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Monday,
September 17, 2001
8:00 p.m. Philippe Petit "The First Step"
King Building, Room 306
Philippe Petit is a high wire artist and artist-in-residence at the Cathedral
of St. John the Divine in New York City. Besides having stretched a cable
without permission between the towers of the World Trade Center , Petit
writes, draws, performs close-up magic, practices lock picking and 18th-century
carpentry, plays chess, studies French wine, and was recently sighted
bullfighting in Peru. He has also been arrested more than 500 times for
the "artistic crime" of street juggling. Philippe perceives the act of
taking "the first step" into the void�where joy, excitement and challenge
await him�as a metaphor for creativity that can be applied to all art
forms. His workshop will draw from the wirewalker's "point of no return"
to introduce topics rarely explored in a traditional education. �
Monday, October 1, 2001 8:00 p.m.
Arthur
Aviles "Star Wars Stripped of Stars and Wars: Movement as Abstraction"
Carnegie Building, Root Room
Arthur Aviles founded the Typical Theatre, a dance company whose work
is often based on the manner in which cinema wreaks havoc with perceptions
of reality. Aviles removes the narratives from such films as Walt Disney�s
Cinderella and concentrates on the jump cuts, the camera pans, and the
zooms to discover the components of his inventive choreography. The workshop
will explore Aviles�s complicated process of extracting rhythm and abstracting
movement from the film Star Wars.
Monday,
October 29, 2001 8:00 p.m.
Reynols "Improvising with Improvisation"
Location
TBA
Reynols is an Argentine experimental music band with more than 50 releases
worldwide, led by Miguel Tomas�n, an amazing musician who has Down�s Syndrome.
The workshop will be conducted by the group�s other two members, Roberto
Conlazo and Alan Courtis. The immense freedom of Tomas�n�s mind expands
the parameters of the group�s musical improvisations as well as its didactic
methods. The band�s activities have included concerts for plants, tributes
to dry ice, and psychic energy refractions with toothbrushes.
Monday,
November 5, 2001 8:00 p.m.
Eiko
and Koma "Delicious Movement in Extended Time"
On the campus green
Eiko and Koma are known as much for the visual beauty of their sets and
the ingenuity of their lighting as for their haunting and hypnotic choreography.
Both the sets and the lighting are often more kinetic than the dancers.
Eiko and Koma move imperceptibly to evoke such timeless themes as the
primordial life cycle. The workshop will explore the concepts of timelessness,
tempo, and duration through body sensations. �
Monday,
November 26, 2001 8:00 p.m.
Eve Andree Laramee "Alter-Egos and Dopplegangers"
Adam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies
Friday, November 30, 2001 4:00 p.m.
Allen Art Building Lecture Room
Eve Andree Laramee is a visual artist who intentionally confuses fact
and fiction, documentation and imagination. Her work challenges comfortable
assumptions about "truth." In the process she intensifies viewers� scrutiny,
heightens their awareness, and stimulates inquiry. Her workshop will investigate
the creative construction of concepts of "self," "other," and "place"
that inform each person�s life and work. �
Building
Locations:
The
King Building: Corner of North Professor and West College Streets
The
Carnegie Building: Corner of Professor and Lorain Streets
Adam
Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies: 122 Elm Street
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