Award-winning Rio de Janeiro-based choreographer Marcia Milhaze will present the New Orleans premier of her latest work Tempo de Verao (Time of Summer.)

This work was inspired by her long time fascination with waltzes, and memories of her family. Lovers express their desires and emotion through movement under a sky of brightly colored circles suggesting an imaginary world of unceasingly moving colorful targets befitting an empirical universe of waltzes created by visual artist Beatrice Milhaze.

The residency and performance is made possible through the National Performance Network. NPN is an independent organization begun by Dance Theater Workshop and is comprised of arts organizations in 42 cities and 27 states. NPN is made possible through major funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency). For further information, visit the NPN website at www.npnweb.org or write: National Performance Network 1712 Baronne Street, St. 1712, New Orleans, LA 70112.

Additional support provided by the Stone Center for Latin Studies Tulane University, the Arts Council of New Orleans, the Louisiana Division of the Arts, and xfone.