Sound & Vision '99 New performance festival spearheaded by local theatre-dance dynamo Jason Phelps (Race of the Ark Tattoo, Aria Inertia, Angels in America), who founded it to showcase more boundary-crossing multi-disciplinary stage work and more genre-busting music in this arts-loving town. The fest consists of a prime-time program and a late-night series, the former featuring a double bill of a new Margery Segal dance piece (see Dance Listings) and a performance of the Walter Thompson Orchestra's Sound Paintings; and the latter featuring local and visiting musical ensembles. Scheduled for the Sound & Vision at 11 series are: our town's own avant-garde big band, the Creative Opportunity Orchestra, with daredevil vocalist Tina Marsh (Thu); local cinematic jazzsters the Golden Arm Trio, with members of the Rota-phile ensemble Tosca (Fri); techno-buzzer Phylr (aka Jim Filer Coleman), with New Orleans free-range percussionists Gas Tank Orchestra (Sat). FINAL THREE NIGHTS!Feb 18-20, Thu-Sat, at Hyde Park Theatre, 511 W. 43rd. Segal/Sound Paintings: 8pm, $10 Thu/$12 Fri-Sat; Sound & Vision at 11: 11pm, $5. 454-TIXS.
Strange Fruit Multimedia solo piece by E. Patrick Johnson, associate professor of Performance Studies in the Department of English at Amherst College, in which Johnson explores the complexity of his identity as an African-American gay male, particularly in regard to the challenges associated performing each identity feature "correctly." Johnson welcomes comments following the one-hour performance. ONE PERFORMANCE ONLY! Sun, Feb 21, 5pm, at CMA Auditorium, Communications Bldg, 26th & Whitis, UT campus. 471-7403. |
