Winter Arts Preview

College of the Arts

A series of readings of new plays, a dance performance choreographed by an Ohio State faculty member who is also an alumna, and a music festival featuring a renowned composer are just a small sample of the many events in store this quarter from the creative minds at the College of the Arts.

The School of Music and departments of art, dance and theatre all have a wide variety of events and performances planned to share with the University community.

All events are subject to change. Contact the department listed to confirm information before attending.

Faits divers, by Michel Daigneault, will show in the Hopkins Hall Gallery through Jan. 18.     Photos courtesy of the College of the Arts

DANCE

The Department of Dance's first concert of the winter quarter will take place in Studio B at the BalletMet Dance Academy, 322 Mt. Vernon Ave. Jessica Wilt will present three dance graduate performances on Jan. 11 and 12. The performance is free, but reservations should be made at mshotfeet@hotmail.com or by calling 260-2922.

A winter student performance, featuring undergraduate and graduate dance students, will be held Feb. 7-9 in Sullivant Theatre. Tickets are available at the door.

Acclaimed choreographer and Ohio State faculty member Bebe Miller will present Verge Feb. 14-16 in Sullivant Theatre. Verge premiered last year in New York City and recently won three Bessie Awards. The event is co-presented by the Wexner Center and the Department of Dance. Tickets are available by calling 292-3535, or by cash only at the door.

A graduate performance by Leslie Seiters and Jenny Pommiss will take place in 220 Haskett Hall on March 7-9. Tickets are available at the door.

ART

Premonition, by Beth Cavener Stitcher, is on display Jan. 22-Feb. 7 in Hopkins Hall Gallery.

The OSU Visiting Artist/New Faculty Exhibition is being shown through Jan. 18 in Hopkins Hall Gallery & Corridor. The exhibition is in conjunction with the Department of Art's visiting artist program, and includes work by Philadelphian George Johnson, ceramics, and Quebecois Michel Daigneault, painting and drawing. Works by Department of Art Foundation Program visiting lecturers are on view in the corridor.

The gallery and corridor will be the site of the Graduate Student Group Exhibition Jan. 22-Feb. 7. An opening reception will be held from 5-7 p.m. on Jan. 25. The exhibit will feature work by Department of Art students in art and technology, ceramics, glass, painting and drawing, photography, printmaking and sculpture programs.

The Department of Design will present an exhibition showcasing the design process from inspiration to resolution within its three major disciplines: industrial, interior space and visual communication. Design: Ideation to Realization will show in the gallery and corridor Feb. 11-28. A reception will be held from 5-7 p.m. Feb 12.

March 4-15, the College of the Arts will present the works of recipients of the 11th annual Edith Fergus-Gilmore Scholarship awards, a juried competition open to all studio-based undergraduate and graduate visual art and design majors. An opening reception and awards presentation will take place from 5-7 p.m. March 4 in the gallery and corridor.

Call 292-5072 for more information on exhibits.

On Jan. 26, the Department of Theatre will present a public performance of Jason Kravits' Sobering Thoughts, a school touring production about substance abuse, in Mount Hall Studio Theatre.

A trilogy of one-woman plays, Mercury Seven with Signs Following, co-conceived by Sue Ott Rowlands, associate professor of theatre, and playwright Mark Evans Bryan, will be presented for free in the Drake Performance and Event Center's New Works Lab on Jan. 29. The play will be performed in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Lawrence and Lee Theatre Research Institute. Readings also will be presented March 12, April 16 and May 12.

Division Street, an off-center comedy that looks at a diverse group of neighbors living in 1980 Chicago, will be presented Feb. 13-March 2 in Roy Bowen Theatre. Playwright Steve Tesich based the play on his own experiences -- he was born in Yugoslavia and immigrated with his family to Chicago when he was 14.

The Shoemaker's Holiday, performed Feb. 27-March 9 in Thurber Theatre, will offer audiences a glimpse into Elizabethan-era London. Thomas Dekker's play was first performed at the Rose Theatre in 1599, and is celebrated for paving the way for the evolution of English citizen comedy.

Two final-year MFA students will present original new works for their degrees on March 5-9 in Mount Hall Studio Theatre. The plays are The Bridge of Bodies, written and performed by Kathleen Gonzales, and She, written and performed by Allyson Rosen.

A staged reading of a new play, Time and the Beast, by Marina Shron, Thurber playwright-in-residence, will take place on March 12 in The Drake's New Works Lab. Inspired by the Book of Jacob, this production follows the journeys of Jacob and sisters Leah and Rachel through time, encompassing historical events such as war and the Holocaust, ending up in present-day New York.

For ticket information for theatre events, call 292-2295.

The School of Music is teaming with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra to bring renowned Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki to Columbus for the Contemporary Music Festival 2002. A series of concerts with Ohio State ensembles and the CSO will be held through Jan. 13. For more information, call 292-2300.

A variety of concerts will take place throughout the quarter, including: Flutists Kyril and Susan Magg and pianist Phillip Farris, Jan. 23; Chamber Orchestra, Jan. 28; Pianist Steven Michael Glaser, Jan. 29; Flute Troupe, Jan. 31; Michael Davis & Friends, Feb. 4; Symphony Orchestra, Feb. 6; Jazz Lab Ensemble, Feb. 10 (3 p.m.); Wind Symphony, Feb. 12; Symphonic Choir/Chorale Concert, Feb. 13; Jazz Ensemble, Feb. 14; Symphonic Band, Feb. 15; Men's and Women's Glee Clubs, Feb. 16; Music for Two Harps and Voice, Feb. 25; Gospel and Spiritual Ensemble Concert, Feb. 26; Pendulum Percussion Duo, Feb. 28; Men's Glee Club, March 1; University Chorus/Master Singers, March 3 (3 p.m.); Symphony Orchestra, Symphonic Choir, Chorale, March 5; University Band, March 7; Symphonic Winds & Chamber Winds, March 8; Percussion Ensemble, March 11; and Wind Symphony & Repertory Band, March 12.

Unless otherwise noted, all concerts take place at 8 p.m. in Weigel Auditorium. For ticket information, call 292-2300.

La Tragedie de Carmen will be performed Feb. 1-3 in Thurber Theatre.

The Opera program will present La Tragedie de Carmen Feb. 1-3 in Thurber Theatre. Bizet's grand opera is stripped to its core for this Peter Brook adaptation. For ticket information, call 292-2295.

The Lectures in Musicology series kicks off for the winter quarter on Feb. 4, with "Direct Current Recall in Madagascar," by Ron Emoff, Ohio State Newark. Additional lectures will take place on Feb. 11, 18 and 25. All lectures are held at 4:30 p.m. in the Sullivant Hall Music/Dance Library. For more information, call 292-9440.

A Jewish Music, East and West concert and lecture series, co-sponsored by the Melton Center for Jewish Studies and the School of Music, will run from Feb. 18-April 8. The series begins with a lecture on the Sound and Music of the Synagogue by Edwin Seroussi, Hebrew University, on Feb. 18 at the Faculty Club, and continues with concerts on Feb. 24 and 27 and March 14.

Wexner Center

By Chris Anderson Free Basin, a public skating bowl, will be in the galleries Feb. 3-April 14;

Senegalese musician Baaba Maal performs Jan. 17.     Courtesy of the Wexner Center

Senegalese music, toothbrushes, slapstick Euripedes -- the Wexner Center continues to present an eclectic variety of thought-provoking entertainment this quarter. The center also will host writers, artists and experts in a number of disciplines for many events to discuss their craft. Ohio State faculty, staff and students receive free admission to the galleries. For event tickets, call 292-3535. For updated schedules of events, including film screenings and lectures, visit www.wexarts.org or see the "Calendar" section of every issue of onCampus.

EXHIBITS

The Wexner Center will welcome the winter and spring in with Mood River, an exhibition of more than 2,000 contemporary objects from the worlds of commerce, culture and art, installed to create an immersive environment. The exhibition, which will fill all of the center's galleries and be displayed outside the building, will be on view from Feb. 3-May 26.

Among the items included are toothbrushes, lamps, tools, shoes, computers, car taillights, chairs, paintings, sculptures, a piano, a table that turns into a skirt and a 12-foot model of the F-117A Stealth Fighter. By taking these and other items out of their usual contexts, and installing them adjacent to each other, the exhibition intends to help viewers better appreciate the aesthetic attributes the objects share and to be struck by the myriad ways design affects their everyday lives.

A series of events will be held throughout the exhibit's run, and a number of special installations will be added over time. The first two of these special installations, Free Basin, which includes a working skate bowl -- a large basin for skateboarding -- and Design Afoot: Athletic Shoes 1995Ð2000, an exhibition organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, will be displayed in the galleries Feb. 3-April 14.

From April 23-May 26, Free Basin will be replaced by painter Fabian Marcaccio's Paint-ball Robot, an interactive computer that visitors can manipulate to throw paintballs onto a wall, creating a giant, ever-changing painting. Design Afoot will be replaced by a special installation of new designs commissioned by the Wexner Center from Chalayan, the first fashion designer to receive a Wexner Center Residency Award.

Mood River is organized by the Wexner Center and co-curated by Jeffrey Kipnis, curator of architecture and design, and Annetta Massie, associate curator. The installation is designed by architect Jose Oubrerie, OSU professor of architecture, with lighting design by John Bohuslawsky, also of Ohio State.

MUSIC

Senegalese Afropop star Baaba Maal will bring his rootsy acoustic sound to Weigel Hall on Jan. 17. Maal's vocals will combine with the bluesy rhythms of West Africa for the concert, which will open with an acoustic set by Ethiopian singer Gigi.

On Feb. 9, Antony and the Johnsons will perform a cabaret-style show in the Performance Space. Antony is a former regular on the New York drag performance circuit, and is now known for his ability to put a dark twist to torch songs, backed by a faux chamber orchestra. Photo by Josef Astor

The national touring group, Saturday Night Fish Fry, will feature Columbus' Hank Marr on the Hammond B-3 organ when it performs soul jazz on Feb. 23 in Weigel Hall. Jamming with Marr will be Houston Person on sax, Russell Malone on guitar and Grady Tate on drums.

Jazz star Wynton Marsalis, touring with his own band, will make a stop on March 8 at Mershon Auditorium to perform his original compositions for the first time in a decade.

DANCE

Twyla Tharp will return to Ohio State on Feb. 1 with an all-new company of dancers drawn from American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet and the Joffrey Ballet. They will perform a new work, featuring Tharp's artful and athletic choreography.

In an event co-sponsored by the Department of Dance, faculty member Bebe Miller will present Verge, choreographed by Miller and originally presented in New York, in Sullivant Theatre Feb. 14-16.

Texas theater troupe Rude Mechanicals will stage an adaptation of Greil Marcus' book Lipstick Traces in the Performance Space Jan. 10-13. The fast-paced production, titled Lipstick Traces: a secret history of the 20th century, captures the ragtag spirit of punk and traces the evolution of cultural radicalism.

Richard Maxwell and the New York City Players will present Boxing 2000 in Mershon Auditorium Jan. 17-20. Maxwell's radically stripped-down approach dispenses with common dramatic conventions to reveal stark truths as his tragicomic characters spar in and out of the ring with bluntly delivered dialogue and extremely deadpan humor.

Experimental theater troupe Elevator Repair Service takes on Euripedes' classic The Bacchae when it performs a slapstick version, Highway to Tomorrow, in the Performance Space Feb. 28-March 2. The story is set in St. Louis, and greatly amplifies the more absurd aspects of the Olympian pantheon and the mythology-driven plotlines of this cornerstone of Greek tragedy.

The SITI Company will perform Score March 14-17 in the Performance Space. Score is based on Leonard Bernstein's passion for music and marks the third production staged at the Wexner Center by SITI.

Schottenstein Center

Buckeye sports legends will be honored, ordinary cars will get crushed, and elegant skaters will take to the Ice during the coming months in Value City Arena at the Jerome Schottenstein Center. For ticket information, call (800) ARENA-01 or visit www.schottensteincenter.com.

	Track legend Jesse Owens will be among the Buckeye sports legends honored Jan. 22.       Photos courtesy of the Schottenstein Center
Ohio State's 1993 baseball team, to be recognized Jan. 22, celebrates a big victory.

The Value City Arena at the Jerome Schottenstein Center will host a special evening on Jan. 22 to honor Buckeye sports legends. At Century Night -- 100 Years of Buckeye Champions, the Touchdown Club of Columbus will announce its "All-Century" teams, paying tribute to all 36 varsity sports, and conclude with commemoration of the greatest athlete in Ohio State history.

Monster trucks ride in Feb. 8 and 9.

A monster truck and thrill show will take over the arena Feb. 8 and 9. Crowds will see vehicles that generate 1,500 to 2,000 horsepower, are capable of speeds up to 100 miles per hour, and are designed to jump a distance of up to 115 feet and up to 25 feet in the air. Also appearing will be stuntman Brilliant Bob, a "Snow Fire" jet-powered snowmobile, and a flat track battle on Quad ATV's by riders from around Ohio, West Virginia, Michigan and Indiana.

On Feb. 22, ESPN Friday Night Fights will come to the arena. This live, nationally televised, 2 1/2-hour broadcast will include two, 10-round co-feature bouts and six undercard matches. Anthony Hanshaw of Mansfield will fight in one of the co-feature fights. Hanshaw is undefeated as a professional after compiling one of the most successful amateur careers on record. The other co-feature will be a match of national importance. The undercard will showcase three other undefeated Ohio fighters, including Ohio State student Kelli Cofer.

Ilia Kulik and Tara Lipinski will skate on March 30

Target Stars on Ice, now in its 16th consecutive year of touring, will skate into Value City Arena on March 30. This season is distinguished by a combination of returning stars and new stars to form a versatile cast of figure skaters. Included in this year's tour are Olympic champions Tara Lipinski, Kristi Yamaguchi, Katarina Witt and Ilia Kulik, as well as four-time world champion Kurt Browning. Two-time world champions Anjelika Krylova and Oleg Ovsiannikov, three-time U.S. national pair champions Jenni Meno and Todd Sand, and Swiss national champion Lucinda Ruh will also perform.

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