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Wednesday, April 10, 2013

[HvEXAS] Quay Brothers: Selections from Phantom Museums screening | Thurs April 18, 7:30 PM | EMPAC, Troy, NY

SCREENING: SHADOW PLAY

Quay Brothers: Selections from Phantom Museums

Thursday, April 18, 2013, 7:30 PM

EMPAC Theater

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2013/spring/quay-brothers

Featuring selections from the Quay Brothers' compendium of short films, Phantom Museums spans their 30-year career. Renowned for their unparalleled contributions to the field of puppet film, identical twins Stephen and Timothy Quay combine visual, literary, musical, and philosophical influences with a singular sensibility. Inspired by the films of Jan Svankmajer and Jiri Barta, the Quay Brothers bring together the quaintness and delicacy of early animation with painstakingly hand assembled sets in their films.

Identical twins Stephen and Timothy Quay are Philadelphia-born, London-based masters of stop-motion puppet animation and live-action film. Collaborating since 1969, their work has been deeply influential in the field of puppet film. They attended art school together at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and at the Royal College of Art in London in the late 1960s. After moving to London, they made their first short animated films: Der der Loop Loop; Il Duetto; and Palace in Flames. Their most famous film, Street of Crocodiles (1986), is a 21-minute animation based on a short novel by Bruno Schulz.

The work of the Quay Brothers has also appeared in advertising and music videos, most notably the music video for Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer. The Brothers Quay are the recipients of the 1998 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design for their work on the play The Chairs. Stephen and Timothy Quay are both professors of animated film at the European Graduate School in Switzerland.

+ excerpt from Street of Crocodiles (1986): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNOfsJz4TjA

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

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.

Tickets for this screening are $6.

Evelyn's Café will open at 6:30 PM with a full menu of meals, snacks, and beverages as well as a selection of wines. 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.

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

Friday, March 29, 2013

[HvEXAS] TONIGHT!!! TNO Afterparty | Friday, March 29th, 2013 | Brad Lee Farewell Set, Cintron, and Properly Chilled!!!!

The Troy Night Out Afterparty
Friday, March 29th, 2013
9:30pm - FREE!

Check out the Facebook Event Page:

http://www.facebook.com/events/149511391882999/

lineup..
9:30 Properly Chilled
11:00 Cintron
12:30 Brad Lee (Farewell set!!)

www.daisybakers.com
www.troynightout.com
www.properlychilled.com

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[HvEXAS] An evening of DANCE MOViES premieres | Sat Apr 6, 7:30 PM | EMPAC, Troy, NY

SCREENING + TALK + RECEPTION

DANCE MOViES Commission Premieres
Saturday, April 6, 2013, 7:30 PM
EMPAC Theater

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
$6

http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2013/spring/tao

This evening event marks the official premiere of the 2011 DANCE MOViES Commission projects, which were supported by this ongoing unique arts funding initiative. Cayetano Vidal's TAO will be screened along with excerpts from past DMC recipients. The event will also feature presentations and talks by the commissioned artists as well as founding EMPAC dance and theater curator Hélène Lesterlin and current curator Ash Bulayev. The evening will conclude with an open reception on the Theater stage featuring light fare and beverages. Colin Gee's installation In the First Place… will be open throughout the event as well as 10 AM to 7 PM on Friday, April 5.

Colin Gee, a Lecoq trained actor, principal clown for Cirque du Soleil, and contemporary artist, will present In the First Place…, a multi-layered dance film installation. The project, filmed in Rome, reframes The Strife of Love in a Dream, an Italian pastoral romance published in 1499. In the First Place… applies a relationship between memory and location by referencing a mnemonic technique called "Memory Palace" that uses architectural spaces to organize and remember information.

TAO is the third collaborative dance film between Argentinian filmmaker Cayetana Vidal and choreographer and dancer Sofia Mazza, who explore the superimposition of movement and image. Male and female, winter and summer, day and night, and nature and city are overlayed, creating a new single image in which opposites coexist. The technique of video overlay proposes an imaginary world of new shapes, proportions, and perspectives. The film was shot in the city of Buenos Aires and on the Argentine Atlantic Coast. Footage was also shot in Germany, Spain, and Tigre, a river delta near Buenos Aires. As it was winter in Europe and summer in South America, and since dancer Diego Poblete was traveling around Europe, a "live experiment" was conducted and images were collected during the same time period in both hemispheres.

The DANCE MOViES Commission supports the creation of new works for the screen that vary widely in content and form, yet are united because the image on the screen was crafted by, or in collaboration with, a choreographer or movement-based artist. The works supported combine the possibilities and range of the moving image in all its technological facets with the physicality and movement-based modes of dance.

The DANCE MOViES Commission is supported by the Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and Performing Arts.

Trained as an actor at the Jacques Lecoq School in Paris, Colin Gee was a principal clown for Cirque du Soleil, and the founding Whitney Live artist-in-residence at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Recent commissions have included works for SFMOMA and the Whitney Museum. Recipient of the 2012 Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Rome Prize and a 2011 EMPAC DANCE MOViES Commission, he has frequently collaborated with sibling/composer Erin Gee, providing the libretto for her opera, SLEEP (2009), which premiered at the Zürich Opera House, and Mouthpiece XIII, Mathilde of Loci, Part I (2009) presented with the American Composer's Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, in which he also performed.

Cayetana Vidal is a film director and writer. She started her career as an advertising creative working for different media companies in Argentina and the United States. In 2000, she entered the NYU Graduate Film Program, graduating in 2004 with her thesis film Armadillo, which received awards at festivals worldwide. Since 2005, she has written, directed, and edited several dance-for-the-camera projects in collaboration with choreographer and dancer Sofía Mazza.

Tickets for the screening are $6; admission to the installation is free.

Evelyn's Café will open at 6:30 PM with a full menu of meals, snacks, and beverages as well as a selection of wines. Parking is available in the Rensselaer parking lot on College Avenue.