JUST ADDED! Creative Dialogue
thE SciENtific mEthOd ANd thE crEAtivE prOcESS Anne Bogart, artistic director of SITI Company Bill Dorland, UMD Professor of Physics Hasan Elahi, UMD Professor of Art and Digital Media Liz Lerman, choreographer, speaker, author Kojo Nnamdi, moderator Tuesday, September 18, 2012 . 7:30PM Dance Theatre
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In the world of science, the moment of discovery is usually very inauspicious. at discovery can be shared when meaning is attached to it and it is contextualized with evidence. What happens in the world of artistic creation? Is the process different or more similar than we might imagine? Our panelists represent innovative thinking in both science and the arts, and all of them have explored the multiple ways in which the two worlds intersect. FREE
Siti cOmpANy Café Variations Thursday, September 20, 2012 . 8PM Friday, September 21, 2012 . 8PM Kogod Theatre
Café Variations weaves longing, lust, lost love, found love and budding romantic adventure through dance, music and theatre within the social arena where anything can happen: a café. is new theatre piece based on short plays by Charles Mee features Gershwin songs from e Great American Songbook — familiar tunes that evoke a time, place and way of life. As the Boston Globe described it, Café Variations is “unabashedly romantic … a series of vivid and visceral explorations of life, love and identity [that] cast Gershwin classics in a new light.” Each story stands on its own and, together, the stories create a rich narrative that celebrates the possibilities of life fully and fearlessly embraced. $40/$32 subscribers
SITI Company most recently appeared at the Center in Radio MacBeth (2010-2011). Funded in part by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Theater Project, with lead funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
JUST ADDED! Creative Dialogue
thE Art Of AdAptAtiON Julia Rhoads, artistic director of Lucky Plush Productions Marilyn Nelson, poet Walter Dallas, Senior Artist-in-Residence, UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies Murray Horwitz, playwright, lyricist and film commentator Kojo Nnamdi, moderator Monday, October 1, 2012 . 7:30PM Kogod Theatre
Is there any such thing as “original?” Where is the line between originality and “influenced by,” “based on” or “adapted from”? Maybe there aren’t lines at all, but rather a spectrum of expressions, from original to plagiarized. is discussion will examine these questions, and examine the varying degrees of invention in the creative process. FREE
Lucky pLuSh prOductiONS e Better Half Julia Rhoads, artistic director Leslie Buxbaum Danzig, stage director Thursday, October 4, 2012 . 8PM Friday, October 5, 2012 . 8PM Dance Theatre
Lucky Plush Productions presents a dance/theatre hybrid based on — and poking fun at — the classic film Gaslight, about a villainous husband who tries to drive his wife insane. In the hands of artistic director Julia Rhoads and director Leslie Buxbaum Danzig, this rowdy, witty dance-theatre piece transcends its sources to examine wedded (or unwedded) “bliss” from unexpected physical and emotional angles. Join the artists for a talk Back after the October 4 performance. $30/$24 subscribers
Stage director Leslie Buxbaum Danzig was at the Center most recently with 500 Clown and the Elephant Deal (2008-2009). Co-commissioned by the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. The presentation of The Better Half is made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and additional funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This project is also supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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