2007-08 College of Arts & Media Theatre Production Series
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Temporal Interference, an installation/performance piece by Assistant Professor Bryan Leister in collaboration with the Jane Franklin Dance company premiers on campus April 5, 7:30PM, in the King Center, Auraria Campus, Denver.
University of Colorado Denver, Dept of Arts and Media presents noted Northern Virginia
dance company, Jane Franklin Dance in Temporal Interference, a new media and dance performance with artist
and Assistant Professor Bryan Leister and composer Gina Biver. Using live video, electro acoustic software and a Theremin, dancers interact with
media components developed by Bryan Leister. Dancers’ proximity to media antennas result in layered sound
and projected real time video. The media installation will be available for audience interaction following the
performance.
Temporal Interference premiered in Washington DC and was presented at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage in May 2007. The media work has most recently been seen at Foro Performatica` a festival conference at Universidad de las Americas at Puebla Mexico.
Nick Green, Washington City Paper, describes
“Temporal Interference, looks like something out of an H.R. Giger sketchbook: an upside-down theremin,
suspended from the ceiling with piles of antennae covered in plastic tubing cascading to the floor. Bryan Leister’s
jury-rigged instrument converts the movements of the three dancers into audio files to supplement Gina Biver’s
propulsive compositions. A camera captures the women pushing, pulling, and lifting one another away from the
instrument for a disorienting effect: While the dancers create a living canvas in real time, their movements are
also mutated on a projection screen behind them. Jane Franklin’s choreography is full of arresting visual pictures,
including a repeated motif of the trio holding their arms toward the ceiling in exaltation—representing vividly
Temporal Interference’s gentle tugging at the fabric of space and time.
The performance is free.
OPALANGA
STORYTELLER/GRIOT*
AFRICAN ORAL TRADITION
SETTING THE STAGE
Thursday, February 21
11:30am-12:45pm
Music/Dance Studio, King Center
Free
Before there was TV, before there was radio, before there was books, there was the storyteller. Storytellers held positions of high regard in all early civilizations, they were not only the entertainers of the day, but were responsible for remembering the history of the people, as well as safeguarding their sacred mysteries.
Storytelling is a time honored tradition in Africa. It is tightly woven into the fabric of the daily lives of the people. Many of the stories follow the life cycle events, birth, naming, games, songs, riddles, folk and dilemma tales.
Opalanga Pugh tells stories in the African oral tradition, which focuses on concepts related to ethnicity, develops these concepts cross culturally, illustrating ties among all cultures, this way it elicits pride in one's own ancestry and simultaneously appreciating the ancestry of others.
*GRIOT - A teacher/storyteller who hosts ceremonies, remembers the ancestral g analogy, preserves the history and tradition passed down through the ages in the African oral traditions.
The Comedy of Errors
by William Shakespeare
Thursday – Saturday, February 28 – March 1
Thursday – Saturday, March 6 – 8
7:30pm
King Center Rawls Courtyard Theatre
Tickets: $12 General Admission
$5 UC Denver students
Sponsored by: Theatre, Film and Video Production Department
José Mercado, new Assistant Professor of the Theatre, Film & Video Production Department, directs a contemporary telling of a classic comedy driven by mix-ups, coincidence and slapstick humor, with the events confined within the action of a single day. The Comedy of Errors is Shakespeare’s earliest, shortest and most farcical play. It tells the story of two sets of identical twins and the wild mishaps that occur through mistaken identity.
Before joining the faculty at UC Denver, Mercado was head of the theatre department at North High School where he directed The Zoot Suit Riots, the first high school production to play at Denver Performing Arts Center’s Buell Theatre. Prior to teaching, he worked as an actor in Los Angeles after earning his Master of Fine Arts degree in Theatre from UCLA. He is a member of the Screen Actor’s Guild and Actor’s Equity Association. He is also a member of the Denver Commission on Cultural Affairs.
