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1-12-2006 Arts Preview Winter 2006COLLEGE OF THE ARTS DANCE The American College Dance Festival will be at 8 p.m. March 18-21 in Sullivant and Thurber theatres. ART Visiting Artist/New Faculty Exhibition will feature work of the Department of Art Foundation Program visiting lecturers through Jan. 13. Works by graduate students in painting/drawing, ceramics, art and technology, sculpture, printmaking, photography and glass will be featured in the Department of Art Graduate Student Group Exhibition Jan. 17-27. A Week at the Movies will be held Jan. 30-Feb. 3. The week of non-stop film will include classics, independents, local, video, 16 mm and curated selections from OSU's Film Studies Collection. (No opening reception.) Works by College of the Arts emeritus faculty from across the country will be featured in Past Perfect Feb. 6-24. The celebratory exhibition includes works by David Black, Sid Chafetz, Gene Friley, E.F. Hebner, Bob Shay, Susan Dallas-Swann, Larry Shineman, John Wynne, Robert Arnold, Clara Creager, Philip von Raabe, Charles Wallschlaeger and Joe Koncelik. The College of the Arts will present selected works by the recipients of the 14th Annual Fergus Scholarship Awards Competition, a juried competition open to all studio-based undergraduate and graduate visual art and design majors, Feb. 27-March 10. Echo Chimeric Ð Art and Tech show will be on view from 5-7 p.m. in Haskett Hall gallery and soundstage and video screenings will be from 7-9 p.m. in room 211 on March 9. The Art and Technology winter quarter student exhibition will feature digital prints, animations, 3D computer sculptures, holograms, videos, interactive installations and Internet artworks and video screenings. THEATRE A collaborative new work, Hidden Voices, will be performed Feb. 9-12 and 16-19 in Roy Bowen Theatre. OSU Theatre's master of fine arts acting class created this collaborative work with community partners to share stories and experiences. Directed by Beth Kattelman, The Government Inspector will be performed Feb. 23-26 and March 2-4 in Thurber Theatre. The Government Inspector is a comedy of mistaken identity and small-town council corruption. Escuela del Mundo will be presented March 3-5 in Mount Hall Studio Theatre. Directed by Kimberly Dachel, the play tells the story of seven students from all over the world who take refuge from a Columbine-like shooting spree at their international high school. MUSIC Bassoon Day at OSU, an annual event with guest artists, exhibitors, master classes and clinics for students and teachers, will be held Jan. 7 in Hughes Hall. Call 292-4619 for details. The Guest Recital Series continues with several events this quarter. Arthur Weisberg will be the first woodwind master of the quarter Jan. 5-7. Flautist Lior Eitan and pianist Monica Fallon will perform at 8 p.m. Jan. 18 in Weigel Auditorium. On Feb. 20, pianist Thomas Jaber and mezzo-soprano Andrea Jaber will perform in Weigel Auditorium. Several faculty concerts will take place this quarter in Weigel Auditorium. The Faculty Recital Series presents William Conable, cello, and Ed Bak, piano, Jan. 23. James Hill, saxophone, will perform Jan. 30. On Feb. 6, violinist Kia-Hui Tan will perform. Cosmos will take place Feb. 13 featuring Katherine Borst Jones, flute; Jeanne Norton, harp; and Mary Harris, viola. A Faculty Recital Series: Chamber Recital will be presented Feb. 27, featuring Kia-Hui Tan, violin; Catherine Carroll, viola; William Conable, cello; and Caroline Hong, piano. A Mozart Marathon will be held from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Jan. 27 at various times and sites around campus in celebration of Mozart's 250th birthday. An opera, The Coronation of Poppea, will take place Feb. 3-5 in Thurber Theatre. Monteverdi's masterpiece will be directed by Karen Coe Miller and conducted by Lyle Nordstrom. The OSU Percussion Ensemble will perform in the Riffe Center's Capitol Theatre, 77 S. High St., for a Feb. 24-25 Drums Downtown concert. The ensemble will present works for percussion and dance, featuring students in the dance department. For tickets, call CAPA at 469-0939 or Ticketmaster at 431-3600. A free Composers Workshop will be held at 8 p.m. Feb. 26 in Weigel Auditorium. WEXNER CENTER Exhibitions A large-scale wall painting by Los Angeles-based artist Monique van Genderen, Within the same breath É, will enliven the Wexner Center's lower lobby and cafŽ area through Feb. 28. The buoyantly colorful abstraction is crafted from carefully cut swaths of translucent vinyl adhesive film, a material commonly used in commercial signage. Film/Video The Box will feature the latest video by Cleveland-based photographer and filmmaker Bruce Checefsky, IN NI (Others), through Jan. 31. Based on an unmade 1958 script by Polish artist and experimental filmmaker Andrzej Pawlowski, the work continues Checefsky's recent interest in forgotten films and unmade screenplays from the rich history of the Polish avant-garde. The International Screen series presents La Sierra, a 2005 film directed by Scott Dalton and Margarita Martinez, Jan. 10. The film follows a year in the life of a neighborhood in Medellin, Colombia, ruled by a paramilitary gang. The International Screen series continues with The Syrian Bride (2004) Jan. 17. The Syrian Bride is set in occupied Golan Heights as it follows Mona (Clara Khoury), an Arab woman of the Druze religion about to be married to a Syrian on the other side of the Israeli-Syrian border, forcing her to leave her family behind. Also forthcoming in the series are Days of Santiago (2004) on Feb. 7 and El Carro (The Car) (2004) on March 7. The series Cinematheque: The Films of Mikio Naruse will take place in January. Naruse (1905-69) is acknowledged as the fourth master of Japanese cinema's golden age and is admired The series includes Floating Clouds and Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1935), Jan. 19; Late Chrysanthemums (1954) and When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960), Jan. 14; Flowing (1956) and Sound of the Mountain (1954), Jan. 19; Scattered Clouds (1967) and The Whole Family Works (1939), Jan. 26; and Repast (1951) and Mother (1952), Jan. 28. In March, the Cinematheque series continues with films starring French actress Isabelle Huppert. Films include Every Man for Himself (1980) and La separation (1994), March 2; Entre In January, the Wexner Center's first Retrospective series to focus on a producer spotlights the work of Christine Vachon and Killer Films, the New York-based production company she formed with Pamela Koffler in 1995. Films include Far from Heaven (2002) and Poison (1991), Jan. 13; The Notorious Betty Page (2005), Jan. 20; Boys Don't Cry (1999) and Series 7: The Contenders (2001), Jan. 21; Go Fish (1994) and Office Killer (1997), 2 p.m. Jan. 22; and Swoon (1992) and Postcards from America (1994), Jan. 27. The New Documentary series samples contemporary nonfiction films this winter, including Zizek (2005), 7 and 8:20 p.m. Jan. 24; Darwin's Nightmare (2004), Feb. 11; William Eggleston in the Real World (2005), Feb. 18; and Ballets Russes (2005), Feb. 23-25. The Film/Video Theater will hold a members-only screening of Bubble (2005), the latest film by director Steven Soderbergh, at 7 p.m. Feb. 1. After such efforts as Ocean's Eleven and Out of Sight, Bubble marks Soderbergh's return to his independent filmmaking roots. Shot primarily in the small town of Belpre, Ohio, and featuring a non-professional cast, the film examines the tragic events that follow the arrival of an attractive young woman at a local doll factory. The Visiting Filmmaker series will present the work of South Korean filmmaker Hong Sang-soo throughout February. Hong's films portray unflinching and complex studies of contemporary relationships. The series includes Turning Gate (2002), Feb. 2; The Power of Kangwon Province (1998) and The Day a Pig Fell into the Well (1996), Feb. 9; Woman Is the Future of Man (2004) and Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (2000), Feb. 16; and Tale of Cinema (2005), which will be introduced by Sang-soo Feb. 24. A Valentine's Day special, Two for the Road (1967), will be presented Feb. 14. The Gender Chip Project (2005), a documentary by Helen De Michiel about five Ohio State women, will screen at Performances South African choreographer Boyzie Cekwana, with his company The Floating Outfit Project, fuses traditional African forms with contemporary methods Jan. 21-22. The program for this U.S. debut tour features Ja'nee, a powerful work for eight dancers that is a meditation on the harsh realities of postapartheid Africa; and the evocative duet Rona ("Us" in Sotho), which retraces African spiritual roots. Recommended for mature audiences. French-Austrian theater ensemble Supermamas will make their Columbus debut Jan. 26-29 in the Performance Space. Superamas's multimedia "neoÐpop art" theater rips into the mechanisms of mass culture's superficial obsessions with sly send-ups and oblique strategies. The Performance Space will host the half-stage show and half-film, Kommer, by the innovative Dutch theater ensemble Kassys, Feb. 1-4. In a series of episodes, Kommer explores how we all cope with loss with well-meaning, but ultimately awkward, attempts to connect with and comfort each other. At 9 p.m. Feb. 7, the Performance Space will host The Juan Maclean in a standing-only event. Maclean synthesized bits of Devo, Eno and Kraftwerk, then injected his own take into electro dance beats designed for today. Jazz sax sensation Miguel Zen—n will perform Feb. 11 in the black box on Mershon stage. His hard-bop approach to soulful Puerto Rican melodies places him at the forefront of the new Latin jazz scene. The Vijay Iyer Quartet will perform Feb. 22 in the black box on Mershon stage. Iyer, a rising jazz piano star, is a progressive player with a strong rhythmic drive. He is also a forward-thinking composer inspired by globe-spanning influences who has worked with jazz compatriots such as Steve Coleman and Greg Tate's Burnt Sugar. Mershon Auditorium will host Japanese dance theater ensemble Pappa Tarahumara for Ship in a View, Feb. 25. The artistic collective is led by Hiroshi Koike, who skillfully integrates dance, singing and acting skills in his troupe. Obie Award-winning theater ensemble da da kamera returns in February for a three-week residency culminating with the premiere of A Beautiful View March 1-5 in the Performance Space. The vanguard Toronto-based company presents a creative look at a modern love story as its last production. The idiosyncratic and mainly instrumental music of Massachusetts band The Books returns March 6 to the black box on Mershon stage in a standing-only event. Joel Thibodeau will lead the opening band, Death Vessel.
WInter Jam 2006 comes to the arena Feb. 3. The jam will feature the Newsboys, Toby Mac, NewSong, ZOEgirl, Hawk Nelson and Krystal Meyers and speaker David Nasser and the Sphere of Fear motorcycle stunt show. Entrance is $10 at the door. The award-winning Smuckers Stars on Ice glides into the arena March 19 for its 20th-anniversary production A Show É about The Show. The show features many champion skaters including Jamie SalŽ, David Pelletier, Elena Berezhnaya, Anton Sikharulidze, Todd Eldredge and Alexei Yagudin. Country singer Gretchen Wilson performs March 31 in the arena. Monster trucks return on April 1 for the Monster Truck Nationals. Generating 1,500-2,000 horsepower, monster trucks are capable of speeds up to 100 miles per hour and are designed to jump distances up to 115 feet and up to 25 feet in the air.
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