Integrated Programing for DAI (ENOUGH)
Sponsors: '62 Center for Theatre and Dance, Art Department, Chaplain's
Office, Dively Committee, English Department, Gaudino Fund, History Department,
Lecture Committee, Multicultural Center, W. Ford Schumann '50 Endowment for the
Arts, Williams College Jewish Association, Women's and Gender Studies, and Office
for Strategic Planning and Institutional Diversity.
On January 9, 2009 THE BOX-music by living composers series presents the debut of I/O new music ensemble. Under the direction of Matthew Gold and Steven Bodner, I/O is composers Williams faculty and guest artists dedicated performing the most cutting-edge music being written today. I/O will serve as the "house band" for the BOX series in addition to its performances in other venues during the year which also include significant works written in the last 100 years. Its inaugural concert, "objects may be closer than they appear" features Entrelacs by Yan Maresz, Red Shift by Lois V Vierk, Billie by Jacob ter Veldhuis, Sept crimes de l'amour Georges Aperghis, and COLLIDING OBJECTS: Interactions for Piano and Percussion by David Kechley
September 15 | 8:00 PM | MainStage | Free
Fay Vincent '60
President Emeritus of Columbia
Pictures
Former Commissioner of Baseball
"Failing to Succeed" --The first of four live, unscripted, one-on-one
interviews with great alumni about their great failures, their great triumphs,
and their amazing creativity. Come hear their inspirational life stories and
life lessons. For more information, contact Professor Edward B. Burger,
eburger@williams.edu. Sponsored by the Gaudino Fund.
BLUE LIAS – or the Fish Lizard’s Whore
A solo play written and performed by Claudia Stevens,
music composed by Allen Shearer
Performed Tuesday, September 23, 8:00 pm
CenterStage, '62 Center for Theatre & Dance, Williams College
Admission is free and open to the public, but tickets must
be reserved by
phone or picked up in advance at the '62
Center's box office
Blue Lias deals with
confrontations of religion and science in nineteenth century England--as
well as issues of class and gender--given expression in the life, personality
and career of famed fossil collector Mary
Anning (1799-1847). Anning, who is sometimes credited with discovery of the
first fossils of Ichthyosaurus, received
little credit for her path-breaking work from England's male-dominated scientific
community.
Stevens also portrays Anning’s nemesis, the eccentric,
humorously self-important William Buckland, who often helped himself to her
work. A clergyman as well as an Oxford
geologist, Buckland, like many of his contemporaries, wrestled with the fossil
evidence disclosed by Anning and others, attempting to reconcile scientific
discoveries with biblical accounts. Through musical and dramatic performance,
and using letters and impressions by contemporaries, Stevens enriches her
depiction of complex and significant characters and issues in the history of
science.
About Claudia Stevens. Claudia Stevens
creates unique and complex interdisciplinary pieces for her solo performance as
musician-actor. Her recent published solo plays with music encompass topics of
bio terrorism (The Poisoner on the Train);
science, gender and religion; hate crimes and reconciliation (Dreadful
Sorry, Guys). Earlier work draws from literature,
history, hidden family past, the Holocaust, and issues of identity. She also
has become a recognized thinker and speaker on ethics and the arts. Trained as
a pianist, singer, musicologist and composer, Claudia holds degrees in music
from Vassar College
(summa cum laude), California at Berkeley, and
the Doctor of Musical Arts in piano from Boston University
under Leonard Shure. Her academic positions have included Williams
College and the College of William
and Mary, where she has just accepted a new appointment as Visiting Scholar in
Music. A composers’ pianist in the 1980s, she championed the music of Aaron
Copland, Roger Sessions and Elliott Carter, in performances at Carnegie Recital
Hall (New York Composers’ Forum production) and other leading venues, and was
the featured artist in several “Performance Today” broadcasts on National
Public Radio. Many works she commissioned have been published. The Aaron
Copland House in New York
and several other libraries hold collections focusing on her advocacy of new
music.
A retreat for invited New England choreographers, mentors, and NEFA staff, as part of the Regional Dance Development Initiative.
Hosted by the Williams College Dance Program and Sponsored by the New England Foundation for the Arts
For more information please contact Isabelle Holmes at Isabelle.M.Holmes@Williams.edu
Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics, University Center for Human Values, Princeton University and laureate professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE), University of Melbourne. He specializes in practical ethics, approaching ethical issues from a utilitarian and atheistic perspective. Outside academic circles, Singer is best known for his book Animal Liberation, widely regarded as the touchstone of the animal liberation movement. Singer is also the author of Writings on an Ethical Life, Practical Ethics, and Rethinking Life and Death, among others. In Famine, Affluence, and Morality, one of Singer's best known philosophical essays, he argues that the injustice of some people living in abundance while others starve is morally indefensible. His next book, on philanthropy and the obligations of the rich to assist the poor, is currently in progress.
This event is sponsored by the Lecture Committee
Opening Night of the 10th Anniversary Season for this "perfect festival" and "a feast for the imagination and the soul." Under the direction of Steve Lawson '71, WFF screened the first films at the '62 Center and this fall will premiere a provocative work of American independent cinema.
October 25 | 2:30 PM & 8:30 PM | MainStage
Tickets for Frosh Revue will not be sold through the '62 Center Box Office. Instead, they will be available to students starting Monday, October 20th, outside the Paresky Center at lunchtime for $5 each. Parents should encourage students to buy tickets then, as they often sell out. Remaining tickets will be sold for $7 each at the box office prior to each performance.
Photo Credit: Drew Geraci
Hailed by The New York Press as “one the best performers (and freaks) the
city has to offer,” Taylor Mac is a theatre artist working in
the genre of pastiche. His most recent works are the solo-pastiche, "The
Be(A)st of Taylor Mac" (The Sydney Opera House, NYC’s The Public Theatre
in the Newman, London's Soho Theatre, Stockholm's Sodre Teatern, Dublin’s
Project Arts Center, Portland's Time Based Arts Festival, and over 40
additional theatres all around the globe) and his 12-member ensemble musical
pastiche "Red Tide Blooming" (with puppets by Basil Twist,
Performance Space 122). Expect to see Taylor’s
upcoming 16-member musical bonanza flowergory, "The Lily's Revenge"
in the fall of 2008. Vintage Press, New York Theatre Experience, Smith and
Kraus, and Allworth Press have published his plays/work and he is the recipient
of three Best Show awards from the Brighton Festival (The Latest 7, The Argus
Angel, and The Best of the Fringe), The Edinburgh Festival's Herald Angel
Award, PS 122's first ever Ethyl Eichelberger Award for artistic excellence, an
Edward Albee Foundation Residency, the Franklin Furnace and Peter S. Reed
Grants, The Ensemble Studio Theatre's New Voices Fellowship in playwrighting, A
Mabou Mines Suite (with collaborator Elizabeth Swados) and he is currently a
HERE Arts Center Resident Artist and a member of New Dramatists.
Two evenings of mountain and adventure-related films, from skiing, kayaking, and ice climbing to mountain culture. Across the Himalayas portrays the life of a nomadic group that annually travels from the border of Tibet to southern Nepal. Ice Mines features a band of ice climbers who have discovered the mysterious world of climbing inside the dark ice-filled mines of Scandinavia. Oil & Water follows the adventures of two kayakers who travel from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego in their bio-diesel truck, surfing waves and spreading the work of their cause.
www.mountainfilms.org for titles and descriptions of all the films
Herbert A. Allen '62 has been a director of The Coca-Cola Company since
1982. Mr. Allen is president and chief executive officer and a director of
Allen & Company Incorporated, a privately held investment firm, and has
held these positions for more than the past five years. Mr. Allen was a
managing director of Allen & Company LLC, a privately held investment
banking firm, from September 2002 to February 2003. He is a director of Convera
Corporation. Mr.
Allen was the principle donor of the '62 Center for Theatre and Dance at
Williams.
Ahmed Ahmed - Born in Helwan, Egypt
June 27th, 1970. Parents immigrated to the US
when he was one month old and grew up in Riverside,
CA. Moved to Hollywood
when he was 19 years old to pursue a career as an actor and stand up comedian.
Attended The American Academy of Dramatic Arts for one year and studied with
various acting coaches such as Cliff Osmond, Ivana Chubbuck
and Sandy Marshall.
Seen in such films and television shows as Iron Man, You Don't Mess
With The Zohan, Swingers, Tracey Takes On, Roseanne, JAG, Tough Crowd with
Colin Quinn on Comedy Central and MTV's
PUNK'D. Also appeared on CNN, The View, The
Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and NPR. Was featured on
the front page of The Wall Street Journal in December of 2001
and featured in Newsweek Magazine. Will be seen in the
upcoming ONION MOVIE for FOX Searchlight.
Currently can be seen on the Fahrenheit 9/11 DVD bonus track
performing stand up comedy.
A paid regular performer at The World Famous Comedy Store
in Hollywood and tours all across America and Europe.
Winner of the first annual Richard Pryor Award for ethnic
comedy at the Edinburgh Comedy Festival in Scotland summer of 2004.
Wrote an original screenplay titled "The Pilgrimage"
based on his Hajj (Pilgrimage to Mecca).
He also co-wrote the script "Google Me" with
comedian Erik Griffin.
NBC hip-hop dance ensemble and Dance Dhamaka Indian dance ensemble share the stage
Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawings in Context: Lecture and Artist
Chat
Renowned LeWitt scholar and curator Andrea Miller-Keller will discuss
LeWitt’s wall drawings in the context of his practice followed by a
conversation about LeWitt’s continued significance with artists Mel Bochner,
Michael Glier, and Whitney Museum of American Art curator, Chrissie
Iles. For more information, visit www.wcma.org.
Space is limited, please RSVP to Aimee Hirz at (413) 597-2037
Imagine that all your childhood fantasies...and fears...are real. Welcome to the world of Lights Out, a play about things that go bump in the night and two kids who bump back. Whatever you think you know, you don't. Whatever you think you're prepared for, you aren't. And, no matter what, don't let your foot hang over the side of the bed.
For Tickets Please Email lightsoutwilliams@gmail.com
On January 9, 2009 THE BOX-music by living composers series presents the debut of I/O new music ensemble. Under the direction of Matthew Gold and Steven Bodner, I/O is composers Williams faculty and guest artists dedicated performing the most cutting-edge music being written today. I/O will serve as the "house band" for the BOX series in addition to its performances in other venues during the year which also include significant works written in the last 100 years. Its inaugural concert, "objects may be closer than they appear" features Entrelacs by Yan Maresz, Red Shift by Lois V Vierk, Billie by Jacob ter Veldhuis, Sept crimes de l'amour Georges Aperghis, and COLLIDING OBJECTS: Interactions for Piano and Percussion by David Kechley
A deliciously decadent deluge of comedy
from acclaimed writers Anton Chekhov and David Ives. From Russia with
Bugs pits the two authors against one another in an epic evening of comedy sure
to make even the deadest of men laugh and laugh hard. The show is presented by
the Post Dramatic Stress Disorder group and features three actors playing a
minimum of 9 roles.
please email for tickets:
AllinTheTimingWilliams@gmail.com
Join us for an intimate look at the
creative process of the internationally know dance company Pilobolus.
Pilobolus began, in 1971, as an outsider dance company, and quickly became
renowned the world over for its imaginative and athletic exploration of
creative collaboration. Nearly 40 years later, it has evolved into a pioneering
American cultural institution of the 21st century. The company now revolves
around three nuclei of activity: PILOBOLUS DANCE THEATRE, the umbrella for a
series of radically innovative and globally acclaimed concert dance companies;
THE PILOBOLUS INSTITUTE, unique educational programming for schools, colleges,
and public arts organizations as well as a series of classes and leadership
workshops for corporate executives, employees, and business schools; and
PILOBOLUS CREATIVE SERVICES, a division specializing in a wide range of
movement services for film, advertising, publishing, commercial clients, and
corporate events.
We will present an informal demonstration of a Pilobolus Duet Performance. The
audience will have an opportunity to participate or just watch theses unique
artists use movement as a medium to explore elements of collaboration and
fellowship. It will be a rare intimate view into their special technique
that fuels Pilobolus and creativity in general.
Seating is limited to fifty and priority given to students. For tickets please email Willa.Simon@williams.edu
Pilobolus will be offering a formal
workshop on Saturday. For more information on the workshop please email Isabelle.M.Holmes@williams.edu
A deliciously decadent deluge of comedy
from acclaimed writers Anton Chekhov and David Ives. From Russia with
Bugs pits the two authors against one another in an epic evening of comedy sure
to make even the deadest of men laugh and laugh hard. The show is presented by
the Post Dramatic Stress Disorder group and features three actors playing a
minimum of 9 roles.
please email for tickets:
AllinTheTimingWilliams@gmail.com
Denver-based Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Company will be in residence to celebrate the 100th birthday year of the legendary Katherine Dunham. Dunham's research in Africa and Caribbean culture as a student at the University of Chicago fueled her important later work as a dancer, choreographer, scholar, educator, writer, and activist. Her legacy continues to inspire generations of artists in the United States and abroad. Residency activities will feature workshops in Dunham dance technique, film screenings, discussions, lecture demonstrations, and a concert featuring the choreography of Kathrine Dunham.
Sponsored by the Williams Dance Program, the National Endowment for the Arts American Masterpieces: Dance initiative administered by the New England Foundation for the Arts, MCLA Presents!, Mass MoCA, and Africana Studies at Williams College
Established in 2006, Steady Steppin' Forward has established itself as a stepping ground for Northeastern colleges and universities, with a guest list that has included Princeton, Boston College, Tufts, and NYU
The Awaji Puppet
Theater Company is designated by the Japanese Government an Intangible Folk
Asset and is often referred to as the origin of Bunraku Puppetry, one of the
principal currents in a puppet performance tradition that dates back to the
sixteenth century in Japan. The program will combine puppet manipulation with
dramatic recitation an shamisen musical accompaniment and will include a
narrative piece as well as intricate puppet dances from the company's
repertoire.
The seven-city North
American tour of Awaji Puppet Theater Company is organized and produced by
Japan Society, New York, in partnership with the City of Los Angeles Department
of Cultural Affairs, and is supported by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government
of Japan; The Japan Foundation through the Performing Arts JAPAN
program; The Jim Henson Foundation; and Awaji Ningyo Shibai Support Group.
Mainstage: A body conscious Bollywood dance show
Dance Dhamaka, Williams’ Indian dance group, celebrates the magic of Bollywood on the Mainstage with an exciting new show: ‘Mainstage’. ‘Mainstage’ is a Bollywood style show about three women who discover themselves with the help of dance and each other. Think ‘Never Been Kissed’ meets ‘Centerstage’ meets ‘Fame’! Dance Dhamaka's show this year promises to follow in the footsteps of past shows like ‘Bombay in My Soul,’ ‘Brokeback Bollywood,’ and ‘Legally Brown.’ It will surprise audiences with spectacular Bollywood and Bhangra choreography, vibrant costumes, and lots of drama.
Tickets are $3 and can be reserved by calling the '62 Center box office at (413) 597 - 2425.
Bollywood is the name given to the Hindi movie industry, typically characterized by sensational storylines, fantastic song-and-dance sequences, and melodramatic acting! Dance Dhamaka is Williams College's Indian Dance troupe and is over 20 people strong. Over the last four years the group has performed in the opening ceremonies of the '62 Center for Theater and Dance, Eid and Diwali celebrations, fundraisers for Tsunami and Hurricane Relief, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. day festivities.
On January 9, 2009 THE BOX-music by living composers series presents the debut of I/O new music ensemble. Under the direction of Matthew Gold and Steven Bodner, I/O is composers Williams faculty and guest artists dedicated performing the most cutting-edge music being written today. I/O will serve as the "house band" for the BOX series in addition to its performances in other venues during the year which also include significant works written in the last 100 years. Its inaugural concert, "objects may be closer than they appear" features Entrelacs by Yan Maresz, Red Shift by Lois V Vierk, Billie by Jacob ter Veldhuis, Sept crimes de l'amour Georges Aperghis, and COLLIDING OBJECTS: Interactions for Piano and Percussion by David Kechley
Thursday, April 30 at 8pm
$10, $5 for studentsFor tickets please call 597-2425
Pre-concert lecture at 7pm
free with ticket for the film
Initially trained both in the classical and jazz fields, composer JC Sanford has worked in several cross-genre musical situations, especially as a part of his association with the composers’ federation Pulse. His jazz orchestra, Sound Assembly, already stretches the boundaries of what is considered “jazz big band music” by using many unconventional techniques such as simultaneous multiple tempi and the shifting of traditional instrumental roles.
Sanford’s original score for the 1925 silent film Ben-Hur commissioned by the 2009 Syracuse Film Festival is a continuation of this practice. It contains aspects of jazz, but also other world musics and modern “classical” flavors. Much of the melodic and harmonic pitch material has been derived from the text in the intertitles (the projected text between and during scenes in a silent film). There will also be moments of guided improvisation specifically meant to depict and re-enforce the spontaneity and aggression of the dramatic pirate attack and chariot race. Performing live with the film, the JC Sanford Octet employs the fine talents of members of the Central New York Jazz Orchestra.
Day One
Friday, May 1
‘62 Center MAINSTAGE
12:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Free
College bands playing for adjudication by John Clark & Virginia Mayhew
** All times subject to change.
Noon Williams College Jazz Combo
1 p.m. CCRI, Band One-Directed by Dr. Steve Lajoie
2 p.m. CCRI, Band Two-Directed by Dr. Steve Lajoie
3 p.m. Ashland University, OH Directed by Scott Garlock
Day Two
Saturday, May 2
‘62 Center MAINSTAGE
9:00 a.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Free
College bands again playing for adjudication by John Clark and Virginia Mayhem
**All times subject to change
9 a.m. Bancroft School, Directed by Matthew Glenn
10 a.m. Amherst College, Directed by Bruce Diehl
11 a.m. Smith College, Directed by Genevieve Rose
NOON Westfield State College, Directed by Edward Orgill
1:30 p.m. UMASS, directed by Paul Lieberman
2:30 p.m. SCCC, directed by Dr. William Meckley
3:30 p.m. Yale, directed by Tom Bergeron
4:30 p.m. Williams Jazz Ensemble, Directed by Erik Lawrence
The 11th Annual Williamstown Jazz Festival
Miguel Zenon Quartet
Saturday, May 2 at 8:30pm
at the '62 Center
Williams College
$20, $6 for students
To purchase tickets, call the '62 Center box office at 597-2425.
Cash or check only. Phone orders can be picked up at the door.
Sponsored by the Mass Cultural Council and the Williams College President's Office
Day One
Friday, May 1
‘62 Center MAINSTAGE
12:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Free
College bands playing for adjudication by John Clark & Virginia Mayhew
** All times subject to change.
Noon Williams College Jazz Combo
1 p.m. CCRI, Band One-Directed by Dr. Steve Lajoie
2 p.m. CCRI, Band Two-Directed by Dr. Steve Lajoie
3 p.m. Ashland University, OH Directed by Scott Garlock
Day Two
Saturday, May 2
‘62 Center MAINSTAGE
9:00 a.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Free
College bands again playing for adjudication by John Clark and Virginia Mayhem
**All times subject to change
9 a.m. Bancroft School, Directed by Matthew Glenn
10 a.m. Amherst College, Directed by Bruce Diehl
11 a.m. Smith College, Directed by Genevieve Rose
NOON Westfield State College, Directed by Edward Orgill
1:30 p.m. UMASS, directed by Paul Lieberman
2:30 p.m. SCCC, directed by Dr. William Meckley
3:30 p.m. Yale, directed by Tom Bergeron
4:30 p.m. Williams Jazz Ensemble, Directed by Erik Lawrence
May 10 | 2:30 PM | Adams Memorial Theatre | $5
Cap and Bells presents "A New Brain" Music and Lyrics by William Finn. Book by William Finn and James Lapine. Directed by Casey York '10 and Tim Lengel '11. May 7-10, AMT.
By the Tony-award winning authors of Falsettos, here is an energetic, sardonic, often comical musical about a composer during a medical emergency. Gordon collapses into his lunch and awakes in the hospital surrounded by his maritime-enthusiast lover, his mother, a co-worker, the doctor and the nurses. Reluctantly, he had been composing a song for a children's television show that features a frog - Mr. Bungee - and the spector of this large green character and the unfinished work haunts him throughout his medical ordeal. What was thought to be a tumor turns out to be something more operable and Gordon recovers, grateful for a chance to compose the songs he yearns to produce.
Tickets are $5 each and can be reserved at ANewBrainWilliams@gmail.com