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Weekend Spotlight: ALCHEMY’s dance; Rundgren’s hits
The Catalyst’s every-Thursday guide to Tampa Bay entertainment and the arts.
The ever-prolific dancer, choreographer and teacher Alexander Jones and his projectALCHEMY have a new project debuting this weekend.
What Remains: Dance, Visual Art & Photography (Saturday at 7:30 p.m.) includes two reimagined collaborative repertory works, at Hough Hall in the Palladium Theater. They are bloom and residue with visual artist Rebekah Lazaridis, and ABOVE/below with photographer Joey Clay. Combining contemporary dance, visual art, photography and installation into a single immersive experience, Jones wrote in an email introduction, “that begins the moment audiences enter the theater.”
Lazaridis’ work is on the stage, while Clay’s photography appears throughout the auditorium in a gallery-type setting. “Together,” Jones wrote, “these worlds form a shared environment — placing the audience within the work rather than in front of it.”
Jones encourages audience members to arrive early (doors open at 6:30) to absorb the environment before the dance portion begins.
Find tickets and more information here.
Todd Rundgren. Photo by Bill DeYoung.
Todd Rundgren calls his current tour, stopping at the Capitol Theatre tonight and Friday, Damned if I Do. That’s a reference to his general reluctance to play a “normal” concert – one that is not themed, or dedicated to one particular album, or is experimental in nature. Rundgren likes to do that stuff.
These will be shows that focus on the best-known and beloved songs from his lengthy career, a “hits” list. Count on “Hello It’s Me,” “I Saw The Light,” “Love is the Answer,” “Can We Still Be Friends” and that all-time lazy-doofus anthem “Bang the Drum All Day.”
“I tend not to do the same thing twice because I don’t feel like it’s my purpose to do that,” Rundgren told this writer a few years back. “Some artists spend their whole lives trying to find a formula that brings them success, and then they’ll mine that formula until the cows come home. And I always felt that I have to be different — not only different from other artists, but also different from myself. So that I don’t get in a rut by doing the same thing over and over again.”
The show begins at 8 both nights. All tickets are at this link.
Just in time for Pride Weekend, Dirty John’s Drag Queen Summer Camp arrives at The Studio@620 tonight, Friday and Saturday (all shows at 8 p.m.). John Huls and his band of merry pranksters write and perform gay-themed sketch comedy.
IYKYK, and be advised that their shows very often sell out. That’s why there are three performances (find tickets at this link).
Huls and his partner Jay Hoff guest on Friday’s edition of our Arts Alive! podcast.
Kanye West, a.k.a. Ye, arrives at Raymond James Stadium Friday for the first of two concerts. Saturday at RJS was already spoken for, so West’s second show will happen Sunday. Tickets are at this link.
Friday at Ruth Eckerd Hall: The nonstop touring machine that is country music’s Travis Tritt, and his band. Tickets.
Friday’s Dali Museum performance by the Rebecca Penneys Piano Festival is sold out.
Canada’s Classic Albums Live performs the album The Beatles (aka the White Album) in full and note-for-note Saturday at the Capitol Theatre. Tickets are here.
Tony nominee (for Rock of Ages) Constantine Maroulis sings in front of a rock band, which is itself in front of the Florida Rock Symphony, Saturday at Ruth Eckerd Hall. It’s The Music of Led Zeppelin, and tickets are at this link. Maroulis will return for The Music of Journey, with the symphony, July 17.
Micky Dolenz, aka the Last Monkee Standing, returns for his annual Clearwater visit Sunday. Catch the Mickster at the Capitol Theatre; tickets are here.
Ryan Sturm, left, and Jamie Giangrande-Holcom are in the musical comedy “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change,” entering its final weekend at Stageworks Theatre. Photo provided.
On theater stages
Sunday means end of the run for the comic drama The Hot Wing King at American Stage (showtimes and tickets here), and the musical comedy I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change at Stageworks Theatre (showtimes and tickets here).
Continuing through Aug. 2 is freeFall’s jukebox musical Bash of the Titans, a comic sendup of the sword-and-sandal opus Clash of the Titans. Showtimes and tickets here.
Coming soon
July 1 The Princess Concert at the Mahaffey Theater
July 1 America 250: Together in Harmony with singer Allyson Briggs and an 18-piece big band, at the Palladium Side Door Cabaret
July 1 Simon Lasky’s New York Quintet ft. Allison Nash at the New Tampa Performing Arts Center
July 2 Joe Jackson at the Capitol Theatre
July 2 Rebecca Penneys Piano Festival in Concert at the New Tampa Performing Arts Center
July 2 The Cross & the Saber opens at LAB Theater Project
July 2 Celtic Throne II at the Mahaffey Theater
July 2 ‘Canvas & Cadence: The South St. Pete Mural Music Project’ Pianist Markus Gottschlich in dialogue with 10 specific South St. Pete murals
July 2 Simon Lasky’s New York Quintet ft. Allison Nash at the Palladium Side Door Cabaret
July 4 St. Pete Opera 4th of July Pops Spectacular at the Mahaffey Theater
July 5 Florida Jazz Express: Fourth of July Big Band Concert at the New Tampa Performing Arts Center
July 8 Victor Wainwright & The Train at the Palladium Side Door Cabaret
July 8 Post Malone, Jelly Roll (new date) at Raymond James Stadium
July 9 Dear Jack Dear Louise opens at the Straz Center Shimberg Playhouse
July 9 Tame Impala at Benchmark Arena
July 10 St. Pete Collective: The Music of James Taylor at the Palladium Side Door Cabaret
July 10 Tori Amos at Ruth Eckerd Hall
July 10 Train at the Mid-Florida Credit Union Amphitheatre
