2014-2015 | Time, Memory, Identity
SPRING 2015
THE CAMINO EXPERIENCE: MAKING THE WAY
Wednesday, February 4, 2015│7 PM
Mary Chapel
ATB artist-in-residence Cristina Pato returns in February to present a work-in-progress inspired by the Camino de Santiago and her Galician roots. Making the Way brings together the College Choir (dir. David Harris), Theatre Department faculty and students and the Cantor Art Gallery in a spiritual journey guided by the stories of local pilgrims who have walked the Camino. More>>
Co-sponsored with Catholics & Cultures and the Cantor Art Gallery
LATINIDAD FROM PAGE TO STAGE: A conversation with playwright Melinda Lopez
Tuesday, February 10, 2015 │ 5 PM
Rehm Library
Award winning playwright Melinda Lopez (playwright-in-residence at the Huntington Theatre, Boston) is best known for creating dramas that feature strong and deeply flawed female protagonists. Drawing from her bi-cultural background as a Cuban American, she strives to model a new vision of Latinas onstage.
Her talk focuses on the process of creating historical dramas that feature the inter-relationship between Cuba and the United States, as well as writing about science for the stage. Weaving in readings from her recent plays including Becoming Cuba (2014), From Orchids to Octopi: An Evolutionary Love Story (2010) and Sonia Flew (2009), as well as work in progress, Lopez will discuss the process of moving from inspiration and ideas to the technical needs of a stage play, through the surprises and compromises of production. More>>
Co-sponsored with the Spanish department, and the Latin American and Latino Studies program
UNDER THE ICY SKY│Video Installation by Georgie Friedman
Friday, February 13, 2015│5 PM: Artist reception
Integrated Science Complex – Spillane Pavillion
Under the Icy Sky is an outdoor exhibit that features two, site-specific video installations that re-contextualize natural elements in relationship to the architecture of the Science Complex. The Building Storm slowly progresses from a light snow storm to an intense blizzard with lightning. Shifting Ice focuses on the sculptural shapes and the movements of small icebergs in a glacial lagoon (Iceland). Installation will be on view daily after dusk February 10-27, 2015.
Left: Georgie Friedman, "The Building Storm," Two-channel video projection on to the facade of the Science Complex, 2015
ON GLACIERS and STORMS: An Arts and Environmental Studies conversation
Tuesday, February 17, 2015│5:30 pm
Smith Labs 154, Science Complex
In conjunction with Georgie Friedman’s UNDER THE ICY SKY video installation, this conversation explores the fascination with atmospheric and geological phenomena that inspire artists and scientists alike; raise questions and concerns about our human impact on the environment, with a perspective on student activism from Andrew Varuzzo ‘15, Coordinator of the Environmental Liaison Program on campus.
with Georgie FRIEDMAN, Artist
Sara Gran MITCHELL, Associate Professor, Geosciences
Andrew VARUZZO, Environmental Studies ‘15
moderated by Michael L. BEATTY, Associate Professor, Studio Art
Top: Georgie Friedman, "Shifting Ice,"Single-channel video projection on to the courtyard wall of the Science Complex, 2015
TARI ACEH! Music and Dance from Northern Sumatra
Performance & Panel Discussion
Sunday, February 22, 2015 │3 PM
Brooks Concert Hall
From February 20-24, 2015, ATB hosts a group of Saman dancers from Aceh, Indonesia, on the first stop of their first-ever US tour that includes Wesleyan University, Wellesley College and the Asia Society in New York. Traditionally performed by men, Saman dance features beautifully synchronized body percussion and is one the best illustrations of the unique blending of Islamic and Indonesian culture. This short residency will immerse the nine young women performers in the life of the College through a public performance and panel discussion, workshops, class visits and other activities. More>>
Co-sponsored with the Asian Studies program, and funded in part by the Expeditions program of the New England Foundation for the Arts
CREME 21
Music Department’s Artist-in-Residence Concert
Thursday, March 12, 2015│7:30 PM
Brooks Concert Hall
Jan Müller-Szeraws (cello) performing Bach, Britten, and the US premiere of Chris Arrell’s (assistant professor of music) soundtrack for Creme 21 by award-winning Austrian filmmaker Eve Heller, who will discuss her work and introduce Creme 21.
Co-sponsored with the Music department
BOSTON MUSICA VIVA
with guests Sandeep Das (tabla), Wu Tong (sheng), Gitanjali Mathur (soprano)
Monday, April 13, 2015│8 PM
Brooks Concert Hall
PROGRAM
Shirish Korde: Kala-Chakra (Cycles of Time), world premiere
feat. guest soloists Gitanjali Mathur, soprano; Wu Tong, sheng and vocalist; Sandeep Das, tabla
Chou Wen-chung: Ode to the Eternal Pine
Franco Donatoni: Arpège
Sebastian Currier: Whispers
Dedicated to presenting the ever-evolving music of our time, Boston Musica Viva offers an around-the-world tour of music—no passports required! A new, commissioned work by Shirish Korde fuses Chinese, Indian and other cultures and instruments with three international soloists. The global immersion continues with music by Chou Wen-chung, Franco Donatoni and Sebastian Currier.
Co-sponsored with the Music department
GONZALO GRAU & the PLURAL COMBO
2015 Academic Conference Opening Concert & Reception
Wednesday, April 22, 2015 │5 PM
Hogan Ballroom
Building on last year’s popular kick-off with Cristina Pato & the Migrations Band, ATB partners with the Conference once again for a festive celebration!
Equally well-known in the world of Latin-jazz with his Grammy-nominated band La Clave Secreta and classical circles for his collaborations with Osvaldo Golijov, Venezuelan multi-instrumentalist Gonzalo Grau and his Plural Combo bring their own twist to Afro-Cuban classics à la Buena Vista Social Club and Fania All-Stars. Add to the mix Worcester’s own Manolo Mairena, whose unparalleled vocal versatility will take us through soulful boleros to the high-octane rhythms of salsa and timba.
A Berklee College graduate and frequent collaborator with Osvaldo Golijov, Gonzalo Grau has established himself as a multi-instrumentalist and his varied credits include performances with Venezuelan music projects like Maroa, Schola Cantorum de Venezuela, Camerata de Caracas and the Simón Bolivar National Youth Orchestra, jazz icon Maria Schneider and the Latin jazz giant Timbalaye. As music director, he leads two projects of his own, "Plural" (Latin jazz-Flamenco-Venezuelan fusion) and "La Clave Secreta" (salsa fusion), which was nominated for a 2008 Grammy in the Best Tropical Album category. As a recording artist, Grau has participated in over 80 productions that bridge the classical and popular music worlds. More>>
BRENTANO STRING QUARTET
Open Rehearsal
Friday, May 1, 2015│1 PM
Brooks Concert Hall
PROGRAM
Béla Bartók: String Quartet No. 3
James MacMillan: String Quartet No. 2
Franz Schubert: Death and the Maiden
Co-sponsored with the Music department
Co-sponsored with the Music department
FALL 2014
All events are free and open to public unless otherwise noted.
GROOVERSITY with Marcus Santos and CreateLab
Thursday, September 4 │2:30 p.m.
St. Joseph Chapel Plaza
Brazilian percussionist Marcus Santos and CreateLab students kick off their first day of class with a drumming extravaganza based on the traditional Afro-Brazilian rhythms and drawing from other world traditions. Meet us at the St. Joseph Chapel Plaza (weather permitting) and join in -- we’ll have shakers and other noisemakers at hand!
Rain location: Brooks Concert Hall
TIME, MEMORY, IDENTITY
Performance & Panel Discussion
Tuesday, September 23│ 7 p.m.
Brooks Concert Hall
Cristina Pato, bagpipes, piano and voice
Todd Palmer, clarinet
Shane Shanahan, percussion
Musicians from A Far Cry
Panel will include faculty from CreateLab.
Cristina PATO: My Lethe Story
Osvaldo GOLIJOV: The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind
Pato weaves her native Galicia and the mythical Lethe, the River of Forgetfulness, into a powerful story on a loved one’s memory loss. Inspired by the great Kabbalist rabbi Isaac the Blind, Golijov’s Dreams and Prayers is a meditation on life, Judaism, and music – the primordial human expression “with the power to build castles of sound in our memories.”
Arts Transcending Borders (ATB), the new arts initiative at the College of the Holy Cross, invites you to a year-long exploration on TIME, MEMORY, IDENTITY through performances, lectures, workshops and more. In this concert and panel discussion, ATB Artist-in-Residence Cristina Pato is joined by fellow Silk Road Ensemble member Shane Shanahan, renowned clarinetist Todd Palmer and musicians from the Boston-based A Far Cry. Faculty from CreateLab, an innovative pedagogical experiment and an outgrowth of ATB, share insights on the interrelationship between time, memory and identity.
CULTURAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP: At the Intersection of Business and the Arts
Dinner Speaker Series with Artist-in-Residence Cristina Pato
Thursday, September 25│6 - 8 p.m.
Hogan Center – Suite A
Learn about the development of Cristina’s annual Galician Connection Festival and the emerging field of cultural entrepreneurship from the perspective of an independent artist.
Must register in advance
Co-sponsored by the Ciocca Office of Entrepreneurial Studies and Pre-Business Program
FRUIT FLIES, DARK MATTER, and DANCERS: Making Art to Answer Questions
Talk by Liz Lerman
Wednesday, October 1│5:30 p.m.
Rehm Library
Liz Lerman is a choreographer, performer, writer, educator and speaker. From a piece about her days as a go-go dancer in 1974 to a recent investigation of origins that included putting dancers in the tunnels of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, she has spent the past four decades making her artistic research personal, funny, intellectually vivid, and up to the minute. A key aspect of her artistry is opening her process to various publics from shipbuilders to physicists, construction workers to ballerinas, resulting in both research and outcomes that are participatory, relevant, urgent, and usable by others. Her public talk, as well as related campus activities will largely focus on facilitating dialogue between artists and scientists, embodied learning, and making/breaking rules. More info>>
A WINDOW TO THE ART OF KATHAKALI: Traditional Dance-Theatre from South India
Lecture-demonstration
Monday, October 6│5 p.m.
Brooks Concert Hall
Kathakali, literally story-play, is the best known south Indian traditional dance-theater. Its broad canvass aesthetically synchronizes dance, drama, music – vocal and instrumental. Make-up and costuming of its non-worldly characters drawn from the great Indian epics, Ramayana, Mahabharata and the Bhagavata, are colorful and intriguing. A traditional Kathakali recital is a nocturnal affair beginning at 9 P.M. and goes on till next dawn.
In this lecture-demonstration, following a brief introduction to Kathakali, we will learn about the grooming of a Kathakali actor, and the use of language, gestures and facial expressions as techniques and part of the story and the characterizations.
Co-sponsored by the Dance program
TABLEAUX VIVANTS
In conjunction with The Italian Presepe: Cultural Landscapes of the Soul
Friday, October 24│3 - 4 p.m.
Saturday, October 25│11 AM - NOON
Cantor Art Gallery
n. [ta-bloh vee-vahn] French: tableaux (pictures) + vivant (living)
The Italian nativity comes to life at the Cantor Art Gallery through a "tableau vivant" theatrical presentation, featuring students enacting the presepe's surprising mix of high and low, angels and demons. Costume design by Kurt Hultgren of the Holy Cross Theatre Department.
Co-sponsored by the Cantor Art Gallery
SITE and the IMAGINARY
Talk by Patty Chang & David Kelley
Tuesday, October 28│5 p.m.
Seelos Theater
Patty Chang and David Kelley discuss their collaborative video work with excerpts from a selection of projects. Exploring what they describe as “the intersection of site and the imaginary,” the work of Patty Chang and David Kelley merges performance, photography, and digital video.
Co-sponsored by the Visual Arts Department
SIDEBAND LAPTOP ENSEMBLE hosted by H-CLEF
(the Holy Cross Laptop Ensemble)
Sunday, November 2 │3 p.m.
Brooks Concert Hall
Using specially designed, custom made hemispherical speakers and a fleet of laptops, Sideband turns each member of its ensemble into an island of sound, returning a sense of acoustics and space to the normally flat world of electronic music. Ranging from solos and duos to sextets and beyond, Sideband is an evolving project that inspires composers, performers and audience members to reevaluate the role of computers in music.
Co-sponsored by the Music Department
POWER OF ARTS IN EDUCATION
A conversation with ATB Visiting Artist-in-Residence Cristina Pato
Tuesday, November 4 │4 - 5:30 p.m.
Stein Hall, Room 133
Arts Transcending Borders visiting artist-in-residence Cristina Pato shares her experiences in the classroom through two powerful initiatives – Silkroad Connect education programs offered by the ensemble led by renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma, and the Turnaround Arts initiative, a nationwide public-private partnership designed to help narrow the achievement gap and increase student engagement through the arts and improve the culture and climate in the country’s highest poverty schools. Watch a brief clip featuring Cristina Pato, Yo-Yo Ma, and jookin’ legend Lil’ Buck at Inner City Arts, LA.
Co-sponsored by the Education department
Free and open to public, but RSVP required. Register here by Monday, October 27.
MARK O'CONNOR
Lecture-demonstration
Monday, November 17│12 - 1:30 p.m.
Brooks Concert Hall
In conjunction with Mark O’Connor: Hot Swing presented by Music Worcester on November 16 at Mechanics Hall, Grammy-award winning violinist/composer/fiddler comes to campus to talk about the diverse influences from American folk traditions to jazz and classical music that shape him as an artist.
Co-sponsored by the Music Department
ANNETTE LEMIEUX
Artist Talk
Tuesday, November 18│5 p.m.
Seelos Theater
Annette Lemieux first garnered attention on the newly global art scene of the 1980s. Since that time she has continued to produce work that grows in depth and resonance, proving herself an artist of lasting significance. Lemieux's early use of traditional techniques painting, printing, casting, and photography expanded to include found materials laden with cultural meanings and evocative of personal memories. Whatever the material, Lemieux masters and invents techniques and processes that correlate with states of mind. Major themes she returns to within our shifting political and cultural climate include the horror of war, the nature of time, the elusive truth of memory, the nature of ideas and art-making, and the relationship between personal experience and cultural history.
ARTS TRANSCENDING BORDERS IS PLEASED TO ALSO SUPPORT:
Building After Auschwitz: Jewish Architecture and the Memory of the Holocaust
Monday, September 15│4:30 p.m.
Rehm Library
Gavriel D. Rosenfeld, professor of history and director of the Judaic Studies Program at Fairfield University, will discuss his book “Building After Auschwitz” (Yale University Press, 2011). The talk will explore how Jewish architects have risen to unprecedented prominence since World War II and the ways in which their work reflects their Jewish identities and memories of the Holocaust. Part of a series on "Time, Memory and Identity" co-sponsored with the McFarland Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture, and supported by the Kraft-Hiatt Fund for Jewish-Christian Understanding.
Coloring Outside the Color-Line: Community Muralism and Racial Justice
Thursday, October 30│7:30 p.m.
Seelos Theater
Maureen O’Connell, chair and associate professor of religion at LaSalle University, is the author of “If These Walls Could Talk: Community Muralism and the Beauty of Justice,” (Liturgical Press, 2012). She will speak about the community muralism movement in Philadelphia and its theological aspects. Her talk is co-sponsored by the McFarland Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture, Montserrat’s Divine Cluster, and Arts Transcending Borders.