RELATED Back to the main story Con Portrait: Linda Weintraub		Emerging Arts Program Fall Schedule Maverick Artists/Visionary Educators FALL 2001 Monday, September 17, 2001 8:00 p.m. Philippe Petit "The First Step" King Building, Room 306 Philippe Petit is a high wire artist and artist-in-residence at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City. Besides having stretched a cable without permission between the towers of the World Trade Center, Petit writes, draws, performs close-up magic, practices lock picking and 18th-century carpentry, plays chess, studies French wine, and was recently sighted bullfighting in Peru. He has also been arrested more than 500 times for the "artistic crime" of street juggling. Philippe perceives the act of taking "the first step" into the void—where joy, excitement and challenge await him—as a metaphor for creativity that can be applied to all art forms. His workshop will draw from the wirewalker's "point of no return" to introduce topics rarely explored in a traditional education. Monday, October 1, 2001 8:00 p.m. Arthur Aviles "Star Wars Stripped of Stars and Wars: Movement as Abstraction" Carnegie Building, Root Room Arthur Aviles founded the Typical Theatre, a dance company whose work is often based on the manner in which cinema wreaks havoc with perceptions of reality. Aviles removes the narratives from such films as Walt Disney’s Cinderella and concentrates on the jump cuts, the camera pans, and the zooms to discover the components of his inventive choreography. The workshop will explore Aviles’s complicated process of extracting rhythm and abstracting movement from the film Star Wars. Monday, October 29, 2001 8:00 p.m. Reynols "Improvising with Improvisation" Location tbd Reynols is an Argentine experimental music band with more than 50 releases worldwide, led by Miguel Tomasín, an amazing musician who has Down’s Syndrome. The workshop will be conducted by the group’s other two members, Roberto Conlazo and Alan Courtis. The immense freedom of Tomasín’s mind expands the parameters of the group’s musical improvisations as well as its didactic methods. The band’s activities have included concerts for plants, tributes to dry ice, and psychic energy refractions with toothbrushes. Monday, November 5, 2001 8:00 p.m. Eiko and Koma "Delicious Movement in Extended Time" On the campus green Eiko and Koma are known as much for the visual beauty of their sets and the ingenuity of their lighting as for their haunting and hypnotic choreography. Both the sets and the lighting are often more kinetic than the dancers. Eiko and Koma move imperceptibly to evoke such timeless themes as the primordial life cycle. The workshop will explore the concepts of timelessness, tempo, and duration through body sensations. Monday, November 26, 2001 8:00 p.m. Eve Andree Laramee "Alter-Egos and Dopplegangers" Adam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies and Friday, November 30, 2001 4:00 p.m. Allen Art Building Lecture Room Eve Andree Laramee is a visual artist who intentionally confuses fact and fiction, documentation and imagination. Her work challenges comfortable assumptions about "truth." In the process she intensifies viewers’ scrutiny, heightens their awareness, and stimulates inquiry. Her workshop will investigate the creative construction of concepts of "self," "other," and "place" that inform each person’s life and work. Building Locations: The King Building: Corner of North Professor and West College Streets The Carnegie Building: Corner of Professor and Lorain Streets Adam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies: 122 Elm Street
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