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Wednesday, December 11, 2013 To Members of the Class of 2017: Sarah Michelson: New Work Creation at Bard
The Fisher Center and Live Arts Bard are pleased to introduce a unique opportunity to work with the acclaimed choreographer Sarah MichelsonFisher Center, Resnick Theater Studio All members of the Bard Class of 2017 are invited to an information session regarding an exciting, groundbreaking opportunity to work with celebrated, award-winning choreographer SARAH MICHELSON Please come and meet Sarah and hear more about the project. All are welcome — no prior performance experience necessary. Sarah will be creating a major dance performance at Bard over the next four years, with members of your class. The project will ultimately be performed in the Bard SummerScape Festival in summer 2017, the year that you graduate. Pizza will be served. MORE: SARAH MICHELSON: NEW WORK CREATION AT BARD As a resident artist of the Fisher Center, Sarah Michelson’s new work at Bard will unfold over four years in direct collaboration with students. Interested students from Bard’s first-year class of 2013/2014 will be able to join Michelson on an intimate, rigorous, creative journey through the creation of her next major work. Michelson will work with a company of students in the spring and summers of 2014, 2015, and 2016 building a new work that they will then premiere in Bard SummerScape 2017. Sarah Michelson is a choreographer and performer who synthesizes performance, installation, sound, and architectural elements in unexpected ways. Her work has been seen at the Whitney Museum, BAM, The Kitchen, the Walker Arts Center, and other venues in the US and abroad. In 2012, she became the first choreographer to receive the prestigious Bucksbaum Award, which recognizes an artist featured in the Whitney Biennial for their “singular combination of talent and imagination.” Michelson is also the recipient of a Doris Duke Artist Award, the Alpert Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She is also an associate curator of dance at The Kitchen in NYC. “When Sarah Michelson is on, her work brooks no resistance. There is an inevitability to it, and a relentlessness, from which you do not, cannot, look away.” —New York Times. Sarah Michelson’s residency at Bard is made possible with the support of The Andrew W Mellon Foundation. |
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Tuesday, December 10, 2013 Information Session: Theater & Performance Trip to Theater der Welt Festival in Mannheim, Germany, May 29 – June 2, 2014
Come learn about the festival and the trip.LUMA Theater Conference Room This summer, join Bard's Theater and Performance Program on a trip to the Theater der Welt festival, one of the foremost international theater festivals, which is held in Germany every three years. This year's festival, taking place May 23 – June 8, 2014 in Mannheim, Germany, is curated by Matthias Lilienthal, the former artistic director of Berlin's HAU Theater, and will feature the work of major international artists such as Philippe Quesne (France), Gob Squad (UK/Germany), and Guillermo Calderón (Chile). For the first time in 2014, Theater der Welt is hosting a new program called Performing Arts Campus, in which students from around the world are invited to attend seminars and workshops with artists and curators working in the festival. Bard's Theater and Performance program will travel to Theater der Welt to participate in Performing Arts Campus's second session, May 29 – June 2, which is organized around the theme of "Performing Politics." Participants will: *Attend performances by some of the leading international artists working today *Participate in seminars hosted by leading curators and critics to discuss and respond to the work *Take part in intensive workshops with artists presenting work at the festival *Meet other students of theater and performance from universities around the world For more information, please join us on Tuesday, December 10, or contact Miriam Felton-Dansky at [email protected]. -- Miriam Felton-Dansky Visiting Assistant Professor Theater and Performance Program |
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Thursday, December 5, 2013 Anonymous Is A Woman:
by Miriam Felton-Dansky, Ph.D.Young Jean Lee, "Untitled Feminist Show," and the New Politics of Anonymity Candidate for the position in Theater & Performance Fisher Center, Studio North Anonymity has often been a symptom of identities repressed and authorship erased. But what if anonymity were liberating? What if being nameless or voiceless--far from suppressing personal identities--freed us to move between them or discard them altogether? These are the questions that, I argue, playwright and director Young Jean Lee raises in her 2012 piece "Untitled Feminist Show," a dance-theater work in which six female actors--all performing nude--stage a series of vignettes, dances, and scenarios designed to create, in Lee's words, a "utopian feminist experience." In this talk, I examine "Untitled Feminist Show" as a meditation on the feminist anonymous, reimagining anonymity as escape from the constraints of gender and sex, and staging a rehearsal for new forms of identity to come. |
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Tuesday, December 3, 2013 Haunted Infrastructures of Public Memory: Performance, Event, Temporary-Use
Fisher Center, Studio North Lecture by Brandon WoolfDepartment of Theater, Dance & Performance Studies University of California, Berkeley After its closure in 1990, the Palace of the Republic – East Berlin community center and seat of the former East German Parliament – quickly emerged as one of Berlin’s most controversial sites of contested memory. The subsequent decision to raze the Palace and to rebuild the Imperial Castle in its stead catalyzed heated architectural and city-planning debates (and protests) in the early ‘90s that continue into the present. These debates set the stage, after the millennium, for a series of interdisciplinary arts experiments with/in the shell of the former Palace that set out to critique its destruction, but also to collectively investigate possibilities for a kind of radically public and entirely temporary performance institution. My talk will examine the ways in which this durational project – titled The People’s Palace – posited an altogether different infrastructural and aesthetic imagining for the center of reunified Berlin. Further, I will argue that People’s Palace attempted to institutionalize a “spectral” mode of realizing history and performing memory: looking both backwards for inspiration in a history that might not have been and forward to one that might still be. |
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Thursday, November 14, 2013 Theater and Performance Program presents Senior Project
Christina Mirabilis By Cameron Seglias '12 Fisher Center, Resnick Theater Studio Thursday, November 14 – Saturday, November 16 at 7:30 pm Free and open to the public. No reservations required. Directed and designed by Marie Schleef ‘13 John Musall, lighting designer This new mystery play, Christina Mirabilis, explores the account of the 12th century Flemish mystic Christine the Astonishing who was known for her divine miracles. The reading of this text is influenced by the German theater maker Einar Schleef (1944–2001) and his approach to theater. Cast Marie Schleef ’13 Kyla Mathis-Angress ’14 Phoeber Cramer ’14 Maxwell Green ’17 Claire Thompson ’14 Clare McDonald ’16 Running time for this performance is approximately 30 minutes. |
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Wednesday, October 30, 2013 The Cuban Argument with Itself
Presented by Jorge Ignacio CortiñasFisher Center, Resnick Theater Studio Reviewing the history of censorship and political intolerance in Miami and Havana suggests that these two centers of Cuban politics might be engaged in processes of polarization that often operate in concert with each other and have proved integral to the maintenance of the United States trade embargo against Cuba. As one antidote to this long standing polarization, Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas will review the efforts of Cuban and Cuban American theater artists who have for decades been organizing to subvert the embargo, noting the successful ways these artists have begun to normalize exchange and travel between the United States and Cuba. |
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Thursday, October 24, 2013 – Sunday, October 27, 2013 Moby Dick—Rehearsed
By Orson WellesFisher Center, LUMA Theater SOLD OUT! October 24, 25, 26 and 27 at 7 pm October 26 at 2 pm Tickets: $15; free for Bard community. Reservations required. directed by Jonathan Rosenberg designed by Zane Pihlstrom lights by Bruce Steinberg video by Joshua Thorson music/sound by Antonin Fajt '14 and Math Norman '14 music for church hymn and sailor songs by Ben Hopkins '14 Moby Dick—Rehearsed is a 1955 play by Orson Welles in which a company of actors gathers in a rehearsal room to work on an adaptation of the Herman Melville novel. In Welles’s dramatic experiment the rehearsal is the performance, and a door is opened on the act of theatrical creation. Cast Salome Dewell '16, Ishmael/Ensemble Paul Weintrob '14, Ahab/Ensemble Harry Beer '14, Starbuck/Ensemble Sebastian Gutierrez '14, Stubb/Ensemble Antonio Irizarry '14, Flask/Ensemble Eleanor Robb '16, Pip/Ensemble Kate Edery '14, Peleg/Daggoo/voice of Rachel/Ensemble Dimitri Cacouris '14, Father Mapple/Tashtego/voice of Bachelor/Ensemble Ben Hopkins '14, Elijah/Queequeg/Carpenter/Ensemble Running time for this performance is approximately two hours and 10 minutes, with one 15-minute intermission. |
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Saturday, September 14, 2013 Master Class with Anne Bogart '74
Open only to Bard Theater & Performance students. Space is limited to 30 students; sign up at the Fisher Center. Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Anne Bogart, Bard College class of 1974, is the Artistic Director of SITI Company, which she founded with Japanese director Tadashi Suzuki in 1992. She is a Professor at Columbia University where she runs the Graduate Directing Program. Works with SITI include Café Variations, Trojan Women, American Document, Antigone, Under Construction, Freshwater, Who Do You Think You Are, Radio Macbeth, Hotel Cassiopeia, Death and the Ploughman, La Dispute, Score, bobrauschenbergamerica, Room, War of the Worlds, Cabin Pressure, War of the Worlds: The Radio Play, Alice’s Adventures, Culture of Desire, Bob, Going, Going, Gone, Small Lives/Big Dreams, The Medium, Noel Coward’s Hay Fever and Private Lives, August Strindberg’s Miss Julie, and Charles Mee’s Orestes. She is the author of four books: A Director Prepares, The Viewpoints Book, And Then, You Act and Conversations with Anne. Open only to Bard Theater & Performance students. Space is limited to 30 students; sign up at the Fisher Center. |
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Tuesday, September 10, 2013 Auditions for "Moby Dick—Rehearsed"
Bard Theater and Performance ProgramRichard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts Moby Dick—Rehearsed by Orson Welles directed by Jonathan Rosenberg A company of actors gathers in a rehearsal room to work on an adaptation of the Herman Melville novel. In Welles’s dramatic experiment the rehearsal is the performance, and a door is opened on the act of theatrical creation. Performed October 24-27 in LUMA Theater of the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Art Auditions will be held on Tuesday, 9/10 from 6pm – 11pm and Wednesday, 9/11 from 8pm-11:30pm. Callbacks will be held on Thursday, 9/12 from 6pm-11pm. The first rehearsal will be on Friday, 9/13. A sign up sheet for the auditions will be posted on the lobby board of the of the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts. NOTE: (1) The auditions are open to ALL Bard students. (2) The play will be cast without regard to the gender and/or race of the characters and so everybody is encouraged to audition. For the audition, actors should prepare either one of the sides of text from the play (available at the front desk in the lobby of the Performing Arts Center) or a short monologue of your own choice from any American play written before 1960. A copy of the play will be left at the front desk of the Performing Arts Center. |
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Wednesday, May 1, 2013 José Esteban Muñoz
Feeling Brown: The Performativity of María Irene Fornés and Tania BrugueraFisher Center, Resnick Theater Studio José Esteban Muñoz is a Professor in the Department of Performance Studies at NYU. He is author of the seminal works Disidentifications and Cruising Utopia and co-editor of Pop Out and Everynight Life. |
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Friday, April 26, 2013 Auditions for Feature Film The Fly Room
Seeking extras and actors for speaking rolesThe Fly Room to film at Bard on June 4-7 Olin 304 Bard alumnus Alexis Gambis ('03) is bringing a very exciting project to Bard this spring. This project is the feature film The Fly Room, major scenes of which will be shot at Bard during the first week of June. The film will take viewers back to the 1920s, to a then-unknown, cramped laboratory where three scientists scrutinize hundreds of fruit flies in the hope of uncovering the first discoveries of modern genetics. Into this room steps Betsy, the nine year-old daughter of one of the researchers—the soon-to-be famous geneticist Calvin Bridges. Surrounded by hundreds of jars, hanging bananas, and drawings of Drosophila, Betsy struggles to understand how her father spends so much of his life in this place. Journeying into his world, she begins to understand what secrets the flies may hold. But it soon becomes clear that her father is hiding secrets of his own. Most of the film will be shot in Brooklyn in an exact replica of the Fly Room (which will eventually open to the public as an exhibit sponsored by Science and Nature magazines), but several on-location sequences will be filmed here. Of those, two of the biggest ones will be a drawing class and a party at Manor where Betsy, as a college student in 1939, learns of her father's death from an article in the New York Times. The party scene in particular should be fun, since it will be surrealist-themed, with wild period costumes and Dalí/Duchamp-esque production design involving bicycles hanging from the ceiling. I'm interning on the production and have been instructed to look for people who would be interested in getting involved. Filming at Bard will take place on June 4-7. For those days, and especially for June 6-7, the production is looking for volunteers in the following areas: — Extras for the drawing class and surrealist party. — Speaking-role actors for several characters. See below for information on the characters and auditions. The work will be challenging, since the scenes will require a lot of careful coordination to do just right, but it will be a lot of fun, and from what I know about the project, the movie promises to be really amazing. If you're interested in getting involved, send me an email at <[email protected]> with your name, photo, contact info., major, a brief description of why you're interested, and if you have a place to stay off-campus for the two weeks of filming at Bard. For more information on The Fly Room, visit <www.theflyroom.com>. Thank you so much, Alex White Bard Film Co-op Co-Head Intern on The Fly Room Audition and Character Information for Speaking-Role Actors:The Fly Room seeks actors to play several supporting roles as classmates of Betsy, the film's protagonist. The roles include:— Clara (20-21)She is seductive, free spirited and impulsive. She is Betsey's confidant and best friend. Clara is self-conscious and always wants to be the center of attention. Her noisiness and inability to keep a secret gets her into trouble.— Bobbie (20-22)Bobbie is a preppy, built young chap part of the highest ranked Fraternity society at Bard College. He loves to impress his male friends with ridiculous games and has a slight passive aggressive temperament especially when he is vexed or embarrassed in a group setting. He used to date Clara and they still flirt on occasions.— Ed (mid-20s)Ed is tall, built with dark features. He is Betsy's adventurous, passionate, and occasionally impulsive boyfriend. Ed is beginning a career as a naval architect in France and hopes that Betsy will join him there as his fiancée.Other speaking roles include that of George, who greets party guests and flirts unsubtly with them, Arthur, who reads aloud about the World's Fair in costume as Salvador Dalí, and a couple of friends who discuss the World's Fair with Bobby, Clara, and Betsy.Students who are interested in auditioning should send an email to <[email protected]> to schedule a time slot, and then sides will be sent to them by email. Speaking-role auditions will take place at Olin 304 on Thursday, April 25, 4PM-8PM and on Friday, April 26, 10AM-5PM. Callbacks will also take place in Olin 304 on Friday, May 3 between 10AM and 8PM. Download: FlyRoomAuditionsPoster.pdf |
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Thursday, April 25, 2013 Auditions for Feature Film The Fly Room
Seeking extras and actors for speaking rolesThe Fly Room to film at Bard on June 4-7 Olin 304 Bard alumnus Alexis Gambis ('03) is bringing a very exciting project to Bard this spring. This project is the feature film The Fly Room, major scenes of which will be shot at Bard during the first week of June. The film will take viewers back to the 1920s, to a then-unknown, cramped laboratory where three scientists scrutinize hundreds of fruit flies in the hope of uncovering the first discoveries of modern genetics. Into this room steps Betsy, the nine year-old daughter of one of the researchers—the soon-to-be famous geneticist Calvin Bridges. Surrounded by hundreds of jars, hanging bananas, and drawings of Drosophila, Betsy struggles to understand how her father spends so much of his life in this place. Journeying into his world, she begins to understand what secrets the flies may hold. But it soon becomes clear that her father is hiding secrets of his own. Most of the film will be shot in Brooklyn in an exact replica of the Fly Room (which will eventually open to the public as an exhibit sponsored by Science and Nature magazines), but several on-location sequences will be filmed here. Of those, two of the biggest ones will be a drawing class and a party at Manor where Betsy, as a college student in 1939, learns of her father's death from an article in the New York Times. The party scene in particular should be fun, since it will be surrealist-themed, with wild period costumes and Dalí/Duchamp-esque production design involving bicycles hanging from the ceiling. I'm interning on the production and have been instructed to look for people who would be interested in getting involved. Filming at Bard will take place on June 4-7. For those days, and especially for June 6-7, the production is looking for volunteers in the following areas: — Extras for the drawing class and surrealist party. — Speaking-role actors for several characters. See below for information on the characters and auditions. The work will be challenging, since the scenes will require a lot of careful coordination to do just right, but it will be a lot of fun, and from what I know about the project, the movie promises to be really amazing. If you're interested in getting involved, send me an email at <[email protected]> with your name, photo, contact info., major, a brief description of why you're interested, and if you have a place to stay off-campus for the two weeks of filming at Bard. For more information on The Fly Room, visit <www.theflyroom.com>. Thank you so much, Alex White Bard Film Co-op Co-Head Intern on The Fly Room Audition and Character Information for Speaking-Role Actors:The Fly Room seeks actors to play several supporting roles as classmates of Betsy, the film's protagonist. The roles include:— Clara (20-21)She is seductive, free spirited and impulsive. She is Betsey's confidant and best friend. Clara is self-conscious and always wants to be the center of attention. Her noisiness and inability to keep a secret gets her into trouble.— Bobbie (20-22)Bobbie is a preppy, built young chap part of the highest ranked Fraternity society at Bard College. He loves to impress his male friends with ridiculous games and has a slight passive aggressive temperament especially when he is vexed or embarrassed in a group setting. He used to date Clara and they still flirt on occasions.— Ed (mid-20s)Ed is tall, built with dark features. He is Betsy's adventurous, passionate, and occasionally impulsive boyfriend. Ed is beginning a career as a naval architect in France and hopes that Betsy will join him there as his fiancée.Other speaking roles include that of George, who greets party guests and flirts unsubtly with them, Arthur, who reads aloud about the World's Fair in costume as Salvador Dalí, and a couple of friends who discuss the World's Fair with Bobby, Clara, and Betsy.Students who are interested in auditioning should send an email to <[email protected]> to schedule a time slot, and then sides will be sent to them by email. Speaking-role auditions will take place at Olin 304 on Thursday, April 25, 4PM-8PM and on Friday, April 26, 10AM-5PM. Callbacks will also take place in Olin 304 on Friday, May 3 between 10AM and 8PM. Download: FlyRoomAuditionsPoster.pdf |
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Friday, April 19, 2013 Circus Show Meeting
Be a part of the biggest event on campus!TLS office Join the Surrealist Training Circus and get ready for our annual show. If you perform anything and want to be a part of the biggest performance at Bard join us, any and all are welcome. |
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Wednesday, April 17, 2013 All of a Sudden
By Jack FerverFisher Center, LUMA Theater Tickets: Free, reservations required Collaboration with Joshua Lubin-Levy Set by Marc Swanson Music by Roarke Menzies Costumes by Reid Bartelme All of a Sudden is a new collaboration between choreographer Jack Ferver and writer/performer Joshua Lubin-Levy. This work-in-progress performance is based on the film version of Tennessee Williams’s Suddenly Last Summer, about a young girl driven insane after witnessing her cousin’s murder and the doctor who attempts to help her. Set against the film’s backdrop, the performance explores the intersection of caring, loving, and violent dyads (such as therapist/patient and artist/dramaturge), exploding the moment when we are so overwhelmed we must ask for help—where reality becomes so heavy we bring in others (real or imaginary) to help shoulder the burden. |
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Sunday, April 14, 2013 Panel Discussion: "Euripides' The Bakkhai: Play and Performance"
with Daniel Mendelsohn (Bard College), Helene Foley (Barnard), Rachel Kitzinger (Vassar), and Emily Wilson (University of Pennsylvania)Fisher Center A discussion by four experts of Euripides' tragedy The Bakkhai (The Bacchae), with special attention to the unique features of the current production at Bard's Fisher Center. Free and open to the public. |
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Thursday, April 11, 2013 – Sunday, April 14, 2013 The Bakkhai (The Bacchae)
By EuripidesFisher Center, LUMA Theater Thursday, April 11 at 7 pm Friday, April 12 at 7 pm Saturday, April 13 at 7 pm Sunday, April 14 at 2 and 7 pm Tickets: $15; Free for the Bard students (reservations via the Box Office) April 13: A post-performance conversation with Ned Moore and Lileana Blain-Cruz, moderated by Thomas Bartscherer. Free and open to the public. April 14: A post-performance panel discussion (after the matinee) with four eminent classicists: Helene Foley (Barnard College), Rachel Kitzinger (Vassar), Daniel Mendelsohn (Bard College) and Emily Wilson (University of Pennsylvania). Free and open to the public. Directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz Translated by Ned Moore ’13 The god Dionysus returns to Thebes to prove his divinity and punish the city's unbelievers. This student production is presented in partnership with Bard's Classical Studies Program. |
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Monday, April 8, 2013 Doomed by Hope: Theater in Beirut, Damascus, and Cairo Today
Campus Center, Weis Cinema Eyad Houssami Founding Director of Masrah Ensemble In a world of screens and speeds so great, theaters are padlocked and threatened with demolition. Live public dialogue, as a literary and artistic practice, remains a luxury – if not an impossible cultural phenomenon – in the Arab Middle East. Decades of invasion, occupation, and internecine conflict have ruptured the intangible and tangible infrastructure requisite for theater. And yet, despite the stifling forces of dictatorship and colonialism, theater endures.In this talk, Houssami narrates the emergence of alternative infrastructures of and for theatrical artistry in such difficult contexts and discusses the opportunities and challenges of establishing an international, multilingual theater company based in Beirut, Lebanon. The interactive presentation incorporates video, excerpts of performances and plays, and extracts from "Doomed by Hope: Essays on Arab Theatre" to share a story about contemporary theater today.Eyad Houssami makes and writes about theater. He is the founding director of Masrah Ensemble, a nonprofit theater organization in Lebanon, and the editor of English and Arabic editions of "Doomed by Hope: Essays on Arab Theatre" (Pluto Press and Dar Al Adab 2012). He has performed in dead Byzantine cities in Syria; directed bilingual theater productions that mingle migrant workers with traditional audiences in Lebanon; produced a monodrama in a 13th century Damascene mansion only to be banned from performing; and his play Mama Butterfly received a staged reading at Between the Seas festival (New York 2010). He is the managing editor of Portal 9: Stories and Critical Writing about the City, a bilingual cultural journal published in Beirut. His theater research efforts have culminated in invitations to present at conferences in South Africa and Korea and publication in peer-reviewed journals. He is the recipient of Rotary, Fulbright, Prince Claus Fund, and Young Arab Theatre Fund grants. He studied theater at Yale. |
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Saturday, April 6, 2013 An Evening with Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater Tickets: $25, 30, 35, 40Ticket presales have SOLD OUT. The wait list will begin for this performance at 6:30 pm in the Sosnoff Theater lobby. An intimate night of spoken word, songs, stories, chats with the audience, and more than a few surprises with author Neil Gaiman (Coraline; The Graveyard Book) and musician/cult figure Amanda Palmer (Dresden Dolls; Amanda Palmer and the Grand Theft Orchestra). |
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Wednesday, April 3, 2013 Jack Ferver and QWAN Company
NOTES!!! and SWAN!!!Fisher Center, Sosnoff Stage Right Tickets: $20; $5 for the Bard community Ticket presales have SOLD OUT. Wait list tickets may be available the day of the performance—call the Box Office at 845-758-7900 for more information. A double bill of sexy, scary, spectacular, salacious, stunning, and startling works that took the downtown New York theater scene by storm. LAB visiting artist Jack Ferver presents his QWAN (Quality Without a Name) Company in the incredibly dramatic parodied readings of two well-loved screenplays, Notes from a Scandal and Black Swan. Suitable for mature and immature audiences, 15 years and older. Presented in partnership with the Center for Curatorial Studies. |
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Tuesday, April 2, 2013 A Pajama Party with Amanda Palmer
A conversation about life and art, with music.Bard Hall Wear pajamas, and bring snacks, questions, and musical instruments (acoustic only.) Open only to students of Bard College. |
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013 Professor David Levine, Director, ECLA's Studio Program
Performing and Visual Arts at ECLA of Bard in Berlin*Fisher Center, Studio North The European College of Liberal Arts (ECLA), in November 2011, merged with Bard College and became ECLA of Bard,* a Liberal Arts University in Berlin. As ECLA of Bard aims to open dialogue between different academic disciplines, so does the Studio Program aim to open a theoretical and practical dialogue between visual, performing, and performance art, as well as between studio practice and critical thought. DAVID LEVINE is an artist based in New York, and Berlin, whose work encompasses theater, performance, video and photography. His performance projects have been seen at MoMA, Mass MoCA, Documenta XII, PS122, the Watermill Center, and Gavin Brown@Passerby, and his video and photographic work has been exhibited at Blum & Poe (Los Angeles), Tanya Leighton (Berlin), HAU2 (Berlin), ISCP (New York), the Goethe Institut New York, François Ghebaly (Los Angeles) and Galerie Feinkost (Madrid). Last fall he worked with Gideon Lester and the Crossing the Line Festival to present his performance installation Habit in New York City at the Essex Street Market. Levine was awarded at 2007 Kulturstiftung Des Bundes grant for Bauerntheater, and a 2009 Etant Donnés grant for Venice Saved: a Seminar, which premiered at PS122. He is a 2012-2013 Fellow in Visual Arts at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. His work has been featured or reviewed in Artforum, Frieze, Art in America, the New York Times, the Believer, Bomb, Theater, TDR, and Mousse, and he has published artists’ projects and essays in Cultural Politics, Triple Canopy and Cabinet, and co-authored a widely circulated essay on International Art English in 2012. * ECLA of Bard was the historical name of Bard College Berlin until December 2013. |
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Thursday, February 28, 2013 – Sunday, March 3, 2013 Senior Playwrights Project
Choice is PowerFisher Center, LUMA Theater Thursday, February 28 at 7 pm Friday, March 1 at 7 pm Saturday, March 2 at 7 pm Sunday, March 3 at 2 pm Tickets: Free, reservation required via the Box Office Plays by Cara Chalk, Julia Koerwer, Sarah Mitchell Directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch Three short plays written, performed, and directed by women. Glass Ceiling by Cara Chalk Female Specimens by Julia Koerwer [un]Spoken word(s) by Sarah Mitchell |
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Tuesday, February 19, 2013 Roxy Paine, Visiting Artist Tonight!
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center "We first became acquainted with Roxy Paine’s work in the late ’90s and were instantly attracted to its rigor, intensity, and beauty. In following his work, we became intrigued by how it kept changing from project to project: what could possibly tie together perfect replicas of mushrooms and weed-choked vegetable gardens, showcases with astonishing varieties of Sculpey brushstroke specimens, machine-made abstract paintings, and stainless-steel boulders? Paine pursues each project with a deep intelligence—one that draws us in and changes our conception of our relationship to nature."—Tod Williams, Billie Tsien, Bomb magazine, 2009 Everyone is welcome! |
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Friday, February 8, 2013 Hidden Art in a War Zone
Merlijn TwaalfhovenCampus Center, Weis Cinema Composer and theater-maker Merlijn Twaalfhoven discusses his challenges and strategies in creating Al Quds Underground, a secret festival in the living rooms of families from different cultures in the Old City of Jerusalem. Twaalfhoven will explore the tensions between diplomacy, activism, and artistic quality, and suggest ways that students might become involved in future editions of the festival. Merlijn Twaalfhoven is a Dutch composer and theater-maker. With his non-profit organization La Vie Sur Terre he produces large-scale projects with local artists and musicians, using music to transcend political and ethnic boundaries, most recently in Cyprus, Japan, Jordan, the Palestinian Territories, and Syria. He has received awards from UNESCO for creating intercultural dialogue between the Arab and Western worlds, and several leading European prizes for composers and performers. He has collaborated with Toneelgroep Amsterdam, the Holland Festival, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, the Dutch National Ballet, and the Springdance Festival, among many others. He graduated from the Amsterdam Conservatory in 2003. |