For Stepping Out 2017, Boulder Ballet combines classical music with classical ballet for a delightful experience of pure joy! Join Boulder Ballet in February for world premiere choreography set on Boulder Ballet’s professional corps of dancers. Experience the depth of Prokofiev’s Classical Symphony and Robert North’s Light Fandango, among other cutting edge explorations of music and dance, 7:30 p.m., Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder; $15-$20; 303-444-7328.
“Finders Keepers” Urban decay, nostalgia, and surrealistic worlds are brought to life through the work of long-time regional assemblage artists Claudia Roulier and Daniel House Kelly, 10:30 a.m., Bricolage Gallery, at Art Parts Creative Reuse Center, 2870 Bluff St., Boulder; free; 720-379-5328.
“Dog Dance” When I perform Dog Dance, I find a world in my body that is underneath the mud, but that is also flying. I invite you into this world, in hopes that you too will get a chance to burrow in, and then hover and float, just above the earth, 7 p.m., Floorspace, 1510 Zamia Ave., Boulder; $10; 303-718-2212 or joannaandtheagitators.com/projects-2/upcoming-projects.
“Neruda” An inspector hunts down Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, who becomes a fugitive in his home country in the late 1940s for joining the Communist Party. Inventive, intelligent, and beautifully filmed, Neruda transcends the traditional biopic structure to look at the meaning beyond the details of its subject’s life, 2 and 7 p.m., Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder; $6-$11; 303-444-7328.
“Fire at Sea” Situated some 200km off Italy’s southern coast, Lampedusa has hit world headlines in recent years as the first port of call for hundreds of thousands of African and Middle Eastern migrants hoping to make a new life in Europe. Rosi spent months living on the Mediterranean island, capturing its history, culture and the current everyday reality of its 6,000-strong local population as hundreds of migrants land on its shores on a weekly basis. The resulting documentary focuses on 12-year-old Samuele, a local boy who loves to hunt with his slingshot and spend time on land even though he hails from a culture steeped in the sea, 4:30 p.m., Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder; $6-$11; 303-444-7328.
“Unspoken” Exploring how hope is born from tragedy, “Unspoken” peers into the lives of a small group of friends in New York City and examines how unexpected events alter their lives, 7:30 p.m., Loft Theatre, 1515 Main Campus Mall, Boulder; $10-$16; colorado.edu/theatredance/events-tickets/theatre-events/unspoken.
Shakespeare’s “King Lear” “Lear” is Shakespeare’s “Game of Thrones”: broad-swords and betrayals, madness and malice, plots and pathos in ancient Britain, in one of the greatest plays ever written, 7:30 p.m., Longmont Performing Arts Center, 513 Main St., Longmont; $21.00 – $25.00; 303-442-1415 or theupstartcrow.org/currentshow.php.
“The Unsinkable Molly Brown” Escaping from a life of poverty in the backwoods of Missouri, Molly married a prospector, entered Monte Carlo high society, survived the sinking of the Titanic and earned the approval of the “beautiful people of Denver,” 7:30 p.m., Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont; $17 – $42; 720-371-6989 or jesterstheatre.com.
Our editors found this article on this site using Google and regenerated it for our readers.
