Required
Events
Please
attend at least 3 of the following events and write a short reaction paper for each, print, and hand in on the first
class after the event.
Clara
Tomaz
Mirror
Exhibition opening: Wed., January 21, 2009 from 5-7:00 p.m. West Hall Gallery,
Room 111, RPI Campus
A personal experience of cancer expressed in animation. January 20 -
February 13, 2009. (More
Details)
Free
Brent
Green:
God Builds Like Frank Lloyd Wright
EMPACScreening | Theater
Friday January 16, 8:00 PM http://empac.tix.com/Event.asp?Event=170079
http://nervousfilms.com/
$5
Cathy Weiss: Electric Haiku: Calm as Custard
Guggenheim Fellow and Bessie Award-winner Cathy
Weis performs several haikus from the vignette series of "Electric Haiku:
Calm as Custard," as well as two new EMPAC-commissioned solo works.
Friday, February 06, 2009 at 8:00 PM
And Sat. 2/7/2009
at 8:00 PM $5
EMPAC - Studio 1 Goodman
Agnes Varda
Les Glaneurs et la
glaneuse (The Gleaners and I) Tue. 2/10/2009
at 8:00 PM EMPAC Theater $5
Phillipe Pareno
Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait
By training 17 cameras on legendary footballer Zinedine Zidane over the course
of one match--and pairing the footage with a soundtrack by Mogwai--filmmaker
Phillipe Parreno offers a poignant and immersive reflection on the human
condition of athlete and the athlete's condition as performer.
Friday, February 27, 2009 at 8:00 PM $5
EMPAC Theater http://empac.tix.com/Event.asp?Event=170174
Frιdιric Bevilacqua
Lecture | Theater Tuesday March 3, 8:00 PM
Free
Unfiction on Safari
A collection of three films--by Olaf Breuning, by Sascha Palidino with Bela
Fleck, and a film created from Maya Deren's cinematography--that together
present the complexities of intention and action surrounding present-day
tourism, cultural interchange, appropriation and hybridity.
Thursday, March 19, 2009 at 2:00 PM $5
EMPAC Theater http://empac.tix.com/Event.asp?Event=170174
Tere O'Connor Dance: Rammed Earth
Choreographer Tere O'Connor performs "Rammed Earth," a site-adaptive
dance work that incorporates the audience into an expanding, contracting space
by moving them into different viewing positions throughout the performance.
Thu. 3/26/2009 at 8:00 PM Tere O'Connor Dance:
Rammed Earth EMPAC Theater Troy, NY Tix & Info 
Fri. 3/27/2009 at 8:00 PM Tere O'Connor Dance:
Rammed Earth EMPAC Theater Troy, NY Tix & Info
Sat. 3/28/2009 at 8:00 PM
EMPAC Theater http://empac.tix.com/Event.asp?Event=170176
$10
Signs
of Change
TBA Arts Department
March 27 opening
Zachary
Sklar
Visiting
lecturer April 2 TBA
onedotzero film
festival: adventures in motion
Films | Theater Friday April 17, 2:00 PM
Free
Basil Twist: Dogugaeshi
Master puppeteer Basil Twist unfolds a journey of images and emotions
influenced by the tradition of Japanese dogugaeshi stage-mechanism technique.
Sat. 4/25/2009 at 4:00 PM Basil Twist: Dogugaeshi EMPAC
Theater Troy, NY Tix & Info
Sat. 4/25/2009 at 8:00 PM Basil Twist: Dogugaeshi EMPAC
- TheaterTroy, NY Tix & Info
Sun. 4/26/2009 at 2:00 PM Basil Twist: Dogugaeshi http://empac.tix.com/Event.asp?Event=170187
EMPAC Theater $10