Vol. 38, No. 18

3-17-2004
By: Susan Wittstock

Arts Preview Spring '04

COLLEGE OF THE ARTS

Visit www.arts.ohio-state.edu/ for details about events listed below and check the “Calendar” section of onCampus throughout the year for event listings.

DANCE
For more information on dance events, call 292-7977.

Marlon Barrios will be the featured performer for a Graduate Dance Performance April 15-17 in the ACCAD building, 1224 Kinnear Road. The performance time is TBA. Shawn Hove and Emily Daughtridge’s Graduate Dance Performance also will be held April 15-17 at 8 p.m. in Sullivant Theatre. Tickets are available at the door.

The Tiffany Mills Company, a modern dance company founded by OSU alumna Mills, will travel from New York to Columbus for a Wexner-sponsored performance at 8 p.m. May 6-8 in Sullivant Theatre. Call 292-3535 for tickets.

A Senior Honors Concert will be held at 8 p.m. May 27-29 in Sullivant Theatre. Tickets are available at the door.

MUSIC
Unless otherwise noted, tickets for music performances are available at the door or by calling 292-2870.

The OSU Jazz Festival will take place April 1-3 on the Columbus campus. Concerts will be held at 8 p.m. April 1-3 in Weigel Auditorium and daytime performances by high school jazz bands will take place from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. April 4 in Hughes and Weigel halls.

Bassoonists from the Cleveland Orchestra, the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, Ohio State and elsewhere will perform in the Cleveland Columbus Bassoon Monsoon at 8 p.m. April 5 in Weigel Auditorium.

Krassimira Jordan, piano, artist in residence at Baylor University, will perform an evening of chamber works for a Guest Recital at 8 p.m. April 7 in Weigel Auditorium.

The Twenty-First Annual Flute Festival will feature guest artist Jonathan Snowden. The event, which will feature several concerts, classes and exhibits, will be held from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. April 17 in Weigel Auditorium. Contact 292-4618 or jones.6@osu.edu for more information.

The Shiraz Trio, featuring Scott Herring, Joseph Krygier and Susan Powell, will perform a Guest Recital at 3 p.m. April 18 in Weigel Auditorium. At 8 p.m. on April 19 in Weigel Auditorium, Michael Davis, violin, will perform with Nelson Harper, piano.

The School of Music and the Department of Theatre are presenting a joint production of Candide, by Leonard Bernstein and Richard Wilbur, April 23-May 2 in Thurber Theatre. The production is based on the classic 18th-century satire by Voltaire. For tickets, call 292-2295.

This quarter’s Lectures in Musicology series begins April 26 when Gregory Halbe, Ohio State, speaks on “Folk Poetry, Ritual and Music in a Scene From Snegurochka.” Other lectures, which are all held at 4:30 p.m. in Sullivant Hall Music/Dance Library, include Michel Cardin, Université de Moncton, May 3; Ludmilla Leibman, Boston University, May 10; and Andrew Kirkman, Rutgers University, May 17.

An 8 p.m. concert May 12 in Weigel Auditorium will feature Mark Clinton and Nicole Narboni on piano and Joseph Krygier and Susan Powell on percussion.

A number of concerts will take place at Browning Amphitheatre at Mirror Lake, weather permitting. (Rain location is Weigel Auditorium.) The Jazz Lab Ensemble will perform at 6:30 p.m. May 13, the Jazz Combos will perform at 6:30 p.m. May 20, and the Jazz Ensemble at 6:30 p.m. May 27. A Pops Percussion Concert featuring an OSU ragtime band and steel drum ensemble will be presented at 7 p.m. June 1 and a Band Concert will take place at 7 p.m. June 2.

Concerts will occur throughout the quarter by many performance ensembles. All performances take place at 8 p.m. in Weigel Auditorium, unless otherwise noted. Performances include: Gospel and Spiritual Ensemble with Denison Choir, April 25 (6 p.m.); Trumpet Ensemble and Tuba-Euphonium Ensemble, April 26 (7 p.m.); Symphony Orchestra, April 28; Wind Symphony, April 29; Chorale Concert, May 7 (call 292-4622); Symphonic Choir and Women’s Glee Club, May 11 (call 292-9926); Greater Columbus Youth Percussion Ensemble, May 16 (4 p.m.); University Band Concert, May 18; Gospel and Spiritual Ensemble, May 19; Symphonic Band, May 21; Men’s Glee Club, May 22 (call 292-4622); Choral Collage, May 23 (3 p.m., call 292-9926); Percussion Ensemble, May 25; Mastersingers and University Chorus, May 26; Wind Symphony, June 3; and Symphony Orchestra Concerto, June 4.

THEATRE
For tickets to theatre productions, unless otherwise noted, call 292-2295.

The Department of Theatre commissioned Identity, which will be performed at 3:30 p.m. April 15 and 8 p.m. April 17 in Roy Bowen Theatre. Iraqi puppeteer Louay Assaf conceived of the show, which uses traditional Arab shadow puppets and European rod puppets, and will present it with Ohio State students. In a related event, a 1:30-6 p.m. symposium April 16 in the Wexner Center Film/Video Theater will include a screening of an Israeli/Palestinian collaborative documentary and a round-table discussion about interventionist theater.

Walid Ra’ad and the Atlas Group will present The Loudest Muttering is Over: Documents from The Atlas Group Archive at 7 p.m. April 15 in the Wexner Center’s Film/Video Theater. Using the format of a multimedia lecture presenting the findings of the Atlas Group as an imaginary, nonprofit research foundation, Ra’ad will explore Lebanon’s contemporary history.

The Department of Theatre, in partnership with the School of Music, will present Candide April 23-May 2 in the Thurber Theatre.
Tony Award-nominated costume designer and Ohio State alumna Toni-Leslie James will be the featured speaker for the Annual Lawrence and Lee Theatre Research Institute Lecture on April 29. (Time and location to be announced.)

The Fate of a Cockroach, by Tewfik al Hakim, will be presented May 12-28 in Roy Bowen Theatre. Directed by Naila Al-Atrash, a prominent Arab woman director, the play is a comic and dark political allegory.

ART
For more information on Department of Art events, call 292-5072.

The Department of Art Visiting Lecturers Exhibition will be on view March 29-April 2 in the Hopkins Hall Gallery and Corridor. A reception and artists’ introduction will take place at 5 p.m. March 29.

The Undergraduate Juried Exhibition 2004, featuring work selected by arts professionals, will be on view April 5-23 in the Hopkins Hall Gallery and Corridor. An opening reception will be held at 5 p.m. April 5.

Hayden B.J. Maginnis, McMater University, will present, “Rome: The Missing Maps” for the History of Art Franklin M. Ludden Lecture at4:30 p.m. April 13 in the Wexner Center Film/Video Theater.

RISD and OSU Exchange Exhibition will feature works from the Rhode Island School of Design and Ohio State’s ceramics programs in Hopkins Hall Gallery April 26-30. An opening reception will be at 5 p.m. April 26.

Several MFA thesis exhibitions will be shown this quarter in Hopkins Hall Gallery. Most receptions take place at 5 p.m. on the exhibit’s opening day. Katherine Grandey, ceramics, and Seamus Liam O’Brien, printmaking, will exhibit Happiness May 3-13 (Opening reception is May 7). Photography student John Knick’s memory abstraction exhibition, My Mother Died in Winter, will be on view May 17-21. Paintings and drawings by Melissa Smith, will be on view May 24-28. David Foster, art and technology student, will have an MFA exhibition June 1-4.

The Department of Art Foundation Show will feature work selected from the foundation programs on all campuses. The exhibition will appear May 3-June 4 in the Hopkins Hall Corridor.

The Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD) will host an open house from 3-6 p.m. May 7 at 1124 Kinnear Road. For information, call 292-1053.

WEXNER CENTER

For event tickets, call 292-3535. For updated schedules of events, visit www.wexarts.org or see the “Calendar” section of every issue of onCampus.

PERFORMANCES
Electronica innovator Tom Jenkinson, otherwise known as Squarepusher, is including the Wexner Center in his U.S. tour promoting his latest release, Ultravisitor. See the show at 9 p.m. April 7 in the Performance Space.

Belgium theater group Victoria will perform uBung (Practice) at 8 p.m. April 7-10 in a black box show on Mershon Stage.

An 11-piece Massachusetts based collective of musical outsiders, Sunburned Hand of the Man, will perform a black box show at 9 p.m. April 16 on Mershon Stage. The group has an eclectic sound with roots in American, kraut rock, psychedelic and free jazz.

Returning for their fifth creative residency, the SITI Company will finalize their production of Death and the Ploughman for performances in the Performance Space April 21-25. The production is based on Michael West’s translation of Johannes von Saaz’s text detailing a man’s journey through the labyrinth of his soul.

Digital music innovator Scott Herren — a.k.a. Prefuse 73 — will perform as Savath & Savalas at 9 p.m. April 21 in a black box show on Mershon Stage. Argentine singer Juana Molina, who creates original moodscapes, also will perform.

The Wynton Marsalis Quartet will perform in Weigel Auditorium at 7 and 9 p.m. April 22. Marsalis recently signed with jazz label Blue Note Records and is touring to support his new release, The Magic Hour.

BalletMet’s annual partnership with the Wexner takes the form of Evolution in the Capitol Theatre at the Riffe Center April 29-May 2. Call 229-4840 for tickets.

Described as creating “slightly sinister music,” the group Clinic will perform at 9 p.m. May 12 in the Performance Space. The Performance Space also will be the site for a record release at 9 p.m. May 18 when Columbus native turntablist Rjd2 returns to launch his release Since We Last Spoke, a sophisticated indie hip hop recording. Acid Mothers Temple with SubArachnoid Space, Japan’s finest set guitars, will present a concert at 9 p.m. May 25 in the Performance Space.

Jazz saxophonist Chris Potter brings his quartet to the Performance Space at 7:30 p.m. June 2.

EXHIBITIONS
The Wexner Center’s exhibition, Splat Boom Pow! The Influence of Cartoons in Contemporary Art, will continue to be on view at the Belmont Building, 330 W. Spring St., through May 2. Admission and parking are free and hours are 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesday-Wednesday, 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Thursday-Friday, and noon-6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. The exhibition examines how three generations of contemporary visual artists have used the images and techniques of cartoons to explore the challenging issues of their times.

Tea and Coffee Towers, which features tea and coffee sets designed by 20 of the world’s leading architects, also will be on view at the Belmont Building through May 2.

More than 100 photographs will be displayed in Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940-2001 at the Belmont Building May 22-Aug. 15. The exhibition will highlight the diversity of photographic visions emerging from America in the latter half of the 20th century.

FILM/VIDEO
All films are screened at 7 p.m. in the Wexner Center’s Film/Video Theater unless otherwise noted.

Films from the Global Lens touring program, dedicated to outstanding filmmaking achievements in developing countries, will be screened in April. The New Yorkbased Global Film Initiative, which organized the series, promotes cross-cultural dialogue by connecting audiences with films from around the world that they might not otherwise be able to see. Angel on the Right (Djamshed Usmonov, 2002; Tajikistan) and Women’s Prison (Manijeh Hekman, 2002; Iran), April 8; Khorma (Jilani Saadi, 2002; Tunisia) and Rachida (Yamina Bachir-Chouikh, 2002; Algeria), April 14; Nothing (Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti, 2001; Cuba) and Mango Yello (Cláudio Assis, 2002; Brazil), April 22; Ticket to Jerusalem (Rashid Masharawi, 2002; Palestine), 4 p.m. April 29; and Shadow Kill (Adoor Gopalakrishnan, 2002; India) and Wretched Lives (Joel Lamangan, 2001; Philippines), April 29.

The International Films series this quarter will feature Iceland’s The Seagull’s Laughter (Ágúst Gudmundsson, 2002), March 19-20; Tiawan’s Millennium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2001), April 23-24; China’s Blind Shaft (Li Yang, 2003), May 14-15; Iran’s Crimson Gold (Jafar Panahi, 2003), 7 and 9 p.m. May 21-22; and Turkey’s Uzak (Distant) (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2003), June 18-19.
The traveling film series, Cinema India! The Changing Face of Indian Cinema, will come to the Wexner in May. The series highlights popular and art-house Indian films that do not conform to the Bollywood model.

Kandukondian, Kandukondian (I Have Found It) (Rajiv Menon, 2000), May 6; Bariwali (The Lady of the House) (Rituparno Ghosh, 1999), May 7; The Speaking Hand: Zakir Hussain and the Art of the Indian Drum (Sumantra Ghosal, 2003), May 13; Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge (The Braveheart will Take the Bride) (Aditya Chopra, 1995), May 20; Waisa Bhi Hota Hai (Anything Can Happen) (Shashanka Ghosh, 2003), May 26; and Maqbool (Vishal Bharadwaj, 2003), May 27.

The Classics series this quarter will feature Picadilly (E.A. Dupont, 1929), June 11-12; and Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966), at7 p.m., and Touchez Pas au grisbi (Jacques Becker, 1954), at8:45 p.m. June 25-26.
New documentary films to be screened include Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Andersen, 2003), April 9-10; How to Draw a Bunny (John W. Walter, 2002), April 16-17; From the Other Side (Chantal Ackerman, 2002), May 1; South (Chantal Ackerman, 1999), 9 p.m. May 1; and Tibet: City of the Snow Lion (Tom Peosay, 2003), 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. June 4-5.

The Wexner has compiled a program, Rare Films from the Baseball Hall of Fame, which will show historical clips and footage from the Hall of Fame’s vaults. The film will be shown April 2-3.

New work by Ohio filmmakers and media artists will be screened for the annual Ohio Short Film/Video Showcase on May 8. The Youth Division will be screened at 3:30 p.m., a public reception will take place from 5:30-7 p.m., and the evening program begins at 7 p.m.

The Wexner will again play host to visiting filmmakers this quarter. Canadian Guy Maddin will be on hand at 6 p.m. to sign books, and will introduce the 7 p.m. screening March 27 of Cowards Bend the Knee (2003). The film also will show March 26, with The Phantom Museum (The Brothers Quay, 2002). Lebanon native Walid Ra’ad will introduce his multi-media work, The Loudest Muttering Is Over: Documents from The Atlas Group Archive, on April 15. Nathaniel Kahn, son of architect Louis I. Kahn, will introduce his documentary, My Architect (2003) at 2 p.m. April 18. A second screening, which Kahn may introduce, will take place at 6 p.m.

The Culture Shock series includes the animated Japanese feature Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space (t.o.L, 2002) at 9 p.m. March 19-20. Sergio Leone’s Duck, You Sucker (1972) will be screened at 9:15 p.m. April 2 and James Marsh’s Wisconsin Death Trip (1999) will be shown at 8:45 p.m. April 16.
A Secret Cinema will be screened on April 30. The selection will be kept a secret until show time.

In July and August, a new series, Rock Docs, will feature recent and classic “rockumentaries” on such bands as the MC5, Wilco, Radiohead and the Who.

SCHOTTENSTEIN CENTER

Tickets for all shows at the Value City Arena at the Jerome Schottenstein Center are available at the center’s box office and Kroger Ticketmaster outlets. Charge at 431-3600, (800) GO BUCKS or online at www.ticketmaster.com. To get advance notice about events and to receive discounts, sign up for the free Schottenstein Insider at www.schottensteincenter.com.

The Ohio High School Athletic Association Tournaments will be held at the arena this month. Girls Basketball will compete March 18-20 and Boys Basketball will compete March 25-27. For passes, call 292-2624.

Olympic Champion Oksana Baiul and World Champion Kurt Browning will headline the Smucker’s Stars on Ice performance at 6 p.m. March 28. Also featured will be Alexei Yagudin, Jamie Sale and David Pelletier, Todd Eldredge, Yuka Sato, and Jenni Meno and Todd Sand. (Faculty and staff receive $5 discount if tickets are purchased in person at the Schottenstein Center Ticket Office.)

The last chance to hear Prince’s hits in concert will be at 8 p.m. April 16 when he performs live and in-the-round for his Musicology Tour.

PetFest America featuring SuperDogs comes to the Schottenstein Center at 1 and 4:30 p.m. April 17. The event features all breeds of SuperDogs performing and will include an information fair and display of local dogs and cats from shelters. (Faculty and staff receive $5 discount if tickets are purchased in person at the Schottenstein Center Ticket Office.)

Bluegrass is the theme for the Great High Mountain Tour when it stops in Columbus on May 6. Alison Krauss with Union Station, Ralph Stanley, Jerry Douglas, Norman and Nancy Blake and the Nashville Bluegrass Band are among the performers who are traveling with the show.

Clifford the Big Red Dog Live!, a family musical based on the adventures of Clifford the Big Red Dog, will be presented May 13-16. (Faculty and staff can obtain opening night tickets for $15 if tickets are purchased in person at the Schottenstein Center Ticket Office.)

Shania Twain will perform an in-the-round concert when she brings her Up! Tour to the arena at 7:30 p.m. May 21. Jimmy Buffett and The Coral Reefer Band bring their act to town at 8 p.m. May 22. Look for Metallica’s Madly in Anger with the World Tour at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 24.

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