Friday, April 20, 2007

Friday, April 27

Colloquia in Conceptual Studies
2-5 pm, CRT 175 *FREE*
The Body and Technology in Process: Devising Generative Methods of Exchange

Norah Zuniga Shaw, Director, Dance and Technology, Dance Department, The Ohio State University and Luc Vanier, Department of Dance, UWM.



Norah Zuniga-Shaw is a dance artist and theorist working in the U.S. and Latin America. She is a founding member of the EMMA Lab (experimental media and movement arts lab), a collective of artists and scientists concerned with real-time engagements between the body, site, and technology. Recent commissions include three new dances for television (WOSU-PBS), performances for NANO at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), and an interactive animated score for renowned choreographer William Forsythe. Zuniga-Shaw is director for dance and technology and assistant professor at The Ohio State University Department of Dance and the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design.

Luc Vanier is an Assistant Professor in the Dance Department at UWM. He studied at L'Ecole Superieur du Quebec under Daniel Seillier and in 1998 retired from Ohio Ballet, having danced roles such as the Workman in Kurt Jooss' Big City. As a company choreographer, Mr. Vanier's Square Play was presented as part of the company's 1995 Joyce season in NYC. His works Bob's Palace (Feb 2003) and Dreaming Meat (Feb 2004) were the culmination of four years of collaboration with the Beckman Institute. He more recently choreographed Cat's Cradle with Kurt Hartwig, Somewhere with music from Christopher Burns and Frog with animation from Evan Masureski. He also partners with Elizabeth Johnson as a dancer and as an Associate Director of Your Mother Dances.

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UWM Union Theater
7pm
The Iceberg (L’iceberg, by Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon & Bruno Romy, Belgium, French w/ Eng. St., 35mm, 2005)



Fiona is the manager of a fast-food restaurant. She lives comfortably with her family in the suburbs. In other words, Fiona is happy… until one day she accidentally gets locked into a walk-in fridge. She escapes the next morning, half frozen and barely alive, only to realize that her husband and two children didn't even notice she was missing. But when Fiona develops an obsession for everything cold and icy: snow, polar bears, fridges, icebergs – she drops everything, climbs into a frozen goods delivery truck and leaves home for a real iceberg.

UWM Union Theater
9pm *FREE*
Playtime (Jacques Tati, France, in French w/ Eng. St., 126 min., 35mm, 1967)



Set in an overly modern Paris of glass and steel, Tati’s Playtime follows not one particular character but groups of people interacting in ridiculous situations. The film features Tati’s famous character Monsieur Hulot, following a group of tourists on their travels. Eventually they all wind up in a posh new restaurant where everything that can go wrong with delightfully funny results. “[I]t is not the shape of the film or its cheerful philosophy that are important. Rather it is the density of the wit. It is the gracefulness of the visual gags that flow one into another, non-stop, in a manner that only Tati now masters.” – Vincent Canby NEW YORK TIMES