Monday, January 23, 2012

[HvEXAS] Vertigo, Vertical Performance, and Spiral Galaxies

 

THIS WEEK: A rare screening of Alfred Hitchcock's classic psychological thriller, where the present is inextricably entangled with memories of the past.
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Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo" (1958)
Vertigo
THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 7:30 PM
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A rare screening of Alfred Hitchcock's classic psychological thriller, where the present is inextricably entangled with memories of the past.
Tethered: Vertical Performance
Tethered: Vertical Performance Rodrigo Pardo + Bárbara Foulkes
SAT, FEB 4, 7 PM
FREE

Two divergent artist-in-residence work in progress performances navigate vertical space through the tale of a man who slowly realizes he is living upside down, and a dance study of falling and floating that plays with perspective, time, and reality.
John D. Barrow: Better Than a Thousand Words
John D. Barrow: Better Than a Thousand Words
WED, FEB 8, 6 PM
FREE

Famed physicist Barrow will discuss the observer effects principle and the impact of images on the development of science throughout history.

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Photo Credits: Rodrigo Pardo, John D. Barrow. Image from Cosmic Imagery: Key Images in the History of Science, Vertigo. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Paramount Pictures/ Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions, 1958.

EMPAC 2011-2012 presentations, residencies, and commissions are supported by grants from 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 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Community Connections Fund of the MetLife Foundation, and the Boeing Company Charitable Trust), and the New York State Council for the Arts. Special thanks to the Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and Performing Arts for support of artist commissions.


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