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1-5-2005 Arts Preview Winter 2005College of the Arts DANCE Rough Cuts II: Refining Performance features works in progress by undergraduate and graduate dance students at 7 p.m. Jan. 28-29 at Sullivant Theatre. The Department of Dance will collaborate with the OSU Percussion Ensemble to Present Drums Downtown II at 8 p.m. Feb. 4. in the Riffe Center’s Capitol Theatre, 77 S. High St. The OSUDance Student Showcase will take place at 7 p.m. Feb. 11 and 12 in Sullivant Theatre. A Graduate Dance Performance featuring Michelle Stortz, Kristin Hapke and Tiffany Rhynard also will be in Sullivant Theatre at 8 p.m. Feb. 17-19. The department will travel into the city again for OSUDance Downtown at 8 p.m. March 3-5 in the Capitol Theatre. For tickets to downtown events, call Ticketmaster at 431-3600. Tickets for most dance performances are available at the door. For more information, call 292-7977. ART Photography, painting and drawing will be on display for the Visiting Artists/New Faculty Exhibition through Jan. 7. Presented simultaneously at three sites on campus through Jan. 28, Beggars and Choosers: Motherhood Is Not a Class Privilege in America features award-winning images by 43 of the nation’s most distinguished photographers, challenging viewers to examine the class, race, ethnic and gender stereotypes that inform how Americans visualize motherhood. Other presentation spaces are Bricker Hall and the Hale Black Cultural Center. The exhibition reception will be held from 4-4:45 p.m. Jan. 6 at the Hale Black Cultural Center, followed by a panel discussion 4:45-5:45 p.m. and another reception 6-7 p.m. at the Hopkins Hall Gallery and Corridor and Bricker Hall. Rickie Solinger, author of Beggars and Choosers: How the Politics of Choice Shapes Adoption, Abortion, and Welfare in the U.S., and curator of the exhibition, will present “Nine Ways of Looking at a Poor Woman” as part of the President and Provost’s Diversity Lecture series 4 p.m. Jan. 26 at the Ohio Union Stecker Lounge. A reception will follow in the Multicultural Center. Bevlyn Simson/John Cavanaugh: Department of Art 7th Biennial Alumni Exhibition will take place Jan. 18-28. Works by the recipients of the 13th annual Fergus-Gilmore Scholarship awards, a juried competition open to all studio-based undergraduate and graduate visual art and design majors, will be on display Feb. 14-25. Translating Solids: The Holographic Image will be on view Feb. 28-March 16, featuring works by nationally acclaimed holography artists and experimental works produced by students and faculty in the Art/Physics Holography Lab at Ohio State. On March 9, artist Julie Roberts will lecture at 4:30 p.m. in the Wexner Center Film/Video Theater. MUSIC Charles Atkinson will present a Lecture in Musicology, “Alia via in Aliam musicam,” at 4:30 p.m. Jan. 24 in the Sullivant Hall Music/Dance Library. This year, the School of Music will partner with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra to present its annual Contemporary Music Festival, held Jan. 26-30. This year’s theme is “A Celebration of African-American Music.” Special guests featured include conductor Daniel Hege and the Ritz Chamber Players with artistic director Terrance Patterson. The programs will include compositions by Olly Wilson, Alvin Singleton, Adolphus Hailstork and Jonathan Bailey Holland, along with OSU faculty composers Marc Ainger and Jan Radzynaki, OSU alumnus composer Robert Tanner and OSU student composer David Morneau, laureate of the 2004 Ruth Friscoe Prize in Composition. Concerts are at 8 p.m. at Weigel Auditorium, unless otherwise noted, and include OSU faculty, alumni and student composers, Jan. 26; Chamber Music of Olly Wilson, Jan. 27; Columbus Symphony Orchestra, Jan. 28-29 at Ohio Theatre (39 E. State St., 288-8600); and the Ritz Chamber Players, 3 p.m. Jan. 30. Other music festivals taking place this quarter include the High School Choral Festival, taking place 8 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Feb. 18, and the Percussion Ensemble Festival, Feb. 25-26, both at Weigel Auditorium. The men’s glee clubs of Ohio State and the University of Michigan will sing together at 8 p.m. Jan. 29 at Worthington United Methodist Church, 600 N. High St. The Faculty Recital Series, at 8 p.m. in Weigel Auditorium, will be held on Jan. 24 and 31 and Feb. 14 and 28. Guest recitals also will take place at 8 p.m. in Weigel Auditorium on Feb. 7 and 14. Concerts will take place throughout the year by many performance ensembles. All performances take place at 8 p.m. in Weigel Auditorium, unless otherwise noted. Special concerts this winter include: Symphony Orchestra, Feb. 2; Drums Downtown II, Feb. 4; Guest Recital, Feb. 7; Wind Symphony and Symphonic Band, Feb. 11; Chorale Valentine’s Day Concert with Worthington-Kilbourne High School Choirs, Feb. 13, 3 p.m.; An Evening of Art Songs and Spirituals, Feb. 16, 7:30 p.m.; Jazz Ensemble, Feb. 18; Jazz Lab Ensemble, Feb. 20, 3 p.m.; Greater Columbus Youth Percussion Ensemble, Feb. 21; Gospel and Spiritual Ensemble, Feb. 22; Mastersingers and University Chorus, March 2; University Band, March 3; Men’s and Women’s Glee Club, March 5; Concert Opera with Symphony Orchestra, March 7-8; Chorale and Symphonic Choir with Symphonic Band, March 9; and Wind Symphony Concert, March 10. All concert tickets, unless otherwise noted, are available by calling 292-2870. THEATRE Design for the American Stage: Treasures from the Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute will be on display Feb. 10-April 17 at the Riffe Center Gallery, 77 S. High St. This exhibition includes artworks created for professional productions across North America, representative of a range of theatre design. Two Planks and a Passion, by Anthony Minghella, will be performed Feb. 23-March 5 in Thurber Theatre. This play is a scathing attack on the extreme social climbing of York’s top families, the story of King Richard II and Queen Anne’s great love and a study of the painters guild as they bicker over the acting and staging of their Passion play. The world premiere performances of La Eschuela Del Mundo by Catherine Filloux will take place March 4-6 at the Mount Hall Studio Theatre. In this play, a diverse group of students takes refuge from a Columbine-like shooting spree at their international high school. One of the seven students has a hidden gun they were to use to take part in the violence. When the weapon is found, the students must confront each other and their differences to survive. For more information, call the box office at 292-2295. Wexner Center EXHIBITIONS Landscape Confection, Jan. 29-May 1, features more than 30 new and recent works that extend the boundaries of landscape art, with imagined landscapes portrayed in stitched fabric, paper, paint, silk and other materials. A panel discussion featuring Landscape Confection artists and the exhibition’s curator will take place at 6 p.m. Jan. 29 at the Belmont Building, and an opening party will follow 8 p.m.-midnight at The Vault, 35 E. Gay St. The symposium A Woman’s Work? The Revival of Traditional Textile Techniques in Contemporary Art, featuring artist Rowena Dring and Ohio State scholars Jennifer Eisenhauer and Catriona Esquibel, will take place 10 a.m.-noon Feb. 19. They Shoot Horses, also on view Jan. 29-May 1, is a two-screen, seven-hour installation by British artist Phil Collins. He filmed two separate groups of young people dancing without a break during the course of a working day in Ramallah, Palestine, in March 2004. A small selection of Collins’ color photographs also will be on view. Murals by acclaimed New York-based painter Alexis Rockman, reproductions of her paintings Manifest Destiny and Evolution, are on view at the Wexner Center’s lower lobby. MUSIC Popular rock band Wilco will present a concert at 8 p.m. Feb. 9 in Mershon Auditorium. Duluth-based trio Low returns with a fresh new sound, performing at 9 p.m. Feb. 10 on the black box on Mershon Stage. Songwriter David Bazan’s band, Pedro the Lion, also will perform. The Jack DeJohnette Latin Project brings together the master drummer and his all-star jazz band at 8 p.m. Feb. 17 in Weigel Auditorium. The Greg Osby Quartet will present original music and new treatments of jazz classics at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. April 2 on the black box on Mershon Stage. THEATRE/DANCE The young, media-savvy performance ensemble Big Art Group splits the audience’s attention with live performances paired with a multiscreen videoscape in House of No More at 8 p.m. Jan. 13-14 and 3 and 8 p.m. Jan 15 on the black box at Mershon Stage. The American Ballet Theatre will present classic and contemporary work performed to live music by the Columbus Symphony Orchestra on March 8 at the Mershon Auditorium. The program will include workwithinwork, choreographed by Wexner Prize-winner William Forsythe and Balanchine’s classic Theme and Variations. Conceptual choreographer Jérôme Bel brings his company of 20 dancers to perform the international hit The Show Must Go On March 29 in the Thurber Theatre. Emio Greco/PC explores images of alienation with Rimasto Orfano, a new work featuring five dancers, April 5 at the Thurber Theatre. FILM The Human Dutch: Films from the Netherlands is a 10-film, seven-decade survey of documentaries and fiction films that sheds light on one of Europe’s most accessible national cinemas. The series includes double features, all starting at 7 p.m.: The Spanish Earth (Joris Ivens, 1937) and Brass Unbound (Johan van der Keuken, 1993), Jan. 7; The Human Dutch (Bert Haanstra, 1963) and The Northerners (Alex van Warmerdam, 1992), Jan. 14; The Spitting Image (Fons Rademakers, 1963) and The Silent Raid (Paul Rotha, 1962), Jan. 21; Little Rascal (Douglas Sirk, 1939) and Seamen’s Wives (Henk Kleinman, 1930), Jan. 28; and A Question of Silence (Marleen Gorris, 1982) and The Fourth Man (Paul Verhoeven, 1983), Jan. 29. The Cinematheque series, featuring all French filmmaker Maurice Pialat’s works, will include double features, all starting at 7 p.m.: Loulou (1980) and A nos amours (1983) Jan. 8; Under the Sun of Satan (1987) and Graduate First (1979) Jan. 13; Van Gogh (1991) and Naked Childhood (1968) Jan. 15; Police (1985) and The Mouth Agape (1974) Jan. 20; and We Will Not Grow Old Together (1972) and Le Garçu (1995) Jan. 22. As part of a New York Times promotion designed to support the arts, the Global Film Initiative is sponsoring international film screenings at participating venues across the country on the weekend of Jan. 7-9. The Wexner Center is screening Ticket to Jerusalem (Rashid Masharawi, 2002), 2 p.m., Jan. 9. This Palestinian film is about a projectionist’s perseverance in trying to organize a screening in Jerusalem’s old city. The Experimental Films series will feature the films of Morgan Fisher at 7 p.m. Jan. 27 and the films of Gordon Matta-Clark in two programs, Fresh Kills at 7 p.m. Feb. 10 and City Slivers at 7 p.m. Feb. 17. The Cinema Tropical series introduces U.S. audiences to many of Latin America’s new voices and movements. Films screen the first Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m., and include Mercano the Martian (Juan Antin, 2002), Feb. 1. The Contemporary Screen series features will begin at 7 p.m. and include Tarnation (Jonathan Caouette, 2004), Feb. 3-5, with an introduction by the director; Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang, 2003), Feb. 11-12; Proteus (David Lebrun, 2004), Feb. 24; and Notre Musique (Jean-Luc Godard, 2004), Feb. 25-26. The 12th annual Melton Center Matinee series, New Israeli Documentaries, explores aspects of contemporary Jewish life and history. Screenings are followed by informal discussion with scholars from the Ohio State community. Features begin at 7 p.m. and include Raging Dove (Duki Dror, 2001), Feb. 6; Channels of Rage (Anat Halachmi, 2003), Feb. 13; and Love Inventory (David Fisher, 2001), Feb. 20. The Culture Shock series will include Overnight (Mark Brian Smith and Tony Montana, 2003), 8:45 p.m. Feb. 11-12; and Raspberry Reich (Bruce LaBruce, 2004), preceded by Guy Maddin’s Sissy Boy Slap Party, 8:45 p.m. Feb. 25-26 (no one under 18 permitted). This year’s Valentine’s Day Classic will be Summertime (David Lean, 1955), 7 p.m. Feb. 14. Katharine Hepburn plays an American spinster from Akron looking for love while vacationing in Venice. Her prayers appear to be answered as she is swept off her feet by a handsome Italian (Rossano Brazzi). The visiting filmmaker series features young Iranian filmmaker Babak Payami. The series includes Secret Ballot (2001), 7 p.m. and One More Day (2000), 9 p.m. Feb. 18; The Silence Between Two Thoughts (2003), 7 p.m. Feb. 19; and The Lost Cinema (Jamsheed Akrami, 2005), 4 p.m. Feb. 19. Jamsheed Akrami, a regular visitor to the Wexner Center, will moderate a discussion with Payami on Feb. 19. Schottenstein Center High school basketball’s Ohio Scholastic Play-by-Play Classic is at 1:30 p.m. Jan. 15. The schedule includes the following games: Greenfield McClain vs. Wellston, Chaminade-Julienne vs. Springfield South, Van Wert vs. Delphos St. John’s, Canton McKinley vs. Lancaster and Westerville North vs. Gahanna Lincoln. Country music duo Montgomery Gentry joins Grand Ole Opry member Trace Adkins in concert at 8 p.m. Feb. 4. Christian rock group MercyMe will bring the Undone Tour to Columbus, with special guests Jeremy Camp, The Afters and Monk & Neagle at 7 p.m. Feb. 16. Yanni and his orchestra of world-class musicians from 15 countries will bring his 24-city 2004-05 Yanni Live Tour to Columbus 8 p.m. Feb. 18. Yanni’s music has earned him accolades from around the world. Monster Truck Nationals will be held at 7 p.m. on Feb. 19. Monster trucks weigh an average of 10,000 pounds, are designed to jump a distance of nearly 115 feet and up to 25 feet in the air and are capable of speeds up to 100 miles per hour. Trucks scheduled to appear include Bigfoot, Raminator, Ramunition, Nitemare and Big Dawg. The Schottenstein Center will host the OHSAA Wrestling Tournament Feb. 24-26, the Girls Basketball Tournament, March 10-12, and the Boys Basketball Tournament, March 17-19. After a long hiatus, Motley Crue has reunited for the Better LIVE Than Dead Tour, stopping in Columbus 7:30 p.m. March 8. As one of the first and most influential heavy metal bands of the ‘80s, Motley Crue has a gritty reputation arguably equaled only by Guns N’ Roses. Larry the Cable Guy, direct from the Blue Collar Comedy Tour and the hit TV show Blue Collar TV, will appear at 7:30 p.m. March 20. Musical legend Tom Jones will be in concert in Columbus on April 1.
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