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Summer at the CFA
Tickets for summer events are on sale online now.
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EVENING PERFORMANCES
Hartford Steel Symphony
Tuesday, July 2, 2013 at 7pm
Memorial Chapel
FREE!
Dance to the island rhythms of the Hartford Steel Symphony! Founded in 1989, this premier Connecticut steel pan group performs calypso, reggae, pop, classical, and jazz tunes under the musical direction of Kelvin Griffith and Curtis Greenidge, and has shared the stage with artists such as the great panist Len "Boogsie" Sharpe of Trinidad. Watch a video here.
Gallim Dance
Thursday, July 11 & Friday, July 12, 2013 at 8pm
CFA Theater
$25 general public; $20 seniors, Wesleyan faculty & staff; $10 students
Click here to purchase tickets online.
"Sexy, reckless and edgy as hell, this performance [is as] exciting as high art can get."
—Nashville Scene
Andrea Miller, Artistic Director of Gallim Dance, took the Center for the Arts by storm when her company performed at DanceMasters Weekend in 2011. Hailed for their quick wit, technical virtuosity, and visceral movement style, Ms. Miller's works embody fearless physicality. Ms. Miller was the 2011 recipient of Wesleyan's Mariam McGlone Emerging Choreographer Award. At Wesleyan, Gallim Dance will perform the New England premiere of Mama Call (2011), and Pupil Suite (2010), which had been postponed from their original engagement in February 2013. Mama Call has its roots in Andrea Miller's Sephardic-American heritage. The work explores ideas of displacement and alienation as it affected Spanish Jews during the centuries surrounding the Inquisition. Ms. Miller adapts the Sephardic story into a contemporary and more universal tale of border-crossing. Mama Call investigates the idea of how those who have been displaced rescue the idea of "home." Pupil Suite is an exhilarating selection of wildly quirky excerpts from Ms. Miller's crowd-pleasing work I Can See Myself in Your Pupil. Performed to the contagious music of Israeli band Balkan Beat Box, the dance is a joyous romp that plays with the madness of imagination and the ecstasy of movement.
Watch a five-minute video trailer for Gallim Dance's Pupil Suite.
Watch a three-minute video of highlights from Gallim Dance's Pupil Suite and Mama Call.
Marc Bamuthi Joseph's Word Becomes Flesh
Thursday, July 18, 2013 at 8pm
CFA Theater
$19 general public; $17 seniors, Wesleyan faculty & staff; $10 students
Purchase tickets online.
"Enjoyed Marc Bamuthi Joseph very much. He engaged the audience, all of us, regardless of age. His enthusiasm was contagious and the depth of his performance was amazing. He is truly a talented artist."
—Comment from the Center for the Arts blog from patrons who attended the 2011 Summer at the CFA solo performance by Marc Bamuthi Joseph
One of the brightest lights in hip hop theater, Marc Bamuthi Joseph first performed Word Becomes Flesh as a solo work in 2003. The play documents letters from a young single father to his unborn son using spoken word, dance, and live music. Word Becomes Flesh returns to the stage, re-invented in this New England premiere for an ensemble cast of six emerging poet-performers, who fuse deep honesty, tender stories, playful wit, purposeful rage, and raw physicality to examine the legacy of patriarchy and male privilege, the continuum between fathers and sons, and the relationships between women and men. Watch a video here.
PRICE KEY
A General
B Seniors/Wesleyan Faculty & Staff
C Students
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Hartford Steel Symphony
Gallim Dance
Marc Bamuthi Joseph's Word Becomes Flesh
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FREE NOONTIME TALKS AND PERFORMANCES
Stephen Bennett: Harp Guitar
Tuesday, July 2, 2013 at 12:10pm
Crowell Concert Hall
FREE!
A native of Oregon, teacher, composer, and performer Stephen Bennett is a master of the harp guitar, a 12-stringed instrument with an extended sound chamber and 6 sub-bass strings. Based in Milford, he has released 25 albums and is the founder of the Harp Guitar Gathering, an annual event that brings together players, luthiers, scholars and fans for performances and workshops in Connecticut since 2003. Watch a video here.
Anne Cubberly: How I Became the Puppet Lady
Tuesday, July 9, 2013 at 12:10pm
CFA Hall
FREE!
Visual artist Anne Cubberly's work includes kinetic sculpture, installations, and performance. She was the first Artist in Residence at The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford and her work has been exhibited at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Peabody Essex Museum, and The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, among other locations. Ms. Cubberly also teaches group performance, mask-making, giant puppet-making, sculptural papier-mache, and sculpture from recycled materials. Watch a video here of performance of "Dirt" at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, CT in 2009.
A Talk by Marcela Oteíza
Tuesday, July 16, 2013 at 12:10pm
CFA Hall
FREE!
Wesleyan University Assistant Professor of Theater and Resident Scenic Designer Marcela Oteíza is an interdisciplinary artist working in the performing and visual arts. She specializes in collaborative and non-text-based work, and has been extensively involved in numerous projects in the United States and abroad. She is currently working on a video-documentary about street performances that occur during the Santiago a Mil Festival City as Site. Click here to visit her website.
Souleymane Badolo: WATIDSOWBO--Come Dance With The World
Tuesday, July 23, 2013 at 12:10pm
Crowell Concert Hall
FREE!
Born in Burkina Faso, choreographer and performer Souleymane Badolo's heritage is a driving force in his work. He founded his own company, Kongo Ba Teria, in 1993. Since moving to New York in 2009, in addition to his own work, he has performed work created for him by Reggie Wilson, and was featured in the New England premiere of Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and Nora Chipaumire's visible at Wesleyan in October 2012. Mr. Solo teaches contemporary dance at Bennington College while pursuing a graduate degree in Dance and Performance. At Wesleyan, he will demonstrate and discuss his creative process. Watch a video here.
Tickets may be purchased at each event beginning one hour prior to the performance, subject to availability. The CFA accepts cash, checks written to "Wesleyan University," and all major credit cards. Groups of ten or more may receive a discount--please call the box office for details. No refunds, cancellations, or exchanges. No ticket reservations will be accepted via e-mail.
Summer at the CFA is co-sponsored by the Capital Regional Education Council's Center for Creative Youth. Artist residencies are made possible with support from the Connecticut Office of the Arts, and Wesleyan University's Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance. Additional support provided by the Connecticut Higher Order Thinking Schools Program at the Green Street Arts Center.
All programs, artists and dates are subject to change. Outdoor events will be moved indoors in the event of rain. All CFA facilities are air-conditioned.
The Center for the Arts gratefully acknowledges the support of its media sponsors the Hartford Courant, Shore Publishing, WESU 88.1FM, and WNPR.
PRICE KEY
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B Seniors/Wesleyan Faculty & Staff
C Students
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Stephen Bennett
Anne Cubberly
Souleymane Badolo
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EZRA AND CECILE ZILKHA GALLERY
Thesis Art Exhibition
Tuesday, April 30 through Saturday, May 25, 2013
Gallery Hours: Noon-5pm
Special Reunion & Commencement Hours on
Saturday, May 25, 2013 from 10am to 5pm
Reception: Saturday, May 25, 2013, 2pm to 4pm; Remarks at 2:45pm
Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery
FREE!
Zilkha Gallery presents the work of the Class of 2013's thesis students in the Department of Art and Art History's Art Studio Program. Each student is invited to select a single work from their Senior Thesis Exhibition for this year-end showcase of drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture, mixed media and architecture curated by Professor of Art Tula Telfair. Co-sponsored by University Relations.
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