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Performances
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Martha Graham Dance Company
Saturday, Oct. 3, 2009, 8 p.m.
Palmer Auditorium
The Martha Graham Dance Company is one of the oldest and
most illustrious contemporary dance companies in the world.
Martha Graham's name is synonymous with modern dance and
she has been acclaimed by many as modern dance's founder
and greatest practitioner. The evening's program will include "Diversions
of Angels," which premiered in Palmer Auditorium in
1948.
Tickets: $28, 24, 20; Seniors: $25, 21.50, 18; Students:
$14, 12, 10
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"Laramie Project 10 Years Later — An
Epilogue"
Monday, Oct. 12, 2009, 8 p.m.
John C. Evans Hall
The Tectonic Theater Project returned to Laramie, Wyo.,
10 years after Matthew Shepard's murder to interview members
of the community. The resulting play, "Laramie Project
10 Years Later — An Epilogue," explores the long-term
impact of the tragic event. The play will be presented as
a reading by members of our community on the anniversary
of Shepard’s death.
Presented in collaboration with
the Department of Theater.
Tickets: $12; Seniors: $10; Students: $6
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Dianne Reeves in Concert
Saturday, Oct. 24, 2009, 8 p.m.
Palmer Auditorium
Dianne Reeves is the pre-eminent jazz vocalist in the world
today. Her virtuosity, improvisational prowess, and unique
jazz and R&B styling have garnered her four consecutive
Grammy Awards for Best Jazz Vocal Performance.
"Her
three-plus, pellucid octaves, diva-like delivery and intimate
sense of a song have long made her one of the most compelling
vocalists in jazz." — Seattle Times
"A
natural story teller, she used her timing and phrasing to
bring novel insights to everything she sang." — Los
Angeles Times
Tickets: $28, 24, 20; Seniors $25, 21.50, 18; Students $14,
12, 10
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Vanguard Jazz Orchestra
Friday, Nov. 6, 2009, 8 p.m.
John C. Evans Hall
The 16-member Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, winner of the 2009
Grammy for Best Large Jazz Ensemble for their recording "Monday
Night Live at the Village Vanguard," continues the
tradition of stellar concerts and recordings that was created
by founders Thad Jones and Mel Lewis. As the permanent Monday-night
band at the historic Village Vanguard, the orchestra serves
as a creative outlet for some of the nation's foremost
performers, composers and arrangers.
"There probably
isn’t a big band in the country that can rival the
bullish precision of this one. ... Not only is the clockwork
impeccable, but it takes risks, commissions new pieces, and
has exceptional soloists in every section." — The
New Yorker
Tickets: $22; Seniors: $20; Students: $11
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The Calder Quartet
Friday, Nov. 13, 2009, 8 p.m.
John C. Evans Hall
Inspired by the innovative American artist Alexander Calder,
the Calder Quartet continues to expand its unique array of
projects by performing traditional quartet repertoire as
well as partnering with innovative modern composers, emerging
musicians and performers across genres. The group received
the 2009 ASCAP Adventurous Programming Award.
"The Calder
Quartet ... is the model of the sleek young string quartet.
The ensemble's technical accomplishment is very high. ...
They have a reverence for the formal Classical style and
for formal Modernism as well." — Los Angeles Times
Tickets: $22; Seniors: $20; Students: $11
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Kinodance Company — "Denizen"
Friday, Feb. 5, 2010, 8 p.m.
Palmer Auditorium
Kinodance Company is a Boston-based artist collaborative
that merges dance, film and visual art. The company was selected
by Dance Magazine as one of the "25 to watch" in
2008. "Denizen," a cinema stage performance inspired
by Armenian cinema, blends contemporary choreography with
film shot on location in Armenia.
"... stunning ... 'Denizen' integrates film, a scenic
design, and special lighting into the dance to create a theatrical
experience with enormous dramatic impact.” — Boston
Globe
The evening will also include the premiere of a new film
created by Kinodance Company with the Dual Language Arts
Academy in New London and Connecticut College.
This performance is funded in part by the Dayton Artist-in-Residence
Program.
Tickets: $22, 18, 15; Seniors: $20, 16, 13.50; Students:
$11, 9, 7.50
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The Acting Company & The Guthrie Theater’s “Romeo
and Juliet” by William Shakespeare
Directed by James Kerr
Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010, 8 p.m.
Palmer Auditorium
The Acting Company, renowned for its productions of classic
plays, joins the award-winning Guthrie Theater in production
of Shakespeare's iconic romantic tragedy, "Romeo and
Juliet." Young love has never been so delightful or
as dangerous as in this stirring new production.
Tickets: $26, 21, 16; Seniors: $23.50, 19, 14; Students:
$13, 10.50, 8
Note to educators: We will present a school-time
performance of the play on Thursday, Feb. 11. Please call
860-439-5069 for details and reservations.
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Cantus — a cappella ensemble
Friday, April 9, 2010, 8 p.m.
John C. Evans Hall
Cantus is recognized as one of America's finest professional
male vocal ensembles. The Washington Post hails the ensemble's
sound as having both "exalting finesse" and "expressive
power," and refers to their music-making as "spontaneous
grace." The ensemble is known for adventurous programming
spanning many periods and genres including chant, Renaissance
music, contemporary, art song, folk, spirituals, world music
and pop.
"Other groups aim for a honeyed but disembodied sound.
Cantus matches that blend, but it also revels in a heft of
sound hardly imagined possible form ten men singing without
accompaniment. At times ... Cantus sounded 50 voices strong." — Los
Angeles Times
Tickets: $22; Seniors: $20; Students: $11
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