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
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.
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.
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.