[HvEXAS] REMINDER! Lisbeth Gruwez: It’s going to get worse and worse and worse, my friend | Fri May 10 at 8 PM | EMPAC, Troy, NY

Come catch the last performance of EMPAC's Spring season!

An interview with Lisbeth Gruwez in today's Times Union: http://www.timesunion.com/entertainment/article/Rants-serve-as-muse-for-dancer-at-EMPAC-4499741.php

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PERFORMANCE

Lisbeth Gruwez: It's going to get worse and worse and worse, my friend

Friday, May 10, 2013, 8 PM

EMPAC Studio 1 – Goodman

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

$18 general admission; $13 non-Rensselaer students, seniors, and Rensselaer faculty + staff; and $6 Rensselaer students

http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2013/spring/worse-and-worse

 

Belgian-based choreographer and dancer Lisbeth Gruwez transforms a recorded speech by ultraconservative American televangelist Jimmy Swaggart into a disturbing gesture and dance form. Her body juggles with words, makes syllables, shouts, stammers, horrifies, and fascinates.
 
A speech can be a mighty weapon. Throughout the centuries it has enthused countless masses and mobilized them into action, for better or worse. It has unleashed revolutions and fueled wars. Such is the power of words.
 
The piece deals less with the direct meanings of words and phrases and more with the violence that can lie in the rhetorical strategies of someone in a trance-like state.

+ trailer: https://vimeo.com/41662794

 
Lisbeth Gruwez | Voetvolk is a performance group founded by dancer/choreographer Lisbeth Gruwez and composer/musician Maarten Van Cauwenberghe. Since 2007, Voetvolk has developed as an international contemporary dance and performance company. Lisbeth Gruwez and Maarten Van Cauwenberghe are artists-in-residence in the Troubleyn/Laboratorium of multidisciplinary artist Jan Fabre.
 
Lisbeth Gruwez studied dance at the Stedelijk Instituut voor Ballet and at P.A.R.T.S. In 2006, she founded the dance performance group Voetvolk with Maarten Van Cauwenberghe. She starred in Caroline Strubbe's film Lost Persons Area, which won best screenplay at the Cannes film festival in 2009; she was nominated as Best Actress at the Flemish Film Awards for her role in the film. She also choreographed and danced with actress Juliette Lewis in a music video for her band Juliette and the Licks.
 
Gruwez has been working with multidisciplinary artist Jan Fabre since 1999, and during her career has worked with Pierre Coulibeuf, Needcompany | Jan Lauwers, Grace Ellen Barkey, Riina Saastamoinen, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Peter Verhelst, Arco Renz, and Silvia Defrance, among others. http://www.voetvolk.be/

 
Musician and composer Maarten Van Cauwenberghe graduated from KU Leuven in 1998 with a degree in commercial engineering. Shortly thereafter, he started playing as a musician and performer with Jan Fabre. Their first joint project was As Long as the World Needs a Warrior's Soul. In 2006, Van Cauwenberghe and dancer/choreographer Lisbeth Gruwez founded the dance performance company Voetvolk. Their first production, Forever Overhead, premiered in 2007.
 
Van Cauwenberghe has composed music for Julia Sugranyes; the PolyDan production See-Sick; La Nuit est mère du jour of the Comédie de Valence; Ay'n, a dance performance of Louise Charon and Luc Van Den Dries; the documentary Yell for Cadel; and Voetvolk's Birth of Prey, among others; and composed the music and danced in Voetvolk's HeroNeroZero.

Tickets are $18 general admission; $13 non-Rensselaer students, seniors, and Rensselaer faculty + staff; and $6 Rensselaer students (must provide ID for discounted tickets).

Evelyn's Café will open at 7 PM with a full menu of meals, snacks, and beverages as well as a selection of wines. Service continues after the event. Parking is available in the Rensselaer parking lot on College Avenue.
 
More information can be found on the EMPAC website: empac.rpi.edu. Questions? Call the EMPAC Box Office: 518.276.3921.

EMPAC 2012-2013 presentations, residencies, and commissions are made possible by continuous support from the Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and Performing Arts. Additional project support by the National Endowment for the Arts; the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; the New York State Council for the Arts; Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation with support from the National Endowment for the Arts; Arts Council Norway, Fond for Lyd og Bilde, and Fond for Utøvende Kunstner.

The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street
Troy, NY  12180

[HvEXAS] Lisbeth Gruwez: It’s going to get worse and worse and worse, my friend | Fri May 10 at 8 PM | EMPAC, Troy, NY

PERFORMANCE

Lisbeth Gruwez: It's going to get worse and worse and worse, my friend

Friday, May 10, 2013, 8 PM

EMPAC Studio 1–Goodman

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

$18 general admission; $13 non-Rensselaer students, seniors, and Rensselaer faculty + staff; and $6 Rensselaer students

http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2013/spring/worse-and-worse

 

Belgian-based choreographer and dancer Lisbeth Gruwez transforms a recorded speech by ultraconservative American televangelist Jimmy Swaggart into a disturbing gesture and dance form. Her body juggles with words, makes syllables, shouts, stammers, horrifies, and fascinates.
 
A speech can be a mighty weapon. Throughout the centuries it has enthused countless masses and mobilized them into action, for better or worse. It has unleashed revolutions and fueled wars. Such is the power of words.
 
The piece deals less with the direct meanings of words and phrases and more with the violence that can lie in the rhetorical strategies of someone in a trance-like state.

+ trailer: https://vimeo.com/41662794

 
Lisbeth Gruwez | Voetvolk is a performance group founded by dancer/choreographer Lisbeth Gruwez and composer/musician Maarten Van Cauwenberghe. Since 2007, Voetvolk has developed as an international contemporary dance and performance company. Lisbeth Gruwez and Maarten Van Cauwenberghe are artists-in-residence in the Troubleyn/Laboratorium of multidisciplinary artist Jan Fabre.
 
Lisbeth Gruwez studied dance at the Stedelijk Instituut voor Ballet and at P.A.R.T.S. In 2006, she founded the dance performance group Voetvolk with Maarten Van Cauwenberghe. She starred in Caroline Strubbe's film Lost Persons Area, which won best screenplay at the Cannes film festival in 2009; she was nominated as Best Actress at the Flemish Film Awards for her role in the film. She also choreographed and danced with actress Juliette Lewis in a music video for her band Juliette and the Licks.
 
Gruwez has been working with multidisciplinary artist Jan Fabre since 1999, and during her career has worked with Pierre Coulibeuf, Needcompany | Jan Lauwers, Grace Ellen Barkey, Riina Saastamoinen, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Peter Verhelst, Arco Renz, and Silvia Defrance, among others. http://www.voetvolk.be/

 
Musician and composer Maarten Van Cauwenberghe graduated from KU Leuven in 1998 with a degree in commercial engineering. Shortly thereafter, he started playing as a musician and performer with Jan Fabre. Their first joint project was As Long as the World Needs a Warrior's Soul. In 2006, Van Cauwenberghe and dancer/choreographer Lisbeth Gruwez founded the dance performance company Voetvolk. Their first production, Forever Overhead, premiered in 2007.
 
Van Cauwenberghe has composed music for Julia Sugranyes; the PolyDan production See-Sick; La Nuit est mère du jour of the Comédie de Valence; Ay'n, a dance performance of Louise Charon and Luc Van Den Dries; the documentary Yell for Cadel; and Voetvolk's Birth of Prey, among others; and composed the music and danced in Voetvolk's HeroNeroZero.

Tickets are $18 general admission; $13 non-Rensselaer students, seniors, and Rensselaer faculty + staff; and $6 Rensselaer students (must provide ID for discounted tickets).

Evelyn's Café will open at 7 PM with a full menu of meals, snacks, and beverages as well as a selection of wines. Service continues after the event. Parking is available in the Rensselaer parking lot on College Avenue.
 
More information can be found on the EMPAC website: empac.rpi.edu. Questions? Call the EMPAC Box Office: 518.276.3921.

EMPAC 2012-2013 presentations, residencies, and commissions are made possible by continuous support from the Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and Performing Arts. Additional project support by the National Endowment for the Arts; the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; the New York State Council for the Arts; Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation with support from the National Endowment for the Arts; Arts Council Norway, Fond for Lyd og Bilde, and Fond for Utøvende Kunstner.

The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street
Troy, NY  12180

[HvEXAS] The Third Man free outdoor screening | Thurs May 9 at 8 PM | EMPAC, Troy, NY

SCREENING: SHADOW PLAY

The Third Man 

Directed by Carol Reed

Thursday, May 9, 2013, 8 PM

Outdoor screening

EMPAC, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

FREE

http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2013/spring/third-man

Shrouded in darkness, Carol Reed's classic film noir, The Third Man, follows pulp novelist Holly Martin as he unravels the circumstances behind his friend's death in Vienna, a situation that increasingly resembles a plot from one of his own novels. Starring Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles, The Third Man won an Academy Award in 1951 for Robert Krasker's lush cinematography. Hailed as one of the greatest British films ever made, The Third Man combines wit with a sense of existential crisis, which is visually reinforced through the film's dramatic use of light and shadow.

+ trailer: http://youtu.be/2wlKhPtq5J8

+ wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Man

+ IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041959/

 
One of the English cinema's best craftsmen, Sir Carol Reed distinguished his career from contemporaries Luis Buñuel and Alfred Hitchcock by considering himself an entertainer, not an artist. Director Michael Powell observed that Reed "could put a film together like a watchmaker puts together a watch." Reed was prolific over his 40-year career, and is best known for Odd Man Out (1947), The Fallen Idol (1948), The Third Man (1949), and Oliver! (1968). He won the Palme d'Or at Cannes for The Third Man in 1949 and the 1968 Academy Award for Best Director for Oliver!

Shadow Play is a series of films that tread nimbly between reality and illusion, acknowledging the artificial nature of cinema. Referencing the tradition of shadow puppetry, the origins of cinema in phantasmagoria, and Plato's "Allegory of the Cave," each film draws on the metaphors of light as reality and shadow as artifice.
 
In Plato's The Republic, the allegory of the cave illustrates the difference between truth and illusion. Many writers have noted that "Allegory of the Cave" (written c. 360 BCE) bears great resemblance to the contemporary movie theater.
 
This event is free and open to the public. In the case of inclement weather, the free screening will move indoors to the Theater.
 
Evelyn's Café will open at 7 PM with a full menu of meals, snacks, and beverages as well as a selection of wines. Service continues during the event. Parking is available in the Rensselaer parking lot on College Avenue.

 

More information can be found on the EMPAC website: empac.rpi.edu. Questions? Call the EMPAC Box Office: 518.276.3921.

EMPAC 2012-2013 presentations, residencies, and commissions are made possible by continuous support from the Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and Performing Arts. Additional project support by the National Endowment for the Arts; the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; the New York State Council for the Arts; Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation with support from the National Endowment for the Arts; Arts Council Norway, Fond for Lyd og Bilde, and Fond for Utøvende Kunstner.

The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street
Troy, NY  12180