Here's a quick guide to some upcoming arts and cultural events happening around Missoula in the week ahead. Dance film fest at the Westside (Friday-Saturday, Jan. 24-26) Bare Bait Dance company is putting on its 12th annual festival, Kinetoscope, with a curated selection of movies that mash-up the two genres implied in the title: dance and filmmaking.
Think of dance pieces that are choreographed with a camera and other cinematic tropes in mind, not just a routine captured on video. Some of the selections include "David Cassidy," a work by Lauren Edson and LED, which produced a show called "Kid Lightning" at the Westside Theater last year, and "Flock," a new piece by Amber Moon Peterson, a Bare Bait alum. In addition, choreographer Faith Morrison will create a new piece with the Bare Bait crew during the festival.
Details: The Westside Theater, Jan. 24 at 7:30 p.m.
, Jan. 25 at 2 and 7:30 p.m.
and Jan 26 at 6 p.m. Tickets are $32 for adults, $36 day of; or $25 for students and seniors, $28 day of.
A hospice center play (sold out) (Thursday-Sunday, Jan. 23-26) In national writer Will Eno's play, "Wakey, Wakey," a man who's near the end of life, or perhaps has already passed, confronts the larger question of existence, belief and meaning. Craig Menteer, a director who's been working in Missoula theater now for 45 years, has never been shy about unconventional locations.
For a 1980 production of a Sam Shepard play called "The Unseen Hand," he and the nonprofit Clark Fork Actors Al.