	Thursday, November 17, 2016 – Sunday, November 20, 2016 These Young Men and Women written, choreographed, and directed by Jack Ferver Fisher Center, LUMA Theater These Young Men and Women is an interdisciplinary and multimedia work created by Jack Ferver. Three tragedies by Euripides are used for the source material: Medea, Elektra, and The Trojan Women. The timeless human themes from these plays are inhabited through Ferver’s often humorous and vicious original text and choreography. The work acts out modern day tragedies of American youth as it juxtaposes forms from the classical to the contemporary, from the epic to the quotidian, and from the mythic to the personal. For ages 16 and up. Theater & Performance Main Stage Production Thursday, November 17, 7:30 PM Friday, November 18, 7:30 PM Saturday, November 19 2PM & 7:30PM Sunday, November 20, 4:00 PM $15, free to the Bard Community. Box office: 845-758-7900 Location: Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
	Friday, October 21, 2016 Starting Out in Theater and Film: Networking, Resumes, Internships, and First Jobs Panel discussion and networking event Campus Center, George Ball Lounge 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Starting Out in Theater and Film: Networking, Resumes, Internships, and First Jobs A discussion with alumni/ae in the arts about how hiring really works, if internships are worth the investment, how to successfully network, and what your resume should (and shouldn't) say. Date: Friday, October 21 Time: 4:00 PM Location: George Ball Lounge, Campus Center Sponsored by the Natalie Lunn Technical Award Committee, the Office of Alumni/ae Affairs, and the Career Development Office
	Friday, September 23, 2016 Spectatorship in an Age of Surveillance, Day Two Fisher Center, Resnick Theater Studio 9:30 am – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 9:30 – 10am Opening Discussion 10:00-11:30am Session 1 John Muse, “Spectatorship Unbound”; Annie Dorsen, “The Sublime and the Digital Landscape”; Nikki Cesare Schotzko, “The Death of Performance Art!: Three Modes of Performing Performance Art Documentation” 11:45am – 12:15pm Ben Coonley, “Eyeball in My Brain” 12:30-1:30pm Lunch Break 1:30-3pm Session 2 Hasan Elahi, “The New Normal”; Collin Jennings and Gretta Tritch Roman, “Privacy Performed at Scale”; Anna Gallagher-Ross, “Being Watched: The Living Theatre and the Performance of Surveillance” 3-3:15pm Break 3:15-4:45pm Session 3 Lawrence Switzky, “Performing Metadata”; Shonni Enelow, “Affects of Surveillance: American Film Acting After 2008”; Caden Manson and Jemma Nelson, “Opacity” 5-6pm Maria Hassabi, Open Rehearsal LUMA Theater, Fisher Center for the Performing Arts
	Thursday, September 22, 2016 Spectatorship in an Age of Surveillance, Day One Keynote Panel: Spectatorship in an Age of Surveillance Fisher Center, LUMA Theater 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 James Harding “Reflections on Surveillance and Performance Post-Democracy: The Case of Pyotr Pavlensky” Sarah Bay-Cheng, “Offline Performance: Queerveillance and Digital Performance Ethics” Elise Morrison, “‘Just wait until someone tries to cover those up!’ Creating Critical (Feminist) Spect-actors of Surveillance” For full schedule and speaker biographies click here: http://blogs.bard.edu/surveillance2016/
	Tuesday, September 13, 2016 Researching Performance: The Black Dancing Body as a Measure of Culture Brenda Dixon Gottschild, Ph.D. Professor Emerita, Dance Studies, Temple University Campus Center, Weis Cinema 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Brenda Dixon Gottschild is an American cultural historian, performer, choreographer, and anti-racist cultural worker. She has used her background as a dance performer and as a professor of dance to create works that bring racism, gender, and societal questions to the forefront of discussions. Guided by the premise that dance is a barometer of society, Professor Dixon Gottschild measures the pulse of contemporary American cultural practice. She examines the pervasive Africanist presence in American culture and the sociopolitical implications of its invisibility. With dance as the focus and race the parameter, she reveals Africanisms in modern and postmodern dance and American ballet.
	Monday, September 12, 2016 – Tuesday, September 13, 2016 Audition Notice These Young Men and Women Written, choreographed, and directed by Jack Ferver Fisher Center 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Bard Theater & Performance Program Fall 2016 Mainstage Production OPEN TO ALL STUDENTS AUDITIONS September 12, Monday, 6-10pm September 13, Tuesday, 6-10pm A sign-up sheet is posted in the lobby of the Fisher Center. For the audition please prepare a monologue (under two minutes) from one of the following plays by Euripides: Medea, Elektra, The Trojan Women. Scenes will be assigned for the callbacks. CALLBACKS September 14, Wednesday, 8-10pm September 15, Thursday, 6-10pm Auditions will take place in the Resnick Theater Studio. Rehearsals begin on October 3: Monday - Friday 6-10pm and Saturdays 1-5pm No rehearsals over Fall Break (October 8 – October 11) Performances will be November 17-20 in the LUMA Theater, Fisher Center for Performing Arts These Young Men and Women is an interdisciplinary and multimedia work created by Jack Ferver. Three tragedies by Euripides are used for the source material: Medea, Elektra, and The Trojan Women. The timeless human themes from these plays are inhabited through Ferver’s often humorous and vicious original text and choreography. The work acts out modern day tragedies of American youth as it juxtaposes forms from the classical to the contemporary, from the epic to the quotidian, and from the mythic to the personal. For mature audiences only. Questions: please email [email protected]
	Thursday, April 21, 2016 The Language of Music in Early Modern Encounters Karen Ordahl Kupperman Olin Humanities, Room 102 3:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 As Europeans moved into the Atlantic, they faced the problem of communicating with people in Africa and in the Americas without any language in common. The Europeans' solution was to sing and play musical instruments, and they were delighted to find that the people they encountered did the same. A musical approach was taken to be welcoming, but both sides found the other could also use music to deceive. Ultimately, stories of these encounters led Europeans to ponder the nature of language itself.
	Thursday, April 7, 2016 – Sunday, April 10, 2016 Don Juan by Molière translated by Albert Bermel directed by Ashley Tata Theater & Performance Spring Production Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Molière's tragicomedy, by turns farcical and bitterly cynical, tells the unforgettable story of the world's greatest seducer and his supernatural end. Thursday, April 7, 7:30 PM Friday, April 8, 7:30 PM Saturday, April, 9 2PM & 7:30PM Sunday, April 10, 4:00 PM This translation is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC. LUMA Theater, Fisher Center Tickets: $15, free to the Bard Community. Call box office at 845-758-7900.
	Thursday, March 31, 2016 Common Ground: Indigenous Shakespeares Olin Humanities, Room 202 6:15 pm EDT/GMT-4 What is it about the work of a playwright who crafted his last drama in 1611 that appeals so widely to Native Peoples in America today? Is it the colonial connection? The flexibility of the language? The need for a voice in the western world? Or something more? Director Madeline Sayet, having recently launched Amerinda (American Indian Artists) Inc.'s new Shakespeare Ensemble, interrogates the recent surge in Native Shakespeare productions and adaptations and why these stories keep calling to us. We will explore which of Shakespeare's plays most facilitate these interrogations and how we can all make space for ourselves in history and in the world through these words. 400 years after Shakespeare's death, his texts may be more relevant than ever.
	Sunday, March 13, 2016 Auditions for *Bad News! i was there …* with JoAnne Akalaitis, Director and Bruce Odland, Composer Fisher Center, Resnick Theater Studio 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Open to all Theater & Performance students Sign up on the T&P bulletin board in the Fisher Center. Language, music and movement skills are welcome. Wear regular clothes. Workshop will be held April 15-24, 2016
	Monday, February 29, 2016 INFERNO Senior Project Festival in Theater & Performance Fisher Center, LUMA Theater 6:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Limited Availability Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. A collection of performances exploring the circles of hell from Dante’s Inferno. PROGRAM A Friday, February 26 at 6:30 pm Saturday, February 27 at 12 pm Sunday, February 28 at 12 pm Circle 0: The Neutrals Audrey Rosenblith and Dana Shimkoski Circle 1: Limbo Lauren D’Ottavio and Ayla Miller Circle 2/3/4: Lust, Gluttony, and Greed Abby Adler, Salome Dewell, Leah Rabinowitz, and Eleanor Robb Circle 5: Anger Aleah Black, Mikey Gray, and Cullan Powers PROGRAM B Saturday, February 27 at 6:30 pm Sunday, February 28 at 6:30 pm Monday, February 29 at 6:30 pm Circle 6: Heresy Eileen Goodrich and Daniel Krakovski Circle 7: Violence Antonio Irizarry, Ethan Rogers, and Daisy Rosato Circle 8: Fraud Kedian Keohan and Reeves Morris-Stan Circle 9: Treachery Soraya Cain and Imani Jones Free, reservations suggested. Box office: 845-758-7900
	Sunday, February 28, 2016 INFERNO Senior Project Festival in Theater & Performance Fisher Center, LUMA Theater 6:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Limited Availability Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. A collection of performances exploring the circles of hell from Dante’s Inferno. PROGRAM A Friday, February 26 at 6:30 pm Saturday, February 27 at 12 pm Sunday, February 28 at 12 pm Circle 0: The Neutrals Audrey Rosenblith and Dana Shimkoski Circle 1: Limbo Lauren D’Ottavio and Ayla Miller Circle 2/3/4: Lust, Gluttony, and Greed Abby Adler, Salome Dewell, Leah Rabinowitz, and Eleanor Robb Circle 5: Anger Aleah Black, Mikey Gray, and Cullan Powers PROGRAM B Saturday, February 27 at 6:30 pm Sunday, February 28 at 6:30 pm Monday, February 29 at 6:30 pm Circle 6: Heresy Eileen Goodrich and Daniel Krakovski Circle 7: Violence Antonio Irizarry, Ethan Rogers, and Daisy Rosato Circle 8: Fraud Kedian Keohan and Reeves Morris-Stan Circle 9: Treachery Soraya Cain and Imani Jones Free, reservations suggested. Box office: 845-758-7900
	Sunday, February 28, 2016 INFERNO Senior Project Festival in Theater & Performance Fisher Center, LUMA Theater 12:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Limited Availability Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. A collection of performances exploring the circles of hell from Dante’s Inferno. PROGRAM A Friday, February 26 at 6:30 pm Saturday, February 27 at 12 pm Sunday, February 28 at 12 pm Circle 0: The Neutrals Audrey Rosenblith and Dana Shimkoski Circle 1: Limbo Lauren D’Ottavio and Ayla Miller Circle 2/3/4: Lust, Gluttony, and Greed Abby Adler, Salome Dewell, Leah Rabinowitz, and Eleanor Robb Circle 5: Anger Aleah Black, Mikey Gray, and Cullan Powers PROGRAM B Saturday, February 27 at 6:30 pm Sunday, February 28 at 6:30 pm Monday, February 29 at 6:30 pm Circle 6: Heresy Eileen Goodrich and Daniel Krakovski Circle 7: Violence Antonio Irizarry, Ethan Rogers, and Daisy Rosato Circle 8: Fraud Kedian Keohan and Reeves Morris-Stan Circle 9: Treachery Soraya Cain and Imani Jones Free, reservations suggested. Box office: 845-758-7900
	Saturday, February 27, 2016 INFERNO Senior Project Festival in Theater & Performance Fisher Center, LUMA Theater 6:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Limited Availability Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. A collection of performances exploring the circles of hell from Dante’s Inferno. PROGRAM A Friday, February 26 at 6:30 pm Saturday, February 27 at 12 pm Sunday, February 28 at 12 pm Circle 0: The Neutrals Audrey Rosenblith and Dana Shimkoski Circle 1: Limbo Lauren D’Ottavio and Ayla Miller Circle 2/3/4: Lust, Gluttony, and Greed Abby Adler, Salome Dewell, Leah Rabinowitz, and Eleanor Robb Circle 5: Anger Aleah Black, Mikey Gray, and Cullan Powers PROGRAM B Saturday, February 27 at 6:30 pm Sunday, February 28 at 6:30 pm Monday, February 29 at 6:30 pm Circle 6: Heresy Eileen Goodrich and Daniel Krakovski Circle 7: Violence Antonio Irizarry, Ethan Rogers, and Daisy Rosato Circle 8: Fraud Kedian Keohan and Reeves Morris-Stan Circle 9: Treachery Soraya Cain and Imani Jones Free, reservations suggested. Box office: 845-758-7900
	Saturday, February 27, 2016 INFERNO Senior Project Festival in Theater & Performance Fisher Center, LUMA Theater 12:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Limited Availability Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. A collection of performances exploring the circles of hell from Dante’s Inferno. PROGRAM A Friday, February 26 at 6:30 pm Saturday, February 27 at 12 pm Sunday, February 28 at 12 pm Circle 0: The Neutrals Audrey Rosenblith and Dana Shimkoski Circle 1: Limbo Lauren D’Ottavio and Ayla Miller Circle 2/3/4: Lust, Gluttony, and Greed Abby Adler, Salome Dewell, Leah Rabinowitz, and Eleanor Robb Circle 5: Anger Aleah Black, Mikey Gray, and Cullan Powers PROGRAM B Saturday, February 27 at 6:30 pm Sunday, February 28 at 6:30 pm Monday, February 29 at 6:30 pm Circle 6: Heresy Eileen Goodrich and Daniel Krakovski Circle 7: Violence Antonio Irizarry, Ethan Rogers, and Daisy Rosato Circle 8: Fraud Kedian Keohan and Reeves Morris-Stan Circle 9: Treachery Soraya Cain and Imani Jones Free, reservations suggested. Box office: 845-758-7900
	Friday, February 26, 2016 – Monday, February 29, 2016 INFERNO Senior Project Festival in Theater & Performance Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. A collection of performances exploring the circles of hell from Dante’s Inferno. Fisher Center, LUMA Theater PROGRAM A Friday, February 26, 6:30 PM - limited seating Saturday, February 27, 12 PM Sunday, February 28, 12 PM The Vestibule [Circle 0: The Neutrals] Audrey Rosenblith and Dana Shimkoski There's No Place Like Limbo [Circle 1: Limbo] Lauren D’Ottavio and Ayla Miller Lust Gluttony Greed [Circle 2/3/4: Lust, Gluttony, and Greed] Abby Adler, Salome Dewell, Leah Rabinowitz, and Eleanor Robb Fury [Circle 5: Anger] Aleah Black and Mikey Gray PROGRAM B Saturday, February 27, 6:30 PM Sunday, February 28, 6:30 PM Monday, February 29, 6:30 PM Bobok [Circle 6: Heresy] Eileen Goodrich and Daniel Krakovski Violence [Circle 7: Violence] Antonio Irizarry, Ethan Rogers, and Daisy Rosato Fraud: Just Fraud [Circle 8: Fraud] Kedian Keohan and Reeves Morris-Stan Pawns [Circle 9: Treachery] Soraya Cain and Imani Jones Limited seating. Please arrive early. Free. Box office: 845-758-7900
	Friday, February 26, 2016 INFERNO Senior Project Festival in Theater & Performance Fisher Center, LUMA Theater 6:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Limited Availability Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. A collection of performances exploring the circles of hell from Dante’s Inferno. PROGRAM A Friday, February 26 at 6:30 pm Saturday, February 27 at 12 pm Sunday, February 28 at 12 pm Circle 0: The Neutrals Audrey Rosenblith and Dana Shimkoski Circle 1: Limbo Lauren D’Ottavio and Ayla Miller Circle 2/3/4: Lust, Gluttony, and Greed Abby Adler, Salome Dewell, Leah Rabinowitz, and Eleanor Robb Circle 5: Anger Aleah Black, Mikey Gray, and Cullan Powers PROGRAM B Saturday, February 27 at 6:30 pm Sunday, February 28 at 6:30 pm Monday, February 29 at 6:30 pm Circle 6: Heresy Eileen Goodrich and Daniel Krakovski Circle 7: Violence Antonio Irizarry, Ethan Rogers, and Daisy Rosato Circle 8: Fraud Kedian Keohan and Reeves Morris-Stan Circle 9: Treachery Soraya Cain and Imani Jones Free, reservations suggested. Box office: 845-758-7900
	Monday, February 15, 2016 – Friday, February 19, 2016 Auditions: Don Juan -Sign Up Now- Bard Theater & Performance Spring Production Don Juan by Molière directed by Ashley Tata Fisher Center, Studio North 5:30 pm – 10:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Open to all Bard College Students PLEASE SIGN UP, AND SEE OTHER INFORMATION AT THE FRONT DESK OF THE FISHER CENTER. Molière's tragicomedy, by turns farcical and bitterly cynical, tells the unforgettable story of the world's greatest seducer and his supernatural end. Performances: Thursday, April 7, 7:30 PM Friday, April 8, 7:30 PM Saturday, April, 9 2PM & 7:30PM Sunday, April 10, 4:00 PM LUMA Theater, Fisher Center $15, free to the Bard Community. Box office: 845-758-7900
	Tuesday, January 12, 2016 – Saturday, January 16, 2016 Contemporary Theater and Performance: January Intensive in New York City NYC Every January, New York City hosts three major festivals of interdisciplinary and international theater, dance, and performance: Under the Radar (New York Public Theater); American Realness (Abrons Arts Center); and COIL (PS 122). Together these festivals unite some of the world’s leading performing artists, who for three weeks transform New York into an internationally renowned showcase of contemporary theater and performance. This year's festivals look to be some of the most exciting and diverse in recent years. We will be seeing performances such as "Nanook of the North," a concert by Inuit throat singer Tanya Tagaq, performed alongside the controversial film Nanook of the North; the American company 600 Highwaymen's "Employee of the Year," a new play performed by a group of eleven-year-old girls; writer Erin Markey's new musical "A Ride on the Irish Cream"; and artist Mette Ingvartsen's "guided tour through an archive of sexual performances," inspired by the utopian cultures of the 1960s. Professor Miriam Felton-Dansky will lead a group of Bard students in an intensive investigation of contemporary performance in New York City in January 2015, using these festivals as living case studies. Over 4-5 packed days we will see many performances and meet with curators and artists whose work is being presented in the festivals, studying its context and background to maximize our appreciation. This is an unmatched opportunity to experience and analyze a wide range of contemporary theater and performance in one of the world’s great cultural centers.