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“It’s really powerful, powerful music,” Greenwald said Duke Performances charges into the spring semester of Zenon. surging from record attendance and student sales.

Coltrane, who comes from the most famed pedigree of What Director of Duke Performances Aaron Greenwald the three, will cap off Wail! with his quartet and the most has called the organization’s most focused season under his American-influenced sound of the artists. tenure resumed Jan. 22 with piano virtuoso Anton Kuerti.

“I’m really impressed with how he balances not only the The season continues with its five thematic series (the formidable legacy of his father [John], who he only knew sixth’s bookings were limited to last semester) exploring for a little bit... but also his mother’s [Alice] formidable roots of the modern and four claslegacy as a composer,” Greenwald sical series. said of Coltrane. “To handle that This House on Fire “I’m really impressed with with such grace and to have a real Jazz pianist Jason Moran revoice is just really impressive.” how he balances not only boots this series Jan. 28 in Nelson Finally, Kronos Quartet, who Music Room. Accompanied by his the formidable legacy of his began a relationship with Duke in wife, vocalist Alicia Hall Moran, September 2007 during the Monk and classical guitarist Thomas father, who he only knew series, will appear with a new piece Flippin, the Blue Note artist— composer Maria Schneider. for a little bit, but also his from who performed in 2007 as part of This is the first time the quartet has the Monk series—promises to ig- mother’s formidable legacy collaborated with her, and will be nite the East Campus venue with the first of two Kronos appearances as a composer.” his improvisational style. in the next year.

In February, the series moves guys are really serious — Aaron Greenwald, in a“These into a packed weekend full of way that’s almost unmatched,” powerhouse jazz saxophonists, director of Duke Performances on Greenwald said of Kronos Quaronce again in the intimate Nelson “In a sense, they’re defining a jazz saxophonist Ravi Coltrane tet.

Music Room. From Feb. 11 to Feb. whole genre and they’re right at 13, Miguel Zenon, Rudresh Mahthe height of their powers.” anthappa’s and Ravi Coltrane will By the River ignite East Campus with their sound.

Capping off the series that began the season with Sweet The three performances, going under the name Wail!, Honey in the Rock and brought Don Byron and Brian and promise to be some of the most exciting of the season and Brady Blade to the Haiti Heritage Center is Thomas Mapspan three unique world sounds. Mahanthappa, perform- fumo & the Blacks Unlimited. ing with his Indo-Pak coalition, will present the piece com“He’s another one of these famous African artists, who, posed from his MacArthur fellowship. like Fela [Kuti], heard American music, especially AmeriZenon, playing with his septet, was just nominated can soul music, and decided he wanted to do something for a Grammy for Best Latin Jazz album for his 2009 See performances on page 3

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performances from page 2 that sounds differently,” Greewald said. “There’s tradition but there’s also a lot of innovation.”

The Mapfumo performance also marks Duke Performances’ first collaboration with the Duke Coffeehouse.

Mapfumo will play two sets in one night at the East Campus venue Feb. 25.

Moved Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet marks the American premiere of the piece “Scheherazade,” and the second, incorporating Jason Moran, is the east coast premiere of “Refraction.”

“I think the work is really beautiful, and I think it’s really fun to be able to present that collaboration,” Greenwald said. “And it’s a real boon to be able present the American premiere of that.”

King, who will perform Jan. 29 and 30, began a residency Monday.

The second and final piece in the dance series is from Zimbabwean Nora Chipaumire Feb. 26 and 27, who will appear alongside fellow exiled Zimbabwean Mapfumo.

A dancer, Chipaumire is a thread connecting the season, with not only her collaboration with Mapfumo but also her work with Urban Bush Women who appeared in November. Chipaumire, who Greenwald describes a a “powerful” performer, will premiere a new piece based on the politics of her home country.

At the Crossroads A late season addition is Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips’ 13 Most Beautiful... Songs for Andy Warhol’s “Screen Tests.” Co-sponsored by the Nasher Museum of Art, Wareham (formerly of Luna) and Phillips will present a piece originally commissioned by the Warhol Foundation to cap off the museum’s presentation of Andy Warhol polaroids.

The music is set against a projection of Warhol’s silent “Screen Tests,” four-minute, slowed-down silent films of the famed pop artist’s friends like Grace Jones. The piece has appeared at the Walker Arts Center, Lincoln Center and the Wexner Center for the Arts.

“It’s one of the most effective mixed media projects I’ve ever seen,” Greenwald said. “The ‘Screen Tests’ are transfixing, although you probably wouldn’t want to just sit in front of them silently. It’s like they’re collaborating with Warhol.”

Greenwald added that between the exhibit at the Nasher and the screen tests, viewers will gain greater insight into the artist’s process and some of his lesserknown work.

Capping off the series, and tied thematically to Mapfumo and Chipaumire’s visist is the Farber Foundry Theater Company’s adaptation of Greek tragedy Oresteia, MoLoRa. This adaptation sets Aeschylus’ trilogy in the world of South Africa’s truth and reconciliation commission, highlighting the nation’s race relations.

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Duke Performances is beginning the spring semester coming off some of the best sales the organization has seen, especially with the $5 student tickets. The Feb. 19 appearance of the Punch Brothers, featuring Nickel Creek’s Chris Thile, has already sold out almost a month in advance. in South Africa and London, will be making a rare stateside appearance. And given the research interests of Duke faculty in theater studies, African and African-American Studies, classics and other departments, Greenwald said the play will spark great dialogue.

“There are a lot of points of synergy at Duke with this piece,” he said.

With These Hands This series draws on some of the most popular names in contemporary music, including the already sold-out Feb. 19 appearance of the Punch Brothers, featuring mandolin virtuoso Chris Thile of Nickel Creek fame.

The March 25 double bill of Los Lobos and Leo Kottke recalls last semester’s Lambchop/Alejandro Escovedo bill, pairing masters of the genres. Los Lobos will perform a toned down acoustic set, and Kottke will deliver his standard, mind-blowing, blues-pickin’ material.

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Rosanne Cash (yes, Johnny’s daughter) and Mark O’Connor will appear April 15. Cash is coming only months of the release of her critically acclaimed 2009 release The List, which featured collaborations with Bruce Springsteen and others.

“I don’t think Roseanne Cash could be hotter right now,” Greenwald said.

This performance ends the modern season of Duke Performances before leading into the summer’s gardens series and what is already shaping up to be a stellar 201011 season.

Before they sell out, get your tickets now.

Student tickets for all shows are $5. Faculty receive a 10 percent discount. For all other show information including time and date, visit dukeperformances.duke.edu and look for more in-depth previews in recess every Thursday.

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Duke hosts screenings, many filmmakers visit

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This spring, Screen/Societ is all about tackling social issues, exploring international cinemas and honoring one of Duke’s most well known auteurs.

The schedule kicked off last week with the screening of Tonghzi in Love, the first film in the Kenan Ethics series.

“Each of the films in this year’s Kenan Institute for Ethics film series consider issues that link social or individual control and resistance to this desire for ‘the good,’” curator Rebecca Dunning said.

Dunning was drawn to the theme of “control and resistance” by the film Dhamma Brothers, which traces the use of Buddhist meditation techniques in Alabama prisons. Brothers’ director and subjects will talk after the March 23 screening.

Both stars of The Yes Men Fix the World (Feb. 23), a wild portrait of two muckrackers who pose as top executives of large companies for news outlets, will be on campus to reveal how they pulled off such elaborate political stunts. Finally, the series will close with The Mosque in Morgantown (April 13) about American Muslims struggling with issues within their religious communities, with a panel afterwards featuring director Brittany Huckabee.

Continuing that geographic trend is The Accented Cinemas of the Middle East series, which began last Wednesday with the screening of Calendar, directed by Canadian-Armenian Atom Egoyan.

“Accented films are generally made by people who live in exile, it’s their main characteristic,” said Associate Professor of Literature and Women’s studies and cocurator Negar Mottahedeh.

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The films based on Ariel Dorfman works, who has been with Duke for 25 years, will be screened this spring.

Turtles Can Fly (Feb. 24), directed by Kurdish Iranian Bahman Ghobadi, takes place in a Kurdish refugee camp on the Iraqi-Turkish border, following the lives of children who sweep and clear the surrounding minefields.

“There’s lots of luggage, identity papers, passports… and travel in these films as well as nostalgia for vast open spaces, as life in exile is often set in small, tight apartment spaces,” Mottahedeh said.

40 Quadratmeter Deutschland (March 31) depicts the life of a Turkish woman who, after marrying a traditional German man who takes her back to Germany, is promptly locked in the house and refused freedom.

The Human Rights series is made up of two films centering on pressing issues that weigh down its protagonists. Escuela, which screens tonight in the Perkins Rare Book Room, follows 14-year-old Mexican-American farm worker Liliana as she struggles

to finish school in migrant education programs. A more personalized account of the larger problems with immigrant education, the documentary is a sequel to Hanna Weyer’s La Boda. The second film, The Self-Made Man, chronicles director Susan Stern’s father Bob, a solar-energy pioneer, as he decides to take his own life rather than suffer from a terminal diseases. Stern will attend the March 16 screening and participate in a discussion session afterwards.

In connection with the current Big Shots exhibit at the Nasher (see page 14), the Warhol Films series began last Thursday night with the first half of Ric Burns’ Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film. The documentary chronicles the artist’s life, with part two screening tomorrow night at the Nasher at 7 p.m. Downtown 81, also referred to as New York Beat Movie, rounds out the series, and is, as Screen/Society program coordinator Hank Okazaki describes, “a snapshot of the scene” in the New York village in 1981.

Blurring the lines between reality and fiction, the film features African-American artist Jean Michel Basquiat and Blondie lead singer Debbie Harry as well as famous Village artists James Chance, Amos Poe and Tav Falco.

Stories from Beyond the Dark: The Films of Ariel Dorfman celebrates the 25 years of playwright and human rights activist Dorfman’s relationship with Duke. The series features five films all with a connection to the Chilean exile auteur. My House is on Fire, based on Dorfman’s own poem and co-directed with son Rodrigo, deals with the terror undocumented immigrant children experience in a region ruled by dictatorship. A Promise to the Dead is a docuSee screen/society on page 5

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screen/society from page 4 mentary detailing the exile of Dorfman, from his job as cultural advisor to socialist president Salvador Allende to the toppling of Allende’s government and Dorfman’s survival. It ends with the death of the dictator Augusto Pinochet. Both films will screen on Feb. 2. Death and a Maiden, which will be shown on Feb. 16, is the 1994 film adaptation of Dorfman’s 1990 play directed by Roman Polanski. It stars Sigourney Weaver and Ben Kingsley.

Dorfman and his son also penned two war-based short films. Deadline, follows an Iraqi exile trying to learn the fate of his brother currently under the Saddam Hussein dictatorship, and Prisoners in Time stars John Hurt as a former British soldier and Japanese POW who seeks out his torturer to cure his post-traumatic stress. Those two films will screen on March 2. The entire series will be shown in Bryan Center’s Griffith Theater, and Dorfman will be in attendance for each screening.

Framing Language: Experimental Cinema is a four-film series curated by visiting filmmaker and professor David Gatten that will screen at the Nasher.

“I chose work that I thought described a lot of different ways of using text with image,” Gatten said. “I wanted to focus on language primarily as an image, and also when text is perceived as language but cannot be read.”

Program 1 (Feb. 6) is an introductory survey into experimental film, and will feature four short films from Japan, Canada and the United States. Program 2 is made up of three films by Hollis Frampton, including Poetic Justice, which Gatten is particualry excited about. “[The film] challenges the viewer to do the job of a fantasy filmmaker, to produce the images in your head as you’re reading

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the text that is also an image.”

Gatten is also thrilled to present Frampton’s most famous work, Zorns Lemma as a part of Program 3 (Feb. 28). The final installment, Program 4 (April 17), features Frampton’s Gloria! and James Benning’s North On Evers.

“Gatten is a pretty significant figure in

semester is the Politics of Food series, the films of which center around the theme of the ocean. First up is the Full Frame and Sundance-winning documentary The Cove, generally considered the doc to beat at this year’s Academy Awards. The film reveals the horrific slaughter of dolphins each year in a quiet, Japanese town.

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The Cove will play Sunday at Duke. The documentary is a front-runner at this year’s Academy Awards. the world of [experimental film],” Okazaki said of the filmmaker. “For those who are into it, this is a great opportunity.”

Similarly acclaimed poet and filmmaker Nacer Khemir also has a personalized series. The Nacer Khemir retrospective will feature the first and third of Khemir’s desert trilogy, El-haimoune (March 30) and Bab’Aziz (April 5). The Journey to Tunis (April 6) is a documentary about Khemir’s retracing the steps of Swiss painter Paul Klee. The filmmaker will be in attendance at the April 5 and 6 screenings.

“Khemir is a very interesting Tunisian director, also a painter, who has a incredible visual style,” Okazaki said.

Returning for a second installment this

Screening Sunday, the documentary will be followed by a panel discussion with faculty from Duke, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and University of New Mexico. Feb. 21 will see End of the Line, which concerns the serious issue of overfishing in America and will be followed by a panel of student from DukeFish, the Durham-based community supported fishery. Rounding out the series is Sharkwater (March 28), a documentary that debunks sharks as bloodthirsty man-eaters, instead painting them as evolutionary pillars.

The Quebec Film Festival will return for another spring, beginning with Elle Veut Le Chaos (March 22), about an ex-mobster suffering from existential stagnation in

a remote party of the country, followed

by Xavier Dolan’s semi-autobiographical tale J’ai Tue Ma Mere (March 24), which won multiple awards at last year’s Cannes Film Festival. The festival concludes with A L’Ouest de Pluton (March 29) about the lives of Quebecois high school students.

A trio of comedic documentaries make up the caricature series, supplementing the Lines of Attack at the Nasher. First up is Journeys with George (Feb. 18), Alexandra Pelosi’s behind the scenes look of George W. Bush’s campaign trail, followed by This Film is Not Yet Rated (March 4), about the effect of the MPAA rating system. It ends with the Dixie Chicks’ Shut Up and Sing (March 18) about their three-year period of intense public scrutiny.

The Cine-East: East Asian Cinema series features seven films, including Cannes winner Tokyo Sonata (Feb. 9), Kazuyuki Izutsu’s Pacchigi! (April 20) and the South Korean Memento Mori (April 26). Neighboring China will be included in a series coordinated with the Nasher exhibition Displacement.

All four films deal with after effects of the controversial building of the Three Gorges dam. Rainclouds over Wushan (April 15) follows two lonely individuals during the construction, and Venice Film Festival winner Still Life (April 29) chronicles two people trying to find their spouses. To complement these fictional narratives are two documentaries: Bing Ai (May 13) and Up the Yangtze (May 27).

Two special events will occur this semester. The BBC’s Mendelssohn, The Nazis and Me, about the Jewish-born but fervent Christian Feliix Mendelssohn wrote many of Germany’s beloved national songs, a fact that brought up interesting religious questions during the Holocaust. The Duke Student Film Showcase (April 30) will close out the academic calendar with the screenings of the best student-produced films of the semester.

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Wind symphony welcomes new director

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It would have been tough to foresee that the Duke Wind Symphony would gain its new director due to a decades-old connection to Austria, but this history is in part why Verena Mosenbichler-Bryant now holds the post.

Mosenbichler-Bryant, appointed prior to the 200910 academic year, was convinced, in part, to apply for the open position due to the symphony’s history of performing in her native country, which she left in 2005 to study for her masters in music at Michigan State University.

“The ensemble, back in the ’70s and ’80s—and I think a couple of times in the ’90s—traveled to Vienna for a full semester and spent a whole semester in Austria, and that Austria connection just popped out,” she said.

She’s considering an attempt to revive this program in the future, but the Symphony’s definite plans for the spring semester demand more immediate attention.

The symphony itself is comprised of 57 members in total: 45 Duke students, six students from Cedar Ridge High School in Hillsborough, and six community members.

The ensemble focuses on “traditional wind band literature,” Mosenbichler-Bryant said, including pieces that were composed in the past, contemporary music and pieces still in the process of composition.

As for the spring, the centerpieces of the Symphony’s activity will be two full concerts, both featuring guest artists.

“That’s something that I want to incorporate in the future: make it a standard thing to have guest artists and guest ensembles come and work with the ensemble, give the students a chance to work with professional musicians and teachers,” Mosenbichler-Bryant said. “That’s definitely one of my goals.”

The first spring concert (Feb. 18 in Baldwin Auditorium) will incorporate soprano Penelope Jensen, adjunct associate professor of the practice of music, who teaches voice at Duke. In conjunction with the ensemble, she will be performing Frank Ticheli’s “Angels in the Architec-

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Verena Mosenbichler-Bryant is joining the Duke Wind Symphony as its new director this semester. Mosenbichler-Bryant said she plans on incorporating outside contributors to the symphony’s bills and wants to perform more genre-bending, avant-garde pieces in upcoming seasons. ture.” This concert will also feature the North Carolina Saxophone Ensemble performing on the same bill but not with the Duke Wind Symphony.

The night will see only contemporary music performed, including the work of two Duke graduate composers: George Lam’s brass fanfare “Grand Junction” and Jamie Keesecker’s “Polymodal Transportation.”

“We’ll be working with those two students,” Mosenbichler-Bryant said. “They’ll come in and talk to the Wind Symphony, they’ll be in rehearsal, so they’ll basically work with us too.”

The second spring concert (April 15) will feature Joseph Robinson, the retired principal oboist of the New

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Bringing in the guest performers is about more than spicing up the concerts or putting on a good show, though. Mosenbichler-Bryant said that working with such talented musicians has a great musical benefit for the students as well.

“They can learn a lot from those professional players and the guest artists. Just the way they perform, they can learn a lot from their stage presence, the way they will react and interact with us in rehearsal,” she said. “I think See director on page 7

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the Austria trip, something that is of special significance to her. This would likely involve a semester-long residency just having the chance to work with some- in Vienna for the students of the Symone like Joseph Robinson and Penelope phony, studying music as well as giving Jensen—it’s something they don’t get to performances. do on a regular basis. I definitely want to But there is also the possibility of othgive them the chance er out-of-state efto experience how it forts, including a “Another project that I is to work in a profestour in the spring sional setting.” have in my head is a little of 2011, as well as Seeing other musome more advenout-of-the-box concert.... turous ideas. sicians in a professional setting also “Another projIt features live electronallows the students ect that I have in in the Wind Symmy head is a little ics, and it’s sort of a phony to consider ut-of-the-box Bjork-meets-Nine-Inch- oconcert, what they want to do where we with their own musiwould perform a Nails-meets-concertcal talents after the piece called ‘Ecclose of their Duke band—something that in- static Waters,’” she careers.

“It features corporates not only wind said.

One of the comlive electronics, munity members of band but popular music and it’s sort of a the ensemble is actuBjork-meets-Nineand other genres.” ally a former Duke stuInch-Nails-meetsdent, which provides —V. Mosenbichler-Bryant, c o n c e r t - b a n d — an example of one something that director, Duke Wind Symphony incorporates not possible option, and though Mosenbichleronly wind band Bryant said she has but popular music little knowledge of what students did post- and other genres.” collegiately prior to her time as director, she No matter where the group’s future knows that some of her students will keep takes her, Mosenbichler-Bryant will still playing. be able to occupy herself with one ele“For [the students], music is a major ment that she couldn’t be happier about: part, even though it might not be their her students. career choice. But I think music is very “It’s great working with the students,” important for them… I’m sure a lot of she said. “Every rehearsal so far has been them will keep music in their lives,” she a great pleasure and honor to work with said. “Be it playing in a community band these students, because they just show so or a symphony or whatever it might be.” much enthusiasm about music and they Mosenbichler-Bryant has plans that just want to play. And I think the joy of playgo beyond just this semester, however. ing music, that’s something very important There is a definite interest in reviving and I really appreciate that.”

more music department events. song & dance rare music series choreolab. april 24-24 rare instruments. april 23 Graduate student composers David Kirkland Garner, Youngmi Cho,and Tim Hambourger are composing pieces for renowned percussion ensemble So Percussion.

The pieces will be performed in collaboration with the dance department, commemorating the centennial of Ballets Russes founder Sergei Diaghilev.

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With the Duke University Musical Instruments Collections and the library, the music department has long hosted instrument demonstrations. This semester, the music department is hosting a competition for students to compose a piece for lutes, recorders, crumhorns and other such instruments.

The winning composition will be performed April 23.

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Exhibition. SeeSaw Design Studio:3I AM the Dream. Thru March 5. Main Gallery, John Hope Franklin Center.

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Exhibition. The Past is a Distant Colony. Hong-An Truong. Thru March 21, 2010. Franklin Center 230, Basement Art Space. (FHI)

27 Wednesdays at the Center. Crossing Borders: Some Native, African and European Poets in North America.

Jonathan Hart, University of Alberta. A light lunch will be served; no reservation is necessary. 12pm.

Franklin Center 240. Free. (FHI)

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Master Class. With the Orion String Quartet, one of the most sought-after chamber ensembles in the United States.

5pm. Nelson Music Rm. Free. (MUS) Lecture/Demonstration. Joseph Robinson, former principal oboe of the New York Philharmonic, presents “Marcel Tabuteau’s analysis of the creative dimensions of the Interpretive Art of Music.” 4-6pm. Bone Hall, Biddle Music Bldg. Free. (MUS) Free Family Day. Noon to 4pm. (NAS)

10 Wednesdays at the Center. Animation and Media Mix. Thomas LaMarre, McGill

University. FHI Working Group on TransAsian Screen Cultures. A light lunch will be served; no reservation is necessary. 12pm.

Franklin Center 240. Free. (FHI)

Duke Wind Symphony. Verena Mösenbichler-Bryant, dir., with Penelope Jensen, soprano, and the North Carolina Saxophone Ensemble.“Angels in the Architecture;” Maslanka, “Give us this day” Short Symphony for Wind Ensemble; Bolcom, Song for Band; Ticheli, Angels in the Architecture; Bryant, MetaMarch and works by Duke graduate student composers George Lam, Grand Junction, and Jamie Keesecker, Polymodal Transportation.

8pm. Baldwin Aud. Free. (MUS)

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George Lewis (Columbia University). “New Historiographies of Experimentalism.” 4pm. Rm. 101 Biddle Music Bldg. Free. (MUS)

Talk.3I Am a Liar Who Always Tells the Truth: A Roundtable on the Work of Ariel Dorfman. Presented with DUCIS and the Office of the Vice Provost of International Affairs. 4pm. 217 Perkins Library. (FHI) Faculty Recital. Jonathan Bagg, viola and Donald Berman, piano. Works include Stephen Jaffe’s Four Pieces Quasi Sonata and pieces by Vaughan Williams, Britten, Vieuxtemps, Richard Rodney Bennett and others. 8pm.

Nelson Music Rm. Free. (MUS)

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The Cove. Panel with Anne Allison, Neel Ahuja, and Eva Hayward to follow. 7pm. Richard White Aud. Free. (FHI)

FEBRUARY In pursuit of money somewhere: 2 Talk. political economy of Korea’s

Manchurian action film. Jinsoo An. FHI Working Group on Trans-Asia Screen Cultures. 4pm. (FHI)

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Talk. From Dissertation to First Book.

Ken Wissoker, Duke University Press.

4:30pm. Franklin Center 240. (FHI) Wednesdays at the Center. T.S. Eliot in Baghdad. Abdul Sattar Jawad, Duke University. A light lunch will be served; no reservation is necessary. A light lunch will be served; no reservation is necessary. 12pm.

Franklin Center 240. Free. (FHI)

Faculty Recital. Susan Dunn, soprano and David Heid, piano. Berg, Seven Early Songs Schumann, Frauenliebe und Leben Chopin/Viardot mazurkas. 8pm. Baldwin Aud. Free.(MUS)

5 TRIMPIN: The Sound of Invention Screening. TRIMPIN: The Sound of Invention, with dir. Peter Esmonde.

Recipient of a MacArthur Award and many other accolades. Trimpin combines music-making machines and kinetic sculpture with homegrown computer technology. 7pm. CDS Aud. Free. (CDS)

exhibition by Hong-An Truong at the Franklin Center. 6-8pm. CDS Aud. Free.

(CDS)

13 Most Beautiful Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests. Live Soundtrack

by Dean & Britta. Dean Wareham (formerly of Galaxy 500 and Luna) was commissioned by the Andy Warhol Museum to compose music to accompany some of Warhol’s Screen Tests. 8pm.

Reynolds Theater. $28/22, Duke students $5. (NAS)

Duke Jazz Ensemble.

Kevin Mahogany Duke Jazz Ensemble. John Brown, dir., with guest artist Kevin Mahogany, vocalist. 8pm. Baldwin Aud. $10 general/$5 students & seniors. (MUS)

17 Wednesdays at the Center. Performing Truth and Reconciliation. Catherine Cole, Yael Farber, Anne-Maria Makhulu, and cast members from Molora. A light lunch will be served; no reservation is necessary.

12pm. Franklin Center 240. Free. (FHI)

19 Rare Music. Fanny Hensel, the Other Mendelssohn, with Penelope Jensen and

R. Larry Todd. 4pm. Perkins Library Rare Book Rm. Free. (MUS)

Talk. Documentary Narrative Speaker Series. Wells Tower, author of “Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned.” 7pm. CDS Aud. Free. (CDS)

in the 16th-century Mexican Manuscript, the Relación de Michoacan. ’ Angelica ’ Afanador Pujols, University of Minnesota/2009-10 FHI Mellon/ACLS Fellow. A light lunch will be served; no reservation is necessary. 12pm. Franklin Center 240. Free. (FHI)

Brittany Duck (Senior distinction project), 8pm. Brody Theater, East Campus. Free. (TS)

Talk. Roundtable in Honor of Eve Sedgwick. Lecture: Lauren Berlant (Chicago); Roundtable: Cathy Davidson, Tyler Curtain, Maurice Wallace, Robyn Wiegman. 5pm. East Campus location TBA. (FHI)

26 Reading.

Duke/UNC Shapin Reading Group. 4pm. Location TBD. (FHI) Two Small Bodies. (See Feb. 25) 8pm. (TS)

Lines of Attack: Conflicts in Caricature

Duke University String School Concerts. Dorothy Kitchen, dir. 3, 4 & 7pm. Baldwin Aud. Free. (MUS)

24 Migration Wednesdays at the Center.

Stories and Colonial Disputes

25 Two Small Bodies. By Neal Bell, Theater Studies faculty, Featuring

Duke New Music Ensemble [dnme]. Dan Ruccia, dir. Lunch with the New 2: works by Olivier Messiaen, George Crumb, David Lang, and Henryk Górecki. 12pm. Biddle Music Bldg. Lobby. Free. (MUS)

Talk. Documentary Narrative Speaker Series. Roger Hodge, editor of Harper’s magazine. 7pm. CDS Aud. Free. (CDS)

Duke Symphony Orchestra. Harry Davidson, music dir. Cosí fan Tutte, a comic opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. A semi-staged production sung in Italian with English supratitles featuring Natasha Ospina, Teresa Buchholz, Susan Williams, Jason Karn, Joshua Sekoski and Brian Johnson.

7:30pm. Baldwin Aud. $10 general/$5 students/seniors/Duke students free. (MUS)

Talk. Photographer Ernesto Bazan on his many years of work in Cuba. 5pm. CDS Aud. Free. (CDS)

18 Talk.

“A Measure of Remorse.” Panel discussion in conjunction with an

First Thursday. Gallery talk with Neil McWilliam, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Art & Art History in Duke’s Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies.

5:30pm. Free. (NAS)

Peter Kuper discusses propaganda and political graphics used by artists around the world, from Thomas Nast’s potent caricatures to Diego Rivera’s controversial murals. 4pm. (NAS)

the U.S. Discuss Race in Las Americas, Monika Gosin, Duke University. A light lunch will be served; no reservation is necessary. 12pm. Franklin Center 240.

Free. (FHI)

Caricature Roundtable I. “The Press: Balance, Bias and the Freedom of Speech.” Exploring the role of print media in fostering political debate in contemporary America. 7pm. Free. (NAS)

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De Pauw. A light lunch will be served; no reservation is necessary. 12pm. Franklin Center 240. Free. (FHI)

18 Talk. “Revolutions and Art.” Cartoonist

17 Wednesdays at the Center. Notes on Citizenship and Belonging: Afro-Cubans in

Exhibition opening and talk. Lines of Attack: Conflicts in Caricature. The first exhibition to compare the 19th century origins of journalistic caricature with its transformation in the digital age. Talk with Chris Lamb, professor of communications, College of Charleston. 5:30pm. Thru May 16, 2010. (NAS)

So Percussion. Readings of new works by Duke graduate student composers David Kirkland Garner, Youngmi Cho, and Tim Hambourger.

1pm. Baldwin Aud. Free. (MUS)

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Stories from Medellín. By Danya Taymor (Senior distinction project) 8pm.

Brody Theater, East Campus. Free. (TS)

12 Stories from Medellín. (See Feb. 11) 8pm. (TS) 13 Stories from Medellín. (See Feb. 11) 8pm. (TS)

Two Small Bodies. (See Feb. 25) 8pm. (TS)

MARCH 3 Wednesdays at the Center. Health Rights in History and Today. John Dittmer,

Art for All. Presented by the Nasher Student Advisory Board for the Duke community, Nasher Museum members and the public. 7-10pm. Free. (NAS)

Exhibition Installation. Mark Hewitt: Falling into Place. The internationally renowned potter’s work will be installed on the Nasher Museum’s front lawn.

Ongoing. (NAS)

Learn more about the Duke community support of Haiti relief efforts at duke.edu/Haiti.

Faculty Recital. Elizabeth Tomlin, piano.

Chopin/Schumann Bicentennial featuring the Schumann Fantasy, Op. 17 and Chopin mazurkas and waltzes. 8pm.

Baldwin Aud. Free. (MUS)

Columbia University. 5pm. White Lecture Hall. (FHI)

Chatterley, in conjunction with two exhibits of his work: Olive Branch and Reciprocity. Featuring hand-made cameras and a 25-year project with an Illinois man who believes in the power of the photographic document to facilitate change. Thru May 21, 2010.

6pm, Reception. 7pm, Artist Talk.

Center for Documentary Studies. Free.

(CDS)

for voice teachers and students at all levels presented by Leda Scearce, Wayne Wayman, Sandra Cotton and Cathy McNeela. A Feldenkrais workshop will be led by Maxine Davis. 9am-5pm. various East Campus locations.

Registration & fee required. (MUS)

Duellist Extraordinaire with Reginald Patterson. 4pm. Rare Book Rm., Perkins Library. Free. (MUS)

11 Talk.

Lessons of Darfur: Human Rights Activism & Africa. Mahmood Mamdani,

28 Artist Exhibit Opening Reception & Talk. Photographer Cedric

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27 Workshop.

Vocal health workshops

19 Rare Music. Chevalier de SaintGeorges: Violinist, Composer, and

Akanda Robinson Memorial Concert.

Works by Bill Robinson performed by Penelope Jensen, soprano; Eric Pritchard, violin; Jimmy Gilmore, clarinet; Randall Love, piano and others. 8pm. Nelson Music Rm. Free. (MUS)

Exhibition: Olive Branch and Reciprocity

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Piano Honors Recital. 8pm.

Baldwin Aud. Free. (MUS)

Music Rm. Free. (MUS)

The Holy Sonnets of John Donn

By Benjamin Britten with Elizabeth Linnartz, soprano, and Jeremy Begb pianist, and reflections by Richard Hays Divinity Scho George Washington I Professor of New Testame 4pm. Nelson

Duke Symphony Orchestra. (See March 18) 7:30pm (MUS)

21 Faculty Recital. Robert Parkins, organ All-Bach program in honor of the

composer’s 325th birthday, featuring a recently discovered chorale fantasy. 5p Duke Chapel. Free. (MUS)

23 Duke Jazz Festival. John Brown, dir.

Various events throughout the week. T

March 28. dukejazz.org for details. (MU

Duke Chorale. Rodney Wynkoop, dir Spring Tour Concert. 8pm. Baldwin Au Free. (MUS)

24 Wednesdays at the Center. Divine Violence: Models of Theocracy in the

Hebrew Bible. Adi Ophir, Tel Aviv University. 12pm. Franklin Center 240 (FHI) A light lunch will be served; no reservation is necessary. 12pm. Frankli Center 240. Free. (FHI)

Talk. Documentary Narrative Speaker Series. Rebecca Skloot, author of “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.” 7pm Sanford School of Public Policy. Free.

(CDS)

Faculty Recital. Rebecca Troxler, flut and Dan Berlinghoff, piano. Back Together Again, 30 Years Later! Works Roussel, Gaubert and Pierné. 8pm.

Nelson Music Rm. Free. (MUS)

25 Exhibition.

Displacement: The Three Gorges Dam & Contemporary Chinese Thru July 25, 2010. (NAS)

Talk. Conversation with Wu Hung, exhibition curator and Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago Reception to follow. 7pm. (NAS)

Duke Players Lab. Closer by Patrick Marber. Directed by Danya Taymor. 8p Brody Theater, East Campus. Free. (TS)

26 Duke Players Lab. (See March 25) 8p (TS)

Screening. God’s Architects, with director Zack Godshall. This film tells t story of five visionary builders and thei enigmatic creations, architectural world and realms that for most of us exist onl the imagination. 7pm. CDS Aud. Free.

(CDS)

27 Master Class. Antares Quartet. A gro with “... the gift of making whatever

they’re playing seem the most importa piece in the world.”33(Gramophone).

12pm. Nelson Music Rm. Free. (MUS)

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Events are subject to change. Please contact event sponsor for up-dates.

Buy tickets online at tickets.duke.edu or visit the University Box office, Bryan Center, West Campus, Mon-Fri, 10am-5pm, (919) 684-4444 Persons with disabilities who anticipate needing accommodations, or who have questions about physical access, may contact the Box Office in advance of the event you wish to attend.

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28 Encounters: with the music of our time and pulsoptional.

Performance of Thom Limbert’s Time Piece and Chia-yu Hsu’s Among Gardens, with Jane Hawkins, piano. 3pm. Baldwin Aud. Free. (MUS)

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Bach, Jesu, meine Freude (Motet #3) and Purcell, Te Deum & Jubilate (A Sacred Cantata). 4pm. Baldwin Aud. Free. (MUS)

12 Theater 2010. New Works Festival.

Readings of plays written, directed and

14 Master Class. With Mark O’Connor (violin/fiddle). 5pm. Nelson Music Rm.

Warhol Film Series (N) 1/28 ANDY WARHOL: A DOCUMENTARY FILM, part 2 2/11 DOWNTOWN 81

Free. (MUS)

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Duke New Music Ensemble [dnme].

Dan Ruccia, dir. Remixology: Duke graduate and undergraduate composition students present acoustic, electroacoustic, and electronic remixes of Stephen Jaffe’s Cut-time Shout, as well as new works. 8pm. Bone Hall, Biddle Music Bldg. Free. (MUS)

Robinson, former New York Philharmonic principal oboe. Red Carpet Concert: Rimsky-Korsakov, Variations on a Theme by Glinka; Dello Joio, Scenes from the Louvre; Williams, Olympic Fanfare and Theme; De Meij, Symphony No. 1“The Lord of the Rings”; P.D.Q Bach, Six Contrary Dances; Prokofiev, March, Op. 99. 8pm.

Baldwin Aud. Free. (MUS)

Human Rights Film Series (Perkins Rare Book Room) 3/16 THE SELF-MADE MAN – w/ dir. Susan Stern.

16 Talk.

James Dillon (University of Minnesota). “Composition &

Graduate Composers Concert. New works by graduate student composers Jamie Keesecker, Alex Kotch, Dan Ruccia, and Kenneth Stewart. 8pm.

Nelson Music Rm. Free. (MUS)

Screening. Between Floors, with director Jen White. Blurring lines of genre, tone, and form, this film examines the human condition through a uniquely claustrophobic lens: five stuck elevators and the people trapped inside them. CDS Aud. 7pm. Free.

(CDS)

Talk. “Displacement”, a roundtable discussion with Duke faculty across disciplines on the Three Gorges Dam. 7pm. Free. (NAS) The Miser. Moliére’s French comedy translated and adapted by Elisabeth Lewis Corley. Directed by Joseph Megel.

8pm. Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center. $10 General Public, $5 Students/Sr. Citizens. (TS) Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. Duke University is the presenting sponsor for this four-day festival of screenings, discussions, and other events. Thru April 11. Carolina Theatre and other downtown Durham venues. For more information, including how to purchase tickets, go to www.fullframefest.org.

Talk. David Harrington (Kronos Quartet) and Maria Schneider. “An experimental conversation: Schneider’s quartet for Kronos, etc.” 4pm. Rm. 101 Biddle Music Bldg. Free. (MUS) The Miser. (See April 8) 8pm. (TS) Talk. Mark Hewitt. Artist talk by internationally renowned potter whose work is installed on the Nasher Museum front lawn. Reception to follow. 7pm.

Free. (NAS) Duke Collegium Musicum. Karen Cook, dir. Desire, Drink and Death in Early France: works by Binchois, Dufay, Ockeghem, Brumel, Josquin and others.

8pm. Goodson Chapel. Free. (MUS)

10 The Miser. (See April 8) 8pm. (TS) 11 The Miser. (See April 8) 2pm. (TS)

The Miser. (See April 8) 8pm. (TS)

Duke Opera Workshop

24 excerpts Duke Opera Workshop. Susan Dunn, dir. Opera sung in English. 8pm. Baldwin Aud. Free.

(MUS)

Free Family Day. Noon to 4pm. (NAS)

19 Theater 2010. New Works Festival.

(See April 12) 7pm. (TS) 20 Chamber Music Recital. Featuring student chamber music groups. 7:30pm.

Nelson Music Rm. Free. (MUS)

21 Duke Symphony Orchestra. Harry Davidson, music dir. Happy (200th)

Birthday, Robert Schumann! (18101856). Brahms, Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80; Schumann, Symphony No. 1 in B-flat major (“Spring”), Op. 38 and featuring 2009-10 Student Concerto Competition winner, Brian Sung, performing mvt. 1 of Victor Herbert’s Cello Concerto No. 2. 8pm.

Baldwin Aud. Free. (MUS)

22 Sounds.

Distant. A musical performance created for Duke faculty

member Hsiao-mei Ku, with violin by Jennifer Chang and guzheng by composer Mark Kuss. 7pm. Nasher Aud. Free. (NAS)

23 Rare Music. New Music for Old Instruments with the winners of the Rare Music Composition Competition. 4pm.

Rare Book Rm., Perkins Library. Free.

(MUS)

Framing Language: Experimental Film (N, 2:30pm) Presented by visiting filmmaker/instructor David Gatten!

2/6 Program 1: Introductory Survey 2/14 Program 2: 3 films by Hollis Frampton 2/28 Program 3: ZORNS LEMMA & SINK OR SWIM 4/17 Program 4: NORTH ON EVERS & GLORIA! Cine-East: East Asian Cinema (8pm) 2/9 TOKYO SONATA 4/14 SHANGHAI TRIAD 4/15 RAINCLOUDS OVER WUSHAN (N, 7pm) 4/20 PACCHIGI! 4/26 MEMENTO MORI 4/29 STILL LIFE (N, 7pm)

17 The Miser. (See April 8) 8pm. (TS) 18 The Miser. (See April 8) 2pm. (TS)

Screening. Mendelssohn, the Nazis, and Me. Mendelssohn expert R. Larry Todd, Arts & Sciences Professor of Music, presents this documentary by Sheila Hayman, examining how a mixed Jewish/Christian religious identity affected the composer Felix Mendelssohn. 8pm. Richard White Aud. Free. (MUS, SS)

Politics of Food 2: The Ocean (W) 1/31 THE COVE – followed by a faculty panel discussion.

2/21 END OF THE LINE – followed by panel discussion w/ DukeFish, the Durham-based community-supported fishery.

3/28 SHARKWATER Films of Ariel Dorfman – w/ Ariel Dorfman and guests.

2/3 MY HOUSE IS ON FIRE & A PROMISE TO THE DEAD 2/16 DEATH AND THE MAIDEN 3/2 DEADLINE & PRISONERS IN TIME

Experimentalism: andré breton a raté sa fête.” 4pm. Rm. 101 Biddle Music Bldg.

Free. (MUS)

Duke Jazz Ensemble. John Brown, dir., with guest artist Monty Alexander, piano. 8pm. Baldwin Aud. $10 general/ $5 students/seniors. (MUS)

Duke Jazz Combos. 8pm. Nelson Music Rm. Free. (MUS)

Paperhand Puppet Intervention

The Miser. (See April 8) 8pm. (TS)

Timmy Abell. Arts in the Garden presents Abell’s award-winning tall tales, adventures and fairy tales, punctuated with music. 11am. Outdoors at Sarah P. Duke Gardens. Rain location: Doris Duke Center. $10. (DG)

All events are free and open to the general public. Unless otherwise noted, screenings are at 7pm in the Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center.

(N) = Nasher Museum Auditorium. (W) = Richard White Auditorium. All events subject to change – for details, updates, and additions, see: fvd.aas.duke.edu/screensociety/schedule.php

Accented Cinemas of the Middle East (8pm) 2/24 TURTLES CAN FLY 3/31 40 SQUARE METERS OF GERMANY

produced by students. 7pm. Brody Theater, East Campus. Free. (TS)

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Caricature Roundtable II. “Satire & New Media” expanding on the ramifications of digital media on the dissemination of news and opinion.

7pm. Free. (NAS)

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Kenan Ethics Series: “Control & Resistance” Discussion to follow each film.

2/23 THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD – w/ the filmmakers/stars.

3/16 THE SELF-MADE MAN (Perkins Rare Book Room) – w/ dir. Susan Stern.

3/23 DHAMMA BROTHERS – w/ filmmaker & subjects from the documentary.

4/13 MOSQUE IN MORGANTOWN – w/ dir.

Brittany Huckabee.

31 Wednesdays at the Center.

Charity is Nice, but Justice is

Better: Publicizing Philanthropic Support for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 19601963. Rhonda Jones, History, North Carolina Central University & FHI Mellon HBCU Faculty Fellow. A light lunch will be served; no reservation is necessary. 12pm. Franklin Center 240. Free. (FHI)

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Lines of Attack: Caricature (N) 2/18 JOURNEYS WITH GEORGE 3/4 THIS FILM IS NOT YET RATED 3/18 SHUT UP AND SING

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ChoreoLab 2010.

Duke Dance celebrates the Diaghilev centennial with premiere performances by student choreographers and composers, and special guest artists So Percussion.

8pm. Reynolds Theater. $15 General, $10 Students, $5 Duke Students. (DDP, MUS)

25 Duke Opera Workshop. 3pm. (See April 24) (MUS) ChoreoLab 2010. (See April 24) 3pm. (DDP, MUS)

30 Duke Chorale. Rodney Wynkoop, dir. Chorale Celebration. 8pm. Biddle Music Bldg. Free. (MUS) MAY 1 Duke University String School Concerts.

Dorothy Kitchen, dir. 3, 4 & 7pm. Baldwin Aud. Free. (MUS)

30 Paperhand Puppet Intervention. Arts in the Garden presents Paperhand Puppet Intervention,

whose puppets may be as small as a bird or as tall as a house but all bear big messages about acting responsibly and compassionately toward nature and our fellow humans. 1pm. Outdoors at Sarah P. Duke Gardens. $10. Rain date June 6. (DG)

Quebec Film Festival [tentative] 3/22 ELLE VEUT LE CHAOS 3/24 J’AI TU´E MA M´ERE 3/29 ´A L’OUEST DE PLUTON Nacer Khemir Retrospective 3/30 EL-HAIMOUNE (Wanderers of the Desert) 4/5 BAB’AZIZ: THE PRINCE WHO CONTEMPLATED HIS SOUL – w/ dir. Nacer Khemir.

4/6 THE JOURNEY TO TUNIS – w/ Nacer Khemir.

Displacement: Chinese Film Series (N) 4/15 RAINCLOUDS OVER WUSHAN 4/29 STILL LIFE 5/13 BING AI 5/27 UP THE YANGTZE Special Events 4/18 MENDELSSOHN, THE NAZIS, AND ME (8pm, W) Q&A to follow w/ Mendelssohn expert Prof. R. Larry Todd!

4/30 Duke Student Film Showcase (5pmmidnight) The best of the student films produced at Duke this semester.

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Hoof ‘n’ Horn to stage rock opera Rent of the show—Jonathan Larson’s music ranges from rock to tango, and there’s that catchy “Seasons of Love” song too.

The casting process for the show will be one of the most interesting.

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After 12 seasons of love on Broadway, the much lauded, Broadway-reviving Rent will be making its way to Duke’s campus.

Presented by Hoof ‘n’ Horn, the Pulitzer Prize-winning rock opera about bohemian types in the Lower East Side living with the spectre of HIV was chosen by the organization in the fall to be staged in April 2010.

“We were looking for a show that would appeal to the duke audience,” said executive producer Nathaniel Hill, a sophomore. “I think Rent is a culturally important show that represents a landmark in American musical theater history. It grew and became a phenomena that revitalized Broadway for a lot of people, especially people our age.”

Rent is a marquee name, more notorious than Hoof ‘n’ Horn’s other choices for the current academic year—Godspell in the fall and Reefer Madness in January.

“It’s a show that most people at Duke know, or at least have heard of,” said co-executive producer Andrew Hartman, a sophomore. “I think the music is more relevant than traditonal musical theater-y music. People can connect to it, and people know it.”

This year is also the first time that Hoof ‘n’ Horn has been able to purchase the unabridged version of the script.

The show represents a particularly ambitious choice by for Hoof ‘n’ Horn given the vocal and technical demands

special to The Chronicle

In filling the roles, Hartman and Hill said they want more than Hoof ‘n’ Horn’s typical cast members. They are reaching beyond typical theatrical vocalists and out to a capella and gospel singers, even those beyond Duke’s campus.

“We’re hoping to get really great singers and dancers and actors,” Hartman said. “It’s a challenging score, so we’re really hoping for great singers.”

And though Rent typically boasts a diverse cast, Hill said the show does not have specific race categorizations

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for the characters, allowing the director creative flexibility in the casting process. But he added that casting will be difficult.

“Rent is a show that’s really about people, so I think most of the challenge is in casting,” Hill said. “[Director Cameron McCallie’s] vision is to have a very cohesive cast and to work them as a group and not individually because the show is so much about people and how people connect. So it’s a challenge making sure he’s creating bonds not with disparate actors on stage but with a cast.”

And in spite of all the challenges the production poses—from the casting to set design to the actual performance come curtain call—Hartman and Hill earnestly believe in the potential of this show and the resonance it on Duke’s campus and with the presenting organization.

“One of the reasons I campaigned for Rent—and one of the reasons I think it was selected—is that I wanted to do a show that would bring Hoof ‘n’ Horn to a different level and would really earn us a new level of respect and professionalism,” Hill said. “And so far, I think we’re really on target for that goal.”

Rent will be performed April 8-10 and 15-17 and again during commencement weekend May 14-15. Check back in recess for more coverage of Rent in April.

to audition.

Hoof ‘n’ Horn will be holding auditions Feb. 2-4 in the Bivins Building on East Campus, behind the Pegram Dormitory.

Interested vocalists, dancers and actors/actresses are invited to sign up for a 10-minute slot in OSAF. Callbacks will be held Feb. 7 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Cast members are expected to attend 8-20 hours of rehearsal per week, increasing to 30 hours the week prior to opening. There will be 13 performances of the show in April and May. For more information, visit facebook. com/Hoof ‘n’ Horn or contact director Cam McCallie (cameron.mccallie@duke. edu) or producer Nathaniel Hill (nathaniel.hill@duke.edu)

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Theater slate filled with senior projects Stories from Medellin marks Taymor’s turn from directing to writing, a switch that she As the spring theater season approaches, admits did not come easily.

Duke’s Theater Studies department prom“Its always nerve-wracking directing your ises more of its trademark fare, showcas- own work because people will automaticaling original student work alongside classic ly tell you its good,” Taymor said. “I don’t productions. Notable this season is a more know if anybody would tell me that [this is] varied thematic spectrum, in which the s— because it’s such a big project.” typical gritty drama Taymor’s disof late (remember tinction work is “When you’re doing a the straight-fromfollowed by that of the-gutter aura of senior, Britsenior distinction project, another The Lower D’s) is tany Duck, who will joined, refreshingly, you want something that’s play a manipulative by an updated 17th mother accused of going to show you off.” century favorite murdering her chiland a documentary—Brittany Duck, dren in Two Small influenced senior Bodies, a play by senior in theater studies Neal Bell, a profesdistinction project.

Feb. 11 will see sor of the practice the department’s in Duke’s theater first offering: Stories from Medellin, written studies department. and directed by senior Danya Taymor. The “I was very happy she chose to do a play was influenced by Taymor’s recent Duke play by our own playwright,” said Director Engage trip to the Colombian city. Finding of Theater and Communications Miriam herself in the midst of a locale still haunted Sauls. “It’s such a great opportunity to actuby the violent specter of ’80s-era drug wars, ally have the playwright there, if you want Taymor was inspired to write a work that was to know what he meant by something.” true to her experience of the country. The For Duck, it was the opportunity to play finished product revolves around famed an unknown and difficult role that apdrug lord Pablo Escobar––while offering a pealed. She settled on Two Small Bodies afvision of a healing Colombia. ter sifting through countless other scripts.

“The play I wrote does have Pablo Es“When you’re doing a distinction projcobar as the main character, because I just ect, you want something that’s going to couldn’t get away from that,” Taymor said. show you off,” Duck said. “At the same “But I think he can serve as a good vessel time, you want something that’s challengfor exploring the Colombian psyche…. It ing, especially when you’re trying to go was so great to talk to people who are mov- into this field. I wanted something never ing past that time, not rejecting it but mov- done before.” ing forward.”

Duck and Beal began rehearsals this

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week, and plan to present the finished work Feb. 25-27.

Also in the works is a production of Moliere’s classic dark comedy The Miser, directed by Joseph Megel, a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s communications department. A seemingly timeless tale of a man who relentlessly guards his wealth at the cost of his relationships, the play is particularly apt in a modern context.

“It’s about greed and money—things that are certainly in our culture at this very moment,” Sauls said.

Responsible for the department’s entirely student-produced dramas is Duke Players, who will follow up last season’s whimsical

gothic Nevermore with the uncomfortably affective Closer. The play upon which the 2004 film adaptation was based (memorable for its unstoppable pairing of Jude Law and Natalie Portman), Closer explores trust, truth and violence through two intertwined, deteriorating relationships. Taymor is again directing, citing her desire to tackle the work’s “repulsive” subject matter.

“I had a professor who said you should always do the work that bothers you, that gives you those goosebumps on the back of your neck like somebody’s watching you,” Taymor said. “There’s so much that I hate about the characters, but that I love about See theater on page 12

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theater from page 11 the play.”

Ending the season’s larger scale productions will be the recital-like Black Theater Workshop, the New Plays Festival and the Musical Theater Workshop. All slated to take place in April, the three events serve as a venue for students in corresponding theater courses to display their final projects.

In a continuation of previous semesters, all of the above performances will be supplemented by visits from celebritytype figures from the performing arts community. Among the guests planned for the Lunch Box series are Yael Farber, of the South African theater group Farber Foundry (see page 2 for more), and the multi-media artist George Quasha.

Quasha is perhaps best known for his “art is” series, a collection of ultra panned-in videos of modern art visionaries, each attempting to define their craft. The collection of videos reads like a who’s-who of the artistic vanguard, featuring Vito Acconci, Thurston Moore and Carolee Schneemann, among many others.

“It’s a rich season, both with the work being done from within the department, and the guest artists were bringing in,” Sauls said. “It’s a very rich time for students.

I hope they’ll take as much advantage as they can.”

Hemphill to premiere new play

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The perfunctory moments are often the most extraordinary and life-changing.

At least that’s the premise of Archipelago Theatre’s production of Out of the Blue, coming to Sheafer Theater in February.

The production is an original by Ellen Hemphill, assistant professor of the practice in theater studies and the artistic and managing director as well as co-founder of Archipelago Theatre. Hemphill spent multiple years working on the script, and she said it’s about unexpected, “axial moments.” But rather than focus on the consequences of these events, the play focuses on the exact moment.

“It’s about things that happen out of the blue,” Hemphill said. “What does that mean—that exact moment?”

The production weaves together 20 different scenes, brought together by an original musical score and a visual aesthetic. Hemphill includes “the unseen” in the play too. She said the production Hemphill, who directed last year’s Exit the King, focuses on movement-based

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The production will also include a filmic element, which is something Hemphill said she has never incorporate in such a big way.

“Film is the only way to show memory.

You can create image states that aren’t pure storyline film,” she said. “In other words, you can have a tree blossoming like in time-lapse photography. You can have

images you can’t do with a regular set.”

The production will include 12 professional actors and four musicians. Hemphill said one of the difficulties in putting together the show—which is only a month away—has been finding rehearsal time for the full cast, most of whom are from the Duke or University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill communities, though a choreographer and musicians will be coming down from New York.

“If you could have a year with everyone, it would be great. But we’re doing it in a pressure cooker,” Hemphill said. “They’re quite brilliant people, and that makes all the difference.”

Hemphill said she hopes Out of the Blue resonates with audience.

“Hopefully, within the 20 scenes, people will find something to relate to,” she said.

Performances of Out of the Blue are Feb. 18-21 and 25-27 at 8 p.m., Feb. 21 and 28 at 2 p.m. in Sheafer Theater. Tickets are $15 for adults, $5 with a Duke or UNC student ID. Theater-goers are warned that the production contains partial nudity and some coarse language. There is no late seating.

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Dance program celebrates Sergei Diaghilev

by Alice Ren The chronicle

If you have never taken a trip to the Ark, this may be the semester to do it. The Duke Dance Program has world-class dance residencies, a stellar set of student productions and a conference on holistic well-being planned for the semester.

In coordination with Duke Performances, the dance program will be hosting residencies of the performers from Alonzo King LINES Ballet, a renowned contemporary ballet company, and Nora Chipaumire, a rising star in contemporary African Dance (see page 2).

“We genuinely enjoy getting to know the choreographers,” said junior Kirasten Brasfield, who is a ballet dancer. “We won’t really have this opportunity when we graduate unless people decide to actually join a company.”

All master classes and open rehearsals are open for Duke Students to watch or participate, and director of the Duke Dance Program Keval Khalsa encourages dancers and non-dancers alike to attend one of the master classes, rehearsals, or performances.

“I don’t think you have to be a dancer to be blown away by the sheer beauty of the performers [and] the absolute soul and spirit that the choreographer brings to the performance,” Khalsa said.

The spirit of the choreographer is something that sophomore Monica Hogan knows very well. Hogan is presenting her own evening of choreography Feb. 13 at the Ark. The show, titled Heartwork, is about how any form of artwork—film, photography or dance—is, what Hogan

called, “a window into our soul and your heart.”

Heartwork will feature three pieces that are collaborations between art and dance.

The piece “Ekleipsis,” which translates to “I cease to exist” in Greek, is a film produced

by Hogan and a collaborator from Elon University. The piece explores the space between life and afterlife and the mystery of what lies in between. “Lifestrokes” uses the power of paint to symbolize the impressions people leave on the places and people they encounter in life. A third piece, “Virga,” incorporates a poetry reading and describes unleashing ones creativity and potential.

Hogan said the piece is the result of lots of collaboration and help in the program.

“Their willingness to jump in and try anything has been awesome,” she said.

Also on the line up is Choreolab, and this year the entire show will be based on the work of Sergei Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes in honor of the centennial anniversary of the Diaghilev Ballet.

Director of Undergraduate Studies and modern instructor Barbara Dickinson said the evening will be incorporate the Ballets Russes. The evening will be a set of pieces that draw inspiration from various elements of Diaghilev’s process, providing a diverse program with an engaging motif.

One characteristic of Diaghilev’s repertoire was the use of collaboration, and in the spirit of Diaghilev, the dance program will be collaborating with the Music Department for Choreolab.

The dance department has commissioned three graduate students to create

original pieces for the show. Youngmi Cho, David Garner and Tim Hambourger will see their pieces performed live by the percussion group So Percussion.

So Percussion is an internationally known percussion quartet based in Brooklyn, famous for performing the works of Steve Reich, the pioneering American minimalist percussion composer, and their own original compositions which often involve found objects and noisemakers. The combination of So Percussion with new works by Duke dance faculty promises to be an interesting, cutting-edge mixture.

For those interested in yoga and spiri-

tual well-being, the dance department will be holding its second annual symposium, “Across the Threshold: Creativity, Being and Healing” in March. Last year’s threeday conference was a great success with over 200 attendees coming together to explore the interrelationships between mind, body and spirit.

Workshops and panels included yoga, spiritual awareness and various ethnic and ancient healing processes. The methods presented in these panels may be unorthodox, but with the astronomical stress levels of the average Duke students, this conference may be worth investigating.

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by Brian Contratto The chronicle

Art can be evocative, beautiful, political, even confounding. Over the semester, the Nasher Museum of Art will attempt to touch all these bases. With a spring menu ranging from Warhol snapshots to Doonesbury cartoons, the exhibition docket is sure to lend itself to thought and discussion.

The first new show of the semester is Lines of Attack: Conflicts in Caricature, which debuts at Nasher Feb. 4 for a threeand-a-half month stay. The exhibit places political caricatures from two separate time periods side-by-side to incite comparison: mid-18th century France versus the recent presidential periods of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

Pioneering caricaturist Honore Daumier is the star of the French cartoons. The artist’s works span the show, mocking the pomposity and inefficacy of the French monarchy.

The modern counterpart is a series of cartoons focusing on the follies and failures of George W. Bush’s reign, visually highlighting his cabinet’s problems addressing economic policy, Hurricane Katrina, unemployment and of course the Iraq war. The offerings ridiculing Clinton are comparatively sparse, and drift toward the comical aspects of his sexual misconduct—one cartoon attaches an enormous Pinocchio-like phallus to the former president.

The show is guest curated by Walter H. Annenberg Professor Neil McWilliam in the department of Art, Art History, & Visual Studies. “[We want to ask] how caricature as a polemical medium has evolved over the intervening 170 years—and just how effective it can be today in stimulating political debate. To what extent can the caricaturist make us reflect— induce agreement or provoke outrage?” McWilliam said.

Lines of Attack was organized exclusively for the Nasher

by McWilliam and several students from Duke and the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.

Each image or comic strip demands careful attention— this may be the most time you spend in a Nasher exhibit yet—especially those that require background context in their 19th century French milieu. Fortunately, the information cards provide a brief history on the sociopolitical events

that inspired the caricatures and necessary symbolic and interpretive clues—King Louis-Philippe for instance, is commonly represented as a pear in Daumier’s caricatures.

The exhibit has a timely urgency too.

“The disappearance of caricaturists from newspapers, the closure of daily papers themselves, and the emergence of new means of disseminating news and comment via the web means that political cartooning as it has traditionally

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The Nasher Museum of Art will open Displacement, an exhibit focusing on contemporary art made in reaction to the Three Gorges dam. existed faces a historic watershed,” McWilliam said Wendy Livingston, manager of marketing and communication at the Nasher, also expressed concern for the dying of print media in political caricature “[Lines of Attack] is a way to talk about the state of political caricature today... how it affects political commentary, how they contributed to the conversation,” Livingston said.

Advancements in the medium, however, will be recognized in the exhibit via video displays of YouTube and other for-internet video clips of political caricature, mostly cartoon, that are gaining popularity.

And in the true spirit of free speech and democracy, visitors to the museum will be able to give their feedback and responses to the exhibit in real voting booths that will allow participants to record video and complete questionnaires about their reaction to the Lines.

Further down the line, the Nasher will host contemporary Chinese art. Featured work by artists Liu Xiaodong, Yun-fei Ji, Zhuang Hui and Chen Qiulin will comprise Displacement: The Three Gorges Dam and Contemporary Chinese Art, which arrives March 25 from the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago. The exhibit contains a broad variety of media ranging from oil painting to performance art to photography.

All of the art created in response to the creation of the Three Gorges dam on the Yangtze River in the Hubei province of China. The completion of this engineering marvel resulted in the displacement of over one million local peoples to rising water levels, along with the loss of a wealth of cultural artifacts. Still, the dam plays a vital role in flood control and drought relief for the region.

Appropriately then, the performance and visual art of Displacement will be emotive and sometimes somber, but Livingston said it is not all damning.

The Nasher will offer a variety of other live events beyond its visual arts exhibitions and boasts an impressive roster of events and lectures by talented curators and contemporary artists scheduled for the spring. Visiting to speak on political caricature and his contributions to Lines of Attack, Peter Kuper will lead an artist talk March 18. Performance and multimedia visual artist Chen Quilin will come to speak on her work’s inclusion in Displacement for her artist talk on April 1.

These events, including a film series accompanying (see page 4) the museum’s larger exhibits, are part of Nasher Museum’s Free Thursday Nights program.

On Feb. 18. Rock group Dean and Britta, founded by Dean Wareham of Galaxie 500, will play a live soundtrack of 13 songs to accompany the tests in an event co-sponsored by Duke Performances (see page 2). Big Shots will close Feb. 21 to make way for Displacement.

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