THeatre APR FEB JAN MusiC MAR March 31, 8 p.m. JAN FebruAry 4, 5, 6, 8 p.m. Brooks Concert Hall, Fenwick Hall Creative WriTinG FebruAry 6, 7, 2 p.m. FebruAry 9, 8 p.m. Questions for the Moon Fenwick Theatre, O’Kane Hall thru Brooks Concert Hall, Fenwick Hall JanuAry 28, 7:30 p.m. 4 A multi-media song cycle, Questions for the 29 20 31 2 Rehm Library, Smith Hall Chicago Masterworks Old and New Moon, is a collaboration between Holy Cross 8 Reading by Gretel Ehrlich The Tony award-winning musical Chicago comes This Artists-in-Residence concert will feature the world premiere of composer Shirish Korde and historian Karen The Working Writers Series offers to the stage with music by John Kander, lyrics by FEB Associate Professor Chris Arrell’s Breathless, a swirling kaleidoscope Turner. Inspired by stories of the many North readings, panel discussions, Q&A 5 Fred Ebb, and book by Ebb and Bob Fosse. This of melody and color written for Artists-in-Residence Saul Bitrán, violin; Vietnamese women who answered Ho Chi sessions, and book signings with some milestone satirical musical, set in Chicago in the Jan Müller-Szeraws, cello; and Adam Golka, piano. The concert will Minh’s call in 1965 for youth volunteers to fight of America’s best authors. Our spring 1920s, skewers the justice system and the cult of also include much beloved 18- and 19th-century classics, performed American forces, this music-theater work is a celebrity. Christine Freije ‘13 directs this Alternate 27 meditation on the boundaries crossed and the season opens with a reading by Gretel in collaboration with the music department’s Brooks scholars Adam Ehrlich, who has won both prestigious College Theatre production. Ouellet, Christopher Goessling, Teresa Murphy and Ana Dulskiy. potent forces unleashed in wartime. 6 Ticket Box Office: (508) 793-3536 Texts and images for Questions for literary awards and National Geographic the Moon are drawn from Karen Turner’s expedition grants for her 15 books of ArTs TrAnsCendinG BOrders documentary, Hidden Warriors: Women nonfiction, memoir, essays, fiction, and 7 on the Ho Chi Minh Trail and 18th Century poetry about extreme encounters with Vietnamese poet Ho Xuan Huong. In addition nature — from traveling by dogsled in Greenland to facing a tsunami in Japan. FebruAry 23, 7 p.m. April 29, 8 p.m. to a chamber ensemble of five musicians, the CAntor ArT Gallery FEB world music infused score by Korde will feature Co-sponsored by Creative Writing and seelos Theater, Kimball Hall Location to be determined Roger Guenveur Smith’s Rodney King Vietnamese performer/composer Van-Anh Environmental Studies. A Jookin’ Jam Session JanuAry 20 – FebruAry 27 Vo; dramatic vocalist and performer who is History, poetry and tragedy collide when stage and screen actor Roger with Lil Buck and Friends APR 10 A.m. – 5 p.m. m-F, NooN – 5 p.m. SAt. a featured soloist with Yo Yo Ma’s Silk Road Guenveur Smith (American Gangster, Malcolm X, Do The Right Thing) tackles 9 Ensemble, Wu-Tong; and the dramatic The College’s Become More: Campaign for the Future of Cantor Art Gallery, O’Kane Hall the thorny odyssey of Rodney King — deemed “the first reality TV star”— from lyric soprano Sonja Tegbland. Holy Cross kicks off with an evening of celebration headlined Grammar the harsh initial glare of the national spotlight as the victim of police brutality Video projections for this production by the international jookin’ phenomenon Lil Buck, who came to his involuntary 14 An exploration of the space between analog and digital photographic are specially designed by internationally to international attention when ballet star turned director martyrdom that ignited technologies, where images can be read as both factual and illusory. renowned visual artist Raphael Shirley Damian Woetzel paired the young dancer with cellist Yo-Yo the 1992 L.A. riots to This paradox of meaning is the focus of this recent work by Matthew and are based on archival footage from Karen FEB Ma. The performance, captured on video by Spike Jonze, his lonely death at the Gamber, assistant professor of photography and new media in the Turner’s documentary film, Hidden Warriors. bottom of a swimming went viral with more than 3 million views. Lil Buck has gone College’s visual arts department. Opening reception is Jan. 27, 5-6:30 FEB on to perform with the New York City Ballet and in Cirque du 15 pool. In this riveting p.m. A talk on Grammar by Gamber, Nancy Burns of Worcester Art performance, Smith Soleil’s Michael Jackson: One, the Spike Jonze film Her, and Museum and Benjamin Sloat of Lesley University is Feb. 10, 5-6 p.m. 25 offers a meditation on Benjamin Millepied’s NOWNESS videos. In the latest series a flawed, goodhearted 23 of unique performances created by Damian Woetzel, Lil Buck Mathew Gamber, Dead Bulb, (Chandelier), 2012, Pigmented inkjet print everyman and reveals is joined by a stellar cast of musicians, marking the welcome America’s endlessly return of Fall ’15 ATB artist-in-residence, Galician gaita 16 FebruAry 25, 7:30 p.m. complicated relation- player Cristina Pato. In conjunction with the College’s Rehm Library, Smith Hall ship with its racial 2016 Academic Conference. Performance and past and present. Discussion by Co-sponsored by the 21 – Office of Inclusion and Diversity. Funded in part by the Expeditions program MAR APR James Keegan of the New England Foundation for the Arts. James Keegan, a Holy Cross 22 alumnus, a poet, and an actor, March 14, 7 p.m. MAR 14 1 will perform monologues Ballroom, Hogan Campus Center April 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23, 8 p.m. 6 from Shakespeare’s plays | and discuss his experiences Compagnie Hervé Koubi Fenwick Theatre, O’Kane Hall 23 on stage. In 11 years, Keegan Stirred by a late discovery of family roots in Algeria, young French choreo- 14 has portrayed some 80 roles grapher Hervé Koubi embarked on a journey across the Mediterranean in 2009 in more than 60 productions and formed a company of 12 Algerian and Brukinabé dancers, mostly with March 14 – April 16 at the American Shakespeare a street dance background. Following their “astounding American debut” 10 A.m. – 5 p.m. m-F, NooN – 5 p.m. SAt. Center, including King Lear, (The Washington Post) in 2013, the all-male Compagnie Hervé Koubi returns Cantor Art Gallery, O’Kane Hall Falstaff, Macbeth, Leontes, to the U.S. with Ce que le jour doit à la nuit (“What the day owes the night”), Alexa Horochowski: Club Disminucíon Iago, Prospero, Shylock which fuses contemporary dance with martial arts, urban dance and capoeira. by William Shakespeare and Titus Andronicus. Come see excerpts from this breathtaking work and stay for an exchange and HAMLET A multi-media video and sculpture installation by artist Alex Horochowski who Co-sponsored by Creative Hamlet conversation with company members. Presented in conjunction with the This provocative, modern-dress production of explores the immigrated to the United States as a child with her family from the Argentinian Writing, the Jenks Chair of French Program’s Semaine de la Francophonie celebrations. angst of a young man trying to find his way in a corrupt world filled with Patagonia. The exhibition — a video immersive work inspired by her residency at Contemporary American dissembling politicians, paranoia and surveillance — perhaps a bit like Casa Poli in Chile — is co-sponsored by Arts Transcending Borders. Opening reception Letters, and the Department Arts Transcending Borders is supported by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. the one we inhabit today. Directed by Edward Isser. is March 15, 5–6:30 p.m. of Theatre. Ticket Box Office: (508) 793-2496 Alexa Horochowski, Club Disminucíon at The Soap Factory, 2014 Minneapolis, Minn. Photograph by Dan Bau WIN FebruAry 14, 3 p.m. April 15, 8 p.m. April 28 – May 27 Mechanics Hall, Worcester SPR MAR APR Brooks Concert Hall, Fenwick Hall 10 A.m. – 5 p.m. m–F, NooN – 5 p.m. SAt. N Worcester Symphonic Project Ted Slingerland: Performance Cantor Art Gallery, O’Kane Hall Holy Cross Chamber Orchestra. Franz Schubert, March 14, 7 p.m. April 2, 3 p.m. Senior Concentration Seminar PAID 1 Mass #2, with the Holy Cross Chamber Singers Ballroom, Hogan Campus Center Main Reading Room, Dinand Library and Panel Discussion ’ and Colleges of Worcester Consortium choruses, “Ragas, Bach and Wuwei” features music for solo Exhibition 2016 Worcester, MA Worcester, U.S. POSTAGE First Class Mail 6 Permit No. 760 Compagnie Hervé Koubi Boston Gay Men’s Chorus Eric Culver, conductor. Ludwig van Beethoven, cello by Johann Sebastian Bach and Holy Cross A perennial favorite of the spring semester, the Enjoy excerpts from the French-Algerian composer Shirish Korde, and a performance by cellist Annual Senior Concentration Seminar Exhibition is Symphony #1, Bruce Hangen, conductor. choreographer Hervé Koubi’s Ce que le jour doit Ticket Box Office: (508) 754-3231. Jan Müller-Szeraws. The concert will be followed by a the capstone presentation for graduating seniors who à la nuit (What the day owes the night) that fuses panel discussion with Korde, Distinguished Professor participate in a year-long seminar course. Opening 6 JAN contemporary dance with martial arts, urban of Humanities, and renowned guest speaker Edward reception is April 28, 5-6:30 p.m. dance and capoeira, and stay for an exchange and Slingerland, professor of Asian Studies at University conversation with company members. (See front 7 JanuAry 20 – FebruAry 27 of British Columbia and author of “Trying Not To Try: April 29, 8 pm panel for details.) In conjunction with the French The Art and Science of Spontaneity.” Co-sponsored Location to be determined 10 A.m.