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| Eiko & Koma and pianist Margaret Leng Tan: Mourning Friday, August 29, 8:00 p.m., $18 An “endlessly fascinating” creation (The New York Times), Mourning is a work of staggering power and finely-nuanced grace. Butoh-inspired dancers Eiko & Koma pack deep emotion and trance-like magnetism into movement of glacial inevitability, summoning themes of mortality, grief, and consolation, much of it invoking “the devastation inflicted by humans on the environment.” John Cage protégé Margaret Leng Tan animates the evening with sonorous torrents of sound from Cage, Somei Satoh, and Bonita Marcos. |
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Reduced Shakespeare Company: The Complete History of America (abridged) Wednesday, October 1, 8:00 p.m., $20 The Reduced Shakespeare Company is “what ‘The Daily Show’ might be like if it were hosted by the Marx Brothers,” says the Boston Herald. This madcap trio of inventive parodists returns to the Williams Center with a special election-year edition of this breakneck review of 500 years of American history. As the heat of the campaign burns white hot, you’ll find respite in the political punch lines of this historical and hysterical “intellectual vaudeville” (The New York Times). |
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Liz Lerman Dance Exchange: Ferocious Beauty: Genome Friday, November 14, 8:00 p.m., $20 Inspired by the mapping of the human genome, this multimedia dance piece is the result of a rare collaboration among artists, scientists, and educators. Choreographer Liz Lerman’s multigenerational company brings scientific inquiry to life on stage as it explores the miracles of inheritance, genetic engineering, and medical ethics. The Chicago Sun-Times calls Ferocious Beauty: Genome “beautiful, richly imaginative, hugely ambitious...a seamless blend of dance, music ingenious storytelling, video, and special effects...captivating, surprisingly funny, intensely moving, thought-provoking.” |
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| Ballet Hispanico: Palladium Nights Wednesday, March 25, 8:00 p.m., $25 In the heart of New York’s vibrant 1950s jazz scene was the Palladium nightclub, where segregation stepped aside, class and color melted away on the dance floor, and the big band rhythms of Tito Rodriguez, Machito, and Tito Puente fueled the sexy and flamboyant dances of the Latin diaspora—cha-cha, merengue, pachanga, and mambo. Tina Ramirez’s gorgeous Ballet Hispanico dancers sizzle in original choreography by Sergio Trajillo, with live music by Arturo O’Farrill’s dynamic Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra—O’Farrill and his band returning to the Williams Center following his Pesky Artist-in-Residence appointment three years ago. |
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| Footights Fans—Don't Miss This Special
Non-Subscription Event The SpokenWorld with Marc Bamuthi Joseph Friday, February 6, 8:00 p.m., $12 Internationally renowned spoken word artist Marc Bamuthi Joseph is part of an emerging class of hip-hop theater artists who combine a variety of art forms in their work. He has been a featured artist on Russell Simmons’ “Def PoetryJam” on HBO, and is a National Poetry Slam champion, Broadway veteran, and inaugural recipient of the United States Artists Rockefeller Fellowship. Joseph uses theater; West African, tap and modern dance; spoken word poetry; and live music to stretch the bounds of traditional hip-hop and create a new forum for expressive performance art. The SpokenWorld features excerpts from his evening-length works Word Becomes Flesh, Scourge, and 2008’s the break/s. The Seattle Times calls Joseph "an electrifying performer and a great storyteller.” This performance is sponsored by the Lafayette College Office of Intercultural Development.    |
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