Jenny Repond Peters and recruits or partners with a variety of other theatre artists, dancers and musicians in the community on a project per project basis.
When not producing the Soulocentric Festival, Jenny is a writer, director, performer and choreographer. After graduating from Queen’s University, Jenny trained and worked with various professional theatre companies such as 1000 Islands Playhouse (Gananoque, Ont.), One Yellow Rabbit, Ghost River Theatre, and Trickster Theatre (Calgary, AB). She has also taught for Calgary Young People’s Theatre and Quest Theatre. Favorite credits include: Anne of Green Gables & Guys and Dolls (choreographer), Radioheaded (performer), Eye for and Eye (choreographer / assistant director), Single and Sexy (director), Sexxxy (creator/director), Red, White and Rumour (creator/performer), Brava: Dreaming the Superhero (Performer/Creator, Theatre of the Living Statue), Denise Clarke’s Sky Cabaret (Performer/Creator, High Performance Rodeo 2004), On The Last Day Tina Did Nothing (Director) , by David Rhymer, Hadji and Mar (Director/Choreographer), by David Friese and Katie Sanders and Trickster Theatre (artist in residence educational program). She holds an M.F.A. in Theatre Studies from the University of Calgary and recently spent 2 years in the UK on an artistic sebbatical )2006-2008. Jenny also has an administrative background in the arts and was recently the manager of Ghost River Theatre. She is currently enjoying maternity leave with her two lovely children!
Soulocentric Performing Arts receives support from the Community Spirit Program by the Government of Alberta, Culture and Community Spirit department.