Big Big Jazz Band & Barefoot Dance to Perform at Ware Center, 11/3

What happens when a big jazz band sound hits the stage with an improvisational dance troupe? Lota music, lotsa motion, lotsa costumes and fun...that's what. Bob Troxell's Big Big Jazz Band is combining talents with the new Barefoot Dance Company for a Sunday afternoon, November 3rd special presentation of improve music and dance at 3 PM at the Ware Center, 42 North Prince Street, Lancaster, PA.

Bob Troxell's Big Big Jazz Band was organized in 1968, to serve as the pit orchestra at a Lancaster politics-spoofing show written by Donald Goldstrom. Priscilla Kaufhold is the artistic director of Barefoot Dance Company, a new Dance Company. The two have intertwined their artistic talents to produce the collaborative performance entitled "String of Pearls". The name derives from the thought a necklace is made up of individual but harmonious gems. In this case, the pearls are the talented musicians and dancers on stage.

Since 1968, The Big Big Jazz Band has delighted audiences' young and old alike in the Central Pennsylvania region. Its purpose has been entertainment through the music that the talented guys and girls in the band love. And since it is a labor of love (no one gets paid), their proceeds make it possible to help many Lancaster area service organizations raise money through the band's appearances at fund raising events.

The Big Big Jazz Band have played for over 400 fund-raising benefit performances; concerts for community organizations, jazz worship services, funerals and other church-related occasions. It is estimated they have helped raise over three-quarters of a million dollars for local non-profits. Their musical library has well over 500 arrangements of tunes, both secular and some religious; many are reminiscent of the exciting sounds of Count Basie, Duke Ellington, the Dorsey Brother's Bands and other big bands of the forties and fifties.

Priscilla Kaufhold, director of Millersville University's costume rental shop, is the artistic director of Kinetics Dance Theatre. Since 1984, Kinetics Dance Theatre has continued to work as a non-profit Professional Dance Company and School of Contemporary Dance. Kinetics' goal has been to guide, motivate, and inspire students and audiences towards becoming supportive and knowledgeable about the art of dance. Under Priscilla's artistic direction, Kinetics Dance Theatre's Professional Company performs curriculum-based movement programs in schools, interactive workshops for business meetings, and gives performances in senior centers as well as concert venues. Kinetics mission is to support and promote Contemporary Dance and the arts; Kinetics Dance Theatre continues to do so by performing year-round in a variety of venues throughout the Mid-Atlantic Region. Out of this company, she created Barefoot Dance Company.

"I divide my time between costuming and choreographing. It's all about the body in motion, how the fabric moves and changes the silhouette of the body, and how the body can change its quality of movement to portray a different character," - Priscilla Kaufhold.

Tickets: $20 |$17 Seniors |$5 for Students. To reserve tickets, call 717-872-3811 or 717-871-2308; Online at artsmu.com; In person at the Ware Center Box Office (42 N. Prince St., Lancaster) or the Student Memorial Center Ticket Office (Room 103, on Millersville University's campus). The Box Office is open Mon.-Fri., 8:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.. All seats are reserved. Tickets may also be purchased one hour prior to the performance.