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ELLEN LUPTON AND JENNIFER COLE PHILLIPS

GRAPHIC DESIGN BASICS

VISUAL LAYOUT TOPIC

SYMMETRY/ASYMMETRY SYMMETRY AND ASYMMETRY

Symmetry Asymmetry SYMMETRY SYMMETRY SYMMETRY SYMMETRY DYNAMIC ASYMMETRY ASYMMETRY ASYMMETRY

Le Corbusier, Pavilion L'Esprit Nouveau, 1925 DYNAMIC ASYMMETRY

Shiva Nallaperumal, MICA Realized by:

CONCEPT AND DESIGN: RICK VALICENTI FOR THIRST 3ST.COM

PORTRAIT AND BICEP PHOTOGRAPHY: WM VALICENTI QUAD PHOTO LA

VISUALIZATION: REAL EYES 2 EAST OAK STREET CHICAGO. REAL EYES IS AN ASSET OF CLASSIC COLOR

PREPRESS AND PRINTING: CLASSIC COLOR CHICAGO

EQUIPMENT: KOMORI LS 40” 6 COLOR + ANILOX COATER EXTENDED DELIVERY AND CIP 3 KODAK PRINERGY/KMS WORKFLOW.

PRINTING TECHNIQUES: PRINTED USING STOCASTIC SCREENING OUTPUT ON FUJI JAVELIN WITH FUJI THERMAL PLATES AND A TOYO HEXACOLOR INK SET.

PAPER: DOMTAR LUNA GLOSS 100# AND 80# C

FLY SHEETS: CURIOUS METALLICS AQUA FIZZ 80# T

Rick Valicenti, Thirst DYNAMIC SYMMETRY DYNAMIC SYMMETRY

Shiva Nallaperumal, MICA UGANDA IS WAVERING IN ITS FIGHT AGAINST HIV/ AIDS AS THE COUNTRY HAS WON INTERNATIONAL ACCLAIM FOR ITS

DYNAMIC SYMMETRY PROGRESS AGAINST HIV AIDS THE LATEST NUMBERS HOWEVER INDICATE THAT UGANDA IS

NOW LOSING GROUND THE GOVERNMENT IS BOWING TO PRESSURE FROM

FAITH-BASED ORGANIZATIONS IN THE USA PUSHING RIGID MORALISTIC

APPROACHES SUCH AS ABSTINENCE AND BEING FAITHFUL AT

THE EXPENSE OF SAFER SEX PRACTICES THE FUNDAMENTAL

ISSUE THE USE OF CONDOMS IS BEING IGNORED OR

LEFT OUT COMPLETELY THE BUSH ADMINISTRATIONS

$1.2 BILLION FUNDING TO UGANDA IS NOW IN

QUESTION AS RATES OF HIV OR ARE RISING IT SEEMS AS THE HIV AND AIDS ABC CAMPAIGN HAS LOST ITS POWERCONDOMS ARE AN IMPROVISATION NOT A

PRESIDENT MUSEVENI DETERS THE UGANDAN PEOPLE FROM USING CONDOMS IN HOPES SOLUTION I FAVOR OPTIMAL RELATIONSHIPS BASED

OF NOT TEACHING CHRISTIANS TO ENGAGE IN DEBAUCHERY THE UGANDAN GOVERNMENT ON LOVE AND TRUST INSTEAD OF INTENTIONAL

BELIEVES THAT TO USE CONDOMS IS TO INDULGE IN THE CARNAL ACT THEY ASK COMMUNITIES NOT TO USE

MISTRUST WHICH IS WHAT THE CONDOM IS ALL ABOUT

aids tell me one things that is effective effective is that things one me tell aids CONDOMS AS A WAY OF PREVENTING AIDS ONLY ABSTINENCE IS PREACHED HOW CONDOMS HAVE BEEN BANNEDagainst BY THE GOVERNMENT

DO YOU PROTECT YOURSELF FROM HIV WHEN SUBJECTED TO RESTRAINTS OF UGANDA BECAUSE THEY PROMOTE SIGNIFICANT

OF RELIGION COMMUNITIES ARE SO EXPOSED TO THE AIDS RISK TO THE POPULATION AT LARGE

PANDEMIC ESPECIALLY BEING APART OF A POLYGAMOUS SOCIETY ONE WIFE CAN BE TESTED FOR HIV I WAS FULFILLING WHAT THE GOVERNMENT HAD

BUT CANT KNOW THAT HER HUSBANDS OTHER WIFE HAVE BEEN TESTED & SHE HAS NO RIGHT TO TELL HER TO DO SO ABSTINENCE AND FIDELITY ARE THE ORDERED A RECALL AND DESTRUCTION OF CONDOMS

MOST IMPORTANT FACTORS IN ENDING THE TRANSMISSION OF HIV PROGRAMS THAT RECEIVE PEPFAR FUNDS WILL NOT BE REQUIRED TO PROVIDE CONDOMS AS A MODE OF PREVENTION THE UNITED STATES ADMINISTRATION WILL TAKE ABSTINENCE FROM AN AFTERTHOUGHT FORWARD TO AN URGENT GOAL THE RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS ARE VITAL PARTICIPANTS IN THE FIGHT AGAINST Katrina Keane, MICA HIV AND AIDS IN EVERY INSTANCE

FOR EVERY PERSON PUT ON TREATMENT THREE NEW PEOPLE BECOME INFECTED

CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL Design: Paul Sahre. Photographs: Michael Northrup. DYNAMIC SYMMETRY

Alex Jacque, MICA DYNAMIC SYMMETRY

Alex Jacque, MICA FINDING BALANCE

Richard Blake, MICA TOPIC

CHAPTER WRAP! TOPIC

SCALE SCALE IS RELATIVE SCALE CONVEYS MEANING

Gregory May, MICA

Design: Gregory May When the objects that we see in a eld Graphic Design MFA Studio, MICA are familiar to us, we may expect a predetermined relative scale, as with the girae, human, scissors and paper clip above. When our expectations are de ed, we begin to see very dierent and intriguing relationships, from an increased depth of eld to new shapes inspired by extreme abstraction.

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Anthrax Cholera Salmonella Dengue West Nile Virus Dengue Swine Flu H1N1 Dengue Swine Flu H1N1 All other diseases Avian In uenza Malaria Meningitis All other diseases All other diseases All other diseases Nicki Dlugash, Richard Blake, Qian Li, MICA CROPPING IMPLIES SCALE 2000 1957 HELVETICA GOTHAM

Virtually everything. New York City Subway Building lettering. Obama’s 2008 campaign

TOYOTA GQ Magazine

Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg THE NORTH FACE Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg One World Trade Center TARGET Discovery Channel Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn HGTV Channel Helvectica is one of the most American Apparel Gotham is a frequently used popular and widely used Jeep Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Rite Aid Pharmacy Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu typefaces ever created and geometric san-serif. It was continues to be one of the most Ww Xx Yy Zz designed by American type Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz sought after and frequently designer Tobias Frere-Jones in 2002. Gotham’s letterforms specified sans-serifs. It has 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 clean lines, neutrality and great are inspired by a form of clarity that make it perfect for a architectural signage that wide variety of applications such became popular in the th as corporate identity, newspapers, 20 century. It is especially popular throughout NYC. signage and advertising. 1845 CLARENDON 1931 DIN First registered typeface. US National Park Signs German traffic signage. Autobahn German Signage Tonka Truck Brand iphone iOS 7 Camera App Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Great Western Railway THE WOLF OF WALL STREET Clarendon was first designed to Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll “serve as a display letter in a WELLS FARGO logo mass of text-type, and also for side Numbers on Wheel of Fortune Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq headings in many dictionaries and reference books.” It is an English slab-serif typeface that Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww DIN 1451 standard is a commonly was created in England by Robert used default font for traffic signs. It is Besley in 1845. He tried to patent Ww Xx Yy Zz also used in street signs and house Xx Yy Zz the typeface, so Clarendon is now numbers, and until 2000, it was used for known as the first registered 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 German license plates. In 1995, type 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 typeface. When it became popular designer Albert-Jan Pool expanded it was copied by other foundries. DIN 1451 into a more polished form It established the use of bold face used most often in graphic design and to put out parts of the text. publishing. It is referred to as FF DIN. Melissa Hecker, MICA D TYPOGRAPHIC CONTRAST

Li Shaobo and Wenjie Lu

TYPOGRAPHIC CONTRAST

Designers United Designers United Mieke Gerritzen and Geert Lovink TOPIC

CHAPTER WRAP! TOPIC

FRAMING FRAMING THE SHOT

Sarah Joy Jordahl Verville, MICA FRAMING THE SHOT

Lisa Rienermann, University of Essen, Germany MARGINS AND BLEEDS

Margin Full bleed Partial bleed CROPPING IMAGES

Photo: Abbott Miller Design: Ragnar Freyr. Photography: Kevin McAuley Design: Ragnar Freyr. Photography: Cleveland Aaron/Knowledge Mag BREAKING THE FRAME

Lolo Zhang, MICA BREAKING THE FRAME

Shiva Nallaperumal, MICA TOPIC

CHAPTER WRAP! TOPIC

HIERARCHY POOR HIERARCHY POOR HIERARCHY POOR HIERARCHY STRONG HIERARCHY

Nicholas Blechman, Empire

BASIC HIERARCHY

Think with the Senses Think with the Senses Think with the Senses Feel with the Mind. Feel with the Mind. Feel with the Mind. Art in the Present Tense Art in the Present Tense Art in the Present Tense Venice Biennale Venice Biennale Venice Biennale 52nd International Art Exhibition 52nd International Art Exhibition 52nd International Art Exhibition 10 June –21 November 10 June –21 November 10 June –21 November National and Regional Pavilions National and Regional Pavilions National and Regional Pavilions and Presentations. and Presentations. and Presentations. Parallel Exhibitions and Projects Parallel Exhibitions and Projects Parallel Exhibitions and Projects

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Think with the Senses Think with the Senses Think with the Senses Feel with the Mind. Feel with the Mind. Feel with the Mind. Art in the Present Tense Art in the Present Tense Art in the Present Tense Venice Biennale Venice Biennale VENICE BIENNALE 52nd International Art Exhibition 10 June – 21 November 52nd International Art Exhibition 52nd International Art Exhibition National and Regional Pavilions 10 June – 21 November 10 June – 21 November and Presentations. National and Regional Pavilions National and Regional Pavilions Parallel Exhibitions and Projects and Presentations. and Presentations. Parallel Exhibitions and Projects Parallel Exhibitions and Projects

alignment spatial intervals uppercase and spatial intervals BASIC HIERARCHY

Think with the Senses Think with the Senses Think with the Senses Feel with the Mind. Feel with the Mind. Feel with the Mind. Art in the Present Tense Art in the Present Tense Art in the Present Tense Venice Biennale Venice Biennale Venice Biennale 52nd International Art Exhibition 52nd International Art Exhibition 52nd International Art Exhibition 10 June – 21 November 10 June – 21 November 10 June – 21 November National and Regional Pavilions National and Regional Pavilions National and Regional Pavilions and Presentations. and Presentations. Parallel Exhibitions and Projects Parallel Exhibitions and Projects and Presentations. Parallel Exhibitions and Projects

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PAZO

Katie MacLachlan and Anna Eshelman, MICA PAZO On the season premier episode of extreme home makeover, host decided to start things “bang”. Usually when comes time for the demolishing the house, volunteers, bring bulldozers, steam shovels plows wrecking On Wednesday, owners and workers downtown ball, and other equipment. They usually take down the house clear debris away three hours This time the demolition part took seconds the boom shattering glass Everyone first feared add surprise pulled out a timer and told stand across the street from house another These fears were quickly dispelled mad Everyone counted down from ten When the timer reached zero what when sources noise traveled into sight fighters a TYPOGRAPHIC COLOR once the house was now a huge ball of fire Simultaneously fire began lake behind the house marching band started marching down the street Witnesses couldn’t believe their eyes Building its playing music. All the onlookers started singing along they watched the sized vegetables were bouncing down the foxes dynamite exploded house continue to smolder. Fire trucks performed crowd by releasing spurts of water at the house in time to the music fire street smashing things that got into their wand trucks, acrobats did routines on the lifting lowering ladders Everything Small found throughout city had begun vegetable seemed to wrap up in ten minutes. The plows moved in remove debris their Suddenly some unseen force dervish fusion and things went back to normal for at least an hour. It took an hour for the explosion blast to effect the tectonic plate located underneath the levitated tarnish and into the streets water cared home. At approximately 12:35, people in the area experienced a class humongous siblings Fire trucks and cops sandy four earthquake, a three on the richter scale. It lasted approximately five shoot down hose down, and rope down every an Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest Now is the time that face should form another Whose fresh repair if now thou not renewest Thou dost beguile traffic hazards Nothing worked. vegetables alter the world, unbless some mother For where is she so fair whose unear’d womb Disdains the tillage of thy husbandry Or who is he so fond will be the tomb only leaked lifesize seeds tons of juice onto most Of his self-love, to stop posterity Thou art thy mother’s glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime So thou through windows of thine age buildings, pedestrians streets. The parade of lost shall see Despite of wrinkles this thy golden time But if thou live remember’d not to be Die single, and thine image dies with thee Look in thy glass, tell the face thou viewest Now is the time that face should vegetables apparently was first spotted upper renewest Thou dost beguile the world, unbless some mother For where is she so air whose disdains the Manhattan and traveled all the way to the Statue Liberty, where they then moved out to sea. Mast Shall I compare thee to a summer’s three hours the parade had managed structurally damage thirty five buildings, scare the population day Thou art more lovely and more of the New York City, and leave them without add temperate Rough winds do shaken vegetables for potentially a week (a scary thought the darling buds of May And much summer’s lease hath all too shorting a date Sometime too hot the eyes For instance, pick a geometry we have studied which you find interesting. Is there some aspect of it which was discussed briefly

of heaven shines And often is his in class but which we didn’t pursue? Is there some way of changing the rules which intrigues you? If you’re not having much gold complexion dimm’d And every luck, browse through the textbooks. Look at the books on reserve at the library. Talk to me. Once you have tentatively chosen a topic, write a few sentences explaining it. If you are creating your own model, describe exactly what it is. If there’s something

fair from fair sometime declines By missing from a proof, or from the coverage of a topic in one of the books, or whatever, describe what’s missing. Turn in your chance or nature’s changing course choice of topic, together with the brief explanation. Make an outline. Now that you have chosen the topic, you should know at untrimm’d But thy eternal summer least in principle what geometry model(s) you will be working with. The next step is to decide what questions to ask about it So make up a list of questions about your model. Does it need a distance function? Do you plan to determine what corresponds

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At the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said that while it was unclear what role the U.S. military might take in enforcing new new U.N. sanctions, he did not expect the United U.N. sanctions, he did not expect the United States or any other nation to do so unilaterally. At the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said that while it was unclear what role the U.S. military might take in enforcing new U.N. sanctions, he did not expect the United States or any other nation to do so unilaterally. At the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said that while it was unclear what role the U.S. military might take in enforcing new U.N. sanctions, he did not expect the United States or any other nation to do so unilateral- lyAt the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said that while it was unclear what role the U.S. military might take in enforcing new U.N. sanctions, he did not expect the United

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Usually when comes time for the demolishing the house, volunteers, bring bulldozers, steam shovels plows wrecking On Wednesday, owners and workers downtown ball, and other equipment. They usually take down the house clear boom shattering glass Everyone first feared add TYPOGRAPHIC COLOR debris away three hours This time the demolition part took seconds the surprise pulled out a timer and told stand across the street from house another These fears were quickly dispelled mad Everyone counted down from ten When the timer reached zero what once the house was now a huge ball of fire Simultaneously fire began when sources noise traveled into sight fighters a lake behind the house marching band started marching down the street Witnesses couldn’t believe their eyes Building its playing music. All the onlookers started singing along they watched the sized vegetables were bouncing down the foxes dynamite exploded house continue to smolder. Fire trucks performed crowd by releasing spurts of water at the house in time to the music fire street smashing things that got into their wand trucks, acrobats did routines on the lifting lowering ladders Everything Small found throughout city had begun vegetable seemed to wrap up in ten minutes. The plows moved in remove debris their Suddenly some unseen force dervish fusion and things went back to normal for at least an hour. It took an hour for the explosion blast to effect the tectonic plate located underneath the levitated tarnish and into the streets water cared home. At approximately 12:35, people in the area experienced a class humongous siblings Fire trucks and cops sandy four earthquake, a three on the richter scale. It lasted approximately five shoot down hose down, and rope down every an Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest Now is the time that face should form another Whose fresh repair if now thou not renewest Thou dost beguile traffic hazards Nothing worked. vegetables alter the world, unbless some mother For where is she so fair whose unear’d womb Disdains the tillage of thy husbandry Or who is he so fond will be the tomb only leaked lifesize seeds tons of juice onto most Of his self-love, to stop posterity Thou art thy mother’s glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime So thou through windows of thine age buildings, pedestrians streets. The parade of lost shall see Despite of wrinkles this thy golden time But if thou live remember’d not to be Die single, and thine image dies with thee Look in thy glass, tell the face thou viewest Now is the time that face should vegetables apparently was first spotted upper renewest Thou dost beguile the world, unbless some mother For where is she so air whose disdains the Manhattan and traveled all the way to the Statue Liberty, where they then moved out to sea. Mast Shall I compare thee to a summer’s three hours the parade had managed structurally damage thirty five buildings, scare the population day Thou art more lovely and more of the New York City, and leave them without add temperate Rough winds do shaken vegetables for potentially a week (a scary thought the darling buds of May And much summer’s lease hath all too shorting a date Sometime too hot the eyes For instance, pick a geometry we have studied which you find interesting. Is there some aspect of it which was discussed briefly

shall not fade Nor lose possession to circles? Select several of these questions (1 is too few; 10 is too many) which you hope to answer while writing your essay Julie Diewald,of MICA that fair thou owest Nor shall tie Divide them into appropriate categories. Now you’re ready for the outline: Start with an introduction, end with a and put the various (categories of) problems in the middle. Briefly describe each part. Turn in your outline. Do the math Solve

Chen Zui, MFA Studio THIS IS A PRO- THIS IS FOUND TITILE BREAKING CLASHING GOALS IN SYRIA STRIKES BEDEVIL NEWS CLASHING GOALS IN SYRIA STRIKES BEDEVIL PROTESTERS IN HONG KONG DEADLY TYPHOON HITS JAPAN EASE SIT-IN AT GOVERNMENT BEARS DOWN ON TOKYO DEADLY TYPHOON HITS JAPAN BEARS DOWN ON TOKYO

Chen Zui, MFA Studio ONE IMPORTANT ELEMENT

James Anderson and Heda Hokschirr, MICA ONE IMPORTANT ELEMENT

James Anderson, MICA ONE IMPORTANT ELEMENT

Heda Hokschirr, MICA MANY IMPORTANT ELEMENTS

Amy Lee Walton, MICA TOPIC

CHAPTER WRAP! TOPIC

GRIDS BASIC GRID GRIDS GENERATE FORM

Jason Okutake and John P. Corrigan, MICA GRIDS GENERATE FORM TYPOGRAPHIC GRID TYPOGRAPHIC GRID GRIDS ORGANIZE CONTENT GRIDS GENERATE FORM MAKING A GRID IN INDESIGN MAKING A GRID IN INDESIGN MAKING A GRID IN INDESIGN

TOPICUSING THE GRID TOPICUSING THE GRID TOPICUSING THE GRID TOPICUSING THE GRID STRUCTURE AND VARIATION

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Chen Yu, MICA Right to Freedom Freedom fair from Right of public Right discrimination to opinion hearing to participate and participate in information in government Right in and to the in marriage cultural free and Right life elections family of of peaceful the Freedom Freedom assembly community of from and belief arbitrary association and arrest religion and exile

Right Right to to asylum recognition in Right as other to a countries own person from Freedom property before persecution from the slavery Freedom law from torture and degrading Right Right treatment to to a a nationality social and order the that freedom articulates to this change Right document it Community to duties social essential security Right to to a equality free Right before and to the Right full free law to development movement rest in and and leisure out Right of to the Freedom life, country Right from liberty, to state Right and be or to personal considered personal desirable innocent security interference work until in and proven the to guilty above join rights trade Right unions Right to to education remedy by Right Freedom a to from competent adequate interference tribunal living with standard privacy, Right family, to home, Chen Yu, MICA equality and correspondence 2014 TALKS 40

Oct. 23 – Oct. 25, 2014

TOPIC BAM THEATRE 6 Angels in America Oct. 28 – Nov. 1, 2014

FILM 36 18 LoCATIoN BAM Harvey Theater 36 Salt of the Earth 40 RuN TIME 5 hours and 10 minutes 46 with internmission

There are no feathers here. Instead of beating wings, there’s David Bowie’s other zvI SAHAR

music worldly wails. With little more than a stack of vinyl records, a few fluorescent lights,

of and a saline drip, Dutch visionary Ivo van Hove and Toneelgroep Amsterdam puppETCINEMA/HAzIRA

deliver a revelatory take on Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic. Encompassing pERFoRMANCE ART ARENA both “Millennium Approaches” and “Perestroika,” this marathon production strips Kushner’s now-iconic characters—Prior Walter and his boyfriend Louis, Reaganite academy lawyer Roy Cohn, Mormon couple Joe and Harper Pitt—to their essence, boldly reimagining “A Gay Fantasia on National Themes.” next wave festival brooklyn

THEATRE LoCATIoN BAM Fisher Fishman Space CLASSES 46 RuN TIME

dutch 1 hours and 20 minutes

next wave

festival premiere premiere

us us

ToNy KuSHNER A thousand pounds of salt become a punishing Middle Eastern desert, plastic tanks barrel down paper streets, ToNEELgRo Ep AMSTERDAM and a faceless, nameless puppet emerges a rebel hero in this work by artist Zvi Sahar. DIRECTED by Ivo vAN HovE DANCE 18

6 7 Sept. 17 – Sep. 20 2014 Sept. 17 – Sep. 20 2014 “Even with Sept. 24 – Sep. 27 2014 Sept. 17 – Sep. 20 2014 Sept. 17 – Sep. 20 2014 Oct. 7 – Oct. 12 2014 Oct. 16 2014

Abacus LoCATIoN Embers riverrun Alan Smithee Directed This Shakespeare’s Sonnets BAM Harvey Theate Not I, Footfalls, Rockaby Brooklyn Bred 2: Play: Triple Feature Clifford Owens the genre- RuN TIME 55 minutes

In and out goes the sound of the sea and beside it sits Henry, LoCATIoN bending LoCATIoN LoCATIoN Iambic pentameter gets a surreal makeover in this pop-opera In this staging of three one-woman plays by Samuel Beckett, directed by the LoCATIoN remembering. The troubled protagonist of Beckett’s 1959 BAM Fisher BAM Fisher BAM Harvey Theater romp through Shakespeare’s sonnets from director Robert playwright’s longtime friend Walter Asmus, the obsessive rhythms of abject BAM Fisher radio play, Embers, cannot stop talking—to his dead father, Fishman Space Fishman Space Wilson and composer Rufus Wainwright. The Bard’s enigmatic existence—rambling, pacing, and rocking—are laid bare. Irish actor Lisa Dwan, Fishman Space drowned in the waves; to his dead wife, Ada; and to himself, RuN TIME poems are pared down to 25 selections, set to everything who drew ecstatic reviews for her performances at the Royal Court Theatre a failed writer—leaving a twisted thicket of regrets and RuN TIME RuN TIME 1 hour 15 minutes from medieval German Minnesang to cabaret rock and and in the West End, masterfully triangulates the existential void. In Not I, a RuN TIME hallucinations for the audience to navigate. In this ghostly 1 hour 1 hour performed by Bertolt Brecht’s historic Berliner Ensemble. woman—reduced to a mere mouth, suspended in total darkness—seeks solace in 1 hour production from Ireland’s Pan Pan Theatre (All That As pallid, genderqueer dramatis personæ, the virtuosic a blisteringly paced stream of her own broken speech. In Footfalls, a tattered Fall, 2012 Next Wave), two actors set up behind the eyes of performers smirk and sneer through expressionistic slapstick, soul, drained of life, paces relentlessly outside her dying mother’s bedroom. a massive skull and, with the help of a sound artist, enliven eclecticism while Wilson’s signature sculpting of time, light, and gesture And in Rockaby, a woman slowly withdraws from the world, rocked to eternal premiere premiere

the fevered mind of a man struggling to speak his world evokes an absurdist dream. sleep in her mother’s chair. us back into meaningful existence. us

Eccentric techno-futurologist Paul Abacus (who may or may not be the fabricated DIRECTED by ANNIE-b pARSoN Art world provocateur Clifford Owens and colleagues Amanda Alfieri, alter-ego of artist Lars Jan) presents his multimedia talking tour of our hyper- AND pAuL LAzAR Renee Cox, Shaun Leonardo, and Martha Wilson stage an interactive networked world to come. Flanked by balletic Steadicam operators and a giant forum on performance art, as part of Brooklyn Bred, a series curated panda, our elusive prophet walks us through a lecture that’s part TED talk, part CHoREogRApHy by ANNIE-b by Wilson, the founder and director of Franklin Furnace Archive. televangelism, part new performance frontier, in the name of a world without pARSoN AND THE CoMpANy of today's borders. Predicated on the imminent collapse of both the nation-state and our bIg DANCE THEATER current screen age, ABACUS is a dark roller-coaster ride through experience design, experimental comedy, and the underbelly of big data.

LoCATIoN Adherents of James Joyce’s 1939 tome Finnegans Wake espouse the idea that its Astronauts, Bolsheviks, and middle-American families mingle on a stage littered LoCATIoN by SAMuEL bECKETT CLIFFoRD owENS BAM Harvey Theater language comes to life only when read aloud. Singlehandedly validating that avant-garde, with lawn chairs, telephones, fur coats, and pistols in this collision of early-20th- Peter Jay Sharp Building A FoRuM FoR claim, formidable Irish actress Olwen Fouéré, assuming the role of the river Liffey, century Moscow, midcentury Paris, and late-20th-century Houston. Big Dance BAM Howard Gilman A RoyAL CouRT THEATRE AND pERFoRMANCE ART LISA DwAN pRoDuCTIoN RuN TIME offers this incandescent interpretation of the final section of Joyce’s “book of the Theater directors Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar sample fragments of iconic film Opera House night.” A force of nature possessed of every crackling phrase, Fouéré (who also scripts and novels, divorced from their narrative contexts, to create a kinetic 55 minutes DIRECTED by adapted and directs the piece) turns Joyce’s prose into an undulating soundscape, collage of political rhetoric, pathos, paranoia, and suburban love. With a titular nod RuN TIME wALTER ASMuS inhabiting the voice of Anna Livia Plurabelle, the river’s personification, as she to the Hollywood pseudonym for directors who disavow their work after creative 2 hours 45 minutes swells and surges her way through the Wake’s end and out to sea. interference, Alan Smithee Directed This Play: Triple Feature contemplates the

with intermission premiere slippery nature of creative control, history, its fictions, and the inextricable link premiere premiere premiere

Lars Jan between the personal and the historical. ny us us world

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Moment Marigold Wild Grass L.A. Dance Project The Philip Glass Ensemble & Steve Reich and Musicians

DANCE

CHoREogRApHy by LoCATIoN bEIjINg DANCE THEATER Founded as a collective two years ago by newly appointed Murder Ballades, a vivacious work in the spirit of Jerome SEp. 9 SEp. 10 SEp. 11 For Steve Reich, it was “music as gradual process.” For Philip Glass, it was “music QUANTUM joDI MELNICK BAM Harvey Theater Paris Opera Ballet director and former New York City Ballet Robbins, with a visual concept by artist Sterling Ruby FouR oRgANS FouR oRgANS CLAppINg MuSIC with repetitive structures.” For everyone else, it was minimalism, and no two CHoREogRApHy by principal Benjamin Millepied—along with composer Nico and music by Bryce Dessner, performed live by eighth American composers have been as crucial to the style’s development as these two wANg yuANyuAN by STEvE REICH by STEvE REICH By Steve Reich RuN TIME Muhly, founding producer Charles Fabius, and others—the blackbird; and William Forsythe’s Quintett, a tender, elegiac Performed by steve Reich, Philip Performed by Steve Reich, Performed by Steve Reich Promethean figures with rich histories at BAM and on Nonesuch Records. Yet 1 hour and 40 minutes ambitious L.A. Dance Project has already turned heads piece for five dancers, created by Forsythe as a love letter Glass, Nico muhly, Timo Andres, Philip Glass, Nico Muhly, and Russell Hartenberger despite their musical affinities, Glass and Reich have pursued notably different and percussionist David Cossin Timo Andres, and with two intermissions with its fresh, contemporary vision of dance and stylistically to his late wife. career paths and—remarkably—haven’t shared the stage in over 30 years. Now, percussionist David Cossin / diverse repertory. pIANo pHASE vIDEo THE CIvIL wARS: Drumming by Steve Reich pHASE for the first time in over 30 years, they reunite, joining their respective ensembles, Performed by Steve Reich premiere “CoLogNE” ExCERpT as well as Nico Muhly, Timo Andres, Synergy Vocals, and others for a three program

By Steve Reich For its much-anticipated New York debut, the company By Philip Glass Performed by David Cossin retrospective of their inestimable collective legacy. premiere MuSIC IN SIMILAR presents three pieces: Millepied’s own Reflections, an elegant Performed by the Philip MoTIoN us world Glass Ensemble series of pas de deux and group dances, set against bold wTC 9/11 By Philip Glass Philip Glass, one of America’s most celebrated composers, applies his musical graphics by Barbara Kruger and scored by David Lang; rising By Steve Reich Choreographer Jodi Melnick revels in the hidden narratives that emerge when a MuSIC IN TwELvE pARTS: Performed by the Philip Glass encounters in India, North Africa, and the Himalayas to his own compositions, gILLES jobIN CoMpANy choreographer and New York City Ballet dancer Justin Peck’s Performed by Steve Reich multitude of dance methods and modalities, both schematic and autographic, pARTS 1 & 2 Ensemble with Steve Reich and Musicians creating a large body of work in a distinct idiom which can be heard in his operas, gILLES jobIN AND intertwine. Backed by original music by Steven Reker (People Get Ready), Moment By Philip Glass film scores, dance music, symphonic work, and string quartets. More than 20 of juLIuS voN bISMARCK Performed by the Philip IN THE uppER RooM: SExTET his pieces have been performed at BAM since 1981, including several benchmark Marigold features three women, including Melnick, negotiating entangled knots Glass Ensemble DANCE Ix of actions and pauses, revealing stories held deep within our bodies. By Philip Glass works such as Einstein on the Beach, first presented at BAM’s 1984 Next Wave By Philip Glass Performed by the Philip AKHNATEN ACT 1, Festival (revived for Next Wave 1992 and 2012). Other BAM performances include : Performed by the Philip Glass Ensemble SCENE 1, “FuNERAL oF Glass Ensemble The Photographer/Far From the Truth (BAM, 1983); The CIVIL warS, Act V—The AMENHoTEp III” Rome Section (Next Wave 1986); the world premieres of Low Symphony (Next Wave MuSIC IN SIMILAR By Philip Glass 1992) and Symphony No. 2 (Next Wave 1994); the New York premieres of Orphée EINSTEIN oN THE bEACH: MoTIoN Performed by the Philip ACT 4, SCENE 1, (Next Wave 1993) and La Belle et la Bête (Next Wave 1994), and a presentation of Glass Ensemble By Philip Glass “buILDINg” Performed by the Philip Glass Les Enfants Terrible: Children of the Game (Spring 1996)—all parts of his operatic By Philip Glass Ensemble with Steve Reich trilogy based on the work of Jean Cocteau; Next Wave 1998’s Monsters of Grace; a MuSIC FoR 18 MuSICIANS Performed by the Philip LoCATIoN LoCATIoN Renowned for her alluring fusion of Chinese tradition with a fiercely modern live musical performance accompanying a screening of Koyaanisqatsi (Spring 1999); CHoREogRApHy by LoCATIoN By Steve Reich Glass Ensemble LoCATIoN BAM Fisher BAM Fisher sensibility, choreographer Wang Yuanyuan takes her latest inspiration from bENjAMIN MILLEpIED, Peter Jay Sharp Building Performed by Steve Reich Peter Jay Sharp Building and Dracula: The Music and Film ( Next Wave 1999) featuring the Kronos Quartet. juSTIN pECK AND Fishman Space Fishman Space Chinese literary giant Lu Xun. Emboldened by the expression of survival in his , BAM Howard Gilman Opera House and Musicians powAqqATSI: “MoSquE BAM Howard Gilman Opera House Glass collaborated with director Mary Zimmerman for the opera Galileo Galilei, 1927 poetry collection Wild Grass, Wang created this radiant work that celebrates wILLIAM FoRSy THE AND TEMpLE” presented as part of the 20th anniversary season of the Next Wave Festival (2002). RuN TIME RuN TIME our natural will to persevere. By Philip Glass Glass’ more recent works at BAM include the collaborative concert work Orion and FEATuRINg A SpECIAL RuN TIME RuN TIME Performed by the Philip Symphony No. 6 and No. 8 (2005 Next Wave); and his opera Kepler (Next Wave 45 minutes 50 minutes AppEARANCE by 2 hours Glass Ensemble 2 hour and 20 minutes Comprising three movements—Dead Fire, Farewell of the Shadow, and Dance of EIgHTH bLACKbIRD with two intermissions 2009). Nonesuch has released 22 albums of Glass’ compositions, beginning with Extremity—Wild Grass unfolds as an evocative abstraction of Lu’s volatile his 1985 soundtrack to Mishima and, most recently, the reissue of his seminal 1993 elemental lands-capes, accompanied by solo piano, strings, and experimental Einstein on the Beach recording and a 40-year retrospective called Glass Box. electronica. White paper leaves scatter underfoot as dancers alternate between balletic grace and tension, conjuring the fragility and vitality of the human spirit.

Developed by Swiss choreographer Gilles Jobin and German lamps, programmed to respond to the slightest movement, visual artist Julius von Bismarck while in residence at CERN, while Carla Scaletti’s soundscape, derived from particle the world’s largest particle physics lab, QUANTUM takes collision data, provides the sonic ether. the quark as muse, fusing choreography and installation art into an ode to subatomic randomness. Six dancers vibrate, scatter, and whirl beneath a gyrating quartet of industrial premiere

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Sep. 9 2014 Sep. 9 2014 Sep. 18 2014 Sep. 23 – Sep. 13 2014 Sep. 27 - Sep. 28 2014 Sep. 23 - Sep. 27 2014

Brad Mehldau Chris Thile & Brad Carolina Chocolate Drops Tweedy Robert Plant and the The Source Mehldau Duo Sensational Space Shifters

One of the most lyrical and intimate voices of contemporary jazz piano, Brad Nonesuch Records label-mates Chris Thile and Brad Mehldau play as a duet, with After their BAM debut in the 2014 Winter/Spring Season, the Carolina Chocolate LoCATIoN LoCATIoN Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning has many identities: adrift adolescent, emboldened whistleblower, Mehldau performs an evening of music which embodies the essence of jazz repertoire including classical transcriptions, pop covers, and original songs. Drops return for one night only. Known for fresh interpretation of old-time, Peter Jay Sharp Building Peter Jay Sharp Building traitor to her country. In this penetrating multimedia oratorio, Brooklyn-based composer Ted Hearne and exploration, classical romanticism, and pop allure. From critical acclaim as a Longtime admirers of each other’s work, mandolinist and singer Thile and pianist fiddle, and banjo-based music, the Grammy Award-winning string band performs BAM Howard Gilman Opera House BAM Howard Gilman Opera House director Daniel Fish dive into the media hysteria responsible for the many faces of the Army private who bandleader and solo artist to major international exposure in collaborations Mehldau first performed together in September 2011 as part of Mehldau’s residency music from its two Nonesuch releases, Genuine Negro Jig (2010) and Leaving Eden infamously leaked hundreds of thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks. with Pat Metheny, Anne Sofie von Otter, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, at London’s Wigmore Hall before going on a brief tour in 2013. (2012). Rhiannon Giddens, vocalist, violinist, and banjo player-whom Variety RuN TIME RuN TIME An ever-shifting chorus of silent witnesses looms as four singers housed in a visual and sonic installation Renee Fleming, Britten Sinfonia, and Joshua Redman, Mehldau continues to called a “breakout star…hold[ing] the capacity crowd spellbound”-previews material 2 hours and 30 minutes 2 hours and 30 minutes garner numerous awards and admiration from both jazz purists and music from her forthcoming Nonesuch album, produced by the legendary T Bone Burnett. descend into the digital mire. With computer-processed voices, they inhabit a fever-dream assemblage of enthusiasts alike. His forays into melding musical idioms, in his trio (with Larry Twitter feeds, cable news reports, chat transcripts, court testimony, and declassified military video, shining premiere Grenadier on bass and Jeff Ballard on drums) and solo settings, has seen a light on the massive information machine in which Manning, and our nation, has become ensnared. brilliant re-workings of songs by contemporary songwriters like The Beatles, Cole

Porter, Radiohead, George and Ira Gershwin, and Nick Drake, alongside the world ever evolving breadth of his own significant catalogue of original compositions. With his affection for popular music and classical training, Mehldau has become wITH opENER oLIvIA CHANEy “universally admired as one of the most adventurous pianists to arrive on the jazz scene in years (Los Angeles Times).” In the last few years alone, Mehldau’s Nonesuch releases have showcased the facets of his fruitful, ever-evolving career as it enters its second decade: his ambitious orchestral record with producer Jon Brion (Highway Rider); his live solo performances (Live in Marciac); his collaborations with genre-crossing musicians (Modern Music, with composer/ pianist Kevin Hays and composer/arranger Patrick Zimmerli); his trio work with his longstanding acclaimed trio (the Grammy-Nominated Ode and the acclaimed Where Do You Start—both released in the same year), and most recently a turn into electric territories in a duo with the prodigious drummer Mark Guiliana (Mehliana: Taming the Dragon). LoCATIoN Jeff Tweedy, founder of the pioneering Chicago rock band Legendary British singer-songwriter and Led Zeppelin alum Robert Plant, newly CoMpoSED by TED HEARNE BAM Harvey Theater Wilco, makes his BAM debut as part of Nonesuch Records at signed to Nonesuch Records, comes to BAM for two nights with his band, the BAM. Celebrating the release of the new album Sukierae— Sensational Space Shifters. The band comprises Justin Adams (guitar), John Baggott LIbRETTo by MARK DoTEN under the moniker Tweedy, a collaboration between Jeff and (keyboards), Juldeh Camara (gologo and ritti—one-string African violin), Billy RuN TIME DIRECTED by DANIEL FISH Fuller (bass), Liam “Skin” Tyson (guitar), and Dave Smith (percussion) and 1 hour and 10 minutes his 18-year-old son Spencer—the father-son duo is joined by Jim Elkington on guitar, Darin Gray on bass, and Liam developed out of Plant’s work with Strange Sensation, with whom he recorded the Cunningham on keyboards and guitars to perform 20 new Jeff critically acclaimed, multi-Grammy-nominated albums Dreamland and Mighty Tweedy-penned tunes. Jeff also performs a solo acoustic Rearranger. Robert Plant releases his Nonesuch label debut in 2014. set featuring songs from the Wilco and Uncle Tupelo catalogs.

LoCATIoN LoCATIoN LoCATIoN BAM Harvey Theater BAM Harvey Theater BAM Fisher Fishman Space RuN TIME RuN TIME Julia Rivera, MICA 1 hours and 50 minutes 1 hour and 10 minutes RuN TIME 1 hour and 15 minutes

26 27 28 29 32 33 Sept. 17 – Sep. 20 2014 Sept. 17 – Sep. 20 2014 “Even with Sept. 24 – Sep. 27 2014 Sept. 17 – Sep. 20 2014 Sept. 17 – Sep. 20 2014

Embers riverrun Abacus Alan Smithee Directed This Shakespeare’s Sonnets the genre- Play: Triple Feature

In and out goes the sound of the sea and beside it sits Henry, LoCATIoN bending LoCATIoN LoCATIoN Iambic pentameter gets a surreal makeover in this pop-opera remembering. The troubled protagonist of Beckett’s 1959 BAM Fisher BAM Fisher BAM Harvey Theater romp through Shakespeare’s sonnets from director Robert radio play, Embers, cannot stop talking—to his dead father, Fishman Space Fishman Space Wilson and composer Rufus Wainwright. The Bard’s enigmatic drowned in the waves; to his dead wife, Ada; and to himself, RuN TIME poems are pared down to 25 selections, set to everything a failed writer—leaving a twisted thicket of regrets and RuN TIME RuN TIME 1 hour 15 minutes from medieval German Minnesang to cabaret rock and hallucinations for the audience to navigate. In this ghostly 1 hour 1 hour performed by Bertolt Brecht’s historic Berliner Ensemble. production from Ireland’s Pan Pan Theatre (All That As pallid, genderqueer dramatis personæ, the virtuosic Fall, 2012 Next Wave), two actors set up behind the eyes of performers smirk and sneer through expressionistic slapstick, a massive skull and, with the help of a sound artist, enliven eclecticism while Wilson’s signature sculpting of time, light, and gesture premiere premiere

the fevered mind of a man struggling to speak his world evokes an absurdist dream. us back into meaningful existence. us

Eccentric techno-futurologist Paul Abacus (who may or may not be the fabricated DIRECTED by ANNIE-b pARSoN alter-ego of artist Lars Jan) presents his multimedia talking tour of our hyper- AND pAuL LAzAR networked world to come. Flanked by balletic Steadicam operators and a giant panda, our elusive prophet walks us through a lecture that’s part TED talk, part CHoREogRApHy by ANNIE-b televangelism, part new performance frontier, in the name of a world without pARSoN AND THE CoMpANy of today's borders. Predicated on the imminent collapse of both the nation-state and our bIg DANCE THEATER current screen age, ABACUS is a dark roller-coaster ride through experience design, experimental comedy, and the underbelly of big data.

LoCATIoN Adherents of James Joyce’s 1939 tome Finnegans Wake espouse the idea that its Astronauts, Bolsheviks, and middle-American families mingle on a stage littered LoCATIoN BAM Harvey Theater language comes to life only when read aloud. Singlehandedly validating that avant-garde, with lawn chairs, telephones, fur coats, and pistols in this collision of early-20th- Peter Jay Sharp Building claim, formidable Irish actress Olwen Fouéré, assuming the role of the river Liffey, century Moscow, midcentury Paris, and late-20th-century Houston. Big Dance BAM Howard Gilman RuN TIME offers this incandescent interpretation of the final section of Joyce’s “book of the Theater directors Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar sample fragments of iconic film Opera House 55 minutes night.” A force of nature possessed of every crackling phrase, Fouéré (who also scripts and novels, divorced from their narrative contexts, to create a kinetic adapted and directs the piece) turns Joyce’s prose into an undulating soundscape, collage of political rhetoric, pathos, paranoia, and suburban love. With a titular nod RuN TIME inhabiting the voice of Anna Livia Plurabelle, the river’s personification, as she to the Hollywood pseudonym for directors who disavow their work after creative 2 hours 45 minutes swells and surges her way through the Wake’s end and out to sea. interference, Alan Smithee Directed This Play: Triple Feature contemplates the with intermission slippery nature of creative control, history, its fictions, and the inextricable link premiere premiere premiere

Lars Jan between the personal and the historical. ny us us

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Oct. 2 – Oct. 4 2014 Oct. 8 – Oct. 11 2014 Oct. 15 – Oct. 18 2014 Oct. 16 – Oct. 18 2014

Moment Marigold Wild Grass L.A. Dance Project

DANCE

CHoREogRApHy by LoCATIoN bEIjINg DANCE THEATER Founded as a collective two years ago by newly appointed Murder Ballades, a vivacious work in the spirit of Jerome QUANTUM joDI MELNICK BAM Harvey Theater Paris Opera Ballet director and former New York City Ballet Robbins, with a visual concept by artist Sterling Ruby CHoREogRApHy by principal Benjamin Millepied—along with composer Nico and music by Bryce Dessner, performed live by eighth wANg yuANyuAN RuN TIME Muhly, founding producer Charles Fabius, and others—the blackbird; and William Forsythe’s Quintett, a tender, elegiac 1 hour and 40 minutes ambitious L.A. Dance Project has already turned heads piece for five dancers, created by Forsythe as a love letter with two intermissions with its fresh, contemporary vision of dance and stylistically to his late wife. diverse repertory. premiere For its much-anticipated New York debut, the company premiere

presents three pieces: Millepied’s own Reflections, an elegant

us world series of pas de deux and group dances, set against bold graphics by Barbara Kruger and scored by David Lang; rising Choreographer Jodi Melnick revels in the hidden narratives that emerge when a gILLES jobIN CoMpANy choreographer and New York City Ballet dancer Justin Peck’s multitude of dance methods and modalities, both schematic and autographic, gILLES jobIN AND intertwine. Backed by original music by Steven Reker (People Get Ready), Moment juLIuS voN bISMARCK Marigold features three women, including Melnick, negotiating entangled knots of actions and pauses, revealing stories held deep within our bodies.

LoCATIoN LoCATIoN Renowned for her alluring fusion of Chinese tradition with a fiercely modern CHoREogRApHy by LoCATIoN BAM Fisher BAM Fisher sensibility, choreographer Wang Yuanyuan takes her latest inspiration from bENjAMIN MILLEpIED, Peter Jay Sharp Building Fishman Space Fishman Space Chinese literary giant Lu Xun. Emboldened by the expression of survival in his juSTIN pECK, AND BAM Howard Gilman Opera House 1927 poetry collection Wild Grass, Wang created this radiant work that celebrates wILLIAM FoRSy THE our natural will to persevere. RuN TIME RuN TIME FEATuRINg A SpECIAL RuN TIME 45 minutes 50 minutes AppEARANCE by 2 hours Comprising three movements—Dead Fire, Farewell of the Shadow, and Dance of EIgHTH bLACKbIRD with two intermissions Extremity—Wild Grass unfolds as an evocative abstraction of Lu’s volatile elemental lands-capes, accompanied by solo piano, strings, and experimental electronica. White paper leaves scatter underfoot as dancers alternate between balletic grace and tension, conjuring the fragility and vitality of the human spirit.

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Julia Rivera, MICA BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC 7 THEATRE NY PREMIERE September 9–December 20 Sponsored by Phillip Morris Companies Inc.

DATE 9.24–9.27 TIME 1 Hour LOCATION BAM Fisher: Fishman Space COST All tickets $20 Abacus

Eccentric techno-futurologist Paul Abacus (who may or may not be the fabricated alter-ego of artist Lars Jan) presents his multimedia talking tour of our hyper-networked world to come. Flanked by balletic Steadicam operators and a giant panda, our elusive prophet walks us through a lecture that’s part TED talk, part televangelism, part new performance frontier, in the name of a world without borders. Predicated on the imminent collapse of both the nation-state and our current screen VIDEO, SCENIC, AND SOFTWARE DESIGN age, ABACUS is a dark roller-coaster ride through experience design, Pablo N. Molina experimental comedy, and the underbelly of big data. Early Morning Opera

VISUALIZATION SOFTWARE & DATA NARRATIVE DESIGN James N. Sears and Jonathan Cousins "" EVEN WITH THE GENRE-BENDING

MUSIC, SOUND, AND SOFTWARE DESIGN Nathan Ruyle ECLECTICISM OF TODAY'S AVANT-

LIGHTING DESIGN GARDE, LARS JAN STANDS OUT." Christopher Kuhl LOS ANGELES TIMES

WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Lars Jan

Commissioned by EMPAC / Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

Amy Hushen, MICA 3 THEATRE US PREMIERE–IN DUTCH 5 THEATRE US PREMIERE

Riverrun

“ Riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend of DATE 9.17–9.20 bay...”Adherents of James Joyce’s 1939 tome Finnegans Wake Embers TIME 1 Hour espouse the idea that its language comes to life only when read LOCATION BAM Fisher: Fishman Space aloud. Singlehandedly validating that claim, formidable Irish In and out goes the sound of the sea and beside it sits Henry, COST All tickets $20 SCULPTURE actress Olwen Fouéré, assuming the role of the river Liffey, offers Andrew Clancy remembering. The troubled protagonist of Beckett’s 1959 radio this incandescent interpretation of the final section of Joyce’s play, Embers, cannot stop talking—to his dead father, drowned in “book of the night.” A force of nature possessed of every crackling SOUND DESIGN the waves; to his dead wife, Ada; and to himself, a failed writer— phrase, Fouéré (who also adapted and directs the piece) turns Jimmy Eadie leaving a twisted thicket of regrets and hallucinations for the audience to navigate. In this ghostly production from Ireland’s Pan Joyce’s prose into an undulating soundscape, inhabiting the voice LIGHTING DESIGN Pan Theatre (All That Fall, 2012 Next Wave), two actors set up of Anna Livia Plurabelle, the river’s personification, as she swells Aedin Cosgrove behind the eyes of a massive skull and, with the help of a sound artist, and surges her way through the Wake’s end and out to sea. enliven the fevered mind of a man struggling to speak his world back into meaningful existence.

WRITTEN BY Samuel Beckett " "FOUÉRÉ’S BOLD, FUNNY AND DIRECTED BY Gavin Quinn LIGHTING DESIGN Stephen Dodd ELOQUENT DRAMA MIGHT JUST SOUND DESIGN & COMPOSITION BE LIFE-CHANGING." Alma Kelliher

COSTUME DESIGN THE TELEGRAPH Monica Frawley

Peter Pan Theatre

DATE 9.17–9.20 TIME 55 minutes LOCATION BAM Harvey Theater TheEmergencyRoom and Galway International Arts Festival

Gallery seating is only accessible by 70 stairs. Presented in association with Irish Arts Center COST Tickets start at $35

Presented in association with Irish Arts Center ADAPTED, DIRECTED, AND PERFORMED Olwen Fouéré CO-DIRECTED Kellie Hughe

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DATE 9.24–9.27 DATE 9.30–10.4 Alan Smithee Directed This Play: TIME 1 Hour TIME 1 hour 15 minutes LOCATION BAM Fisher: Fishman Space Triple Feature COST All tickets $20 LOCATION BAM Harvey Theater COST Tickets start at $20 Abacus Astronauts, Bolsheviks, and middle-American families mingle on a stage littered with lawn chairs, telephones, fur coats, and pistols in this collision of early-20th-century Moscow, midcentury Paris, and Eccentric techno-futurologist Paul Abacus (who may or may not late-20th-century Houston. Big Dance Theater directors Annie-B be the fabricated alter-ego of artist Lars Jan) presents his multimedia Parson and Paul Lazar sample fragments of iconic film scripts and talking tour of our hyper-networked world to come. Flanked by balletic Steadicam operators and a giant panda, our elusive prophet walks us novels, divorced from their narrative contexts, to create a kinetic through a lecture that’s part TED talk, part televangelism, part new collage of political rhetoric, pathos, paranoia, and suburban love. performance frontier, in the name of a world without borders. Predicated With a titular nod to the Hollywood pseudonym for directors who on the imminent collapse of both the nation-state and our current screen disavow their work after creative interference, Alan Smithee Directed VIDEO, SCENIC, AND SOFTWARE DESIGN age, ABACUS is a dark roller-coaster ride through experience design, This Play: Triple Feature contemplates the slippery nature of creative Pablo N. Molina experimental comedy, and the underbelly of big data. Early Morning Opera control, history, its fictions, and the inextricable link between the personal and the historical. VISUALIZATION SOFTWARE & DATA NARRATIVE DESIGN James N. Sears and Jonathan Cousins "" EVEN WITH THE GENRE-BENDING SCENERY MUSIC, SOUND, AND SOFTWARE DESIGN Joanne Howard Nathan Ruyle ECLECTICISM OF TODAY'S AVANT-

LIGHTING DESIGN LIGHTING DESIGN GARDE, LARS JAN STANDS OUT." Joe Levasseur DIRECTED BY Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar Christopher Kuhl CHOREOGRAPHY BY Annie-B Parson and the company LOS ANGELES TIMES COSTUME DESIGN Oana Bolez

SOUND DESIGN WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Lars Jan Tei Blow

VIDEO Jeff Larson

Commissioned by EMPAC / Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

Gallery seating is only accessible by 70 stairs.

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