Jeannine Osayande brings back Intergenerational Drums to campus: http://daily.swarthmore.edu/2014/04/04/intergenerational-drum-and-dance-project-returns-to-swarthmore-community/
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Out and about: IRMA VEP in Bond
In case you missed it: http://daily.swarthmore.edu/2014/04/08/the-mystery-of-irma-vep-photo-gallery/
and here’s a little preview from the Daily Gazette, too! http://daily.swarthmore.edu/2014/04/04/preview-supernatural-caper-the-mystery-of-irma-vep-is-quick-and-absurd/
Lecture with Emily Wilcox (3/31 @ 4:30PM, Kohlberg 226)
LECTURE: “Dancing Against Euro-American Imperialism: Socialist Culture, Third World Leftism, and the Making of a Chinese Body”
When: Monday, March 31, 2014, 4:30-6:00pm
Where: Kohlberg 226
Emily Wilcox, PhD, will speak on the common misperception that dance in Mao-era China was dominated by the importation and adaptation of Soviet ballet. The lecture will include an examination of historical sources in corroboration with Chinese-language dance scholarship suggesting that China’s pre-Cultural Revolution socialist period (1949-1966) witnessed Chinese dance artists’ widespread efforts to create Chinese dance styles that would serve as alternatives to foreign dance forms.
Emily Wilcox is assistant professor of modern Chinese studies in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan. She received her PhD in 2011 from the Anthropology Department at the University of California, Berkeley. Her essays and articles have appeared in Asian Theatre Journal, Journal of the Anthropological Study of Human Movement, TDR: The Drama Review, and other venues. She is currently writing a book on dance and the construction of a national culture in the People’s Republic of China.
Lecture with Emily Wilcox (3/31 @ 4:30PM, Kohlberg 226)
LECTURE: “Dancing Against Euro-American Imperialism: Socialist Culture, Third World Leftism, and the Making of a Chinese Body”
When: Monday, March 31, 2014, 4:30-6:00pm
Where: Kohlberg 226
Emily Wilcox, PhD, will speak on the common misperception that dance in Mao-era China was dominated by the importation and adaptation of Soviet ballet. The lecture will include an examination of historical sources in corroboration with Chinese-language dance scholarship suggesting that China’s pre-Cultural Revolution socialist period (1949-1966) witnessed Chinese dance artists’ widespread efforts to create Chinese dance styles that would serve as alternatives to foreign dance forms.
Emily Wilcox is assistant professor of modern Chinese studies in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan. She received her PhD in 2011 from the Anthropology Department at the University of California, Berkeley. Her essays and articles have appeared in Asian Theatre Journal, Journal of the Anthropological Study of Human Movement, TDR: The Drama Review, and other venues. She is currently writing a book on dance and the construction of a national culture in the People’s Republic of China.
Tamagawa Taiko is back again for the Cherry Blossom Festival! (4/6 @7PM)
This event is FREE, but seating is first come, first served! Please arrive early to secure a seat.
The world-touring Tamagawa Taiko Drum and Dance troupe return to Philadelphia for a week of awe-inspiring performances as part of the 2014 Philadelphia Cherry Blossom Festival. This group is guaranteed to thrill and amaze with their energetic shows of Japanese folk tradition. Expect to see thundering drums, intricate dances, and beautiful costumes. It’ll be sure to be an evening of heart-pounding entertainment and fun for all!
When: April 6, 2014 at 7PM
Where: Lang Concert Hall, Swarthmore College
Tamagawa Taiko is back again for the Cherry Blossom Festival! (4/6 @7PM)
This event is FREE, but seating is first come, first served! Please arrive early to secure a seat.
The world-touring Tamagawa Taiko Drum and Dance troupe return to Philadelphia for a week of awe-inspiring performances as part of the 2014 Philadelphia Cherry Blossom Festival. This group is guaranteed to thrill and amaze with their energetic shows of Japanese folk tradition. Expect to see thundering drums, intricate dances, and beautiful costumes. It’ll be sure to be an evening of heart-pounding entertainment and fun for all!
When: April 6, 2014 at 7PM
Where: Lang Concert Hall, Swarthmore College
Honors Directing Thesis: LEX & GOLDALINE: A MIRROR FUGUE IN THREE ACTS (4/11 – 4/13)
The Department of Theater at Swarthmore College presents an Honors Directing thesis, LEX & GOLDALINE: A MIRROR FUGUE IN THREE ACTS, conceived and directed by Swift Shuker.
A devised work, LEX & GOLDALINE, is at once a peaceful meditation on home and the creation of families, as well as a disorienting deconstruction of linear space and time. The theater is turned into a house, and each audience member follows one of two corridors into one of two rooms. They watch people live in this house, small and complex moments of love. Sometimes time goes forwards, sometimes backwards. Sometimes, time stops and expands and sings a song. Everyone sees the same show, just not in the same order. Everyone is in the same house, but the house is larger on the inside than on the outside. Throughout this dilation of spacetime, two sisters, Lex and Goldaline, discover sex.
LEX & GOLDALINE is a nonlinear, quiet, and ambitious exploration of intimacy, in its infinite complexity, and the limitless storytelling of the touch of another’s hand.
WHEN: April 11th at 7PM and 9PM
April 12th at 2PM, 7PM and 9PM
April 13th at 1PM and 3PM
Seating will be limited. First come, first served.
LPAC Frear Ensemble Theater
In case you missed it – EQUIVOCATION in the local papers!
Honors Directing Thesis EQUIVOCATION (3/21 – 3/23) in the Frear
by Morgan Williams
Remember, remember, the 5th of November
The Gunpowder Treason and plot;
I see no reason why Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot.
History has always been written by the victors. In Equivocation, a play by Bill Cain, this concept is explored to the full when it’s imposed on the world’s most widely-read historian: Shakespeare. Half Shakespearean drama, half Quentin Tarantino historical fiction, Equivocation starts with the premise: what if Shakespeare was contracted to write the official version of the Gunpowder Plot, and what if the Gunpowder Treason was all a government set up?
Directed by Marta Roncada, Equivocation by Bill Cain will be performed in the Frear Ensemble Theatre on Friday, March 21st at 8pm, Saturday March 22nd at 2pm and 8pm, and Sunday, March 23rd at 2pm.
Performed by: Simon Bloch, Casey Ferrara, Cooper Harrington-Fei, Nathan Siegel, Elliot Weiser, Morgan Williams
Set Design: Robert Klimowski
Costume Design: Rebecca Kanach
Sound Design: Adriano Shaplin
Lighting Design: Amanda Jensen
Dramaturgy: Madeline Charne
Stage Manager: Grant Torre
Michaela Shuchman ’16 wins the Lang Scholarship
Check out what Theater major Michaela is doing with her Lang Scholarship funds…