Friday, February 26, 2010

[HvEXAS] UPDATE: EMPAC | ENTITY | Friday 02/26 & Saturday 02/27, 8 PM

The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center
(EMPAC) @ Rensselaer Polytechnic Institutue
http://www.empac.rpi.edu/

+++ My apologies for two emails in a row: this is a reminder that
tonight's performance of ENTITY will be preceded by a panel discussion
on R-Research with Philip Barnard, Scott deLahunta, and Wayne McGregor
at 6 PM. This panel is free and open to the public (ENTITY ticket
holder or otherwise).

TALK
Philip Barnard, Scott deLahunta, Wayne McGregor
Panel discussion on R-Research
Friday, February 26, 6 PM
Goodman Studio/Theater
Free

A discussion on projects and directions of R-Research – the research
branch of Wayne McGregor | Random Dance – which initiates and
implements new research collaborations across disciplines including
dance, neuroscience, cognitive science, biology, philosophy and
technology.

+ More information: http://www.empac.rpi.edu/events/2010/spring/entity/talks/

EMPAC 2009-2010 presentations, residencies and commissions are
supported by grants from the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation in
partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts' Regional Touring
Program, 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; additional funding provided
by the Ford Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the
Community Connections Fund of the MetLife Foundation) and the New York
State Council for the Arts. Special thanks to the The Jaffe Fund for
Experimental Media and Performing Arts for support for artist
commissions.

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EMPAC Box Office:
518.276.3921

Our mailing address is:
EMPAC @ Rensselaer
110 8th Street
Troy, NY 12180

Copyright © 2009 EMPAC @ Rensselaer
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[HvEXAS] EMPAC | ENTITY | Friday 02/26 & Saturday 02/27, 8 PM

It looks like tonight (Friday 02/26) could sell out by show time - so
if you have not bought your ticket yet, definitely do so soon!

http://www.empac.rpi.edu/events/2010/spring/entity/index2.html

+ PERFORMANCE
Wayne McGregor | Random Dance
ENTITY
Theater
Friday, February 26 & Saturday, February 27, 8 PM
$15/10/5

Set in a torrent of sound by Massive Attack and Coldplay collaborator
Jon Hopkins and composer Joby Talbot, Wayne McGregor | Random Dance's
ENTITY is a stunning work of exacting and sensual movement for nine
dancers, framed by multiple moving screens. With its fierce kinetic
intelligence, large-scale video projections, and propulsive music,
ENTITY further establishes Wayne McGregor | Random Dance at the
forefront of contemporary dance.

ENTITY features set design by Patrick Burnier with film/video by Ravi
Deepres, and lighting by Lucy Carter.

"A terrific work… a great sexy beast of a piece – it's like being
licked by a panther's juicy, rasping tongue while you're revising
maths." — The Sunday Times

"There is no other dance vocabulary like this… its riches of invention
will hold you riveted." — The Guardian

"Wayne McGregor is doing some of the most exciting work in ballet on
the planet." — The New York Times

- Here's an interview with some of Wayne McGregor | Random Dance's
collaborators that appeared in yesterday's Albany Times Union:

http://blog.timesunion.com/localarts/wayne-mcgregorrandom-dance-at-empac/4572/

- And here's some video documentation to further tease in case you
have not already clicked "buy tickets":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PRreBNlSuI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AnvHpCOsf8&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhpcw8zQV60

Tickets:

+ General Admission = $15.00
+ Rensselaer Faculty/Staff = $10.00
+ Seniors = $10.00
+ Students = $10.00
+ Rensselaer Students = $5.00

+ For tickets, directions, and other concerns, contact the EMPAC Box
Office at 518.276.3921 or visit the website at http://
www.empac.rpi.edu/.

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[HvEXAS] Tonight! TNO Afterparty | Dance! | Feb. 26th | 9pm-2am | Daisy Baker's | FREE

 

TNO Afterparty
Friday, February 26th, 2010
9pm-2am
FREE  |  18+ (ID required)

Another month into the future, so far so good. This month we've got what the business school type's call a "hockey stick curve" of freak-out. As always, we'll start it up easy to allow for some fine dining, but we can't guarantee you'll stay in your seat. To be honest, it's probably easier to just head downstairs to Bacchus for $5 Pizza Margherita until midnight... Keeps the energy up for the dancefloor.

Up this month:

Scooby Carolan: Tech House (Live PA): that1TIME
Brad Lee: Closing it out like Troy do.
McGillicuddy: Starting it up like she do.
Back from Japan: Back from a couple months off with new jams.

Check out the Facebook Event Page!! http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=364159636368&ref=nf

Daisy Baker's
33 2nd Street, Troy, NY
518-266-9200
–––––––––––––––––––––––

The last friday of every month, come for Troy Night Out and stay for the party! Daisy Baker's, 9pm-2am, FREE, dance till you can't.


www.daisybakers.com
www.tnoafterparty.com
www.troynightout.org

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Tuesday, February 23, 2010

[HvEXAS] EMPAC | Tonight's Panel discussion on R-Research postponed

The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center
(EMPAC) @ Rensselaer Polytechnic Institutue
http://www.empac.rpi.edu/

Tonight's Panel discussion on R-Research with Philip Barnard, Scott
deLahunta, and Wayne McGregor at 6 PM has been postponed due to the
inclement weather. It has been rescheduled to this Friday, February
26 at 6 PM, preceding the first performance of ENTITY by Wayne
McGregor | Random Dance.

TALK
Philip Barnard, Scott deLahunta, Wayne McGregor
Panel discussion on R-Research
Friday, February 26, 6 PM
Studio 1 - Goodman Studio/Theater
Free

A discussion on projects and directions of R-Research – the research
branch of Wayne McGregor | Random Dance – which initiates and
implements new research collaborations across disciplines including
dance, neuroscience, cognitive science, biology, philosophy and
technology.

+ More information: http://www.empac.rpi.edu/events/2010/spring/entity/talks/

---

EMPAC 2009-2010 presentations, residencies and commissions are
supported by grants from the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation in
partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts' Regional Touring
Program, 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; additional funding provided
by the Ford Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the
Community Connections Fund of the MetLife Foundation) and the New York
State Council for the Arts. Special thanks to the The Jaffe Fund for
Experimental Media and Performing Arts for support for artist
commissions.

---

EMPAC Box Office:
518.276.3921

Our mailing address is:
EMPAC @ Rensselaer
110 8th Street
Troy, NY 12180

Copyright © 2009 EMPAC @ Rensselaer
All rights reserved.

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[HvEXAS] TNO Afterparty this Friday, February 26th | Dance! | 9pm-2am | Daisy Baker's | FREE

 

TNO Afterparty
Friday, February 26th, 2010
9pm-2am
FREE  |  18+ (ID required)


Another month into the future, so far so good. This month we've got what the business school type's call a "hockey stick curve" of freak-out. As always, we'll start it up easy to allow for some fine dining, but we can't guarantee you'll stay in your seat. To be honest, it's probably easier to just head downstairs to Bacchus for $5 Pizza Margherita until midnight... Keeps the energy up for the dancefloor.

Up this month:

Scooby Carolan: Tech House (Live PA): that1TIME
Brad Lee: Closing it out like Troy do.
McGillicuddy: Starting it up like she do.
Back from Japan: Back from a couple months off with new jams.

Check out the Facebook Event Page!! http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=364159636368&ref=nf

Daisy Baker's
33 2nd Street, Troy, NY
518-266-9200
–––––––––––––––––––––––

The last friday of every month, come for Troy Night Out and stay for the party! Daisy Baker's, 9pm-2am, FREE, dance till you can't.


www.daisybakers.com
www.tnoafterparty.com
www.troynightout.org

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[HvEXAS] EMPAC | ENTITY | Fri. & Sat. 02/26 + 02/27, 8 PM

 


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EMPAC
PERFORMANCE
Wayne McGregor | Random Dance
ENTITY

Theater 
Friday, February 26 & Saturday, February 27, 2010, 8 PM
$15/10/5
Friday, February 26 | Saturday, February 27

Set in a torrent of sound by Massive Attack and Coldplay collaborator Jon Hopkins and composer Joby Talbot, Wayne McGregor | Random Dance's ENTITY is a stunning work of exacting and sensual movement for nine dancers, framed by multiple moving screens. With its fierce kinetic intelligence, large-scale video projections, and propulsive music, ENTITY further establishes Wayne McGregor | Random Dance at the forefront of contemporary dance.

» More Information

  

TALK
Dr. Philip Barnard, Scott deLahunta, Wayne McGregor 
Panel discussion on R-Research

Tuesday, February 23, 6 PM
Studio 1 - Goodman Studio/Theater
Free

A discussion on projects and directions of R-Research – the research branch of Wayne McGregor | Random Dance – which initiates and implements new research collaborations across disciplines including dance, neuroscience, cognitive science, biology, philosophy and technology.

» More Information

  

TALK 
rAndom International
Real-Time Reactive Systems in Art and Design 

Theater
Wednesday, February 24, 7 PM
Free

rAndom International give a talk on their projects, which stand at the fringe of innovation in art, science, and design. Subjects include the group's effort to redeem the "cold" nature of digital-based installation and performance work, and endow inanimate objects and environments with behavioral qualities. rAndom International is in residence at EMPAC, working with Wayne McGregor | Random Dance to create the scenography for the company's new work, the sequel to ENTITY.

» More Information

  

EXHIBITION
Just Noticeable Difference (JND): Sensory Reduction Environment
Chris Salter, in collaboration with Marije Baalman, Harry Smoak, Vincent de Belleval, Justine Chibuk, Thomas Spier and Brett Bergmann
Wednesday, March 3 – Saturday, March 6 from noon to 6 PM
Level 2
Free

In Just Noticeable Difference (JND), Chris Salter ratchets down the level of sensory information to the threshold of the perceptible. On entering the installation the visitor is immersed in an environment of near-total darkness, insulated against external sound and vibration. Sparked by an array of sophisticated built-in sensors and devices that emit micro-levels of tactile, auditory, and visual feedback, the slightest motions cause this environment to respond, though so subtly as to test the limits of both perception and interpretation. The result is a revelatory aesthetic experience in which noise shifts towards order, sensation becomes sense, and the apparent randomness of threshold sensory impressions gives way to a new understanding of meaning in the relationship among body, self, and external world.

» More Information

  

SOON

TALK
Chris Salter: Panel Discussion
Thursday, March 4, 7 PM
Theater
Free

Chris Salter and Rensselaer faculty Michael Century, Mark Changizi, Linnda Caporael, and Ted Krueger with other experts will all take part in a panel discussion on topics including thresholds of perception, multi-modal perception, and the use of research in art practice.

» More Information

  

PERFORMANCE
SOLOS^2
Friday, March 5, 8 PM
Concert Hall
$15/10/5

For the first installment of this series, we'll listen to sounds we know well: two high (soprano to be exact) female voices and piano in various combinations. Joining us will be three members of the New York City and Chicago-based ICE, who you might remember rendered a jaw-dropping version of Kurtag's Grabstein für Stephan as part of the Inaugural Concert. Gaudeamus Prize winning soprano Tony Arnold, soprano Haleh Abghari, and pianist Jacob Greenberg from ICE will perform.

» More Information

  

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EMPAC 2009-2010 presentations, residencies and commissions are supported by grants from the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts' Regional Touring Program, 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; additional funding provided by the Ford Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Community Connections Fund of the MetLife Foundation;) and the New York State Council for the Arts. Special thanks to the The Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and Performing Arts for support for artist commissions.

You are receiving this announcement because you signed up for the EMPAC news list either on www.empac.rpi.edu or on an old-timey piece of paper somewhere in the EMPAC building or at an EMPAC event. You may unsubscribe anytime you want of course of course! - The EMPAC Team

EMPAC Box Office:
518.276.3921

Plan your visit to EMPAC! Get directions, maps, parking info, and a visitors guide. 

Our mailing address is:
EMPAC @ Rensselaer
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street
Troy, NY 12180

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Wednesday, February 17, 2010

[HvEXAS] EMPAC | Cognition, Emotion and Action | Wednesday, February 17, 7 PM

 


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EMPAC
TALK 
Dr. Philip Barnard: Cognition, Emotion and Action 
Wednesday, February 17, 7 PM 
Theater
Free

Philip Barnard, program leader at the Medical Research Council's Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge and a collaborator and research advisor to Wayne McGregor | Random Dance, will present a talk on his research work.

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TALK 
Dr. Philip Barnard, Scott deLahunta, Wayne McGregor 
Panel discussion on R-Research

Tuesday, February 23, 6 PM
Studio 1 - Goodman Studio/Theater
Free

A discussion on projects and directions of R-Research – the research branch of Wayne McGregor | Random Dance – which initiates and implements new research collaborations across disciplines including dance, neuroscience, cognitive science, biology, philosophy and technology.

» More Information

  


SOON

TALK 
rAndom International: Real-Time Reactive Systems in Art and Design 
Wednesday, February 24, 7 PM
Theater
Free

Best known for large-scale public installations combining technology, media, design and art, rAndom Internationalplay with real-time reactive systems that offer viewers an intuitive body-based experience.

» More Information


  


PERFORMANCE
Wayne McGregor | Random Dance
ENTITY

Theater 
Friday, February 26 & Saturday, February 27, 2010, 8 PM
$15/10/5
Friday, February 26 | Saturday, February 27

A discussion on projects and directions of R-Research – the research branch of Wayne McGregor | Random Dance – which initiates and implements new research collaborations across disciplines including dance, neuroscience, cognitive science, biology, philosophy and technology.

» More Information

  

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EMPAC 2009-2010 presentations, residencies and commissions are supported by grants from the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts' Regional Touring Program, 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; additional funding provided by the Ford Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Community Connections Fund of the MetLife Foundation;) and the New York State Council for the Arts. Special thanks to the The Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and Performing Arts for support for artist commissions.

You are receiving this announcement because you signed up for the EMPAC news list either on www.empac.rpi.edu or on an old-timey piece of paper somewhere in the EMPAC building or at an EMPAC event. You may unsubscribe anytime you want of course of course! - The EMPAC Team

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