[HvEXAS] Kota Yamazaki performance + workshop

 

THIS WEEK: upcoming Quote Unquote events Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. PERFORMANCE: QUOTE UNQUOTE Kota Yamazaki | Fluid hug hug: (glowing) FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 8 PM TICKETS A subtle and powerful work for six dancers that combines butoh, a Japanese dance form that embraces shadows and darkness, with traditional African dance and contemporary movement to create a scenario in which lightless vision ignites the imagination. Butoh-trained choreographer Yamazaki and two dancers from Africa will also offer a unique free workshop on Saturday, March 31 focusing on the fundamentals of butoh, and the common threads found between butoh and African dance. The deadline to RSVP is Wednesday, March 28. EXHIBITION: QUOTE UNQUOTE Jennifer + Kevin McCoy: Index OPENS MONDAY, APRIL 2 FREE Inspired by J.G. Ballard's short story The Index, sprawling sculptures filmed by live cameras present a landscape of people and places that implies an overarching narrative of the 1960s to the present day. Campus Events CONFERENCE Smartgeometry 2012 MAR 19–24 PERFORMANCE: QUOTE UNQUOTE SUE-C + AGF: Infinite Jest THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 7:30 PM TICKETS A live handmade film and electronic music event inspired late author David Foster Wallace's remarkable novel of the same name. Visit Market Block Books, buy Infinite Jest, get two free tickets! On View EXHIBITION Ryan + Trevor Oakes: The Periphery of Perception FEBRUARY 21–MAY 31, 2012 *This exhibition is closed March 15–26 and will re-open on Tuesday, March 27 at noon. EXHIBITION Ben Rubin: A Shakespeare Accelerator MARCH 5–JULY 28, 2012 -- Exhibitions are free + open to the public Monday-Saturday, 12–6 PM Recent News We will be closed on Friday + Saturday, March 23–24. The John Zorn concert on Tuesday, April 3 is sold out! follow on Twitter | friend on Facebook | forward to a friend Photo Credits: Image courtesy of Ryutaro Mishima; the rest courtesy of the artists. 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. Box Office: 518.276.3921 Mailing Address: EMPAC Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 110 8th Street Troy, NY 12180 Add us to your address book Copyright © 2012 EMPAC, All rights reserved.

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