If these Winship walls could talk.
The Department of Theatre and Dance presents Ears, Eyes + Feet, collaborative works by composers, choreographers and video artists from The University of Texas at Austin.
May 4, 5 at 8:00 p.m.
B. Iden Payne Theatre
The performances are free and open to the public.
About Ears, Eyes + Feet
This annual performance of collaborative invention and experimentation showcases the talents of students and faculty from the Butler School of Music and Department of Theatre and Dance. Works include:
Accumulation Formal by Ellen Bartel
Combining movement and contemporary acoustic chamber music, ten dancers and five musicians take the stage and reveal a dynamic connection to humanity.
Dervish by Aly DelCueto
Inspired by the idea of whirling dervish, one that possesses abundant/frenzied energy, DelCueto’s work is an exploration of feminine power, combat, strength, survival, exhaustion, struggle, and athleticism.
10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 <tel:10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1> by Angela Falcone
A discovery about the number of ways one can find his/her “zero.”
Untitled by Courtney Mazeika and Cooper Neely
An examination of the balance between opposition, synchronization, and experiences that one can or cannot control.
Untitled by Chell Parkins
Is there a connection between the seismic activity of earthquakes and the electrical activity in the brain in gran mal seizures? This piece explores the personal experience of watching a loved one having a seizures and the seismic activity of the brain.
Questionable Conclusions by Chelsea Pierce
An investigation of an endless search for something that seemed clear, but is quickly lost and distant; something that fizzles unknowingly, or abruptly comes to life again.
Untitled by Mackenzie Taylor
A peek into the complexities of human life and how the network can be broken down to reveal something more primal.
Untitled by Morgan Taylor
Testing the question of “How far can you manipulate something until it begins to lose its original purpose?”, Taylor delves into the limits of form and how far it can be changed while retaining its earliest idea.
The B. Iden Payne Theatre is housed in the Winship Drama Building, located at 300 East 23rd Street, Austin, Texas 78712, on The University of Texas at Austin campus.
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About the play
An unpopular teenager, Nick spends his days online, where he quickly discovers an addictive pleasure in creating fake personalities in a teen chat room. It’s here he meets Adam, a young man in search of love. In response Nick creates a fictional dream girl for Adam. Obsession builds and catastrophe looms as fantasy and reality collide.
A story for the Internet age, Dark Play or Stories for Boys is a coming-of-age tale of desire and the consequences of deception.
For director Jeremy Lee Cudd, “This is a story about a defining, transformational experience – one of those times in your life when you do several years of growing up in just moments. Nick discovers his powers to create and to destroy. He becomes intimately acquainted with the worst parts of himself and experiences hell as a place of his making – a place where you are separated from love by a lie. But telling the truth conjures the scariest question of all: Am I worthy of being loved…as I truly am?”
Performances:
April 27, 28 at 8:00 p.m.
April 28 and 29 at 2:00 p.m.
Admission is free. Seating is limited.
This is play is approximately 75 minutes. There is no intermission.
Dark Plays or Stories for Boys has adult language and mature content.
The Winship Drama Building is located at 300 East 23rd Street, Austin, Texas 78712, on The University of Texas at Austin campus.
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Opening Reception: April 29, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Exhibition Hours:
April 29, 4:00 – 6:00 p.m.
April 30 – May 3, 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
May 5, 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Public Lecture by guest artist Thomas A. Walsh
“Narrative Design Training for the Digital Sandbox”
April 29, 6:00 - 6:45 p.m.
About PORTFOLIO 2012
The University of Texas at Austin Department of Theatre and Dance presents PORTFOLIO 2012, an exciting exhibition celebrating the work of emerging artists in costume design, lighting design, scenery, media, and technology. The exhibition is free and open to the public.
Come see how imagination manifests itself on stage and film!
Above: Costume design by Yao Chen for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
In conjunction with PORTFOLIO 2012, the Department of Theatre and Dance will host a public lecture by scenic designer Thomas A. Walsh on April 29 at 6:00 p.m. in the Oscar G. Brockett Theatre.
Walsh is a narrative designer whose body of work encompasses feature films, IMAX, television, documentaries, theatrical dramas and musicals. He has been recognized with an array of awards including an Emmy for his designs for CBS’s critically acclaimed series, Buddy Faro, and his origination of the hit ABC series, Desperate Housewives, a show for which he designed the pilot and its first 84 episodes.On Broadway he designed the world premieres of Zoot Suit and Children of a Lesser God, the latter of which received the Tony Award for Best Play (1980).
Walsh’s lecture “Narrative Design Training for the Digital Sandbox” explores the expansion of digital media and the collaborative nature of creation for film, television and the stage. Admission is free and open to the public.
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Curtain Up! Hats Off to Broadway
May 10, 11 at 7:30 p.m.
Lab Theatre
The performances are free and open to the public.
About the showcase
The best of Broadway comes to the stage in Curtain Up! Hats Off to Broadway, presented by The University of Texas at Austin Department of Theatre and Dance. This biannual showcase features popular showstoppers from Annie Get Your Gun, Kiss Me, Kate, Les Miserables, Cabaret and many other Broadway hits.
Curtain Up! is approximately 75 minutes. There is no intermission.
The Lab Theatre is located west of the Winship Drama Building (300 East 23rd Street, Austin, Texas 78712).
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3
A MFA Dance Concert
March 8, 9 at 8:00 p.m.
B. Iden Payne Theatre
The performances are free and open to the public.
About 3
Master of Fine Arts candidates, Ellen Bartel, Chell Parkins and Alvin Rangel, take the stage in the Department of Theatre and Dance’s inaugural M.F.A. dance concert March 8 and 9.
3 includes Ellen Bartel’s Watch The Gap, a site-inspired contemporary dance about New York’s Jamaica Queens train station. Using video and sounds from the station combined with original music by Adam Sultan, the performers movements translate the experience of train station to the stage. Lilith, a new work conceived and performed by Chell Parkins, is an intermedia dance theatre piece that takes place in the not so distant future. And, Alvin Rangel presents Tango Vesre, a dance expressing an evolution of male tango practice in Argentina through duets by Rangel and Alejandro Cervera.
Reviews:
Arts Review - The Austin Chronicle
“The work of these grad student dancemakers was as individual as it was thoughtful”
About the choreographers and their work
Ellen Bartel is a M.F.A. in dance graduate student at the University of Texas focusing on an analysis of her site-inspired dance titled Watch The Gap which is an examination of places of transition or transitional spaces.
Bartel graduated from the State University of New York at Potsdam in 1993 and relocated to Austin in 1994. In Austin she is known as a “dance rabble rouser.” From 1995 to 2001 she directed the improvisational dance group The Creeps. In 2000 Bartel founded Spank Dance Company which, after a decade of extensive self-producing, is now a non-profit arts organization. In 2008 the Austin Chronicle “Best of” poll dubbed her a “dance mobilizer” and a “dance phenomenon” for spearheading the Big Range Austin Dance Festival, the first contemporary dance festival in Austin since 2000.
She has created approximately seventy new dances and improvisational performances combined, and spearheaded the annual Dance Carousel, along with Big Range. Bartel has been mentioned in the Austin Chronicle’s “Top Ten Dance Events and Best Choreography”, and in the Austin American-Statesman was named three years in the Fortunate 500 list of the top 500 “movers and shakers” in Austin.
Bartel’s Watch The Gap is a site-inspired contemporary dance about the Jamaica Queens train station in New York. Addressing Bartel’s interest in transitional spaces-places, the ensemble performs a combination of pedestrian and dance movements that describe how people move in the space. Using video and sounds from the station the staged performance remains in dialogue with the actual space however through original music by Adam Sultan and set design by Brandon Ariel, the dance becomes its own distinct expression of the Jamaica Queens Station.
Chell Parkins is an M.F.A. dance candidate at the University of Texas at Austin. She received her B.A. with an emphasis in dance and acting from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, where she studied method acting with the Actor’s Studio of New York. In 1993, she began studying choreography under San Francisco based choreographer Joe Goode, who is well known for his incorporation of text with dance. She was inspired to move to San Francisco and begin creating multimedia work by establishing the dance company Brigid’s Daisy. While in San Francisco, she created two evening length works, which were featured at Joe Goode’s Bread and Butter Series and at the then new theatre venue Cell Space. She is currently investigating possible ways to interweave technology in dance performance.
Parkin’s Lilith is an intermedia dance theatre performance that takes place in the not so distant future. Conceived and performed by Parkins, Lilith is the culmination of three years of research into the tensional forces between embodied versus disembodied experiences in the choreographic process.
Alvin Rangel is an M.F.A. dance candidate at the University of Texas at Austin who began training in ballet and jazz in his native Puerto Rico. From 1997 and 2004, he performed with the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company (DCDC) in Ohio where he originated roles in works by Bill T. Jones, Bebe Miller, Dwight Rhoden, Donald McKayle, Ronald K. Brown, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, and Kevin Ward. He also participated in a documentary film co-produced by PBS and American Dance Festival titled Free to Dance. Rangel has conducted master classes and workshops in the United States, Russia, Poland, Colombia, Argentina and Puerto Rico. His choreography has been performed by Ballet New England, Stivers School for the Arts, Andanza, Performing Arts School in San Juan, DCDC-2, and Episcopal High School. Rangel choreographed and co-created an outreach lecture demonstration program for DCDC that toured nationally to 27 cities as part of the Flight Project; which celebrated the 100th year of the first powered flight.
He holds a Bachelors in Education- English as Second Language Education (ESL). In Puerto Rico he taught, danced and choreographed for Andanza (2004-2006) Before moving to Austin, Alvin taught English as a Second Language (ESL) and Spanish in the Houston public schools and was guest artist with Ad Deum Dance Company. Alvin will be working in several choreographic projects with two companies: Dance Theatre X and Compañia Danza Siglo 21 from Puerto Rico.
Tango Vesre is a dance that expresses an evolution of male tango practice in Argentina through two duets, Parallel Tango by Alejandro Cervera and Alvin Rangel’s Bound Tango performed to live music by the Austin Piazzolla Quintet. Each work offers a unique perspective about male partnerships in tango during the Buenos Aires of 1910 and 2010. Although the work is framed within the Argentinean Tango, the work puts into motion issues of power struggle, power negotiation, equality, marginalization, gender roles, sexual identity, acceptance, rejection and male dancing bodies. The work features the performances of Alvin Rangel, Ricardo Garcia and José L. Bustamante.
Photos Courtesy of Ellen Bartel, Chell Parkins and Alvin Rangel
Bacha Bazi (Boy Play)
Written and Directed by Gabriel Jason Dean
February 16, 22, 24, 25 at 8:00 p.m.
February 19 at 2:00 p.m.
Oscar G. Brockett Theatre
Tickets for UTNT productions are $10 per performance and may be purchased at the Winship Box Office beginning 90 minutes prior to curtain.
About the play
The eve of Obama’s election finds Aaron, a documentary filmmaker from Texas, in Northern Afghanistan. He’s there to shoot a film about the poppy trade, but changes his mind when he encounters bacha bazi (boy play), an ancient Afghan tradition where young boys dance in women’s clothing and are sold for sex to the highest bidder. Both fascinated and offended by the practice, Aaron meets Hafiz, a young dancer, and his investigative journalism turns personal.
Alternating between Dari and English, dance and language, fear and desire, Bacha Bazi (Boy Play) brings a critical lens to American altruism and explores the often fatal consequences of intercultural misunderstanding. At its core, it asks, “What are the consequences of good intentions?”
This play is approximately two hours and includes one intermission.
Bacha Bazi (Boy Play) has mature content, including adult situation and language.
UTNT (UT New Theatre) is curated by Steven Dietz and Katie Bender.
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Static
By Tom Horan
Directed by Courtney Sale
February 17, 18, 23 at 8:00 p.m.
February 25 at 5:00 p.m.
February 26 at 2:00 p.m.
Lab Theatre
Tickets for UTNT productions are $10 per performance and may be purchased at the Winship Box Office beginning 90 minutes prior to curtain.
About the play
Since Emma was a little girl she heard the ghost stories told about her neighbors Walter and Millie Burke - how the couple filled their home with strange things, which drove them mad. Years have passed and Emma finds herself the owner of this house that has sat abandoned for years. She discovers, among the jars of buttons and tubs of forks, a box full of cassette tapes filled with secrets of Walter and Millie.
This play is approximately one hour. There is no intermission.
There is no late seating for Static.
UTNT (UT New Theatre) is curated by Steven Dietz and Katie Bender.
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River City
By Diana Grisanti
Directed by Lydia Nelson and Rudy Ramirez
February 16, 22, 24, 25 at 8:00 p.m.
February 19 at 2:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m.
Lab Theatre
Tickets for UTNT productions are $10 per performance and may be purchased at the Winship Box Office beginning 90 minutes prior to curtain.
About the play
Shaken by her father’s death, Mary sets off to uncover three generations’ worth of family secrets buried in the West End of Louisville, Kentucky. River City charts Mary’s journey, which spans four decades, and investigates race, memory, and the ghosts that haunt one American city.
This play is approximately two hours and includes one intermission.
There is no late seating for River City.
UTNT (UT New Theatre) is curated by Steven Dietz and Katie Bender.
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The Chronicles of Bad Ass Women
By Holli Gipson
Directed by Daria Davis
February 17, 18, 23 at 8:00 p.m.
February 25, 26 at 2:00 p.m.
Oscar G. Brockett Theatre
Tickets for UTNT productions are $10 per performance and may be purchased at the Winship Box Office beginning 90 minutes prior to curtain.
About the play
The Chronicles of Bad Ass Women is a collection of outlawed histories retold through the legends of four women: Sally Skull, Etta Place, Bonnie Parker and Janis Joplin. Gipson’s story unearths these women’s legacies, their disappointments, their mistakes and their desires, giving voice to the forgotten and reshaping the past.
This play is approximately 90 minutes. There is no intermission.
The Chronicles of Bad Ass Women includes adult language.
UTNT (UT New Theatre) is curated by Steven Dietz and Katie Bender.
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