Updated UC Davis Department of Theatre & Dance 2009-10 Season Calendar
07-28-2009
Photos available: http://theatredance.ucdavis.edu/season/archives.aspx
UC Davis Department of Theatre & Dance 2009-10 Season Calendar
FALL QUARTER
Elephant‘s Graveyard, Sideshow Physical Theatre
Written & Directed by Jade Rosina McCutcheon
Fri-Sat, Oct 23-24 & 30-31, 8pm
Sun, Oct 25 & Nov 1, 2pm (followed by Q & A session)
Studio Theatre, Mondavi Center
This new work explores the ways we deal with our elderly and our fears of old age and dying.
Sideshow Physical Theatre is a resident performing company of the Robert and Margrit
Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts and the resident professional company in the
UC Davis Department of Theatre & Dance.
Tribes: the unified field
Written & Choreographed by Granada Artist-in-Residence Sara Shelton Mann
Corpo/Ilicito: The Post-Human Society 6.9
Written & Directed by Granada Artist-in-Residence Guillermo Gomez-Pena with UC Davis students and faculty. Main Theatre Weds – Sat, Nov 18-21 8pm Sun, Nov 22 2pm
This double bill features original pieces by Granada Artists-in-Residence. Sara Shelton Mann’s Tribes: the unified field is a journey into the past and future fluctuating between verbal and non-verbal language. It explores the spiritual basis of human origin beyond cultural differences.
Corpo/Ilicito: The Post-Human Society 6.9 explores both the legacy of fear of the Other -- the criminalization of the brown body inherited by the Bush administration -- and the emerging culture of hope, imagination and faith that has developed in response to the former world order. It tackles this historic moment of dramatic reinvention by looking into the immediate past and attempting to manifest a possible future without resorting to quick fixes and false hopes as co-directed by the audience.
WINTER QUARTER
THIRDeYE Theatre Festival
Artistic Director Peter Lichtenfels
Wyatt Pavilion Theatre
Weds – Sat, Jan 27-30, 8pm
Sun, Jan 31, 2pm
An evening of original and published one-act plays written and/or directed by undergraduate students.
Dances for Non-Fictional Bodies (excerpt)
Choreographed by Jess Curtis
Jointedness
Choreographed by Nina Galin
Fri-Sat, Feb 12-13 & 19-20, 8pm
Sun, Feb 21, 2pm
Studio Theatre, Mondavi Center
Double bill choreographies by graduating MFA candidates.
Award-winning San Francisco choreographer Jess Curtis presents a section from a new work created in collaboration with an international team of multidisciplinary performers and renowned performance artist Guillermo Gomez-Peña as a dramaturgical collaborator.
Nina Galin’s Jointedness is a new music-dance-theatre work that explores different
senses of “joint”: point of clear articulation in a body; meeting place; collaboration.
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
Directed by MFA Candidate John Zibell
Wyatt Pavilion Theatre
Weds – Sat, Feb 24-27, 8pm
Sun, Feb 28 2pm
Past Showcases have presented works ranging from classics like Macbeth and Strindberg’s Miss Julie, to contemporary theatre like David Hare’s Slag.
The Seagull by Anton Chekov (Translation by Michail Fraine)
Directed by Granada Artist-in-Residence Katya Kamotskaia
Main Theatre
Weds – Sat, March 10-13, 8pm
Sun, March 14, 2pm
The Seagull is a play about faith and love – in theatre, in life … in yourself.
SPRING QUARTER
Solo Explorations
Arena Theatre, Wright Hall, and other locations TBA
Fri – Sat, April 2 -3, 8pm.
Acting thesis presentations by graduating MFA candidates.
Main Stage Dance Theatre Festival
Main Theatre, Wright Hall
Fri-Sat April 9-10, 8pm
Fri, April 16, 8pm
Sat, April 17, Special Picnic Day performances at 1pm and 3pm
Sun, April 18, 2pm
New choreographies by undergraduate and graduate students and UC Davis dance instructors.
Some Things Are Private
Created by Deborah Salem Smith and Laura Kepley Written by Deborah Salem Smith
Directed by Graduating MFA Candidate Candice Andrews
Main Theatre, Wright Hall
Wed-Sat, May 5-8, 8 PM
Sun, May 9, 2pm
Some Things Are Private is a docudrama based on the controversial photographs of Sally Mann in the early 90's. Followed by talkback session: “What is Art?"
The Matter of Taste (a performance and food event)
Created and Directed by Granada Artist-in-Residence Anna Fenemore
Location TBA
Weds – Sat, May 19-22, 8pm
Sun, May 23, 2pm
Performers and spectators will eat together through this intimate,
immersive and interactive event and together will attempt to address both the subjective and highly individual experience of 'taste' and the social redefining of what might be considered 'good' and 'bad' taste.
UC Davis Film Festival
The 10th Annual UC Davis Film Festival is produced by the Department of Theatre & Dance and presented by the Davis Varsity Theatre in association with UC Davis Technocultural Studies and co-sponsored by Film Studies and Art Studio.
The Davis Varsity Theatre
616 Second Street in Davis
Wed 5/26 ~ Thu 5/27, 8:30pm
The Festival gives students the opportunity to showcase their short films and receive feedback from faculty who are professionals in film, television and new media.
Performance dates and venues are subject to change.
Tickets and more information: http://theatredance.ucdavis.edu
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