Washington and Lee University Lenfest Center for the Arts Winter 2021

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5 LENFEST WINTER 2021 PERFORMANCES WILL BE STREAMED AT https://livestream.com/wlu unless noted.

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Theater, Dance, and Film Studies

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Season Calendar

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Fall Music Events

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Staniar Gallery

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Ticket Information/ Box Office Information

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Lenfest Production photos

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1 Bentley Musical 2020, Considering Matthew Shepard 2&4 University Orchestra Ensemble 3 Department of Art and Art History 5 A Midsummer Night’s Dream 6 W&L Repertory Dance Company 7 University Jazz Ensemble 8 EVERYBODY 9 W&L Dance

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Brochure front cover: W&L Repertory Dance Company Brochure back cover: Departments of Music, Art and Theater, Dance, and Film Studies’ photos.

Brochure graphic design by Susan Wager.

W&L University photographs by Kevin Remington, Shelby Mack, Patrick Hinely ’73 and Emma Coleman ’21.

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INTIMATE VIOLENCE Directed by Dr. Stephanie Sandberg and Nolan Zunk ’22 Music by Ryan Redebaugh Produced by Shawn Paul Evans Major funding provided by Washington and Lee University in partnership with Project Horizon

Thursday, February 4, 2021

7:00 p.m.

Tickets are not required.

Performance will be streamed. https://livestream.com/wlu Talk-back will follow screening.

https://my.wlu.edu/lenfest-center/ intimate-violence

Sponsored in part by Theater, Dance and Film Studies, and W&L’s Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

Intimate Violence, an original film produced and directed

by W&L Assistant Professor of Theater Dr. Stephanie Sandberg and Nolan Zunk ’22, features local, statewide and national experts on domestic violence, as well as the stories of survivors and the violence they have endured.

The screening will be sponsored by W&L’s Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. A Talk-back will follow the screening. Visit https://my.wlu.edu/lenfest-center/ intimate-violence for screening updates.

Please visit the website for date changes and updates at http://my.wlu.edu/lenfest-center. Box Office 540.458.8000

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W&L REPERTORY DANCE COMPANY

heater, Dance, and Film Studies

Thursday, March 25, 2021 Friday, March 26, 2021 Saturday, March 27, 2021 Sunday, March 28, 2021

Jenefer Davies, Artistic Director

7 p.m.

7 p.m.

6 p.m.

2 p.m.

The award-winning W&L Repertory Dance Company presents an evening of multi faceted dance works performed and created by internationally renowned choreographers, faculty and guest artists. Named a program of “outstanding artistic excellence” by 4

Tickets are not required.

Performance will be streamed. https://livestream.com/wlu

the American College Dance Association, W&L Repertory Dance Company is committed to showcasing artistically vibrant contemporary dance works and challenging W&L student dancers through experiential opportunities in dance.

Please visit the website for date changes and updates at http://my.wlu.edu/lenfest-center. Box Office 540.458.8000

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heater, Dance, and Film Studies

Robert O. and Elizabeth M. Bentley Musical

LITTLE WOMEN THE MUSICAL Book by

Music by

Allan Knee

Jason Howland

Lyrics by

Mindi Dickstein

Based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott Musical Direction by Patrick Summers

Directed by Rob Mish

Tuesday, March 30, 2021 Wednesday, March 31, 2021 Thursday, April 1, 2021

7:30 p.m.

7:30 p.m.

7:30 p.m.

Choreography by Liza Deck Tickets are not required.

Performance will be streamed.

Streaming Information https://my.wlu.edu/lenfest-center/ bentley-musical-2021-little-women

LITTLE WOMEN The Broadway Musical is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).

All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI.

Little Women, Louisa May Alcott’s autobiographical novel first appeared in 1868. It has never been out of print, has been adapted into seven films, a radio show, several television mini-series, a number of fulllength plays, a one-act play, international productions, including a Japanese anime adaptation. There have a number of musical theater adaptations and at least one opera. Join us in witnessing the only musical theater adaptation of Little Women to come to Broadway, and now to the W&L stage. With a company of only ten,

Alcott’s enduring work is performed simply and without fanfare, much like the novel itself. The musical focuses on the distinct personalities and individual strengths of these women as they navigate and overcome the social restraints of the 1860’s. In reality, this Little Women is a delightful musical that not only will entertain but will also allow us to examine where we are today. What restraints, new and old, do we contend with over 150 years later?

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BURN

heater, Dance, and Film Studies

Friday, April 9, 2021 Saturday, April 10

Written by Deborah Gearing Directed by Jemma Alix Levy This play contains mature themes.

7 p.m.

2 p.m.

Burn is the story of 15-year-old Birdman, as told by the kids who barely knew him. A unique and searing exploration of loneliness and community as seen 6

Tickets are not required.

Performance will be streamed. https://livestream.com/wlu

through the emotional and physical upheaval on the road to adulthood.

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alendar

Winter 2021

DATE 1/19-2/18

1/27 1/30 2/4 2/23-3/19

2/24 3/5 3/7 3/14

3/21

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3/25-26 3/27 3/28 3/29-4/9 TBA 3/30-4/1

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PRESENTER

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Art Exhibit: Leigh Ann Beavers Art Staniar Gallery Reconciliation Art Lecture: Leigh Ann Beavers 5:30 p.m.

Art Streamed Senior Recital: Caleb Peña ’21, tenor 8 p.m.

Music Streamed Intimate Violence 7 p.m.

•••T/D/FS/WGSS Streamed Art Exhibit: William Ransom Art Staniar Gallery Solastalgia: On Hold Art Lecture: William Ransom 5:30 p.m.

Art Streamed Voice Recital: Canciones Españolas 8 p.m.

Music Streamed Senior Recital: Levi Lebsack ’21, tenor 3 p.m.

Music Streamed Faculty Harpsichord Recital: 3 p.m.

Music Streamed Baroque to Contemporary William McCorkle Marlbrook Chamber Players: 3 p.m.

Music Streamed Two Troubadours of Love Senior Recital: 8 p.m.

Music Streamed Demmanuel Gonzalez ’21, baritone W&L Repertory Dance Company 7 p.m.

•T/D/FS Streamed W&L Repertory Dance Company 6 p.m.

•T/D/FS Streamed W&L Repertory Dance Company 2 p.m.

•T/D/FS Streamed Art Exhibit: 2020 Senior Theses Exhibition Art Staniar Gallery Art Reception: 2020 Senior Theses Exhibition TBA Art Staniar Gallery Bentley Musical: LITTLE WOMEN, 7:30 p.m.

••T/D/FS/M Streamed The Broadway Musical Senior Recital: Hyun Song ’21, cello 8 p.m.

Music Streamed Senior Recital: Coletta Fuller ’21, composition 8 p.m.

Music Streamed University Orchestra and University Wind 6:30 p.m.

Music Canaan Green Ensemble Concert: Concerto-Aria Winner Concert Streamed University Jazz Ensemble 8 p.m.

Music Streamed Burn 7 p.m.

•T/D/FS Streamed Junior Recital: Karen Katz 8 p.m.

Music Streamed Burn 2 p.m.

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* Lenfest/Theater, Dance, and Film Studies/Mellon Grant **Lenfest/Pickens World Music •Theater, Dance, and Film Studies ••Theater, Dance, and Film Studies/Music •••Theater, Dance, and Film Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Please visit the website for date changes and updates at http://my.wlu.edu/lenfest-center. Box Office 540.458.8000

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SENIOR RECITAL:

CALEB PEÑA ’21, TENOR Saturday, January 30, 2021 8 p.m.

Tickets are not required.

Performance will be streamed. https://livestream.com/wlu

Tenor Caleb Peña ’21 of Saint Cloud, Florida will present a recital of solo vocal music by Handel, Verdi, Brahms, Vaughan Williams, Guridi and Ravel.

CANCIONES ESPAÑOLAS Friday, March 5, 2021 8 p.m.

Tickets are not required.

Students from the studios of Professors Hayley Coughlin and Gregory Parker will present a recital of songs and arias in Spanish.

Performance will be streamed. https://livestream.com/wlu

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SENIOR RECITAL:

LEVI LEBSACK ’21, TENOR Sunday, March 7, 2021 3 p.m.

Tickets are not required.

Performance will be streamed. https://livestream.com/wlu Lebsack, a senior music major from Fort Worth, Texas, will be performing selections by Handel, Schubert, Mozart, Poulenc, Rodrigo, Weill and others.

FACULTY HARPSICHORD RECITAL:

BAROQUE TO CONTEMPORARY WILLIAM MCCORKLE Sunday, March 14, 2021 3 p.m.

Tickets are not required.

Performance will be streamed. https://livestream.com/wlu William McCorkle, a member of the keyboard faculty, will present an afternoon harpsichord recital. The program features music from Louis and François Couperin and J.S. Bach to Toru Takemitsu and Byron W. Petty.

Please visit the website for date changes and updates at http://my.wlu.edu/lenfest-center. Box Office 540.458.8000

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MARLBROOK CHAMBER PLAYERS

Sunday, March 21, 2021 3 p.m.

ROBERT SCHUMANN: TROUBADOUR OF LOVE

Tickets are not required.

Performance will be streamed. https://livestream.com/wlu

Jaime McArdle, violin; Julia Goudimova, cello; Megan Mason, viola; Anna Billias, piano

The Marlbrook Chamber Players will present the deeply lyrical and poetic music of Robert Schumann. His piano quartet, along with instrumental gems, will inspire and

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awake the imagination and supply you with a beautiful start to this magical spring season.

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SENIOR RECITAL:

DEMMANUEL GONZALEZ ’21, BARITONE Tuesday, March 23, 2021 8 p.m.

Tickets are not required.

Performance will be streamed. https://livestream.com/wlu Baritone Demmanuel Gonzalez ’21 of Clifton, New Jersey, will perform selections by Scarlatti, Mozart, Fauré, Beethoven, de Falla and Britten.

SENIOR RECITAL:

HYUN SONG ’21, CELLO Friday, April 2, 2021 8 p.m.

Tickets are not required.

Performance will be streamed. https://livestream.com/wlu Hyun Song, a senior music major and premed student from Seattle, Washington, will perform a wide range of cello repertoire, including selections from the Solo Cello Suites by J.S. Bach and Cello Concerto in B Minor, Op. 104

by Antonín Dvořák.

Please visit the website for date changes and updates at http://my.wlu.edu/lenfest-center. Box Office 540.458.8000

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SENIOR RECITAL:

COLETTA FULLER ’21, COMPOSITION Saturday, April 3, 2021 8 p.m.

Tickets are not required.

Performance will be streamed. https://livestream.com/wlu Senior Coletta Fuller is a music and computer science major from Kaukauna, Wisconsin. She has written music for a wide assortment of instrumentalists and vocalists during her composition studies. This concert brings these works together in performance, showcasing her insight and creativity in a series of original compositions, as student performers bring Fuller’s notes to life.

UNIVERSITY ORCHESTRA UNIVERSITY WIND ENSEMBLE CONCERT: CONCERTO-ARIA

WINNER’S CONCERT

The University Orchestra will present a program featuring the winners of the annual Concerto-Aria Competition—Hyun Song ’21, cello and Carissa Petzold ’21, clarinet. In addition to the winner’s performance, 12

Monday, April 5, 2021 6:30 p.m.

Tickets are not required.

Performance will be streamed from Canaan Green. https://livestream.com/wlu

the concert will include several beloved pieces from the orchestra repertoire featuring a favorite for performers and audience members alike, Danzón No. 2 by Arturo Márquez.

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UNIVERSITY JAZZ ENSEMBLE CONCERT

STUDENTS IN THE SPOTLIGHT

The University Jazz Ensemble is full of talented student performers and composers. This end-of-the-year concert will showcase these musicians. Having spent the school year exploring improvisation and developing as a tight ensemble, the group will put the results on display in this wide-ranging program. From first-year students to

Thursday, April 8, 2021 8 p.m.

No tickets are required.

Performance will be streamed. https://livestream.com/wlu

seniors, each is a unique and skilled artist—each student will have the spotlight on their contributions. Musical styles presented run the gamut of big band jazz, with some funk and pop thrown in for good measure. Dancing has been known to spontaneously break out during this concert, so be prepared to have your feet moving.

JUNIOR VOICE RECITAL:

KEREN KATZ ’22, SOPRANO Friday, April 9, 2021 8 p.m.

Tickets are not required.

Performance will be streamed. https://livestream.com/wlu Keren Katz ’22 of Wayne, Pennsylvania, will be performing selections from by Vincenzo Bellini, Joseph Haydn, Bizet, Hahn, and Paladihle, then conclude the program with Randy Newman’s rousing “Almost There” from the animated motion picture, The Princess and the Frog.

Please visit the website for date changes and updates at http://my.wlu.edu/lenfest-center. Box Office 540.458.8000

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LEIGH ANN BEAVERS: RECONCILIATION If you are unable to visit the gallery in person, please watch the Staniar Gallery website for a link to a virtual tour of the exhibition: https://my.wlu.edu/staniar-gallery/currentseason/leigh-ann-beavers

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Exhibition: January 19–February 18, 2021 Lecture Zoom Meeting: Wednesday, January 27 5:30 p.m.

Join Zoom Meeting https://wlu.zoom.us/j/99281337801

Studio, Raphine, Virginia; photo documentation; 2020 Links to the Zoom artists’ talks and virtual gallery tours can be found at https://my.wlu.edu/staniar-gallery/current-season/leigh-ann-beavers

In her post-sabbatical exhibition, W&L art professor Leigh Ann Beavers will present recent work from her mixed-media project that is a creative expression of reconciliation ecology, a branch of conservation biology seeking to preserve biodiversity in the midst of human development. Stemming from an urgent, personal imperative to recognize each individual species in her immediate environment, Beavers’ drawings, prints, collages and installations draw attention to the myriad forms of life on the edges of our backyards, fields and roadsides. In her statement, she notes: “We are but one

of 8.7 million species sharing this planet. As many conservationists have pointed out, no one will work to save what doesn’t have a name, what they don’t know exists.” Beavers teaches drawing and printmaking at W&L. She holds her MFA from University of Wisconsin Madision. She spent portions of the past eight summers in residence on Aughinish Island in Ireland working on this project, which has been exhibited at Courthouse Gallery (Kinvara, Ireland); Roanoke College (Salem, Virginia); and Winthrop University (Rock Hill, South Carolina).

Please visit the gallery website for date changes and updates http://go.wlu.edu/staniar.

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WILLIAM RANSOM: SOLASTALGIA: ON HOLD

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Exhibition: February 23–March 19, 2021 Lecture Zoom Meeting: Wednesday, February 24 5:30 p.m.

Join Zoom Meeting https://wlu.zoom.us/j/92993982277

failure cascade, detail; 2019; basswood, poplar, clamp; 62 x 9 x 116 inches Links to the Zoom artists’ talks and virtual gallery tours can be found at https://my.wlu.edu/staniar-gallery/current-season/william-ransom

This exhibition, featuring new work by William Ransom and collaborative work made with W&L sculpture students, explores the sense of distress and uncertainty resulting from environmental change and degradation. Based on the premise that the solace of a known landscape or a familiar view can be lost if the underlying foundation of the natural rhythms sustaining it is disrupted, this project considers the existential unease resulting from the disruption of

natural order. Ransom was born and raised on a dairy farm in Vermont, and his work and life continue to be informed by his early material experiences and engagement with the cycles and rhythms at the intersection with the natural world. Ransom received an MFA in sculpture from Claremont Graduate University in 2008 and a BA from Bennington College in 2004. He currently teaches sculpture at Marlboro College in Vermont.

Please visit the gallery website for date changes and updates http://go.wlu.edu/staniar.

Please visit the website for date changes and updates at http://my.wlu.edu/lenfest-center. Box Office 540.458.8000

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allery Exhibition: March 29–April 9, 2021

2021 SENIOR THESES EXHIBITION

Selections from the 2020 Senior Theses Exhibition Links to the Zoom artists’ talks and virtual gallery tours can be found at https://my.wlu.edu/staniar-gallery/current-season/senior-theses

Each year, the graduating seniors in studio art exhibit their senior theses projects in Staniar Gallery. An opportunity for these young artists to show their most advanced and inventive work in a gallery setting, the exhibition is a debut into the professional art world and

an occasion for sharing their talent and achievements with the community. The group show includes a wide range of artworks in different media including painting, drawing, printmaking, photography and sculpture.

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icket nformation

No tickets are required for Winter 2021 streamed performances. Lenfest streamed performances can be found at https://livestream.com/wlu, unless noted.

We appreciate our patrons’ patience and understanding during this uncertain time, and as a gift to the W&L and surrounding communities all performances will be

streamed at no cost. Streaming access information will be provided in a timely manner prior to each event.

For up-to-date information for upcoming attractions, please refer to the W&L Lenfest website at mywlu.edu/ lenfest-center or contact the Lenfest Center Box Office at boxoffice@wlu.edu.

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ffice nformation

Winter term Box Office hours are Tuesday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

hesitate to contact us at boxoffice@wlu.edu and we will be happy to assist.

Currently, we are only able to assist W&L faculty, staff, and students in person at the Lenfest Center Box Office.

If you are not part of the WLU community, please don’t

The Box Office is CLOSED during undergraduate breaks.

Please visit the website for date changes and updates at http://my.wlu.edu/lenfest-center. Box Office 540.458.8000

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