February 21, 2018
Arts Roundup: Cole Porter’s Anything Goes, Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan, Master Class with Atar Arad, and Faculty Recital with Melia Watras and Atar Arad
This week in the arts, aboard the S.S. American with the Musical Theater Program’s “Anything Goes,” watch the Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan perform “Formosa” (“beautiful island”), and see a Master Class with Atar Arad.
Cole Porter’s Anything Goes
Cole Porter’s Anything Goes
March 2 – March 18 | Floyd and Delores Jones Playhouse
All aboard the S.S. American! You’re in for rollicking good time on the high seas, complete with love, deception, celebrity-chasing, and probably even a glimpse of stocking (shocking!) Many of Cole Porter’s most infectious—and enduring—songs come from Anything Goes, including “De-Lovely,” “I Get a Kick Out of You,” and, of course, “Anything Goes”. This giddy, salty, wisecracking musical-comedy will put a smile on your face and a tap in your toe.
Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan
Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan
8:00 p.m., March 22 – 24 | Meany Theater
Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan is renowned for transforming ancient aesthetic traditions into stunning modern celebrations of movement. Founder Lin Hwai Min, widely considered the most important choreographer in Asia, returns to Seattle with his company to perform his newest work, Formosa (“beautiful island”). Using gesture, script, song and other elements from the landscape and history of his native Taiwan, Lin and his dancers create a lustrous, transfigured realm of abstract beauty born of land and lore.
Atar Arad
Master Class: Atar Arad, Viola
3:00 p.m., March 27 | Brechemin Auditorium
Professor of Viola at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, violist Atar Arad leads a master class with students of his former student, Melia Watras. Atar Arad was born in Tel Aviv, where he began his early musical education and violin studies. In 1968 he was one of a few young artists to be selected to study in the renowned Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth under the patronage of the Queen of Belgium. In 1980 Arad moved from London to the U.S. in order to become a member of the Cleveland Quartet for the next seven years. A late-bloomer composer, Arad wrote his first musical composition – a Solo Sonata for Viola in 1992. The Sonata was premiered in 1993 as part of Arad’s recital at the Viola Congress in Chicago and was published by the Israel Music Institute (1995).
Faculty Recital: Melia Watras and Atar Arad, Viola
Melia Watras and Atar Arad
7:30 p.m., March 28 | Meany Theater
UW viola professor Melia Watras welcomes internationally renowned artist Atar Arad, her former teacher and fellow violist/composer, for a concert that centers on compositions by the two colleagues. Atar Arad is Professor of Viola at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. Pairs will include works by Arad, Britten, Penderecki and Watras, with special guest violinist Michael Jinsoo Lim, concertmaster of Pacific Northwest Ballet.
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Tag(s): Department of Dance • School of Drama • School of Music • UW Drama
