Sarah Ruhl’s 2008 play finds comedy in the most unlikely of circumstances: a romance between a young woman and a dead man carried out via his still-active cell phone.
Mousy Jean becomes irate when her solitary lunch is interrupted by the insistent ringing of a nearby diner’s cell phone and in an uncharacteristic fit of boldness, she approaches him only to find that his ringing phone is the only spark of life he has left.
Participants from Part I of this series will continue to work with Dance Exchange company members to bring their ideas to the table in shaping new material inspired by the performance they’ve seen on December 10.
Audience members will work together in a new collaborative experience.
At the end of this second movement workshop, participants will present the movement they have developed and will share perspectives on the experience.
Dance Exchange Artistic Director Cassie Meador and Resident Artist Sarah Levitt will collaborate with participants to create movement, text and song drawn from personal stories, current events and physical explorations.
Numerous studies reveal that older adults who engage in creative activities can slow down the aging process by maximizing the use of their brains and bodies.
Join Rinde Eckert, creator of And God Created Great Whales, as he talks about the process of making a work about an artist who is slowly losing his memory while continuing to write music.
Other panelists include octogenarian visual artist David C. Driskell, poet A.B. Spellman and Sharon Simson, associate director of UMD’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.
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We are sorry to announce that our concert with Alisa Weilerstein has been cancelled. We apologize for the inconvenience.
We are sorry to announce that our concert with Alisa Weilerstein has been cancelled. We apologize for the inconvenience.
We are sorry to announce that our concert with Alisa Weilerstein has been cancelled. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Nora Chipaumire’s Miriam is a deeply personal dance-theatre performance that looks closely at the tensions women face between public expectations and private desires; between selflessness and ambition; and between the perfection and sacrifice of the feminine ideal.
Join Chipaumire along with Sheri Parks, UMD American Studies professor; Fatemeh Keshavarz, The Roshan Institute for Persian Studies; and Sarah Browning, director of DC Poets Against the War and Split This Rock.
For her newest work, On Behalf of Nature, Meredith Monk offers a poetic meditation on the environment, inspired in part by the Buddhist notion of conjoining heaven and earth through human beings.
Responding to the precarious state of our global ecology, Monk creates a space at the threshold where human, natural and spiritual elements are woven into a delicate whole, illuminating the interconnection and interdependency of us all.
