Janet Wong, the Associate Artistic Director for Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company taught a choreography class for UCSB dance students. The class was attended by 16 junior dance majors who are currently working on choreography. They were divided into four groups of four, and each group collaborated to create a short movement sequence that was based on eight group shapes. They performed this movement sequence in conjunction with a randomly selected one minute story from Story/Time (which Janet provided and read out loud). First, they were challenged to dance without responding to the words/story – allowing the movement and spoken words to simply coexist. Later on in the class they developed their movement sequences to correlate with the story that was being told, creating a more dramatic effect. For the last 30 minutes of class, 23 freshman dance majors and faculty members came in to observe the final products, and the class had a brief discussion about choreographic tools moving forward. All of the students in the class attended the performance of Story/Time by the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company the following night at the Granada Theatre.. Photos by David Bazemore
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Sonita chronicles the remarkable journey of an Afghan teen living in Tehran who dreams of becoming a famous pop star, but she faces a government that doesn’t allow girls to sing alone and a family that intends to sell her off as a child bride. She turns to rap music to push back against the traditions bearing down on her, becoming a unique and passionate voice for freedom that resounds far beyond her own personal plight. (2015, 90 min.)
Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World Photo by David Bazemore “One of the Top 10 Brains of the Digital Future.” Prospect magazine
Written by Ping Chong and Sara Zatz, with Ryan Conarro
In collaboration with the performers: Tiffany Yasmin Abdelghani, Ferdous Dehqan, Kadin Herring, Amir Khafagy and Maha Syed “There won’t be a more important show presented in Santa Barbara this year. Everyone needs to hear these voices, especially now, and the blessing that this booking by UCSB Arts & Lectures represents for our community at this critical moment can hardly be overstated.” – Charles Donelan, Santa Barbara Independent Amir Khafagy of Ping Chong + Company in a playwriting workshop with undergraduate and graduate student writers at UCSB.
“Joan Baez is still the mother of us all.” The New York Times
Artist, designer and author Maira Kalman’s deliciously off-kilter illustrations capture life’s big questions in small moments that fill us with wonder and make us think. Kalman’s quirky, hilarious and heartbreaking illustrations can be found on her memorable New Yorker covers, in her children’s books, memoirs and Michael Pollan’s Food Rules. Her latest book, The Principles of Uncertainty, is the result of her witty and wise New York Times column. As animated in person as she is on paper, Kalman will explore why not knowing can be “a very good thing.’’
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