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Kate Speer ’08 with STICKS AND STONES in the 2012 Fringe

Sticks & Stones opens this weekend in Philly!

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Philly Fringe Festival
September 2012
Fri, 7th 7:30pm
Sat, 8th 4pm
Sat, 8th 7:30pm

Location
Mascher Co-op
155 Cecil B. Moore
Philadelphia, PA 19122

Tickets
$15 General Admission
$10 Student + 25 & younger*
$8 DancePASS**

For tickets, contact the Festival Box Office at (215) 413-1318 or visit www.livearts-fringe.org . Tickets are also available at the door (cash/check only).
*Student + 25 & younger discount ONLY available in person at the Festival Box Office or at the door. Must provide valid I.D.
**DancePASS discount ONLY available at the door.

Ticket Deals
Save money and still see our show!!!!

2-for-1 Deal
Friday, September 7th buy two tickets
for the price of one. Available only at the door!

Children get in FREE!
Kids apparently love our show, so make it a family night, because 12-and-under get in for free!

Visit www.katespeerdance.org for more info.
Kate Speer ’08
695 Manhattan Dr, #203 Boulder , CO 80303

Math + Dance = Where Patterns Collide

Sponsored by Bryn Mawr College Department of Mathematics and Swarthmore College Dance Program. Supported by the Mellon Tri-College Creative Residencies Program.

A New Mathematical Performance Work with Dr. Karl Schaffer

Final Showing of Residency

Wednesday, September 26, 4:30 to 6:00 PM

4:30-5PM Participatory workshop of concepts

5-6PM Informal presentation of the work

Swarthmore College, Troy Dance Studio, Lang Performing Arts Center

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Where Patterns Collide: Math & Dance
Mathematics and dance are linked in many beautiful and surprising ways: the geometry of the moving body, the symmetries of dancers arrayed across the stage, the rhythmic patterns of dance phrasing, the complex connections between dancers, the varied paths through space. In this interactive workshop we will examine the ways that choreographers employ mathematical concepts, both consciously and unconsciously, and see how mathematical questions sometimes arise within a dance. All are welcome.

 

Karl Schaffer is co-founder and co-artistic director of the Dr. Schaffer and Mr. Stern Dance Ensemble, which has toured throughout North America since 1988. They have received five National Endowment for the Arts grants for their artistic and educational work linking dance and mathematics. His most recent concert, “The Daughters of Hypatia” celebrates the lives, work, and struggles of great women mathematicians.  He teaches mathematics at De Anza College in California when not dancing. Contact KarlSchaffer:  karl_schaffer@yahoo.com.

Math + Dance = Where Patterns Collide

Sponsored by Bryn Mawr College Department of Mathematics and Swarthmore College Dance Program. Supported by the Mellon Tri-College Creative Residencies Program.

A New Mathematical Performance Work with Dr. Karl Schaffer

Final Showing of Residency

Wednesday, September 26, 4:30 to 6:00 PM

4:30-5PM Participatory workshop of concepts

5-6PM Informal presentation of the work

Swarthmore College, Troy Dance Studio, Lang Performing Arts Center

*********

Where Patterns Collide: Math & Dance
Mathematics and dance are linked in many beautiful and surprising ways: the geometry of the moving body, the symmetries of dancers arrayed across the stage, the rhythmic patterns of dance phrasing, the complex connections between dancers, the varied paths through space. In this interactive workshop we will examine the ways that choreographers employ mathematical concepts, both consciously and unconsciously, and see how mathematical questions sometimes arise within a dance. All are welcome.

 

Karl Schaffer is co-founder and co-artistic director of the Dr. Schaffer and Mr. Stern Dance Ensemble, which has toured throughout North America since 1988. They have received five National Endowment for the Arts grants for their artistic and educational work linking dance and mathematics. His most recent concert, “The Daughters of Hypatia” celebrates the lives, work, and struggles of great women mathematicians.  He teaches mathematics at De Anza College in California when not dancing. Contact KarlSchaffer:  karl_schaffer@yahoo.com.

Swarthmore Project in Theater (SPT) presents Swim Pony’s GIANT SQUID 9/22

THE GIANT SQUID

is coming to Swarthmore

A CRYPTO-ZOOLOGY-HORROR-COMEDY! THE GREATEST SCIENCE LECTURE EVER!

PRESENTED BY SPT, Swim Pony Performing Arts & The Berserker Residents

SEPTEMBER 22nd at 8pm in SCI 101

Adrienne Mackey ’04 is a director who creates original and compelling theater using the power of the human voice and the forms of the human body. She is the head of Swim Pony Performing Arts for which she conceived and directed SURVIVE! in 2010 – a 22,000 sq foot performance installation examining the role of humanity in the universe. The following year she created Lady M – an all female spectacle of original music and movement based on Shakespeare’s Macbeth for the 2011 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival. Her work covers areas ranging from pop culture (Purr, Pull, Reign with Johnny Showcase) American history (Owning Up to the Corn and The Ballad of Joe Hill), classic literature (The Master and Margarita at Mum Puppettheatre) and racial tensions within her hometown of Philadelphia (Recitatif, Philadelphia Live Arts Festival 2007). In Philadelphia she has received a 2010 Live Arts Brewery Fellowship and in 2006-2007 she was awarded the CEC’s New Edge Residency in Theater. Adrienne’s study of alternative voice has taken her to France’s Roy Hart Voice Centre on a 2008 Independence Foundation Fellowship. She also teaches voice as a professor at Drexel University and sings backup vocals as one half of “The Truth” with Johnny Showcase and The Lefty Lucy Cabaret. Watch for her upcoming work with a remounted Lady M coming to the Annenberg Center’s in 2012-2013 season www.swimpony.org.

Lori Barkin ’12 performs her solo work in the 2012 Fringe!

SEE THE TRAILER: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4cofqnpzOE

Enerio López is the last of his brothers and brother-in-laws to die. In his absence, he leaves an eclectic family of widows. Some of them include The Former Pork Queen of Guayaquín, a Santera who communes with spirits, and many more–all embodied in one actor. Combining Flamenco, Afro-Cuban beats, Santería, and the poetic world of writer Federico García Lorca, The Funeral of Enerio López is a foray into the rich inner lives of a family of Cuban-A

merican women now left to their own devices.

This audience participatory show is unlike anything you’ve seen! Come out and play!

To see the trailer and for more info. visit: https://lorifelipebarkin.wordpress.com/

Showtimes:
Friday, September 14, 10:00pm-11:00pm
Saturday, September 15, 10pm- 11:00pm
Thursday, September 20, 8pm-9pm
Saturday, September 22, 10pm- 11pm

Green Chair Dance Group performs in the Wilmington Fringe September 2012

Tandem Biking and Other Dangerous Pastimes for Two is back!

Join Green Chair at the Wilmington Fringe Festival September 27-29, 2012. http://www.fringewilmingtonde.com/

Sept. 27 @ 8:30pm
Sept. 28 at 6:30pm
Sept. 29 at 8:00pm

Christina Cultural
Arts Center
705 N. Market St.
Wilmington, DE 19801

Tickets: $5
Available starting Sept. 1 on the Fringe website or at the door.

http://www.greenchairdancegroup.com/

Green Chair is Sarah Gladwin Camp ’05,  Hannah de Keijzer ’06, and Gregory Holt ’05.

Green Chair Dance Group performs in the Wilmington Fringe September 2012

Tandem Biking and Other Dangerous Pastimes for Two is back!

Join Green Chair at the Wilmington Fringe Festival September 27-29, 2012. http://www.fringewilmingtonde.com/

Sept. 27 @ 8:30pm
Sept. 28 at 6:30pm
Sept. 29 at 8:00pm

Christina Cultural
Arts Center
705 N. Market St.
Wilmington, DE 19801

Tickets: $5
Available starting Sept. 1 on the Fringe website or at the door.

http://www.greenchairdancegroup.com/

Green Chair is Sarah Gladwin Camp ’05,  Hannah de Keijzer ’06, and Gregory Holt ’05.

Theater Alumni in the News

Charles Coes ’06, Visiting Professor of Sound Design in Spring 2012, is thanked by sound designer Darron West at the Tony Awards for their work together on PETER AND THE STARCATCHER on Broadway (Charles was Associate Sound Designer for the production).  Read the article about Darron here:
http://www.tonyawards.com/en_US/nominees/artists/3EF60DD6-19D1-9EF1-56D16D104428CA73.html

 

In a related story, the design work of Jeff Sugg ’95, has also been represented on Broadway in two shows this year: MAGIC/BIRD (“the basketball musical”, recently closed on May 12) and the soon-to-open BRING IT ON (“the cheerleaders musical”, opening in July).  For both productions, Jeff is credited as the Video or Projection Designer, with his name on posters, press releases, etc., in addition to the programs.  His work has been frequently mentioned in reviews of these productions. For Broadway, Jeff has previously designed 33 VARIATIONS, by Moises Kaufmann, and CHINGLISH, by David Henry Hwang.  He has been involved in the creation of these shows, their pre-Broadway try-out productions, and national and international touring versions of these shows.  Jeff taught the first class Integrated Media Design offered by the Department of Theater in 2005, and was a founding member of Pig Iron Theater Company.  So he now has a total of four Broadway credits.  He remains dedicated, however, to his origins in downtown/off-off-Broadway work, through his ongoing collaborations with his wife, Cynthia Hopkins, a noted performer/composer/writer in her own right.