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Night Sky Series 2024: Tarotville

Step right up for a one-of-a-kind pop-up experience called Tarotville™. It’s a Tarot card reading for the audience, five dancers, astounding spectacle, and live music by Raffi and Ischa.

Dates for our next outdoor season from July to Sept 2024 will be added here. Until then, please go to our Instagram for photos, reels, and news about special showings and events.

5 dancers on the Tarotville stage

Players/Co-creators

Star: Arielle Hassett
High Priestess: Jorji Diaz Fadel
Magician: Bashaun Williams
Fool: Florian Alberge
Queen of Lovers: Ashley Thomson
Zelda: Ischa Bee
Armen: Raffi Shahinian

Conceived and created by: Stephen Brown
Sound score and songbook performed and rendered by:
Raffi and Ischa
Costumes by: Christopher Larson
Tarot advise and intuitive guidance by: Jennifer Beaumont
Rehearsal Director: Nathan Shaw
Photography by Paul Christean

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Donating to Curbside Theater

Curbside requires the support of cultural enthusiasts like you. Please consider helping make this program available to communities and people who would otherwise be unable to afford it. SB Dance is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and your donation is tax-deductible as allowable by law.

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Madam Zelda holds a Tarot card with her assistant Armen looking on

FAQs

Curbside Theater takes multi-layered, entertaining, and professional production to where you live, work, and play. Shows are outside, under night skies, and is usually free.

  • Who are you people? SB Dance is a company of professional artists, mainly dancers, who like pushing boundaries and inventing new things. Over the years, we’ve made concerts of  all dance, pure theater, musicals, operettas, and immersive works. Curbside is what we call “dance theater”; that is, a little of both.
  • How artsy fartsy is this? It’s approachable, entertaining, and made for curious, open-minded people without any special knowledge or familiarity with contemporary art.
  • Who hires you? Curbside shows are “hosted” by arts councils, municipalities, colleges, neighborhoods, businesses, and individuals. They pay a fee to us, and admission is usually free or low cost. Lots of people donate to help make the show available to more people.
  • Is this okay for kids? Tarotville is kid-friendly. We advise audiences to consider the experience like a nice restaurant: some youths enjoy it; others won’t be happy without a kids menu. This is a detailed description about audience appropriateness.
  • Do you provide accessibility options? Curbside Theater suits audiences with varying disabilities. Please contact us if you have questions about accessibility at a specific location.
  • Is it always the same show? “Tarotville” is a card reading for the audience and every show is a little different. We’re adding new cards all the time. We have a second show called “All Those Kinds of Love” that was conceived during the pandemic and born in 2022. Both are about 50 min.
  • Why so late? We start at dusk so our stage lights are visible.
  • Will you do a pro bono show? We waive our fee for organizations that help under-served communities. Please reach out if you are interested.
  • How about social media? @sbdanceco on Instagram and tag #curbsidetheater.

Made possible by

Utah Division of Arts and Museums / National Endowment for the Arts
Salt Lake County Zoo, Parks, and Arts
Vine Lore Wine and Spirits
John C. Kish Foundation
The Lund Foundation
BW Bastian Foundation
GS and DD Eccles Foundation
And many others

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About Curbside Theater

When the 2020 shutdown occurred, Stephen (SB Dance’s founder/director) strapped a stage on an utility trailer and convinced dancer Annie Kent and musical duo Raffi and Ischa to drive around doing 10 minute mini-shows to anyone who made a free reservation. All outside, the show grew into more solos, and, for performers in the same bubble, some duets. Back then, we’d clean the stage surface between each piece.

Fast-forward and the Curbside program became a 50-min, complex work of theater art. The newest show is called Tarotville. It works like a card reading for the audience, and every show is different.  All Those Kinds of Love was the first Curbside show, developed during the pandemic and reaching maturity in 2022.

The goal of every Curbside Theater program is to engage curious people from all backgrounds with contemporary art that’s approachable, affordable, convenient, casual, fun, social, and under the stars.

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