Photos courtesy of the College of the Arts Graduate dance student Teena Custer will perform in Sullivant Theatre Jan. 22-24.

Arts Preview

Winter 2004

College of the Arts

The College of the Arts has a busy winter quarter planned. 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

The winter dance season will begin with a Graduate Dance Performance Jan. 22-24, featuring Teena Custer and Chad Hall, in Sullivant Theatre. The department's Winter Dance Performance will be held Feb. 5-7. Both shows will begin at 8 p.m. in Sullivant Theatre. Tickets available at the door.

Dancers will perform at the Riffe Center, 77 S. High St., for OSU Dance Downtown at 8 p.m. March 11-13. Tickets are available by calling CAPA at 469-0939 or Ticketmaster at 431-3600.

Theatre

In January, Chicago-based interdisciplinary performance group Goat Island will be on campus for a three-week-long residency, working with theatre, art, dance and literature students as they develop a new work. When will the September roses bloom? will be presented at 8 p.m. Jan. 22-24 in Roy Bowen Theatre.

Art and politics come together for Pentecost, by David Edgar, which will be presented Feb. 25-March 6 in Thurber Theatre and is set in an abandoned church in eastern Europe. A discussion, "Pentecost: A Forum on Eastern Europe,” will take place at 4 p.m. Feb. 27 in the Blackwell Center.

Public performances of this year's school tour, Rock ‘n' Roles from William Shakespeare, by Jim Luigs, will be held at 8 p.m. March 2-6 in Mount Hall Studio Theatre.

Unless otherwise noted, call 292-2295 for tickets to productions.

The OSU Percussion Ensemble will perform in the Riffe Center's Capitol Theatre, 77 S. High St., on Feb. 23 for a Drums Downtown concert.

Music

Bruce Curlette, clarinet, will perform in the Alumni Recital at 8 p.m. Jan. 12 in Weigel Auditorium.

Several faculty concerts will take place this quarter. On Jan. 26 in Weigel Auditorium, James Hill, saxophone, will perform with Susan Powell, percussion, and Thomas Wells, piano. A Faculty Chamber Series concert will be held Feb. 9, featuring William Conable, cello; Jane Ellsworth, clarinet; Michael Davis, violin; Nelson Harper, piano; William Skidmore, cello; and Peggy Kohler, soprano. At 3 p.m. Feb. 29 in Weigel Auditorium, Susan Powell, percussion; James Hill, saxophone; Jeanne Norton, harp; Paul Robinson, doublebass; Charles Waddell, horn; and Christopher Weait, bassoon, will perform.

An opera, Les Pecheurs des Perles, by Georges Bizet (sung in French), will be presented Feb. 3-4 in Weigel Auditorium. Call 292-5333 for tickets.

This quarter's Lectures in Musicology series begins Feb. 9 when Udo Will, Ohio State, speaks on "Melodic Contours and Speech Intonation in a West African Tonal Language Culture.” Other lectures, which are all held at 4:30 p.m. in the Sullivant Hall Music/Dance Library, take place Feb. 23 and March 8.

The OSU Percussion Ensemble will perform in the Riffe Center's Capitol Theatre, 77 S. High St., for a Feb. 23 Drums Downtown concert. The ensemble will present three works for percussion and dance, featuring students in the Department of Dance. For tickets, call CAPA at 469-0939 or Ticketmaster at 431-3600.

A Masterpieces of the Twentieth Century in Retrospect concert, featuring the Faculty Ensemble and the Percussion Ensemble, will take place Feb. 24 in Weigel Auditorium.

The 2nd Annual OSU Percussion Ensemble Festival Weekend, March 5-6, will include performances by OSU Percussion Ensemble, the Pendulum Percussion Duo, clinics by Houghton and Grover, as well as performances by participating high school percussion ensembles from Ohio and surrounding states. For more information call 292-9522.

The OSU Wind Symphony will perform on March 9 in Weigel Auditorium.

Concerts will occur throughout the quarter by many performance ensembles. All performances take place at 8 p.m. in Weigel Auditorium, unless otherwise noted. Tickets are usually available at the door. Performances include: OSU Honor Band, Jan. 16 (6:30 p.m.); Wind Symphony, Feb. 12; Jazz Ensemble, Feb. 13; Jazz Lab Ensemble, Feb. 14 (3 p.m.); Chorale and Symphonic Choir, Feb. 15 (3 p.m., call 292-4622); Greater Columbus Youth Percussion Ensemble, Feb. 17; Symphonic Band, Feb. 20;

Men's and Women's Glee Club, Feb. 21 (call 292-4622); Gospel and Spiritual Ensemble, March 2; Mastersingers and Flute Troupe, March 3 (7 p.m., Hughes Auditorium); University Band, March 4; Women's Glee Club and University Chorus, March 7 (3 p.m.); Wind Symphony, Chorale, Symphonic Choir and guests, March 9 (call 292-4622); Symphony Orchestra, March 10; and Wind Symphony and Symphonic Band, March 11.

Art

The Visiting Artists/New Faculty Exhibition, featuring Italian Lynn Umlauf, German Valentin Rothmaler and Cincinnati photographer Cal Kowal, is showing through Jan. 9 in Hopkins Hall Gallery. Work by Columbus-based visiting lecturers in the Department of Art will be on view in the corridor.

Chongqing Chilis: American Tour will be on view in Hopkins Hall Gallery and Corridor Jan. 20-Feb. 5. From one of the oldest and most highly respected art schools in China, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, this specially curated exhibition contains contemporary prints, ink paintings and oil paintings by faculty and graduate students spanning the last decade.

John Huntington, professor of history of art, and Dina Bangdel, director of special collections, College of the Arts, and curator of the Huntington Archive, are co-exhibition curators for The Circle of Bliss: Buddhist Meditational Art, on view at the Columbus Museum of Art, 480 E. Broad St., Feb. 6-May 9. This exhibition of Tibetan, Nepalese, Mongolian, Indian and Chinese paintings, manuscripts, sculptures, textiles and ritual implements illuminating the ideals and teachings of Buddhism showcases 150 masterworks from public and private collections from around the world.

The Department of Art Graduate Student Group Exhibition will feature work by students in art and technology; ceramics; glass; painting and drawing; photography; printmaking and sculpture programs, Feb. 9-20 in Hopkins Hall Gallery and Corridor.

Beyond Sixty, an exhibition featuring works by Program 60 participants, is on view Feb. 23-27 in Hopkins Hall. An opening reception will be held from 5-7 p.m. Feb. 23. Program 60 welcomes students over the age of 60 to enroll through the Office of Continuing Education in university classes wherever space permits.

The 12th Annual Edith Fergus-Gilmore Scholarship Exhibition will be held March 1-12 in Hopkins Hall. An opening reception and award presentation will be held from 5-7 p.m. March 1. The juried competition for the show is open to all studio-based undergraduate and graduate visual art and design majors.

The Jerome Schottenstein Center

The Value City Arena at the Jerome Schottenstein Center will bring back several favorite performers from years past this winter. For ticket information, call (800) ARENA-01 or visit www.schottensteincenter.com.

Singer Sarah Brightman will perform a concert on Jan. 27.   Photo courtesy of the Schottenstein Center

Broadway star Sarah Brightman, who was the inspiration behind stage hits Phantom of the Opera and Requiem, will bring her Harem World Tour to the arena on Jan. 27. Brightman adopted a Middle Eastern theme for this show and album.

The Monster Truck and Thrill Show returns to the arena Feb. 20-21. Monster trucks generate 1,500-2,000 horsepower, 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.

The Emmy award-winning Smucker's Stars on Ice glides into the arena March 28. The show this year features many champion skaters, including Todd Eldredge, Kurt Browning, Oksana Baiul and Jamie Sale and David Pelletier.

Wexner Center

This winter, the Wexner Center gets funny with an exhibit of cartoon-influenced art at the Belmont Building, welcomes international artists for music and theater, and screens some of the world's finest films.

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.

Leningrad Cowboys Go America (Aki Kaurismaki, 1989) will be screened at 7 p.m. Feb. 5 in the Film/Video Theater

Exhibitions

The Wexner Center's exhibitions will continue to be on view at the Belmont Building, 330 W. Spring St., in the Arena District this quarter, as the center's galleries undergo renovation. 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.

Splat Boom Pow! The Influence of Cartoons in Contemporary Art, Jan. 31-May 2, will look at the impact that cartoons and comics have had on contemporary art over the past 40 years. Nearly 70 works in a variety of media will be on display, featuring more than 30 artists, including Roy Lichtenstein, Elizabeth Murray, Takashi Murakami, Dara Birnbaum Henry Darger and Andy Warhol. The show reveals how these artists, using cartoon imagery and techniques, have explored such issues as American commercialism, the Vietnam War, sexism and racism. This will be the only Midwestern stop on a national tour.

Architects try their hand at designing tea and coffee sets for a concurrent exhibition, Tea and Coffee Towers. Twenty of the world's leading architects, including Zaha Hadid, Greg Lynn, Jean Nouvel and Toyo Ito, designed an eclectic collection of tea and coffee servers. Fabricated from a wide variety of materials, including silver, porcelain, titanium, glass, red clay, wood and thermoplastic resin, the server designs address topical issues in contemporary architecture: digital design, experimental materials, and the changing nature of the way people interact with their domestic environments. This marks the exhibition's first stop on a national tour.

The Wexner Center's lower lobby is hosting Siebren Versteeg: Dynamic Ribbon Device and CC through March 24. In Dynamic Ribbon Device (2003), a new work by Chicago-based artist Siebren Versteeg, the latest headlines from the Associated Press are transformed into a scrolling Coca-Cola logo. Output to a large plasma screen, the work generates a commentary on the mass media's intermingling of news and advertising. In CC (2003), Versteeg uses text from "personal” online journals, formatted as closed-captions underneath looping video of various cable television reporters. Rather than detailing political events and world affairs, the constantly rotating reporters are trapped in a round robin on more prosaic issues.

Captain Midnight, 1962, by Mel Ramos, will be on view in Splat Boom Pow! at the Belmont Building Jan. 31-May 2.   Courtesy of Skot Ramos Collection, San Francisco

Film

The Rainer Werner Fassbinder film series will take place in January. Fassbinder (1945-1982) was one of cinema's most astonishing prodigies, making more than 40 remarkable films in just 15 years. This series, featuring new 35 mm prints, showcases Fassbinder's provocative and dazzling gifts as he expertly moves among genres and periods, mercilessly dissecting 20th-century Germany in all its political, cultural and sexual contradictions.

Fox and His Friends (1975) and Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974) will be screened at 7 p.m. Jan. 8. The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979) and Veronika Voss (1982) will be screened at 7 p.m. Jan. 10. Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven (1975) and Fear of Fear (1975) will be screened at 7 p.m. Jan. 15. Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972) and The Merchant of Four Seasons (1972) will be screened at 7 p.m. Jan. 17. Satan's Brew (1976) and Chinese Roulette (1976) will be screened at 7 p.m. Jan. 22. Effi Briest (1974) and The American Soldier (1970) will be screened at 7 p.m. on Jan. 24. Katzelmacher (1969) and Love Is Colder than Death (1969) will be screened at 7 p.m. Jan. 29. Beware of a Holy Whore (1971) and Gods of the Plague (1970) will be screened at 7 p.m. Jan. 30.

The series New Kurdish Cinema begins Jan. 9. More than 35 million Kurds continue to live in scattered populations under the politically repressive governments of Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria, whose assimilating policies have denied Kurds a cultural identity. Curated by Professor Jamsheed Akrami of William Paterson University in New Jersey, New Kurdish Cinema offers an opportunity for their voices to be heard.

Following a 6 p.m. reception, Akrami will introduce at 7 p.m. Jan. 9 Marooned in Iraq (Bahman Ghobadi, 2003), A Talk with Bahman Ghobadi (Jamsheed Akrami, 2003) and Good Kurds, Bad Kurds (Kevin McKiernan, 2001). Hejar (Handan Ipekci, 2001) and A Time for Drunken Horses (Bahman Ghobadi, 2000) will be screened at 7 p.m. Jan. 16. Jiyan (Jano Rosebiani, 2002) and Blackboards (Samira Makhmalbaf, 2000) will be screened at 7 p.m. Jan. 23.

On Jan. 13, Robin's Hood (Sara Millman, 2003), a film about an African-American social worker who is not above bending the law to help her clients, will be screened at 7 p.m. Jan. 13. Epic film La Commune (Paris, 1871) (Peter Watkins, 2000) will be screened at 1 p.m. Jan. 18. The film explores imagined television coverage of the bloody working-class uprising that briefly ruled Paris in 1871 after the nation's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War.

Performances

Goat Island Performance Group will present When will the September roses bloom? Jan. 22-24 in the Drake Center's Roy Bowen Theatre. This work in progress questions our place in a damaged world and our ability to repair it.

The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company will return to the Wexner Center to present The Phantom Project Feb. 17 in Mershon Auditorium. The company is marking its 20th anniversary by revisiting many landmark works from the company's history, including Still/Here, which was created during a Wexner Center residency.

Batsheva, Israel's finest contemporary dance company, returns with its celebratory program Deca Dance March 4 in Mershon Auditorium. This choreographic medley inventively remixes key passages from the first decade of work by the company's artistic director Ohad Naharin.

Compiled by Susan Wittstock