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Second Season: Flint by LaTefia Bradley, Another Side of You by Allen Chunhui Xing, and Akwantuo: The Journey by Mustapha Braimah

Flint

By LaTefia Bradley

Flint is a dance work that addresses the Flint Water Crises. This liberating and thought-provoking choreography combines visual art and dance, and shows images of the people of Flint, Michigan in order to draw attention to a problem that is not only happening in Flint, but all around the United States. 

Another Side of You

by Allen Chunhui Xing

Another Side of You explores the inner struggles that many face conforming to society expectations.

Second Season: Shared Graduate Dance Concert

Featuring provocative choreography by Master of Fine Arts students in dance, serving as an unguarded exploration of these young artists' talents and interests.

This concert focuses on new works in development. As the first opportunity for them to put material onstage and see what develops, it often contains the seeds of movement ideas that will be featured in their MFA Thesis programs.

Second Season: The Weeping Philosophers: An evening of new work by Mark Costello and Kelly Colburn

My Life Has Been Like Water By Mark Costello

This multimedia project uses a live video loop that explores time as an architectural object; something to be controlled, built, expanded and repeated. Time as if it is poured like water: endless, flowing, emotional, momentous, pure.

untitled homage to my twenties in new york city  By Kelly Colburn

Second Season: Goldfish by Shuping Yang and B.W.A. Black Women Anonymous by Whitney Geohagan and April Monu

The Goldfish

By Shuping Yang, Directed by Olivia Brann

Enter the mind of a Chinese son, "the golden child," as he struggles between traditional Confucian values and Western notions of individuality. When his cousin Li Yi visits him the night before his wedding, Xiao Zhong is faced with a series of life changing decisions that will affect his family, his relationships, and his future. Is he really free? Or is he just a goldfish stuck in a bowl?

 

NextLOOK: Happenstance Theater: Threshold (OFF SITE)

Residency at Joe's Movement Emporium: February 6-10, 2017

Using spatial dynamics,movement and physical theatre, text, live sound, theatrical clown and improvisational play, Threshold explores moments of transition, from the simplicity of entering and exiting a space, to the profound transition from innocence to experience.

Happenstance Theater engages the audience by bringing curiosity and delight to the idea of crossing over into unknown spaces: the moving, meeting, leaping, partnering, parting, aging and dying that require us to cross the threshold.

NextLOOK: Meghan Abadoo: Gatekeepers (OFF-SITE)

Gatekeepers/All that you touch, You Change is immersive dance-theater that explores the roles of artists in communities as everyday gatekeepers. A gatekeeper in a social system decides which of a certain commodity – materials, goods, and information – may enter the system. The gatekeeper’s choices are a complex web of influences, preferences, motives and common values.

Opera Resonates: Gender-Bending on the Opera Stage

Women play men regularly in opera. For centuries, higher voices were equated with nobility, purity and even virility.  What does this say about attitudes toward gender and the transgendered in ages past? What is our experience today in watching women play romantic male leads and heroes? Sociology, psychology and politics collide in music.

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