Arts Preview

SPRING '03

College of the Arts

This spring, the College of the Arts will have a packed schedule of theater, dance, music and exhibits by Ohio State students and faculty. 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.

"Moth as Memory" is an image created for the play Sleep Deprivation Chamber, to be performed May 7-23.   Photos courtesy of the College of the Arts

DANCE

A Graduate Dance Performance featuring Tiffany Cunningham, Karl Rogers and Carrie Houser will take place at 8 p.m. April 10-12 in Sullivant Theatre. Tickets are available at the door. For more information, call 292-7088.

Noted New York choreographer Tere O'Connor will make his Columbus debut in Tere O'Connor Dance at 8 p.m. May 1-3. The program, co sponsored by the Department of Dance and the Wexner Center, will include performances by O'Connor and his company of his recent work Choke, which deals with an array of emotions drawn from impromptu sidewalk encounters, and Winter Belly, which creates an imaginative interpretation of the forms of nature. For tickets, call 292-3535.

Members of Tere O'Connor Dance perform Choke May 1-3.

A memoir of the Lower East Side of New York City, The Fire Still Burns, will be presented May 21-23 and 27-31 in Thurber Theatre. Devised and directed by Professor of Dance John Giffin, the theater performance tells stories of immigrant women in the early 20th century and examines issues of language, culture, clothing and work relating to young women's struggles to establish an American identity. This show will be co-produced by the departments of theatre and dance. For tickets, call 292-2295.

The Spring Dance Performance will be held at 8 p.m. May 29-31 in Sullivant Theatre.

ART

All Department of Art exhibitions are free and are held in the Hopkins Hall Gallery and Corridor. Receptions for all exhibits, unless otherwise noted, are held from 5-7 p.m. the first day of the show. Call 292-5072 for more information.

Fred Machetanz: Alaskan Images, A Retrospective is on view through April 26 in the Faculty Club. Machetanz, an OSU alumnus, was one of Alaska's best known artists.

Work by artists from Australia, New York City and England will be presented for the spring Visiting Artist/ New Faculty Exhibition, showing March 31-April 11 in the Hopkins Hall Gallery. Department of Art Foundation Program visiting lecturers work will be on view in the corridor.

Future Technology: Media Arts & Culture Colloquium gets kicked off on April 1 with a lecture by Anglo-Australian sculptor and sound-artist Nigel Helyer. Helyer's works synthesize sculpture with architectural and environmental sites, where soundscapes are combined with public radio broadcast and other new-media formats. All lectures, unless otherwise noted, take place at 4:30 p.m. in the Wexner Center's Film/Video Theater. Eddie Shanken, executive director of Information Science and Information Studies at Duke University, will speak on "Art and Electronic Media; Categories and Canons"April 29. New media artist, David Rokeby, will speak May 6. Rokeby is best best-known for his work, Very Nervous System (1986-90), which premiered at the Venice Biennale in 1996. Pioneering artist and programmer in the field of interactive installation Camille Utterback will speak May 13. The colloquium will conclude at 6 p.m. May 29 in Mershon Auditorium with Australian artist Stelarc. Stelarc's work explores and extends the concept of the body and its relationship with technology through human-machine interfaces incorporating medical imaging, prosthetics, robotics, VR systems and the Internet.

The Undergraduate Juried Exhibition 2003 will be on display April 14-May 2. Selected by a jury of arts professionals, this annual exhibition showcases the works of undergraduate students in the Department of Art.

"ArchitorSpace," by Daniel Mirer, is on view March 31-April 11 in Hopkins Hall.

The ACCAD Spring Open House will be held from 3-6 p.m. May 2 at the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design, 1224 Kinnear Road. The open house will include demonstrations of research and educational projects, and a tour of the Motion Capture Studio.

Works selected from the Department of Art's Foundation Program -- beginning drawing, visual studies and two-dimensional art classes -- will be shown May 5-June 6 in Hopkins Hall Corridor.

An MFA thesis exhibition, 4 Caskets Project, will be exhibited May 5-15 in the Hopkins Hall Gallery. An informal gallery talk with the artist, So Yeon Park, will be held at 12:30 p.m. May 7.

Laura Bolesta's MFA thesis exhibition, Suspension, will be on view May 19-30 in the Hopkins Hall Gallery. A gallery talk will be held at 12:30 p.m. May 21.

The Department of Design Annual Student Exhibition will showcase selected work by senior students and graduate students June 9-13 in a TBA location. A special professional/alumni night will be held June 11.

Born ­ Bridalled ­ Shrouded, an MFA thesis exhibition by Elizabeth Coleman, will be exhibited June 2-13 in Hopkins Hall Gallery. An informal gallery talk will take place at 12:30 p.m. June 4.

THEATRE

The Department of Theatre will present Sleep Deprivation Chamber, by Adam P. and Adrienne Kennedy, May 7-23 in Roy Bowen Theatre. Directed by Lesley Ferris, the play interweaves the story of a trial of a black man charged with assault and battery after the police beat him up and that of the man's mother and her memories of growing up in Cleveland in the 1940s. For tickets, call 292-2295.

Alumna Adrienne Kennedy will be the theatre department's Artist in Residence for spring quarter. A symposium in her honor will be held from 1-5 p.m. May 9 in the Wexner Center's Film/Video Theater. Anthony Hill, Ohio State, convenes the symposium, which includes Paul Jackson, Miami University; Caroline Jackson-Smith, Oberlin College; and Ruby Tapia, Valerie Lee and Maurice Stevens, all of Ohio State, and Adam P. Kennedy.

The Annual Theater Research Institute Lecture at 4:30 p.m. May 16 in the Wexner Center's Film/Video Theatre will feature alumna Brenda Laurel. Laurel will discuss her career as a "techno diva."Laurel is one of the world's leading theorists and visionaries of computer technology and interface design.

"Ariel"by Nigel Helyer. Helyer will give a campus lecture on April 1.

MUSIC

Unless otherwise noted, tickets for School of Music performances are available at the door, or call 292-2870.

Charles Pikler, principal viola for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and Easley Blackwood, pianist and composer, will perform Sonata No. 2 for Viola and Piano by Easley Blackwood and the Sonata in E-flat, Opus 120, for Clarinet and Piano (transcribed for viola) by Brahms for a Visiting Artist Concert at 8 p.m. March 31 in Weigel Auditorium.

Pianist Steven Michael Glaser will perform works by Bach, Beethoven and Chopin for a Faculty Recital at 8 p.m. April 2 in Weigel Auditorium.

The 26th annual Ohio State University Jazz Festival will take place on campus April 3-6. Concerts include a performance by the Jazz Ensemble, with special guest saxophonist Tia Fuller, at 8 p.m. April 4 in Weigel Auditorium. On April 5, a Women in Jazz Symposium will be held from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. in Hughes Hall and a concert featuring Vanessa Rubin and her trio takes place at 8 p.m. in Weigel Auditorium. High School Jazz Band Day will be observed from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. April 6 in Hughes and Weigel halls and will feature performances by high school jazz bands. Ohio State's Jazz Ensemble, with Fuller, will present a closing concert at 4 p.m. For tickets to festival concerts, call 292-2870 or 292-4657.

Caroline Hong, piano, and Charles Wetherbee, violin, will perform works by Kennison, Wolosoff, Schubert, Brahms and Bach at 8 p.m. April 7 in Weigel Auditorium for An Evening of Chamber Music.

The Central Ohio Flute Association festival, with Randolph Bowman, principal flutist of the Cincinnati Symphony, flute choirs, exhibits, clinics and master classes, will take place 8 a.m.-5 p.m. April 12 in Weigel and Hughes Halls. Call 292-4618 for information.

The spring Lectures in Musicology series will begin April 14 when Daniel Avorgbedor will present "Textual Production as Musical Consumption: The Musical Irony of Dramaturgy In Haló Performance."Other lectures include: Esteban Hernández Castelló, Università di Bologna,"A Manuscript for an Edition: 10 Psalms for Vespers by Tomás Luis de Victoria, "April 21; Margaret Butler, University of Pittsburgh, "Producing Royal Opera in Italy: Imports and Exports from Naples's Teatro di San Carlo and Turin's Teatro Regio in the Mid-Eighteenth Century,"April 28; Diana Lentsner, Ohio State, "A New Systematic Approach to the Analysis of Music with Text,"May 5; Margaret Switten, Mount Holyoke College, "Singing the New Song: Troubadours and Versus around 1100,"May 12; and Deborah Wilson, Ohio State, "Blocks of Time: Montage Technique in Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet,"May 19. All lectures are held at 4:30 p.m. in Sullivant Hall's Music/Dance Library

Percussionist Susan Powell will perform on solo marimba, ragtime xylophone, multiple percussion and timpani for a Faculty Recital at 8 p.m. April 15 in Weigel Auditorium.

Jazz artist Vanessa Rubin will perform in Weigel Hall on April 5.

The opera program will present Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music at 7:30 p.m. May 9 and 8 p.m. May 10 in Weigel Auditorium. The production will be guest directed by Scottish director Paul Curran. Tickets are available at the door or by calling 292-3535.

Timothy Leasure will perform on trumpet for a Faculty Recital at 8 p.m. May 14 in Weigel Auditorium.

Katherine Borst Jones will perform on flute for the Faculty Recital held at 8 p.m. June 15 in Weigel Auditorium. The recital opens the 18th annual OSU Flute Workshop, June 15-19. For details, call 292-2664.

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. Performances include: Women's Glee Club Festival, April 11 (7 p.m.); Chamber Orchestra, April 14; Faculty Chamber Series, April 21; Greater Columbus Youth Percussion Ensemble, April 22 (7:30 p.m.); Wind Symphony, April 25; Percussion Ensemble, May 13; Jazz Lab Ensemble, May 15 (7:30 p.m. Browning Amphitheatre); Symphonic Band, May 20; Symphonic Choir/ Chorale/ Wind Symphony, May 21; University Band, May 22; Gospel and Spiritual Ensemble, May 23; Women's Glee Club and University Chorus, May 27; Wind Symphony/ Symphonic Band/ University Band (7 p.m. Browning Amphitheatre, rain site: Weigel Auditorium); Jazz Combos, May 29 (7 p.m. Browning Amphitheatre); Men's Glee Club, May 30; Choral Collage, June 1 (3 p.m.); Mastersingers Concert, June 2 (6 p.m. Hughes Hall); Wind Symphony, June 3; Wednesdays in Weigel, June 4; Jazz Ensemble, June 5 (7 p.m. Browning Amphitheatre, rain site: Weigel Auditorium); and Symphony Orchestra Concerto, June 6.

Photos courtesy of the Wexner Center An image from the multi-medi production Alladeen, April 4-5 in Thurber Theatre.

Wexner Center

This spring, the Wexner Center exhibitions move on to COSI, the Wayne Shorter quartet performs, and a Belgian company dances an American premiere. As always, the Wexner Center will screen a wide variety of films this quarter, including a GLBT VI film festival April 24-26 and a series of German films produced after World War II. 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.

EXHIBITIONS

Away from Home will continue to be on view through April 20. The exhibition is showing at the Columbus College of Art & Design's Canzani Center Gallery, Cleveland Avenue and East Gay Street, as the Wexner Center galleries undergo renovations. The free exhibition includes 11 projects in a wide range of media by emerging artists from five continents.

The Wexner Center and COSI will present Supernova, a high-tech exhibition by Hiro Yamagata featuring lasers, lights and mirrors, May 3-Sept. 1 at COSI, 333 W. Broad St. The show fuses art and science through a total-immersion experience.

Supernova will include mirrored cubes, ranging in size from 2-foot square to 8-foot square, and lit from within, some with motion sensors that turn on as someone approaches. Each individual cube will offer both interior and exterior holographic surfaces. Light from the interior of each box will spread onto the holographic walls, producing a range of lighting effects.

The exhibition will be free for Wexner Center members, COSI members and OSU students. For the general public, COSI admission will be required.

Les Ballets C. de la B. performs Foi May 21 in Mershon.   By Kurt Van Der Elst

PERFORMANCES

New York multimedia performance ensemble The Builders Association and designers from the London installation art/performance spectacle team motiroti collaborated to create Alladeen, performed April 4 and 5 in Thurber Theatre. A retelling of the Arabian Nights tale, Alladeen uses electronic music, video, special effects, an architectural set and live performance to look at the forces of technology.

New York choreographer Tere O'Connor will make his Columbus debut May 1-3 in Sullivant Hall when his company performs Choke, a piece based on impromptu sidewalk encounters. O'Connor also will perform a new work that contrasts tender and violent exchanges played out against a set inspired by Italian Renaissance painter Piero della Francesca.

Choreographer Ronald K Brown drew on the traditions of West Africa, Bahia and Cuba for Walking Out the Dark, set to be performed by his company, Evidence, May 3 at the King Arts Complex, 867 Mt. Vernon Ave.

Vanguard Belgian dance theater ensemble Les Ballets C. de la B. will present the only American performance of Foi on May 21 in Mershon Auditorium. The performance includes a live choir of polyphonic singers performing ancient village songs and medieval scores.

A scene from Scarlet Diva, a film by Asia Argento, to be screened April 18.

MUSIC

The Wayne Shorter Quartet will perform fusion jazz on April 3 in Weigel Hall, in association with the School of Music's jazz festival April 4-6. Shorter, a jazz saxophonist and composer, played alongside Herbie Hancock in Miles Davis' second great quintet.

Chicago-based post-rock "supergroup,"The Sea and Cake, will bring their unique style of electronic music to Columbus for a black box show on the Mershon Stage April 11.

Prefuse 73, with Four Tet and Manitoba, will perform in Mershon Auditorium on May 24.

Photos courtesy of the Schottenstein Center The Three Tenors will make their last Ohio appearance on Sept. 28 when they take the stage at Value City Arena.

Schottenstein Center

The Value City Arena at the Jerome Schottenstein Center has a number of events in place for this spring and summer. For ticket information, call (800) GO-BUCKS or visit the Web at www.schottensteincenter.com/.

On March 23, Smucker's Stars on Ice will make a return appearance, featuring skaters Katarina Witt, Kurt Browning, Todd Eldredge and Alexei Yagudin, as well as pairs skaters Jamie Sale & David Pelletier, Jenni Meno & Todd Sand and Elena Berezhnaya & Anton Sikharulidze. Tour information is available at www.starsonice.com.

Fleetwood Mac's first tour since they sold out venues across the nation in 1997 will kick-off at the Value City Arena on May 7. The band's first new studio album in 15 years, Say You Will, is scheduled for release April 15 featuring 18 new songs by mainstays Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham and founding members Mick Fleetwood and Jon McVie, all of whom will be on tour.

Fleetwood Mac performs May 7.

Metallica, Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park will all play headline length sets when they come to play Ohio Stadium July 19 for the Summer Sanitarium Tour 2003. The Deftones and Mudvayne also will perform in the rock tour.

Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera have teamed up for the Justified and Stripped Tour. The two pop stars will arrive for a one-night stop at Value City Arena on Aug. 3.

The Three Tenors will make their last Ohio appearance on Sept. 28 when they take the stage at Value City Arena. Jose Carreras, Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti have become the biggest selling artists in classical music since they began performing together in 1990. This performance will include the Columbus Symphony Orchestra and is rescheduled from January.

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