ICE Announcements 1.26.10 http://ice.uga.edu --- 1. Opportunity: Improvisation Workshop and Performance 2. ICE-Vision: Sweet Sweetback's Badasssss Song (2/4) 3. Lecture: Dr. Ronda Kasl (2/4) 4. Colloquium: "Edie Sedgwick" (2/5) 5. Lecture: The Lieder of Robert Schumann (2/8) 6. Sonic Generator Performance (GA Tech 2/8) 7. CORE Dance Concert (tickets available) 8. Exhibition: Plant Communities of the Trail of Tears 9. Cine Screenings and Events More listings at: http://iceannouncements.com --- 1. Opportunity: Improvisation Workshop and Performance Communion is a collaborative work uniting technology and the performing arts. Ji Eun Moon is a grduate student in the Doctoral program in music composition and piano performance at UGA. She is looking for other artists that explore or utilize improvisation in their work. Five guest speakers are needed to present and discuss how they utilize improvisation as a creative tool. Communion will be presented in a symposium atmosphere, divided into two sections: workshop and performance. This project will present and create improvisational artwork through the collaborative efforts of musicians, dancers, multimedia and the visual arts. Improvisational techniques in dance, film, music, and lighting will be utilized on stage and projected in variety of media. All improvisational techniques will be directed and decided by the random rolling dice. Moon hopes the attendees, presenters and performers will utilize this platform to explore and reveal the often overlooked or underutilized act of artistic collaboration. If you would like to become involved with Communion, please contact: Ji Eun Moon D.M.A Candidate in Music Composition Graduate Research Assistant Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE) The University of Georgia [log in to unmask] --- 2. ICE-Vision: Sweet Sweetback's Badasssss Song (Melvin Van Peebles, 1971) Thursday, February 4 at 8 PM Lamar Dodd School of Art Room S150 Film Studies major Will Stephenson continues ICE's informal weekly series, selecting a variety of world cinema classics and subcultural curiosities. "Melvin Van Peebles's 1971 independent film touched off a wave of imitative "blaxploitation" features, few of which shared Van Peebles's startling originality and fierce attack. The story of a male performer at a ghetto bordello and his run from the law, the film is a shrewd and powerful mix of commercial ingredients and ideological intent. R, 97 min." -Dave Kehr (Chicago Reader) --- 3. Lecture: Dr. Ronda Kasl February 4 at 5 PM Lamar Dodd School of Art Room S150 The devotional use of lifelike images of the infant Christ, so-called "holy dolls," was one of the most widespread religious practices of the 17th century. Ronda Kasl is Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture before 1800 at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Sponsored by the Association of Graduate Art Students. --- 4. Theatre and Film Studies Departmental Colloquium Friday February 5 at 12:20 PM Fine Arts Building Room 53 Dr. Sieving will give a talk on the Warhol Superstar entitled: "Edie Sedgwick: Goddess of the Underground." --- 5. Willson Center Visiting Scholar Lecture: The Lieder of Robert Schumann Monday, February 8 at 4:00 PM Hodgson School of Music Edge Recital Hall Willson Center Visiting Scholar Silvia Plyler, Professor of opera at the University of Cincinatti, in residency at the Hodgson School of Music during the week of February 7-12, 2010, will lecture on the lieder of Robert Schumann. --- 6. Resident Composer Michael Gordon joins Georgia Tech's Sonic Generator Monday, February 8 at 8 PM Rich Theatre, Woodruff Arts Center, 1280 Peachtree Street http://www.sonicgenerator.gatech.edu Georgia Tech's chamber music ensemble-in-residence, Sonic Generator, will feature the music of resident composer Michael Gordon in a free performance in partnership with the Woodruff Arts Center. Promising a unique experience in live music, creativity, and technology, the concert is part of Tech's T. Gordon Little Lecture Series in the Imagination. Sonic Generator is sponsored by the GVU Center, which seeks to advance the state of the art of the interaction between people, computing machines and information. The concert series is organized in collaboration with the Center for Music Technology and the School of Music in the College of Architecture. These entities champion advancements in creativity, expression, and human- computer interaction through research and education at Georgia Tech. --- 7. CORE Concert Dance Company Contemporary & Aerial Dance Concert 2010 Wednesday - Saturday, Feb. 24 - 27 at 8 PM and Sunday Feb. 28 at 3 PM is The CORE Alum Show (single performance) New Dance Theatre CORE Concert Dance Company Contemporary & Aerial Dance Concert 2010 will premiere five aerial, dance and multimedia works. Dance fusion in The Adventurous Tales of B-boy and Flygirl combines contemporary, bungee and break dance in a popular culture saga, pushing the boundaries of dance movement into flight. Created in collaboration with The UGA Breakdance Club, "flying dancers" developed from CORE company members training with Wendy Hesketh, Artistic Director of WIREAERIAL in Liverpool, UK, August 2009. Zugzwang (German for situation; such as in a Chess game) choreographed by CORE alumni Matt Kent, Emily Kent and Denise Moscardelli, will be performed by Matt Kent, who currently tours world-wide as Creative Director for Pilobolus Dance Theatre after performing with the company for over a decade. Threshold 2010 is inspired by the Holosync method of Bill Harris, who explores connecting right and left brain- wave patterns through alpha-theta stimulus to gain greater awakening of the mind. Turn the Page and Pink's Sober (a tribute to Pink's 2009 MTV Music Awards Performance) promise exciting aerial dance on lyra, silks and trapeze. The Jane Willson Professor in the Arts endowed professorship awarded to Bala Sarasvati generously supports all of the new creative works. Temporary Excursions With a Relative Departure In Mind returns original film backdrop created by Mark Callahan, Artistic Director of ICE. This dance has been performed in NYC and throughout China by CORE alum. Rainforest Dreams ('97) reveals spirits of the Amazon; Rio De Generated ('09) reflects recent journeys in Brazil and Coeur de CORE ('06) explores shape-shifting of the Navaho, Conventional Lite, a humorous look at the business world gesture dance will be performed by ten CORE alumni on Friday and Saturday night of the concert. CORE Concert Dance Company Contemporary & Aerial Dance Concert 2010 company members are: Mallory Baxley, Virginia Broyles, Laura Burgamy, Kellye Call, Clinton Kyles, Alexandru Muresan, Lacey Pinson Amelia Reiser and Jenna Williams. Highlighting the concert is a performance by Matt Kent, Creative Director of Pilobolus Dance Theatre, along with guest performers Jennifer Plesher, Steve, Cho, Sam Chun, Matti Griffin and Greg Daglis. Ten CORE alumni will join together to perform a dance on Friday and Saturday night of the performance. In addition, The CORE Alum Show, held Sunday, Feb. 28 at 3:00 PM, will feature choreography and performances of CORE alum who return to pay tribute to the creative vision and training during their participation in UGA's CORE Concert Dance Company in the past 20 years. Tickets can be purchased for both CORE Concert Dance Company 2010 and The CORE Alum Show at the Tate Student Center cashier's window M-F 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. or at the door each evening of the performance beginning at 7:00 p.m. ($10 student/senior citizen, $15 adult. For Ticket Information: 706-542-8579 or online: www.uga.edu/campuslife/ --- 8. Exhibition: Plant Communities of the Trail of Tears The Circle Gallery, G14 Caldwell Hall Ends February 24 A collaboration between CED professor Alfie Vick's Maymester class and the UGA Institute of Native American Studies. Includes student research, documentation and design associated with the construction of an interpretive 1710-era Cherokee Village. --- 9. 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