ICE Announcements 10.16.12
http://ice.uga.edu
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*ICE-Sponsored Events*
1. ICE-Vision: You the Living (10/17)
2. ICE Residency: Liz Lerman (10/29-11/2)
3. ICE Project Grants Invitation (open call)
*Events and Opportunities*
1. Residency: Ririe Woodbury Dance Company (10/16-17)
2. VOX Reading Series (10/17)
3. Lecture: Andrew Zawacki (10/18)
4. Reading: Pam Durban (10/18)
5. Colloquium: George Contini (10/19)
6. Lecture: G. R. F. Ferrari (10/19)
7. Performance: Collegium Musicum (10/19)
8. Performance: A Midsummer Night's Dream (10/20)
9. Performance: Georgia Brass Band (10/21)
10. Lecture: Keith Wilson (10/23)
11. Cine Screenings and Events
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*ICE-Sponsored Events*
1. ICE-Vision: You the Living (Roy Andersson, 2007)
Wednesday, October 17 at 8 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art Room S150
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ICE-Vision continues with Film Studies major Daniel LoPilato's weekly selections of eclectic,
idiosyncratic, psychotronic, or otherwise eccentric excursions into world cinema.
Roy Andersson's masterful vignette film "You, the Living" is a bleak tapestry of comic human
misery. Composed of sketches loosely related to one another, the film is a flat, immaculately
framed and executed slapstick comedy which takes existential angst as its starting point. Its
logical center is an endless traffic jam; an emotion-less sex act lasts seemingly for hours; a cab
driver dreams of capital punishment for a botched dinner trick. Andersson's camera is both
ruthless and sympathetic, static yet dynamic. Its cast of non-actors, bloated and pale, have an
uncanny and sarcastic pallor to them, as if constantly reminding the viewer, "Yes, you really look
like this." J. R. Jones of the Chicago Reader asks, "I laughed so hard it hurt - or was it the other way
around?"
Next week... Institute Benjamenta, (Stephen and Timothy Quay, 1995)
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2. Liz Lerman Residency
October 29 - November 2
Lecture: "Hiking the Horizontal: Making Rules, Breaking Rules"
Thursday, November 1 at 4 PM
Miller Learning Center Room 248
ICE is pleased to host Liz Lerman for a weeklong residency at UGA, sponsored by the Willson
Center for Humanities and Arts, Department of Dance, Department of Theatre and Film Studies,
Lamar Dodd School of Art, and Hodgson School of Music. The program is also supported in part by
the President's Venture Fund through the generous gifts of the University of Georgia Partners and
other donors.
Liz Lerman is a visionary choreographer, performer, educator, and writer best known for
organizing highly collaborative works that cut across traditional disciplines and communities. She
has been the recipient of numerous honors, including a MacArthur "Genius Grant" Fellowship and a
United States Artists Ford Fellowship. Her work has been commissioned by the Lincoln Center,
American Dance Festival, Harvard Law School, and the Kennedy Center among many others. Her
recent work, "The Matter of Origins," examines the question of beginnings through dance, media,
and innovative formats for conversation supported by the National Science Foundation.
Born in Los Angeles and raised in Milwaukee, Lerman attended Bennington College and Brandeis
University, received her BA in dance from the University of Maryland, and an MA in dance from
George Washington University. In 1976 she founded Dance Exchange, based in the Washington DC
area and now regarded as one the most innovative and creatively expansive dance companies in
the world. She is the author of many articles and books including "Teaching Dance to Senior
Adults" (1983), "Critical Response Process" (2003) and "Hiking the Horizontal: Field Notes from a
Choreographer" (2011).
Liz Lerman's five-day residency will feature both her mastery as a choreographer and her
extraordinary ability to galvanize and inspire dialogue among multiple voices - artistic, scientific,
and scholarly - in all their varied perspectives. Her visit will include workshops, a public lecture,
master classes in the Department of Dance, and training in the Critical Response Process, a critical
feedback methodology that evolved over the past twenty years through workshops and a book that
has been adopted by many artmakers, educators, and administrators.
Lerman will be joined by John Borstel, a visual artist, writer, arts administrator, and Senior Advisor
for Dance Exchange. Borstel is the co-author of "Critical Response Process," and has travelled
widely to teach and facilitate this unique feedback system, which emphasizes the values of
dialogue and active involvement by the artist.
For more information about Liz Lerman, please visit http://www.lizlerman.com.
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3. ICE Project Grants Invitation
2012-2013 Project Grants
Invitation for Letter of Inquiry
ICE invites Letters of Inquiry from UGA faculty and students for projects to be initiated during the
2012-2013 academic year. Selected inquiries will be invited to submit a full proposal and then be
considered for an ICE Project Grant.
Projects should be consistent with the ICE mission:
ICE is a catalyst for innovative, interdisciplinary creative projects, advanced research and critical
discourse in the arts, and for creative applications of technologies, concepts, and practices found
across disciplines. It is a collaborative network of faculty, students, and community members from
all disciplines of the visual and performing arts in addition to other disciplines in the humanities
and sciences. ICE enables all stages of creative activity, from concept and team formation through
production, documentation, and dissemination of research.
Letter of Inquiry should be no more 500 words and sent via email to:
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Please include the following information:
* Title and brief description of proposed project.
* List of proposed participants (include titles and affiliations).
* Impact of project and potential for future development.
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*Events and Opportunities*
1. Residency: Ririe Woodbury Dance Company
Lectures Tuesday, October 16 at 11 AM and 12:30 PM
Performance Monday, October 17 at 8 PM
New Dance Theatre
http://www.ririewoodbury.com
The Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, led by founders Shirley Ririe and Joan Woodbury, will provide
a three-day residence in the UGA Department of Dance October 15 - 17, 2012. The RWDC, one of
the leading companies in dance education, was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts grant,
and this funding also will apply to the residency at UGA.
Members will take part in workshops that will be open to the public Tuesday, October 16 from 11
am - 12:15 pm and 12:30 - 1:45 pm. The residency will culminate in a concert performance at the
New Dance Theatre, Department of Dance, at 8 pm Wednesday, October 17. Admission to the
performance is $10 for students and senior citizens, $15 general admission. Advance tickets may
be purchased at the UGA Tate Center box office, (706) 542-8579, or online at
http://tate.uga.edu/tickets.
The company has performed throughout the U.S., British Isles, Canada, China, Europe, the
Philippines, Puerto Rico, Singapore, South Africa and the Virgin Islands. RWDC will teach master
classes in the Department of Dance, provide a lecture demonstration/performance and stage a
work for UGA dance students. The performance, open to the UGA population and the general
public, will include choreography selected from 2012-13 RWDC dance repertory including original
choreography by Charlotte Boye-Christensen (Artistic Director), along with a showcase of new and
recreated works choreographed by other distinguished contemporary choreographers.
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2. VOX Reading: Paige Ackerson-Kiely and Lily Brown
Wednesday, October 17 at 7:30 PM
Cine, downtown Athens
Paige Ackerson-Kiely is the author of My Love is a Dead Arctic Explorer (Ahsahta 2012), In No
One's Land (Ahsahta 2007) and other works of poetry and prose. She lives in rural Vermont, co-
edits Black Ocean's Handsome Journal, and works at a homeless shelter.
Lily Brown is the author of Rust or Go Missing (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2011).
Recent poems are out of forthcoming in Saltgrass, Jubilat, Marco Polo, and The Offending Adam.
She was born and raised in Massachusetts.
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3. Lecture: Andrew Zawacki "Paris Photo Graff"
Thursday, October 18 at 4 PM
Miller Learning Center, Room 248
Andrew Zawacki is an American poet, critic, editor, and translator. His first book "By Reason of
Breakings" won the 2001 University of Georgia Contemporary Poetry Series, chosen by Forrest
Gander. Work from his second book, "Anabranch," was awarded the 2002 Cecil Hemley Memorial
Award from the Poetry Society of America. The volume also includes his 2001 chapbook
"Masquerade," selected by C.D. Wright to receive the 2002 Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award.
"Georgia," a long poem opening Zawacki's third book, "Petals of Zero Petals of One," won the 1913
Prize and was published in "1913: a journal of forms," with short introductions by Peter Gizzi and
Cole Swensen. Zawacki has coedited the international literary magazine Verse with Brian Henry
since 1995 and has taught at the University of Georgia since 2005.
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4. The Georgia Review Reading: Pam Durban
Thursday, October 18 at 7 PM
Cine, downtown Athens
The Georgia Review proudly presents a reading by novelist, essayist, and short fiction writer Pam
Durban. Pam Durban's newest novel, The Tree of Forgetfulness, has just been published by the
Louisiana State University Press. The book recovers the largely untold story of a brutal Jim Crow-
era triple lynching in Aiken County, South Carolina. Writer and critic R.T. Smith calls The Tree of
Forgetfulness a "vivid and suspenseful novel" in which "even in the presence of tragedy, we can
find reasons to rejoice.''
Durban is the author of the novels The Laughing Place (1993) and So Far Back (2000) and the short
story collection All Set About with Fever Trees (1985), the title story of which was originally
published in the Summer 1984 issue of The Georgia Review. Her stories and essays have been
widely published, and her short story "Soon" was included in The Best American Short Stories of the
Century.
She is Doris Betts Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina. In
2001 Durban received the Lillian Smith Book Award -- which "honors authors today who, through
their writing, carry on Smith's legacy of illuminating the condition of racial and social inequity and
propos[e] a vision of justice and human understanding" - for her novel So Far Back.
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5. Colloquium: George Contini
Friday, October 19 at 12:20 PM
Miller Learning Center Room 214
George Contini will give a lecture entitled "Am I My Resume? From Acting Gay to Being Gay" as part
of the Women's Studies Friday Speaker Series. George Contini is an Associate Professor in the
Theatre and Film Studies Department where he specializes in Characterization, Solo Performance,
Acting on Camera and Queer Theatre and Film. In addition to teaching, George maintains a career
in theatre and film. His original solo show "Put It In the Scrapbook" was recently performed at the
Chicago Fringe Festival.While at UGA George has been honored to receive many university-wide
awards recognizing his outstanding teaching and research including the Richard Russell Award,
Sandy Beaver Teaching Fellowship, M. G. Michael Award, Sandy Beaver Special Teaching Award, and
grants from the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. Mr. Contini received his MFA from the
University of Miami, Florida in Film Production and received his BA from Baldwin-Wallace College
with a double major in Theatre and English.
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6. Lecture: The Philosophic Life in Ancient Greece
Friday, October 19 at 3:30 PM
Peabody Hall, Room 205S
G. R. F. Ferrari, Professor and Chair of the Department of Classics at University of California,
Berkeley, is a prominent interpreter of Plato. His first book, Listening to the Cicadas: A Study of
Plato's Phaedrus (Cambridge University Press, 1987) created a stir because besides looking closely
at Plato's arguments, like other philosophical scholars coming out of Cambridge, Ferrari also paid
close attention to the dramatic setting of the dialogue. He argued that these details are particularly
important in the Phaedrus because they provide an essential context for the argument and help to
connect the dialogues' seemingly disparate discussions of love and rhetoric. This insistence on
viewing a dialogue as a whole and a broad understanding of its meaning is characteristic of
Ferrari's subsequent work on Plato, and it is now widely recognized as important for Platonic
scholarship.
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7. Performance: Collegium Musicum
Friday, October 19 at 8 PM
Ramsey Concert Hall
Collegium Musicum presents the first choral concert of the 2012-2013 UGA choral season under
the direction of Dr. Philip Moody, on October 19 in Ramsey Hall. The concert will feature Johann
Sebastian Bach's Magnificat in D with soloists Megan Gillis, Elisabeth Slaten, Emily Skilling, Victoria
Fox, Jonathan Pilkington, Brian Lustig, and Washington Issac Holmes. The work, originally written
in E-Flat Major, was composed for the 1723 Christmas Vespers during the first year Bach was in
Leipzig. Originally it included four additional text for the Christmas service. Ten years later, Bach
removed the additional texts, made minor revisions to the piece, and presented this new version in
D major for the Marian feast of the visitation on July 2, 1733. There will be a trio of female
vocalists as well as two sets of consort music of Thomas Lupo and William Lawes, directed by Dr.
Roger Vogel. The evening's program also presents sacred motets of Byrd, Schuetz, and Handl.
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8. Performance: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Saturday, October 20 at 5 PM
Ashford on Main
7 South Main St., Watkinsville, GA
http://roseofathens.wordpress.com
Rose of Athens Theatre brings you Shakespeare's classic like never before. Feast your eyes and
your mind on the craziest love story ever told. Hermia loves Lysander, Lysander loves Hermia.
Helena loves Demetrius, Demetrius loves Hermia...oops! We now take flight into the enchanted
forests of Athens, Greece where these lovers become mixed up in the fairy world and in Fairy
Queen Titania and Fairy King Oberon's quarrel! Add in a dash of amateur actors, a wedding feast
for Duke Theseus and the juice of the fire- flower and what have we got? One amazing show!
Ashford on Main is Ashford Manor's new facility next door at 7 South Main Street in downtown
Watkinsville.
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9. Performance: Georgia Brass Band
Sunday, October 21 at 3 PM
Hodgson Concert Hall
Founded in 1999, the Georgia Brass Band is made up of Atlanta-area professional and amateur
musicians, all of whom are selected by audition or referral. Members of the band represent a
variety of occupations and volunteer their time and talents to the band while committing to a year-
round schedule of rehearsals and performances. Joe Johnson serves as the music director of the
Georgia Brass Band. He holds degrees in trumpet performance and music education from the
Boston University School for the Arts and has performed in concert halls ranging from Boston's
Symphony Hall to London's Royal Albert Hall. A former member of the North American Brass Band
Association's board of directors, he was recently awarded the Citation of Excellence from the
National Band Association.
The concert is free but tickets are required. Tickets can be reserved online at http://pac.uga.edu
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10. Lecture: "Regionalism and Consciousness: Thomas Hardy's Imagined Geographies"
Tuesday, October 23 at 4:30 PM
Park Hall, Room 265
Keith Wilson (University of Ottawa, Canada) is a world-renowned expert on the author Thomas
Hardy. Hardy's characterization of socially obscure figures, who inhabit re-imaginings of what was
in the 19th century one of the lesser known regions of rural England, recurrently places them
within contexts that acknowledge their marginality while enlarging them into narrative centrality.
Hardy's settings implicitly invite the reader to consider the notion of "abstract humanism" that
Hardy introduced into his figuring of Marty South at the end of The Woodlanders, in which class,
gender, and geographical identity become almost irrelevant, particular as those social and regional
topographies may be, and fundamental as topographical specificity is in Hardy's writing. This
paper will explore the paradoxical intimacy in Hardy's work between evocations of, on the one
hand, the regional and particular and, on the other, the universal and emblematic. It will offer
Hardy's sense of that relationship as a partial explanation for the genre shift that takes him from
being England's last major Victorian novelist to its first major modern poet. This event is organized
by the British-Irish Studies Program, and sponsored by the Willson Center for the Humanities and
Arts and the Rodney Baine Lecture Fund.
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11. Cine Screenings and Events
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