GROUNDSWELL: Pomona College Spring Dance Concert

Pomona College Seaver Theatre
May 2-5, Thursday thru Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m.
$10 General Admission, $5 Students, Faculty, Staff and Seniors

Tickets are now on sale at the Seaver Theatre Box Office.
Box Office Hours: Monday thru Friday from 11am-4pm and 1 hour prior to curtain times
For tickets, call (909) 607-4375 or email us at seaverboxoffice@pomona.edu

The Spring events have been selling like crazy! Be sure to get your tickets early.

See you at the theatre!

CURTAIN RAISERS of The Claremont Colleges
Summer Theatre/Dance Scholarships

The Curtain Raisers of The Claremont Colleges is a non-profit organization that supports theatre and dance at the colleges and in the community. Curtain Raisers, in partnership with the Dept. of Theatre & Dance, created the Claremont School of Theatre Arts, a summer theatre program for youth. The group also provides theatre programs at El Roble Intermediate School each year.

The Curtain Raisers Summer Theatre and Dance Scholarship Fund was established to assist students active in the Five College Theatre and Dance Dept. who wish to take part in summer theatre/dance activities, but who need financial assistance to participate. The modest funding for the scholarships is raised each year by member contributions. This year a total of $4,000 is available for the combined scholarship grants to all applicants.

Awards will be made based on the application, interview, financial need and acceptance into a recognized summer theatre or dance program. The Scholarship Committee will consist of members of the Curtain Raisers Board and of the Theatre/Dance Faculty. Interviews will take place on Friday, May 3, 2013.

Students receiving scholarships will be asked to give an oral presentation of their summer experience to the Curtain Raisers in the fall after their return to the Colleges.

Guidelines
1. The applicant must be a student who will be returning to one of The Claremont Colleges next year, to bring his/her experience back to the college community.
2. Preference will be given to sophomores and juniors, and to students who have not previously received a scholarship from Curtain Raisers of the Claremont Colleges.
3. Other considerations shall include financial need as reflected in the student’s college aid award and the student’s positive contributions to the Department of Theatre and Dance program.
4. The applicant must have received a bona fide offer to a summer theatre or dance program which will contribute to the professional development of the student. The opportunity must be with a reputable theatre/dance organization.

Students should receive a job offer before applying for the scholarship.

Start looking NOW for summer positions.

Applications are available in the theatre office and must be returned to the theatre office by Friday, April 26, 2013 at 5:00 p.m. For an electronic version of the application, contact Teddie Warner at tkwarner@verizon.net or click/tap here to download an application

Performance this Thursday, April 4 at 11AM & 7:30PM
Pomona College Seaver Theatre
ADMISSION IS FREE!

For more information, please contact (909) 621-8186

Krunk Fu Battle Battle

by Qui Nguyen, Lyrics by Beau Sia, Music by Marc Macalintal

Directed by Joyce Lu

Pomona College Allen Theatre

April 11 – 14, 2013

Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sat & Sun at 2 p.m.

This hip-hop musical follows the journey of young Norman Lee who, when forced to move from Hong Kong to Brooklyn, must battle with the baddest b-boy crew at school in order to win a place for himself, as well as the heart of slam poet Cindy Chang.  Can Norman bring justice to the black-top at Sunset Park High?

Tickets are available NOW through the Seaver Theatre Box Office at (909) 607-4375 or seaverboxoffice@pomona.edu

NEW!  Transportation and Hotel Information

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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:

Thursday 28 March

Pre-Conference

Performances and Demonstrations Engaging Edward Gordon Craig and His Legacy

Moderator Thomas Leabhart

Seaver Theatre, Pomona College

12:00 – 1        Registration, Seaver Theatre Courtyard

Refreshments & coffee available (now and throughout the day)

1 – 1:50          Won Kim (PO 1995), Playing with Forms: Company Pas de Dieux (France)

and its Physical Theatre Approach

2 – 2:50          Harvey Grossman – Architecture Instead of Picture

3 – 3:50          Luis Torreao – Between Life and Death

4 – 4:50          Camille Cettina (PO 2001) – Mr. Darcy Dreamboat

5 – 5:50          Elke Luyten and Kira Alker (PO 2002) – Studies of Inertia

Dinner – Frank Hall

7 – 7:50          Daniel Stein – Poetic Dynamics (Physics/Metaphysics)

8 – 8:50          Roman Paska – Fear of Puppetry

9:00 -              Reception in Seaver Theatre Courtyard

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Friday 29 March

9 – 10   Registration, Seaver Theatre Courtyard, Pomona College

Refreshments & coffee available

Morning Session, Seaver Theatre

Moderator Juliet Koss

10        Welcoming Remarks

Thomas Leabhart and James Taylor, Department of Theater and Dance, Pomona College

10:20 Franc Chamberlin, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom

“Craig and the Psychophysical Actor”

10:40  Jennifer Buckley, Department of Rhetoric, University of Iowa

“Craig’s Mimodramatic Stage”

11        Harvey Grossman, Academie voor Spel en Theater, Antwerp, Belgium

“Gordon Craig, Etienne Decroux and the Rediscovery of Mime”

11:45  Performance by Y.T. Wong and Celia Dufournet

12        Q&A for morning papers

12:30  Lunch in Seaver Theatre Courtyard, Pomona College

[1:45: transportation available to Honnold Library for the afternoon session]

Afternoon Session in the Founder’s Room, Honnold Library

Moderator Arthur Horowitz

2          Carrie Marsh, Special Collections Librarian, Honnold Library

“Edward Gordon Craig: A Life in Books”

2:30    Eric T. Haskell, French Department, Scripps College

“Picturing Robinson Crusoe: Edward Gordon Craig, Daniel Defoe and Image-Text Inquiry”

2:50    Tony Shay, Department of Theater and Dance, Pomona College

“Wrapping Oneself in Greek Spirituality: Isadora Duncan, Gordon Craig, and Ancient Greece”

3:10    Olga Taxidou, Department of English Literature, University of Edinburgh

“The Dancer and the Übermarionette”

3:30    Q&A for afternoon papers

4          Coffee Break

4:30    Round Table (Juliet Koss and Arthur Horowitz, moderators)

[5:45 transportation available to Seaver Theater at Pomona for reception and dinner]

6          Reception in Seaver Theatre Courtyard, Pomona College

6:30    Dinner in Seaver Theatre Courtyard

6 – 7    Yozmit site-specific performance

8 p.m.  Lori Belilove in “A Tragic Tale of Love and Death: Edward Gordon Craig and Isadora Duncan,” Bridges Hall of Music, Pomona

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Saturday 30 March

Morning Session at Seaver Theatre, Pomona College

Tony Shay, Moderator

10        Annie Holt, Ph.D. Candidate, Columbia University

“Easel Painters versus ’The Artist of the Theatre’: Costumes of the Ballets

Russes and Edward Gordon Craig”

10:20  Carole Guidicelli, Institut International de la Marionette, Charleville-Mézières, France

“From Edward Gordon Craig to Gisèle Vienne:  Choreographing the Action, Sculpting the Light, Manipulating the Fog in Search of Beauty”

10:40  Didier Plassard, Département Arts du spectacle, Université Paul Valéry – Montpellier 3

“E.G. Craig’s Drama for Fools: A Journey Through the Past”

11                    Patrick Le Boeuf, Curator, La Bibliothèque nationale de France

“Craig on Shakespeare: Two Unknown Essays”

11:20              Q&A (for morning session)

[11:50             transportation available to Scripps College for lunch and afternoon session]

12 p.m.            Lunch in the Margaret Fowler Garden, Scripps College

Afternoon session at Clark Humanities Museum and Auditorium, Humanities Building, Scripps College

Kimberley Jannarone, Moderator

1:30    Thomas Price, National Dong Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan

“Norman Philbrick: The Man and His Collection”

1:50    Claudia Orenstein, Theatre Department, Hunter College/CUNY Graduate Center

“Our Puppets, Our Selves”

2:10    James Taylor, Department of Theater and Dance, Pomona College

“The Shadow Puppets of Elsinore: Edward Gordon Craig and the Cranach

Press Hamlet“

2:30                Q&A (for afternoon session)

3:00                Coffee Break

Move to Humanities Auditorium

3:30    Samuel Gold, actor/puppeteer, Los Angeles

“Hamlet’s Last Act”

Move back to Clark Humanities Museum

4:00    Li Wei, National Academy of Chinese Theater Arts, Beijing

“Inspirations from Edward Gordon Craig’s Three Ideas on Stage Design”

4:20    Round Table (Kimberley Jannarone and Tony Shay moderators)

[5:00   transportation available to Pomona College for reception and dinner]

6 – 8    Reception and Dinner in Frank Hall Blue Room, Pomona College

6 – 8    Yozmit site-specific performance, Seaver Theatre

8          Keynote Address: Peter Sellars, Seaver Theatre

Introduction by David Oxtoby

Reception, Seaver Theatre Courtyard

NEW!! CLICK HERE TO REGISTER ONLINE

Applications and Information are located on the CSTA section of our website. Click here to download an application and learn more about the CSTA program.

Efe Kabba, Pomona College

Subject of her grant: Musical Swings and Other Digital Landscapes and Experiences

Canada, Denmark, Japan, Germany, Singapore
In the past, our relationship with interactive digital technology has been confined to certain objects like computers and mobile phones. This limitation made the distinction between the actual/physical and virtual/digital very clear. But what happens when the screen is no longer necessary and the distinction begins to blur? We are progressing towards a time when interactive technologies will be actively integrated into our physical surroundings. It’s already happening. I want to find out how these digital technologies are transforming the physical spaces we live in, and how that transformation is changing how we perceive ourselves, our relationship to the world and other human beings.

For more information, visit the Watson Fellowship website at http://www.watsonfellowship.org/site/fellows/13_14.html

Scholarly Talks and Lectures

Alma Martinez (Theatre & Dance) participated in the panel “National Theatre Conference’s Women Playwrights Initiative” at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Region VIII Conference, held at the Los Angeles Theatre Center on 15 February.  She was invited to read an excerpt from Father Gregory Boyle’s bookTattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion at his public address at Our Lady of the Assumption Church, sponsored by Pax Christi, on 16 February.

Suzanne Schultz Reed (Theatre and Dance) gave a presentation titled “Employer Expectations of Costume Shop Staff” at the United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT) career fair at Cal State LA at the end of January. The content was based on her informal survey of costume shops around the country.

Other

Alma Martinez (Theatre & Dance) hosted casting director Joy Dickson who taught a TV Audition Workshop in Martinez’s Acting for Film and TV class on 12 February. Dickson also had lunch with students interested in working in the entertainment industry.

On February 20, Cameron Munter (International Relations) was interviewed by Christine Amanpour on CNN International about the future of American diplomacy.

January-February 2013 @Pomona Newsletter

THEATRE AND DANCE NEWS AND NOTES

(thanks to Laura Tiffany for her work on the monthly newsletter.  For news about all Pomona programs, please follow the link above)

On 13 January, Thomas Leabhart (Theatre and Dance) gave a lecture-demonstration at Theatre de la Terre in Paris, sponsored by Pas de Dieux and Association Hippocampe.

On 30 November, Alma Martinez (Theatre and Dance) gave the invited lecture “Performing Trauma: Theatre Performance in Times of Crisis” at Whittier College.

Joyce Lu (Theater and Dance, Asian American Studies) had her poem “Reunion Song” published in the anthology, Namjai: A Tribute to Bay Area API Poets (ReWrite, 2013).

Alan Blumenfeld (Theatre and Dance) was recently made a resident artist at A Noise Within, an Equity theater in Los Angeles. In January, he taught Acting for Classical Comedy at Los Angeles Valley College, as part of his work as a company member, master teacher and board member of Theatricum Botanicum, another Equity theater in Los Angeles.

Thomas Leabhart (Theatre and Dance) taught a week-long workshop from 17 – 21 December in Paris for Pas de Dieux.

Alma Martinez (Theatre and Dance) was invited by Mrs. Gene Autry to attend the book signing and private reception at the Autry Museum for television actor Henry Darrow on the occasion of the publishing of his autobiography, Lightning in the Bottle, and his 80th birthday, on 22 August. She acted with Darrow in the 1980 PBS American Playhouse drama Seguin.

Directed by Alma Martinez

Assistant Director / Choreography by Kim Gadlin

Featuring Students of the Claremont Colleges:

November Baez, Natalie Barbaresi, Sneha Bathina, Sammy Bor, Adam Faison, Harrison Goodall, Sarah Lichtman, Farren Majoor, Chuma Mapoma, Karina Mendez, Vince Morgan, Rosie Narasaki, Iris Nevins, Diana Otuwa, Eliza Pennell, Christian Romo, Isabel Semler, Javier Vasquez, Rebekah Vermillion, and Hunter Wolfson

March 7-10, 2013

THU THRU SAT AT 8PM AND SAT & SUN AT 2PM

Pomona College Seaver Theatre, 300 East Bonita Ave., Claremont

For tickets, call (909) 607-4375 or email at seaverboxoffice@pomona.edu

http://theatre.pomona.edu

Please follow this LINK to visit the rehearsal blog by Katherine Nigh, an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow assisting with this production.

Performances begin on March 7.  For ticket information, please click or tap HERE