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Performance Series Calendar
The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later
Hosted by Performing Arts Department
Directed by Colleen Mylott, Guest Artist
Talkback hosted by Stephen Wangh, Guest Artist, Associate Writer of The Laramie Project
Monday, October 12th, 7:00pm
Nalanda Studio Theater, Naropa University
On October 6, 1998, Matthew Shepard was beaten and left to die tied to a fence on the outskirts of Laramie, Wyoming. A month after the murder, the members of Tectonic Theater Project traveled to Laramie and conducted interviews with the people of the town. From these interviews, they wrote the play The Laramie Project, which they later made into a film for HBO. Ten years later, members of the Tectonic Theater Project returned to Laramie to find out what had happened there in the years since the murder. The epilogue focuses on the long-term effects of the murder of Matthew Shepard on the town of Laramie. Naropa University’s Performing Arts Department is presenting a staged reading of The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later at the invitation of the Tectonic Theater Project, as part of a one-hundred city, simultaneous premiere across the country and the world.
Free and open to the public.
Luminous Emptiness
Directed by Guest Artist Katsura Kan
A co-production of the Golden Sun Foundation for World Culture and Naropa University’s MFA Theater: Contemporary Performance Program
Friday, October 16, 8:00pm Gala Opening
Saturday, October 17, 2:00pm and 8:00pm
Sunday, October 18, 2:00pm
Performing Arts Center, Naropa University
Luminous Emptiness is a multi-media, staged adaptation of the text Bardo Thodal, better known in the U.S. as The Tibetan Book of the Dead. This ancient Tibetan text was intended to serve as a guide for the deceased soul from the moment of death through to the moment of the next rebirth. Katsura Kan, a native of Kyoto, Japan and a Master Butoh artist, will direct the second-year MFA Theater ensemble. The original inspiration for the production came from Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Naropa University’s founder, who envisioned a modern interpretation of the text that would be accessible to a contemporary audience.
$15 general admission; $10 students and seniors; $5 Naropa students, faculty, staff and alumni w/ ID
Tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/79202; 303.245.4798
7-Ate-9 Faculty Arts Gala
Hosted by Undergraduate Music, Performance, Visual Art and Writing & Poetics Departments
Friday, October 23, 7:00pm start time
Lincoln Building, Naropa University
2130 Arapahoe Avenue, Boulder, CO
Come celebrate the wealth of talented Naropa arts faculty. An evening of cross-pollination starting at 7pm with a reading by Poetics Faculty, followed by a reception and viewing of Visual Arts Faculty work, and then performances by Music and Performance Faculty. Dress in your gala best and come for any or all of the festivities.
All are welcome, free of charge.
The MFA Theater: Contemporary Performance Alumni Ensemble presents
Big Love
By Charles Mee
Produced by the Aluminous Collective
Fridays and Saturdays, November 6-21, 8:00pm, BINDERY | space, 2180 Stout Street, Denver, CO
In Big Love, Charles Mee has taken one of the very oldest surviving plays in the western world, reduced it to ruins, and ‘written a new play, set in the world today’. Fifty brides flee to Italy to escape a forced marriage to fifty grooms. The grooms give chase to their brides-to-be, and a wild story of love, aggression, compassion and violence unfolds. Helicopters, tomatoes, flailing brides, befuddled grooms, swinging chandeliers. All this, plus singing and dancing too. The Aluminous Collective is a newly formed group of collaborators, founded by graduates of Naropa University’s MFA Theater: Contemporary Performance Program.
$15 general admission; $12 for students and seniors. To purchase tickets in advance, go to www.brownpapertickets.com. For more info visit www.biglovecolorado.com
LEAR IN PROCESS: Scenes and Images from Shakespeare’s King Lear
Hosted by the MFA Theater: Contemporary Performance Program
Directed by "Guest Artist" Stephen Wangh
Assistant Director: Elizabeth Watt
Design: Kirsten Wilson
With support from MFA Theater: Contemporary Performance faculty
Saturday, December 5, 7:30pm
Nalanda Studio Theater, Naropa University
The public is invited to attend an open performance/exploration of scenes from Shakespeare’s King Lear. The 2nd Year students of the Naropa MFA in Contemporary Performance program have immersed themselves in a bodily investigation of King Lear, allowing Shakespeare’s language, images, characters and story to motivate their training process and inspire their visions of movement and design.
This public showing is hosted by the director Stephen Wangh, MFA Director Wendell Beavers and MFA voice faculty member Ethelyn Friend. The audience is invited to participate in a discussion with the actors and director on the work-processes which have contributed to this experimental performance.
$7 general admission; Free for seniors, students and Naropa community w/ ID
Viewpoints Project
Hosted by the MFA Theater: Contemporary Performance Program
Directed by Wendell Beavers with Ethelyn Friend and Junior Burke
Wednesday, December 9, 7:30pm
Thursday, December 10, 7:30pm
Nalanda Studio Theater, Naropa University
$7 general admission; Free for seniors, students and Naropa community w/ ID
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