UH energizes late summer’s arts scene with August Days Dance Series

MANOA—David Plotz, in his Slate article, “August: Let’s get rid of it,” brands the late summer month the “Mississippi of the calendar,” the “vast sandy wasteland of American culture,” and the “month of vagueness,” positing that August rates merely “three mentions in Bartlett’s Quotations, compared to a dozen for December and two dozen for March.”

Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 laments that “summer’s lease hath all too short a date.” University of Hawaii at Manoa’s Outreach College and partners seek to remedy all of that with a new, dynamic cultural offering: the August Days Dance Series.

UHi will present three dance companies at Kennedy Theatre: Onoe Kikunobu Dance Company on August 7 at 7:30 p.m. and August 8 at 2:00 p.m.; Keiko Fujii Dance Company on August 15 at 2:00 p.m.; and Ballet Hawaii on August 21 at 7:30 p.m. and August 22 at 2:00 p.m.

Tickets for all performances are available on line at www.etickethawaii.com, by phone at (808) 944-2697, or visit any UH Ticket outlet (Stan Sheriff Center, Rainbowtique stores, and the UH Manoa Campus Center ticket office), service charges apply.

For more information about the performances visit www.outreach.hawaii.edu/community, or for information about discount tickets to the entire August Days Dance Series, call (808) 956-8246.