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.