2008-09 Performing Arts Series
A New Old Theater. As Goodhart Hall, our Lower Merion Conservancy "Hall of Fame" theater, undergoes much-needed renovations, join us for a season that includes both traditional and adventurous alternative-space events in unusual and unlikely places!
Tickets and Subscriptions: Tickets to individual events in the Performing Arts Series are $18 for the general public, $15 for senior citizens, free for Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore students, faculty and staff, $10 for students of other schools, and $5 for children 12 and under. Subscription packages offer discounts, mix-and-match ticket flexibility and priority seating. For tickets, call the Office for the Arts at 610-526-5210.
Old Blind Dogs
Friday, September 19
Thomas Great Hall, 8 p.m.
The Old Blind Dogs are at the forefront of the roots revival that has reawakened and revolutionized Scottish folk music. Their ballads, airs, and infectious dance-tunes combine ancient musical traditions with strains of rock, reggae, and sounds of the Middle East. Four on the Floor, the band’s latest CD, won the Indie Acoustic Award for Best Celtic CD of 2007. The Dogs’ unique and distinctive arrangements put the sounds of their native Scotland firmly on the world music map.
Photos by JJ Tiziou
Special Free Event
Kate Watson-Wallace /
Anonymous Bodies—CAR
Friday and Saturday,
October 24 and 25
Athletics Parking Lot (next to the Ward Building; see campus map at http://www.brynmawr.edu/campus/map.shtml.Ward is building number nine.)
Site-based choreographer and Pew Fellow Kate Watson-Wallace presents CAR, the Live Arts Festival hit show that unfolds in and around a moving Chevy Caprice. Dancers, video projections, and an original sound score highlight the fearsome and familiar in this movement-based installation. “Wild imagination ruled…” The New York Times
VIP night—Friday, October 24
7, 7:40, 8:20, 9, 9:40, and 10:20 p.m.
Performing Arts Series Subscribers are eligible for a limited number of first-come-first served VIP tickets. You will be inside the car with three other passengers. Please be prepared to stand, walk, and get in and out of a car during this performance.
Saturday, October 25, 7:30 and 9 p.m.
Watching from the outside, the general public is invited free of charge. Reservations required. The second show will be followed by a “talk back” with the artists.
Photo by Roberto Rossi
Great Small Works
Friday, December 5
Thomas Great Hall
7 and 9:30 p.m.
Obie-award winning Great Small Works creates toy theater—colossal events of miniature proportions. Honored with the Jim Henson Award for innovation in Puppetry, the group is at the vanguard of a U.S. revival of the intricate 19th-century toy theater form, addressing contemporary issues in a provocative yet charming way. A towering wall will divide Thomas Great Hall into separate playing spaces for distinct shows including “A Walk in the City, After Italo Calvino.”
Photo by Gabriel Bienczycki
Photo by Lindsay Browning
Ballet X and Miro Dance Theatre
Friday, February 13
Thomas Great Hall and
Erdman Living Room, 7:30 p.m.
Performances will take place simultaneously; at intermission, audiences will switch venues.
When gifted members of Pennsylvania Ballet started their own company, the dance world took notice. Now, morphed into two contemporary groups, these innovators push the bounds of classical dance. Ballet X showcases its innovative, stylish presentation of two new highly acclaimed works by award-winning choreographer Matthew Neenan: Steelworks, an experiment with movement, space and direction, and Duet from Cali, a beautiful realization of a short-lived relationship danced to Mozart.
Miro Dance Theatre captures the essence of Frida Kahlo’s life and work in the solo Self-Portrait, created and performed by choreographer Amanda Miller with video artist and Pew Fellow Tobin Rothlein. Combining dance, live animation, and video, Self-Portrait will be staged in Erdman Hall, a modernist landmark by renowned architect Louis Kahn.
Modigliani String Quartet
Photo by Tony Evangelista
Modigliani String Quartet
Friday, March 20
Thomas Great Hall, 8 p.m.
Four young French musicians formed the Modigliani String Quartet while studying at Paris’ Conservatoire Nationale. Five years later, these Winners of the Young Concert Artists International Auditions have been praised by Le Progrès (France) for their “stunning technical expertise, outstanding ensemble and a particularly accomplished musical identity.” Appearances have included their Carnegie Hall debut, a Kennedy Center performance, and tours throughout Europe and the United States. “This impressive group is clearly an up-and-comer.” Washington Post