January 10, 2018
Arts Roundup: Trojan Women: A Love Story, Faculty Dance Concert, Ethnomusicology Visiting Artist Concert: Sepideh Raissadat, and performances by Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company
This week in the arts, experience a modern portrayal of a classic Greek Tragedy, see the annual Faculty Dance Concert featuring new collaborations with students and guest artists, hear an internationally renowned classical vocalist showcase her work with UW students, and watch dancers tell a story of resilience in the first performance of an exciting trilogy.
Trojan Women: A Love Story
Trojan Women: A Love Story
January 16 – January 28 | Floyd and Delores Jones Playhouse
Playwright Charles L. Mee recruits “shards of our contemporary world to lie, as in a bed of ruins, within the frame of the classical world.” In his brutal, lusty collage, Trojan Women: A Love Story, Dido reads Aeneas’ tarot cards in a post-apocalyptic spa and Cassandra incarnates as a furious dominatrix. The war is ended, yet it is unceasing: “A world destroyed by the hands of those who thought themselves the creators of civilization.” Love songs leaven war’s ravages, and a feminist utopia glitters, unreachable, on the horizon. More Info
Faculty Dance Concert
Faculty Dance Concert
January 24 – January 28 | Meany Studio Theater
The UW Department of Dance presents its annual Faculty Dance Concert, showcasing original work by nationally and internationally recognized faculty members Rachael Lincoln, Bruce McCormick and Dr. Juliet McMains, plus musical quartet Torch, and costume designer Michelle Lesniak. This year’s concert will also feature a collaborative new piece for 21 student dancers by inaugural Kawasaki Guest Artists zoe | juniper, a Seattle-based dance and visual arts team. More Info
Sepideh Raissadat
Ethnomusicology Visiting Artist Concert: Sepideh Raissadat
7:30 p.m., February 1 | Brechemin Auditorium
Winter Quarter Ethnomusicology Visiting Artist Sepideh Raissadat, an internationally renowned Iranian classical vocalist who also plays the sehtar, performs solo and with students in this evening of classical Persian music showcasing her work with UW students. More Info
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company
February 1 – 3 | Meany Center
The repertory of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company is recognized as one of the most innovative and powerful forces in the modern dance world. MacArthur award-winning Bill T. Jones’s latest work, Analogy: A Trilogy, is comprised of three evening-length works that reflect Jones’s fierce engagement with race, class, gender, history and identity. Over three nights, Meany Center will present the entire trilogy (one of the first ever presentations in the country). The program, which features a live music soundscape, searches for the connection between three stories, focusing on memory and the effect of powerful events on the inner lives of individuals. More Info
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