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SPECIAL PERFORMANCES
Check back
this summer for a listing of the 2009-10 offerings.
Past Performances
Bridgman/Packer
Dance
Saturday, October 25 at 8pm
$20/$15 seniors & faculty-staff/$12 students
Art Bridgman and Myrna Packer's innovative choreography
using video and projections has been acclaimed for exploding
the duet form into a magically populated stage where
image and reality collide. These 2008 Guggenheim Fellows
will perform their TRILOGY of dance and video works:
Seductive Reasoning, Under the Skin and
Memory Bank, created in collaboration with filmmakers
Peter Bobrow and Jim Monroe, and featuring live music
performed by Grammy Award-winning percussionist Glen
Velez, Obie and Bessie Award-winning cellist Robert
Een and acclaimed composer/saxophonist Ken Field. The
evening will conclude with a post-performance discussion
with the artists.
The artists will be in residence
from October 23-25. Activities will include:
Master class - Thurs., Oct. 23 at noon
Lec/dem on Dance & Technology - Thurs., Oct.
23 at 4pm
Performance for H.S. Students - Fri., Oct. 24
at 10am
The Moving Voice workshop - Fri., Oct. 24 at
3pm
Open Rehearsal - Sat., Oct. 25 at 2pm
Click here
for more information on these activities.
Presented
by the Performing Arts Center in cooperation with the
Dance Department
and Community
Performance Series at SUNY Potsdam. The residency
is supported by University
Auxiliary Services, Holiday
Inn Express, the Alumni
Association through the Grandma Moses Fund and the
NYS DanceForce
which receives funding from the New
York State Council on the Arts Dance Program and
Altria Group, Inc.

American
Place Theatre
This acclaimed company's Literature to Life® series,
led by Artistic Director Wynn Handman adn Executive
Director David Kener, creates professionally staged
theatrical adaptations of significant literary works.
Tickets for each show are $15/$12
for seniors and faculty-staff/$10 students.
Flight
Wednesday, November 19 at 7:30pm
Performed by Robert Spaulding
Adapted & Directed by Wynn Handman
Simultaneously wrenching and deeply humorous,
wholly contemporary yet steeped in American history,
Sherman Alexie's hilarious and tragic portrait of
an orphaned Indian boy recounts his travels back and
forth through time in a violent search for his own
true identity.
The
Secret Life of Bees
Thursday, April 2 at 7:30pm
Performed by Denise Wilbanks
Adapted & Directed by Wynn Handman
Based on Sue Monk Kidd's New York Times bestseller
set during the Civil Rights movement, a young girl's
search for the truth about her mother leads her to
three beekeeping sisters and the discovery of the
real meaning of family.
There will be presentations of both
shows for high school students. Click
here
for more details.
Presented by the Performing Arts Center in conjunction
with the New
York State Writers Institute. Support provided by
University Auxiliary
Services and
Holiday Inn Express.
The performance of The Secret Life of Bees is made possible
in part through COMMUNITY ART$GRANT, a program funded
by The Arts
Center of the Capital Region through the State and
Local Partnership Program of the New
York State Council on the Arts, a State agency.
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