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No Boundaries
NO BOUNDARIES: A SERIES OF GLOBAL PERFORMANCES, presented by Yale Repertory Theatre (James Bundy, Artistic Director; Victoria Nolan, Managing Director) and World Performance Project at Yale (Joseph Roach, Principal Investigator; Emily Coates, Artistic Director), announces its 2011-12 season, which includes the American premiere of Engagement Féminin: An Evening of West African Contemporary Dance, created and performed by Art’ Dév/Compagnie Auguste-Bienvenue, based in Burkina Faso, West Africa and Spectral Scriabin, a collaboration between pianist Eteri Andjaparidze and lighting designer Jennifer Tipton, featuring the music of Russian composer Alexander Scriabin.
Info on the 2011-12 No Boundaries season here
Spectral Scriabin
Eteri Andjaparidze, Piano
Jennifer Tipton, Lighting Design
February 10 & 11, 2012 at 8PM
University Theatre (222 York Street)
Russian composer Alexander Scriabin caused a sensation in 1915, staging what was most likely the first multimedia concert in history. Designing a clavier à lumière to project colors onto the stage as it was played, Scriabin pioneered ideas relating colors and musical pitch. Nearly a century later, celebrated Georgian pianist Eteri Andjaparidze and MacArthur “genius” lighting designer Jennifer Tipton explore the legacy of this late Romantic composer through excerpts from his Poeme Languide in B Major and other works, including Feuillet d’Album in F-sharp Major, Opus Posthumous. This extravaganza of lush music and spectacular lightshow is truly “something unforgettable” (New York Press).
Running time: approximately 60 minutes.
Tickets available here
About WPP
WPP Mission
THE WORLD PERFORMANCE PROJECT (WPP) promotes research in performance studies across departments at Yale. An interdiscipline that draws from the arts, humanities, and human sciences (theater, drama, dance, visual arts, speech, linguistics, anthropology, sociology), performance studies defines as its objects cultural performances of all kinds, from theatrical presentations to rites of passage, and expands its frontiers anywhere significant performances are likely to take place, from Yorubaland to Disneyland.... - Read More
Affiliated Artists and Scholars
A growing number of artists and scholars participate in WPP programs, research and publications each year... - Read More
Best Performance Prize Awarded to the World Performance Project at Yale
WPP's 2008 collaboration with Yvonne Rainer recognized by the International Art Critics Association, US Section
The World Performance Project at Yale (WPP) has been awarded First Place in the AICA/USA BEST PERFORMANCE category for the performances of RoS Indexical (2007) and Spiraling Down (2008).
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