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2009 Price Key: General Public/Rutgers alumni and employees and Seniors /Students Adobe Acrobat required to read many of the links. Tuesday, March 24-Friday, April 3 Tuesday-Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Extended hours on Wednesday until 6:00 p.m. Saturday, noon to 4:00 p.m. BFA Thesis Exhibition I Reception: Thursday, March 26, 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Mason Gross Galleries FREE Friday, March 27-Saturday, April 4 Wednesdays through Saturdays at 8:00 p.m. and Sundays at 2:00 p.m. Rutgers Theater Company Oleanna* By David Mamet Directed by Nathan Jeffrey A college professor and a female student find themselves alone in his office. She's angry, he's dismissive. Every word they speak throws more gas on the fire. Questions of sexual harassment and political correctness bristle throughout this controversial work. One of David Mamet's most performed and most talked-about plays. New Theater $25/$20/$15 Wednesday, April 1, 6:30 p.m. Visiting Artists Series Robert Hobbs Dr. Robert Hobbs is an art historian and a museum curator whose work joins social history with literary criticism, aesthetics, and feminist and postcolonial theory. He has published widely and has curated dozens of exhibitions, many of which have been shown at important institutions in the U.S. and abroad. His specific research areas include monographs on Milton Avery, Alice Aycock, Edward Hopper, Lee Krasner, Mark Lombardi, Robert Smithson, and Kara Walker. His published research includes in-depth studies of regional, self-taught, and Native American artists as well as investigations of contemporary and traditional craft media. In 2002 he served as the U.S. Commissioner for the São Paulo Biennale for which he curated “Kara Walker: Slavery! Slavery!” His recent project, a retrospective of artist Mark Lombardi, traveled to eight venues during 2003-2004. His exhibitions have been shown at such institutions as the AGO in Toronto, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Drawing Center (New York City), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Whitney Museum of American Art. Robert Hobbs will be speaking on his current area of research – the work of the Los Angeles based artist Sterling Ruby. Civic Square Building Room 117 FREE Thursday, April 2, 6:30 p.m. Visiting Artists Series Kelly Dolak: Postcards from Tora Bora Screening and Q&A Kelly Dolak, graduate of Mason Gross School of the Arts, will be presenting her feature-length documentary, Postcards from Tora Bora, a film about the displaced Osman family, and the return of Wazhmah Osman, to her war-torn childhood home in Afghanistan. Kelly Dolak is a filmmaker currently teaching digital filmmaking at Ramapo College. Her short films have been screened at film festivals both nationally and internationally. Her short, Purse, was showcased on PBS’s Reel New York and screened at more than 10 film festivals. She began her producing career working for the Emmy-award winning show Behind the Screen for five years at AMC and now is an independent documentary film producer. Postcards from Tora Bora is her first feature-length documentary. Civic Square Building Room 117 FREE Thursday, April 2-Saturday, April 4, 8:00 p.m. Student Dance Concert Loree Dance Theater $15/$15/$10 (student price available during daytime ticket office hours only, Monday through Saturday) Sunday, April 5, 2:00 p.m. BA Dance Showing Loree Dance Theater FREE-reservations required Sunday, April 5, 2:00 p.m. HELIX! Paul Hoffmann, director New Music Ensemble Nicholas Music Center FREE Monday, April 6, 8:00 p.m. Kirkpatrick Choir Mark A. Boyle and Patrick Gardner, conductors Altbachisches Archiv Cantatas and More Cantatas of J.S. Bach's forebears: Heinrich Bach, Georg Christoph Bach, and Johann Christoph Bach Kirkpatrick Chapel Wednesday, April 8, 6:30 p.m. Visiting Artists Series Brian Bellott Brian Bellott is an artist who reclaims the “found” in his disparate artistic practices–including collage, drawing, found photography, performance, and sound mixing. In his exhibition, Books, books, books, books, books, books and books, at CANADA Gallery 2005, Brian Bellott collected sixty-six children’s books of different sizes from different thrift shops and flea markets and “re-worked” them during “collage parties” with fellow artists. In Found Images, he compiled a digital slideshow of over 2000 found photos with an exclusive full-length soundtrack of original sound collages. Brian Bellott attended Cooper Union, New York, NY (thrown out)1994, and graduated with a BFA, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY 1995. In 2008 Bellot’s books were in the "Book / Shelf" exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, and “I Won’t Grow Up”, Cheim Read, NYC. Civic Square Building Room 117 FREE Thursday, April 9, 10:00 a.m. Visiting Artist Series Jane Gavan FREE Thursday, April 9, 8:00 p.m. Mason Gross Presents Bill Bowers It Goes Without Saying Co-sponsored by the School of Arts & Sciences Office of Undergraduate Education and the Cook Campus Dean for Undergraduate Education Thursday, April 9-Friday, April 17 Tuesday-Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Extended hours on Wednesday until 6:00 p.m. Saturday, noon to 4:00 p.m. BFA Thesis Exhibition II Reception: Thursday, April 16, 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Mason Gross Galleries FREE Friday, April 10, 8:00 p.m. School-wide Interdisciplinary Arts Showcase Wondrous Mirror: an Interdisciplinary Collaboration A student directed and performed show combining all four departments at Mason Gross. Free reception to follow. Nicholas Music Center FREE Monday, April 13, 8:00 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. Rutgers in New York Jazz at the Blue Note Featuring guest artist Sean Jones Mr. Jones is a Mason Gross School of the Arts Rutgers Jazz Ensemble directed by Ralph Bowen and the Rutgers Jazz Faculty featuring Conrad Herwig Rutgers Jazz Faculty Sextet Featuring music by Rutgers jazz composers and arrangers Blue Note Jazz Club $10 bar and $15 table. A minimum food or drink purchase may be required. Call 212-475-8592 to reserve. Tuesday, April 14, 10:30 a.m. Clarinet Masterclass Featuring Osiris Molina, clarinet Schare Recital Hall FREE Tuesday, April 14, 8:00 p.m. Rutgers Jazz Ensemble Ralph Bowen, director Nicholas Music Center FREE Wednesday, April 15, 6:30 p.m. Visiting Artists Series Dona Nelson Dona Nelson is a painter whose practice has been characterized by her abiding interest in how to make a painting without making an autographic mark, a refusal to own a signature style and a constant push for new approaches and fresh originality. Deeply rooted in Abstract Expressionism, Nelson actually came to attention in the 1980's for large-scale figurative work. The relative abstraction or representation in each of Nelson’s pictures underscores her interest in painting processes and how they generate symbiotic images. Nelson has exhibited extensively throughout the past 35 years, and has been the recipient of many prestigious awards and grants, including The Tesuque Foundation Grant in 2000, the Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in 1994, and an NEA Painting Grant in 1987. Her exhibition, Brain Stain, in 2006 at Thomas Erben Gallery received much critical attention, including reviews in The Brooklyn Rail, jameswagner.com and The New York Times. Civic Square Building Room 117 FREE Wednesday, April 15, 8:00 p.m. Osiris Molina, clarinet Nicholas Music Center FREE Wednesday, April 15-Saturday, April 18, 8:00 p.m. Saturday, April 18 and Sunday, April 19, 2:00 p.m. Preview performance: Tuesday, April 14, 8:00 p.m. The Jameson Project Arkadelphia by Samuel Brett Williams Directed by David Ledoux In Arkadelphia some things are forever: Walmart; Soul Saving on Saturdays; and blessing the weed before you smoke it. Bobby misses a lot of things about his home town . . . except the guilt. Lady of Fadima by Edward Allen Baker Directed by Justin Anderson Her husband is out of work. Her boss is coming on to her. How far will Terri go to provide for her family? The Last Supper by Reid Davis Directed by David Letwin Three friends explore the drive to find meaning and connection in the face of the ultimate human calamity. Jameson Theater $15/$15/$10 $5 for preview performance Thursday, April 16, 6:30 p.m. Visiting Artists Series Diane Torr Diane Torr will be giving a talk about her work and the work of fellow women performance artists titled "25 Years of Sex and Drag". Diane Torr is known for her solo performances, in which she impersonates various male characters “rendered with an understated intensity in their close inspection of so-called masculine characteristics.” (The Villager, NYC). Her group works, in which she directs and sometimes performs, are frequently adaptations from literature and deal with specific issues such as identity and cross dressing and are produced by such venues as The Arches, Glasgow, Oval House Theatre, London, Judson Church and La Mama Theatre, New York. Torr received her MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate Center for the Arts, Bard College, 2003, and is a fellow of the Whitney Museum Independent Studies Program and the MacDowell Art Colony. Civic Square Building Room 117 FREE Thursday, April 16-Saturday, April 18, 8:00 p.m. Saturday, April 18-Sunday, April 19, 2:00 p.m. DancePlus Spring* Matsuda Variations (premiere) Choreographer: Jeff Friedman Music: 5 pieces for orchestra, op. 10 by Anton Webern Matsuda Variations is an embodied exploration of how we think. Inspirations for the new work include silent meditation, appearance and disappearance of thought, the virtuosities of hackeysack, and the distractions of Tourette's Syndrome. First-year students in the Performance Skills course created all movement in collaboration with choreographer Jeff Friedman. Divining (premiere) Choreographer: Paulette Sears Music: Somei Satoh and Jim Hake Divinging's inspiration is taken from recent travels in Greece to ancient archaeological sites whose ruins are considered “divine” or sacred. The dance’s aura is heightened by an evocative violin and piano score by contemporary composer Somei Satoh, and further supported with a set piece of natural forest wood by Jim Hake. While I breathe, I hope (premiere) Guest Choreographer: Cleo Mack The dance will explore the physicality of breath, and the emotional connection of breath to hope. This piece will utilize kinetic partnering, breath support, and the risk of gravity to create an indulgent visual landscape. Hit Cat (1997) Choreographer: John Evans Music by Squonk Opera This is a fast paced dance for four made up of two contrasting duets that merge into a final quartet. the obsessive idea of searching for an impossible perfection (premiere) Choreographer: Randy James Featuring music by Rutgers Kirkpatrick Choir This is a work for 14 that includes a Finnish song by the composer Selim Palmgren performed by the Kirkpatrick Choir, the Biber Passacaglia for Solo Violin and the gospel song I Want Jesus to Walk With Me recorded by The Homes Brothers. Canonic 3/4 Studies (July 29, 1982) Guest Choreographer: Mark Morris Composer: Various; arranged by Harriet Cavalli Music: piano waltzes; short piano pieces in 3/4 time Originally Canonic Waltz Studies, the title was changed when Morris discovered that not all the musical selections were waltzes. He created it on the students of his summer workshop at On the Boards in Seattle. The piece was a workshop for him too; he was about to make New Love Song Waltzes, and he was practicing working with 3/4 time. Canonic 3/4 Studies by Mark Morris was made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts’ American Masterpieces: Dance initiative administered by the New England Foundation for the Arts with Dance/USA.New Theater $25/$20/$15 (student price available during daytime ticket office hours only, Monday through Saturday) Friday, April 17, 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Mason Gross Career and Networking Fair Sponsored by the Mason Gross Student Government Association Rehearsal Hall 104 FREE Friday, April 17, 8:00 p.m. Rutgers Symphony Orchestra* Kynan Johns, conductor Russian Fireworks Schnittke: Ritual Rachmaninoff: 1st piano concerto Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 Nicholas Music Center $25/$20/$15 Monday, April 20, 8:00 p.m. Jazz Ensemble Too Nicholas Music Center FREE Wednesday, April 22, 6:30 p.m. Visiting Artists Series Jill Magid Jill Magid’s video and performance works are linked by the investigation of the emotional and philosophical relationship between "protective" institutions and conventions, and individual identity. "I seek intimate relationships with impersonal structures. The systems I choose to work with, such as police, secret services, CCTV and forensic identification, function at a distance, with a wide-angle perspective, equalizing everyone and erasing the individual.” -Jill Magid Jill Magid was born in Bridgeport, CT in 1973. She received her Master of Science in Visual Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge and was an artist-in-residence at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam. Magid has had solo shows in various institutions around the world including Gagosian Gallery, the Museum of Contemporary Art Teipei (2003), Tate Liverpool (2004), the Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (2005), Sparwasser, Berlin (2007) and the Centre D'Arte Santa Monica, Barcelona (2007). Jill Magid lives and works in New York and Amsterdam. Civic Square Building Room 117 FREE Wednesday, April 22, 8:00 p.m. Felix Mendelssohn 200th Birthday Celebration Min Kwon, director Songs Without Words piano extravaganza Schare Recital Hall FREE Thursday, April 23, 8:00 p.m. Rutgers Jazz Chamber Ensemble Schare Recital Hall FREE Thursday, April 23, 8:00 p.m. Voorhees Choir Barbara Retzko, conductor Voorhees Chapel FREE Thursday, April 23, 8:00 p.m. Kirkpatrick Choir with Riverside Choral Society* Patrick Gardner, conductor Verdi: Requiem Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center $75/$45/$25-pricing for this event is based on seating location To order tickets, visit http://riversidechoral.org/index.shtm Thursday, April 23-Friday, May 8 Tuesday-Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Extended hours on Wednesday until 6:00 p.m. Saturday, noon to 4:00 p.m. BFA Thesis Exhibition III Reception: Thursday, April 30, 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Mason Gross Galleries FREE This event is part of the first Rutgers Day!
Friday, April 24, 8:00 p.m. Sounds of Chamber Music Karina Bruk, coordinator A concert featuring the winners of the Mason Gross Chamber Music Competition. Piano, vocal, string, brass and woodwind duos, trios, quartets, quintets as well as larger ensemble groups will present chamber works of the centuries. Nicholas Music Center FREEFriday, April 24 - Saturday, May 2 Wednesdays through Saturdays at 8:00 p.m. and Sundays at 2:00 p.m. Rutgers Theater Company Hard Heart* By Carrie Louise Nutt A troubled teenaged girl is tricked into a remote religious school that resembles prison more than anything else. Based on true experiences, this drama looks at religious hypocrisy and examines how we adapt to survive in extremely restrictive environments. A world-premiere production. Philip J. Levin Theater $25/$20/$15 Saturday, April 25, 8:00 p.m. Rutgers Percussion Ensemble Nicholas Music Center FREE Sunday, April 26, 2:00 p.m. Opera at Rutgers Schare Recital Hall FREE Monday, April 27, 8:00 p.m. Collegium Musicum Andrew Kirkman, conductor Christ Church FREE Tuesday, April 28, 8:00 p.m. Rutgers Jazz Chamber Ensemble Schare Recital Hall FREE Wednesday, April 29, 6:30 p.m. Visiting Artists Series Richard Tuttle Born in Rahway, New Jersey, in 1941, Richard Tuttle is a leading American artist of the Post-Minimalist generation. He has created a strikingly original body of work that has been critically appraised and internationally acclaimed for more than three decades. Since his first solo exhibition at Betty Parsons Gallery in 1965, Tuttle has adopted a direct and improvisational process of making art. Forty years after his first solo show, Tuttle’s art continues to question concepts of composition and frame, to explore the balance between line and volume, and to merge the mystical with the material. Tuttle has had numerous solo exhibitions and his work has been exhibited extensively throughout the United States and abroad. He is represented by Sperone Westwater in New York City and by Galerie Schmela in Dusseldorf and by Annemarie Verna Galerie in Zurich. Richard Tuttle is married to the poet Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, and lives and works in New York City and New Mexico. Civic Square Building Room 117 FREE Wednesday, April 29-Saturday, May 2, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 2 and Sunday, May 3, 2:00 p.m. Preview performance: Tuesday, April 28, 7:30 p.m. The Jameson Project World premieres written by MFA Playwriting Candidates Under the Rainbow by Lisa Huberman Directed by Maryna Harrison Is the mysterious guy Daphne meets in the library basement too good to be true?
Revision by William Burton Henline Directed by Michelle Seaton What happens when fiction goes too far?
The Infinite Dust by Peter Handy Directed by Claudia Zahn In a post-apocalyptic world, trust becomes a matter of life and death. Jameson Theater $15/$15/$10 $5 for preview performance Wednesday, April 29, 8:00 p.m. Rutgers Symphony Band Darryl Bott, conductor Nicholas Music Center FREE Thursday, April 30, 8:00 p.m. Rutgers Concert Band Tim Smith, conductor Nicholas Music Center FREE
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