September 2010
Not Content: Performance 8
September 19, 2010 4 - 6 pm The closing performance for the summer season of Not Content. Featuring Marco Antonio Huerta from SPAM, Christine Wertheim from NI UNA MÁS, and Sawako Nakayasu from INSECT COUNTRY # 3 SPAM Since mid-February this year, violence related to drug trafficking has increased at an exponential rate in northeast Mexico. The impact of this phenomenon on daily life cannot be ignored. The dominant explanation (since there is no official communication from the local government)…
Find out more »ART Staged Reading
September 23, 2010 8 - 10 pm Benefitting LACE and Being Alive Two evenings of performance: 23 - 24 SEPT 2010 8 - 10 PM Moveable Theater Company presents a staged reading of ART, the Tony award winning play by Yasmina Reza (English translation by Christopher Hampton). Directed by Holly Witham and featuring John Balma, Nicholas Hosking, and J. Todd Howell, this comedy revolves around three friends—Serge, Marc and Yvan—who find their previously solid 15-year friendship on shaky ground when…
Find out more »Community Dance Series: Paige Tighe (Part 1)
September 26, 2010 10 - 12 pm Presented by Portable City Projects You CAN meditate while moving. Paige Tighe will lead a group of dancers and non-dancers alike in simple meditative movements with a focus on being present in your body. Tighe's exercises will center and energize you! Paige Tighe is currently exploring the boundaries of public and private meditation with a concentration in disruption. This manifests in her collaborations in postmodern dance with Christine Suarez and the mentoring of…
Find out more »October 2010
Earthquake Quartet #1
October 14, 2010 7 - 9 pm Presented by LAMoves LACE is delighted to present a musical performance by Earthquake Quartet #1, comprised of USGS geophysicists Andy Michael, Stephanie Ross and Lucy Jones with a presentation by D.V. Rogers about LAMoves. Composer and trombonist Andrew Michael's research interests center around understanding earthquake processes in order to improve earthquake probability estimates and statistical tests of earthquake-prediction methods. Lucy Jones, who will be performing the cello part on Viola de gamba, started her…
Find out more »Community Dance Series: Gregory Barnett
October 24, 2010 12 - 2 pm presented by Portable City Projects Gregory Barnett will teach an all-level interdisciplinary performance and movement workshop based in conviction/commitment/intent rather than traditional training or a particular codified school of technique. This two-hour practice session working with vulnerability and emotional sensitivity as a strength is part of his series on homo-led actions and experiments stemming from a healthy lack of inhibition and a nauseating about of self-love -- a constructed environment acknowledging we are…
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