Dance Dimensions 

The project-based Moving Dance Company, whose recent works include View/Chew for the Versatility Dance Festival in Boulder, Colorado, and Washington, D.C., made its Santa Barbara debut with HOLOGRAM at last year’s Nebula Dance Festival. MDC returns to Center Stage on October 21 with This is Not Content, a multimedia show that explores the human experience in the digital age; the title is a playful reference to René Magritte’s surrealist painting The Treachery of Images. As lines blur between online and offline, between technology and nature, and between connection and isolation, the piece asks: What is content, who owns content, and are we content? Combining dance with choreography by Nika Antuanette, original music by Jeremy Cone, and visual projections, This is Not Content aims to be accessible, relatable, and engaging while sharing a viable connection. 

Also on October 21: American Dance & Music presents a tribute to veteran international modern dance teacher Susan Alexander as a fundraiser for The Dance Hub. The evening features a Mediterranean-inspired dinner from Chef Michael Wood, a performance by choreographer/dancer Molissa Fenley, an intro to The Dance Hub’s new ballet and jazz instructor Suzi Winson, and words from Alexander.

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Nebula Dance Lab is also back in action on October 26 at the Lobero, offering Perspectives, a new evening length piece inspired by the artistic works in a range of media by 11 women artists from the 18th century through today. Chloe Roberts choreographed the work featuring Nebula’s bi-coastal cast of dancers, taking its cue from such sources as Joy Harjo’s poem Remember, painter Frida Kahlo’s The Two Fridas, Alma Thomas’s painting Starry Night and the Astronauts, and Pauline Powell Burns’s Violets, plus a half-dozen other works of art. Visit www.nebuladance.org.