TDM Spring Production: EMU

Date and Time

May 1, 2020
04:00PM - 04:00PM EDT

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Theater, Dance & Media presents our Spring 2020 Production:
3 ORIGINAL RESEARCH PERFORMANCES

Created by the students in TDM’s Production Studio: Making Original Performance: Finn Bamber, Brian Bertrand, Jonathan Castillo, Ruva Chigwedere, Evangelos Kassos, Jaspreet Kaur, Gregory Lipson, Devonne Pitts, Sarah Rossman, Abbie Sage, Anna Schuliger, and Rachel Share-Sapolsky.

Facilitated by Visiting Lecturer Kaneza Schaal

With Guest Artist Collaborators Hazel Hernandez, Christopher Myers, Cheyanne Williams, and Ian Andrew Askew.

3 ORIGINAL RESEARCH PERFORMANCES PROGRAM

Fri May 1 at 4pm ET
EMU
As kids, schools, and families navigate uncharted waters of learning from home this project seeks to inject some fun and an unexpected history lesson. Performing with their own original animations EMU re-tells the story of the Great Emu War of 1932. 

Watch here via YouTube.

Sat May 2 at 4pm ET - by invitation only
AS IF BY MAGIC
Drawing on Alice Walker’s In Search of Our Mothers Gardens as a guiding text, As If By Magic is a by invitation only performance that platforms a collective investigation of memory, matrilineal knowledge, and the tools women of color use to care for themselves in times of transition.

Sun May 3 at 4pm ET via live streaming
KALDI: GOATS IN MINECRAFT GETTING COFFEE
With the world amid pandemic, this project poetically addresses encounters with foreignness and the presence of ‘the foreign’ in our everyday lives. Through coffee, Ethiopian goats, and Minecraft, they experiment with the volatile question of who tells whose story.

STREAM HERE VIA YOUTUBE.
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