Cultivating Flight Events!

Sunday, October 12, 2008

A VAMPIRE TALE!

Time to take out your fangs!

Cultivating Flight will be featuring in this underworld hit show, Lisa Starry's A Vampire Tale!

Oct 30th- Nov 1st, Nov 6th-9th

Thursdays and Fridays at 8pm

Saturdays at 8pm and 10pm

@ the Phoenix Little Theater

Click here for more details

Get your discount tix here

HURRY- this show sells out fast! Get yours before they are all gone!

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Cultivating Flight in the Arizona Dance Festival!

Check out the Arizona Dance Festival on Saturday Oct 11th for an exciting night filled with Hip Hop, Belly Dance, Modern, Jazz, and more!!!

Travis Mesman will be performing the nationally acclaimed solo "Bart," the same solo that toured across the country with the Koresh Dance Company. Koresh Dance Company commissioned this original work from Travis many years ago, and we are pleased to bring it back to the stage for Arizona after a long hiatus.

go to www.desertdancetheatre.org for more info on the festival's schedule.

Friday, September 26, 2008

This Saturday! New Times A'Fare!

Hey Everyone!

Cultivating Flight will be performing at The Venue for the Phoenix New Times A'Fare! It's going to be a grand event! Bring your sunglasses (the fire act will be blinding) and head on out!

Schedule to perform:

Travis breathes an amazing fire act outside!

And go inside to see Nicole and guest aerialist Nancy Miller of Scorpius Dance Theater perform a synchronized aerial trapeze act 20 ft high!

Get your tix here!

Travis in the news!

Check out the new article in the New Times about Cultivating Flight's Travis Mesman!
Click here!

What is Cultivating Flight?

A little history...

Travis Mesman started cultivating his flight about ten years ago. He says “Cultivating Flight is my ongoing effort in the fight against gravity and instilling in others that they can do anything that enters the scope of their imagination. These goals can be achieved through daily practice, rigorous training, but otherwise through play. My personal practice includes taking all forms of dance class and continuous play in breakin', capoeira, aerial dance, and acrobatics.”

Since coming to the Arizona Valley you've seen Cultivating Flight doing these cool things...

performing the acro-modern duet Mars 4.2 at the Arizona Dance Festival and Celebration of Dance concerts

stilt walking at Angela Johnson's Vaudeville Mystery Menagerie Fashion show at the Clarendon Hotel

being super sci-fi robots at club e4 for DJ Steve Aoki's Retro Futuristic event

performing a beautiful aerial adagio act for SAS Dance Studio's Cirque du le Dance at the Higley Performing Arts Center

wall dancing down the pool-side wall of the Clarendon Hotel alongside performances of Scandalesque

and all the super-cool events listed on this blog!

about Travis aka "FireFly"

Travis Mesman started cultivating his flight about ten years ago. He says "Cultivating Flight is my ongoing effort in the fight against gravity and instilling in others that they can do anything that enters the scope of their imagination. These goals can be achieved through daily practice, rigorous training, but otherwise through play. My personal practice includes taking all forms of dance class and continuous play in breakin', capoeira, aerial dance, and acrobatics." He's danced professionally for Brian Sander's JUNK, toured nationally with the intense modern-jazz Koresh Dance Company, and internationally with the world renowned MOMIX. Travis also is skilled dance lighting designer, specializing in moving light programming and design. Currently, he resides in Tempe, performing, choreographing and giving master classes to the dance community.

about Nicole

Nicole received her aerial dance training from Amanda Topaz of Rockit Aerials in NYC. She has performed in most parks and on many stages throughout her hometown of NYC, but is more proud to have produced dozens of dance concerts and presented her own choreography in quite a few as well. Nicole was on faculty teaching Simonson Jazz at Dance New Amsterdam before moving to Arizona in 2007. Since the move across country Nicole has taught master classes at too many local studios to name, as well as semesters at Glendale and Scottsdale Community College, and residencies at Paradise Valley Community College and the Arizona School for the Arts. She is currently on faculty teaching modern at the School of Ballet Arizona, and also gives private aerial dance lessons. Want to fly? email info@cultivatingflight.com