SPECIAL
PERFORMANCES

Gallim Dance CANCELLED
Saturday, February 27 at 8pm
$18 / $15 seniors & faculty-staff / $12 students

Selected as one of DANCE MAGAZINE's "25 to Watch" for 2009, choreographer Andrea Miller creates works that are astonishingly physical, charmingly awkward and wildly technical and has her dancers wearing lime green dresses with hot pink socks while singing along to underground club music. The company performs its evening length work, I Can See Myself in Your Pupil, a breathless suite of dances set to a highly eclectic score by Manu Chau, Pimmon, Trio Medieval, Beirut, Puccini and the Israeli band, Balkan Beat Box.
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Presented by the Performing Arts Center in cooperation with the Dance Department at The College at Brockport and the Department of Theatre and Dance at SUNY Potsdam. The company's residency is supported by the NYS DanceForce which receives funding from the New York State Council on the Arts Dance Program. Support also provided by University Auxiliary Services and Holiday Inn Express.

Three Cups of Tea
Thursday, March 18 at 7:30pm
$15 / $12 seniors & faculty-staff / $10 students

American Place Theatre presents a one-person theatrical adaptation of the inspiring true story of Greg Mortenson's journey that led him from a failed 1993 attempt to climb Pakistan's K2, the world's second highest mountain, to successfully establish schools in some of the most remote regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan. By replacing guns with pencils and rhetoric with reading, Mortenson combines his unique background with his intimate knowledge of the third-world to promote peace with books, not bombs, and successfully bring education and hope to remote communities in central Asia. Artist Website

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 Pierrot Consort
Sunday, April 11 at 3pm
$12 / $10 seniors & faculty-staff / $8 students

Flutist Susan Deaver, violinist Dale Stuckenbruck, violist Veronica Salas, cellist Maureen Hynes and pianist Heawon Kim comprise this ensemble which was originally modeled after the instrumentation of Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire and has always been dedicated to performing new music as well as the standard repertoire. Artist Website

Presented by the Performing Arts Center through an artist-in-residence exchange program with Long Island University's CW Post Campus. Support also provided by Holiday Inn Express.

Past Events

Teacher Man
Tuesday, October 13 at 7:30pm
$15 / $12 seniors & faculty-staff / $10 students

American Place Theatre presents a one-person theatrical adaptation of Frank McCourt's witty and heartbreakingly honest memoir recording the trials, triumphs and surprises he faced in public high schools around New York City during his 30 year career as a teacher. "I thought I was teaching. I was learning," the Pulitzer prize winner says as he and his students take us on a journey laced with humor and fueled by a heart of unlimited circumference. Artist Website

Starting at 7pm, there will be a short tribute to the memory of Frank McCourt with film clips from the Writers Institute's archive and commentary by William Kennedy.
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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.

A Celebration of Rumi
Wednesday, October 21 at 7:30pm
Free, although a ticket is required for admission

The 13th century Islamic poet and mystic is celebrated in a program of music, sacred dance and spoken word. Regarded as the quintessential voice of love, compassion and tolerance for people of all faiths, Rumi's poetry is read in both Farsi and English in this compelling and dramatic presentation that includes whirling dervishes and Sufi musicians. Artist Website More info ...

Presented by a partnership of the New York State Writers Institute, Office of International Education, Office of Multicultrual Student Success and Performing Arts Center. Support also provided by University Auxiliary Services.