WELCOME BACK, STUDENTS!In our exceptional 2010-2011 season, the Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies will take you from 19th century Siam to Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire; |
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Our Towndirected by Christopher Herold October 8, 9, 15, 16—8pm  |
Thornton Wilder’s classic 1938 play about a small town in New England will be given a fresh, new staging by director Christopher Herold. This dynamic production powerfully recasts today’s social and moral issues against the timeless backdrop created by Wilder, inviting the audience to explore enduring questions of both past and present. Zellerbach Playhouse |
| Workshop Productions | |
Noisenseby Ashley Ferro-Murray October 28–30, 2010 
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Graduate student Ashley Ferro-Murray will work with interactive technologies to develop original choreographic material for Noisense, premiering this fall. She will collaborate with musician David Coll and undergraduate actors, dancers, vocalists and performers to generate unique material based on their interactions with technologies, including wireless sensors and international artist networks. Zellerbach Room 7 |
Lab RunExperimental Work by Ph.D. students December 2–4, 2010
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Our “bleeding edge” experimental theater series returns featuring works and performances by students in our Graduate Program for Performance studies! Past productions have included new uses of video, music, dance and theater that result in breathtaking, and often beautiful, theatrical experiments. Love the results or not, we guarantee you’ll be talking about these highly unique pieces the next day! Zellerbach Room 7 |
| Student Showcases |
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Advanced Choreography ShowcaseStudents present original dance works December 9–10, 2010
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Students in our Advanced Choreography course will showcase their original work, guided by Professor Joe Goode. Zellerbach Room 7 |
| Lectures and Events |
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Diana Taylor,
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Diana Taylor is founder and Director of The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics and Professor of Performance Studies and Spanish at New York University. Her work focuses on Latin American and U.S. theatre and performance, performance and politics, feminist theatre and performance in the Americas, Hemispheric studies, and trauma studies. Berkeley Art Museum Theater Sponsored by the Townsend Center for the Humanities as part of the Forum on the Humanities and the Public World. |
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