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Special
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Performance
Art Lectures,
performances,
and exhibitions explore performance art. |
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Festival Keynote
Presentation: An Evening with Laurie Anderson RoseLee Goldberg: "One Hundred Years of Performance Art" March 31, Williams Center 108, 8:00 p.m. Noted critic and scholar RoseLee Goldberg explores the rich array of performance art that defined New York experimentation and breakthrough accomplishments from Laurie Anderson, John Cage, Meredith Monk, Ping Chong, Eric Bogosian, and many others. Free; no tickets required s Meridian Arts Ensemble public performance March 23, 8:00 p.m. $15.00 New York’s cutting-edge brass group, with its bravura arrangements of Zappa, Hendrix, and King Crimson, also presents a commissioned performance of composer/guest artist Elliott Sharp’s Beyond the Curve. Sharp’s own solo improvisation for electric guitar adds extra sizzle. Free workshop for brass players (spectators welcome) at 4:00 p.m Meridian
Arts Ensemble Williams Center for the Arts lobby Presented by the Association of Lafayette Feminists Free; no tickets required Universes Theater Group: Eyewitness Blues Thursday, April 15, 8:00 p.m. Williams Center for the Arts Poetry slam innovators Mildred Ruiz and Stephen Sapp mingle urban rhythms and Latino swagger in an evening of performance poetry and music. Sponsored by the department of foreigh languages and literature, ISA, and McKelvey Scholars Program. Free; no tickets required College Theater: Caryl Churchill's Far Away April 21–24 $6.00 Childhood innocence, mad hatters, and Armageddon are the apparent subjects of this surreal dystopian theater piece that The Observer praised as “tableau theater in which installation art is given motion and voice.” Performed in the Williams Center for the Arts Black Box; directed by Suzanne Westfall. Gro Mambo Angélá Noványón Idizol Williams Center, Wednesday, April 28, 8:00 p.m. Gro Mambo Angélá Noványón Idizol, High Priestess of Haitian Voodoo, will give a shamanist presentation on the Voodoo religion with drumming, chant, and ritual. Drummers will demonstrate the role of the drum in ceremony and the relation of song and dance to the drum rhythm. Her presentation also will include medicines used for healing and other religious artifacts, objects that explain the legend of "voodoo dolls," and explanations about the myths of zombies. She is head of LePeristyle Haitian Sanctuary and founder of the National African Religion Congress. Sponsored by the department of religious studies. The event is free and requires no tickets. EXHIBITIONS Meredith Monk: Archeology of an Artist 2 Williams Center Art Gallery, March 22 - May 9 
Silver Lake with Dolmen Music A pioneer in what is now called “extended vocal technique” and “interdisciplinary performance,” Monk creates works that thrive at the intersection of music and movement, image and object, light and sound, in an effort to discover and weave together new modes of perception. This exhibition includes a reinstallation of Silver Lake With Dolmen Music, originally created in 1981; a film loop of six works spanning the period from 1966 to 1994; and photo panels that document the history of Monk’s extraordinary career. Bill Hayward: The American Memory Project Skillman Library, through May 12  Ellis Finger, Williams Center director. Photo by Bill Hayward Bill
Hayward, a member of Lafayette's class of 1965 returned to his
alma mater for three days in November 2002 for what was probably the
most unusual photo shoot ever held at the College. Hayward provided
white paper, black paint, and inspiration to a group of students,
faculty, and staff and allowed them to create self-portraits with
backdrops of their own design. The results of these collaborations
between photographer and subject can be seen in Skillman Library's
spring photograph exhibit, featuring 15 portraits of Lafayette students,
faculty, and staff.
Bill Hayward:
Extreme Theater in the Late Afternoon Everyone is welcome to participate in this group interactive
performance and photo shoot. Monday,
February 9–May 12, 2004, Skillman
Library Monday,
March 8–Sunday, May 9, Williams Center Lobby Monday,
March 22–Sunday, May 9, Williams Center Art Gallery Tuesday,
March 23, 8:00 p.m., Williams Center for the Arts Tuesday,
March 30, 4:00 p.m.,Williams Center lobby Tuesday,
March 30, 7:00 p.m., Williams Center lobby Wednesday,
March 31, 8:00 p.m., Williams Center 108 Thursday,
April 15, 8:00 p.m., Williams Center for the Arts Tickets
available at the Williams Center Box Office, (610) 330 5009. Call
for information and hours. |
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programming is subject to change. Please visit this page again for updates
to the list of Festival events. |
| last updated March 23, 2004 |
