2012-13 Matinees for H.S. Student Groups
Each academic year, the UAlbany Performing Arts Center offers a series of weekday matinee performances that are geared for high school students. These performances are a mix of theatre, music and dance and are selected for their connections to high school curriculum.
Admission is $5 per student with chaperones free.
Teacher resource materials are available approximately one month in advance of the shows.
Directions and bus information are provided upon reservation of tickets.
Guided campus, Performing Arts Center and Art Museum tours as well as other activities are possible when your group is on campus. More information will be provided with your reservation.
Home school students and parents are welcome.
To make a reservation for your school group or for additional details, contact Kim Engel at (518) 442-5738 or kengel@albany.edu
Flamenco Vivo II
Thursday, October 4 at 10am - SOLD OUT
Friday, October 5 at 10:30am - SOLD OUT
Whirls of colorful dresses.
Explosions of clicking castanets.
Strumming guitar and stamping feet.
Exceptionally talented dancers, singers
and
musicians sharing the flamenco tradition.
In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, this five-member ensemble of artists, under the direction of Artistic Director Carlota Santana, presents a program
of flamenco music, song and dance. Intense speed, sensual partnering and stiletto movement are trademarks of Santana’s artists who are currently celebrating their 30th anniversary season and tour nationally to build bridges between cultures using the universal spirit of flamenco.
Running Time:
60 minute performance plus approx. 10 minute Q&A with the artists for a total of 70 minutes
Special opportunity for the first five schools making reservations: For only $50 additional to the cost of the admission tickets for your group, we can make arrangements for local flamenco guitarist, composer, recording artist and performer Maria Zemantauski to visit your school to prepare the students to see this performance. Her lecture/conversation entitled
"What is Flamenco?" will
examine the three elements of flamenco: cante (song), baile (dance) and toque (guitar playing). Flamenco will also be contextualized as a dynamic, multi-faceted art form in which the sociocultural issues surrounding it are essential to understanding both the repertoire and its performers.
Joshua Kane in Edgar Allan Poe’s
Tales of Terror
Thursday, October 25 at 10am - SOLD OUT
Spine-tingling thrills.
Riveting recitations of the fantastic.
An award-winning tribute to the Master of mystery and the macabre.
This classically trained actor performs a thrilling, tour-de-force performance of The Tell-Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, The Raven, Annabel Lee and more. Punctuated with lively anecdotes about the author and his swift descent into madness, this performance of dark tales and passions is filled with unforgettable characters and stories of revenge, madness and despair.
Running Time:
65 minute performance plus approx. 10 minute Q&A with the artist for a total of 75 minutes
American Place Theatre in
The Things They Carried
Monday, November 5 at 10am - SOLD OUT
Wednesday, November 7 at 10am - SOLD OUT
Lush mosaic of vignettes.
Raw honesty and thoughtful reflection.
A compassionate tale of the American soldier.
Tim O’Brien’s masterwork of contemporary literature about the Vietnam War is taken from book to stage by this award-winning New York City based company in a verbatim adaptation that includes four of the short stories from the book including “The Rainy River” and “The Man I Killed.” With original cello music as underscoring, the audience lays witness to the complex issues of war and the universal struggle of the soldier.
Running Time:
60 minute performance plus approx. 15 minute pre-and post-show discussions led by a teaching artist from American Place Theatre for a total of 90 minutes
Flamenco Vivo II photo courtesy of John Michael Kohler Arts Center
Core Ensemble in Of Ebony Embers:
Vignettes of the Harlem Renaissance
Thursday, January 31 at 10am
Masterful concert music.
Powerful theatre.
Celebrated poetry.
Jazz from the greats.
A unique marriage of theatrical
narrative
to chamber music performance.
On the eve of Black History Month, this chamber music theatre work for actor and trio (cello, piano & percussion) celebrates the lives of three great African-American poets -- Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen and Claude McKay -- as seen through the eyes of the great muralist and painter Aaron Douglas to a musical score which includes works by Duke Ellington, Jelly Roll Morton, Billy Strayhorn, Thelonius Monk and Charles Mingus as well as concert music by Jeffrey Mumford and George Walker.
Running Time:
80 minute performance plus approx. 10 minute Q&A with the artists for a total of 90 minutes
American Place Theatre in The Giver
Tuesday, April 30
Thursday, May 2 - SOLD OUT
The “perfect” society. Buried truths.
A questioning of values and beliefs.
A boy who experiences the incredible
and undertakes the impossible.
Winner of the 1994 Newbery Medal, Lois Lowry’s richly, provocative novel was published 20 years ago and is still widely read today. In a dystopian world where all is the same, twelve-year-old Jonas is selected to receive the memories of a far different life. Breathing life into literature, this stunning stage adaptation deftly portrays the first book of the trilogy (and soon to be quartet with the release of the 4th book scheduled for this fall).
Running Time:
60 minute performance plus approx. 15 minute pre-and post-show discussions led by a teaching artist from American Place Theatre for a total of 90 minutes
Please note:
This performance is also available to middle school students.
