In May, Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company hosted New York dance company KDNY in Austin, and now Kathleen Dyer’s troupe returns the favor. This weekend they bring Hamrick and dancers to the Big Apple to perform in You Are Here!, a show of dances about life, living, and the pursuit of space. In case you’re headed that way, the show is Thursday-Saturday at the Merce Cunningham Studio, 55 Bethune. Upon their return, KDH Dance will be putting on their fall fundraiser, The Big Finish, with food, drink, silent auction, dance, and live music by Son y no Son, Friday, Nov. 5, 6:30-9pm, at Scottish Rite Theatre, 207 W. 18th. For more information, call 891-7703 or visit www.kdhdance.com.
In many ways, our nation still hasn’t recovered from the trauma of September 11. Are there ways that public memorials could help to heal us as a country? Kate Catterall thinks so, and this Austin artist and professor of design at UT-Austin is discussing the idea in Belfast to the Twin Towers: Violence, Trauma, and Mourning in the Urban Landscape, a free public program being offered this weekend by the Arts Committee of the Austin Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology. With slides of work she produced in Belfast, Ireland, the scene of bloody civil strife and terrorist attacks for decades, Catterall will explore how the existence or absence of memorials built at sites of traumatic violence can affect the ability of communities to cope and move forward. The program takes place Sunday, Oct. 24, 3-5pm, in Room 2.302 (Avaya Auditorium) of the Applied Computational Engineering and Sciences Bldg., 24th and Speedway. For more information, call 482-0263.
The UT String Project, the oldest Suzuki string program in the U.S., is collecting donated items for a sale that will help send its teachers to this year’s American String Teachers Association Conference. To donate an item, take it to Violins Etc., 8620 Burnet, by Oct. 22. The sale is Saturday, Oct. 23, 8am-2pm, at Violins Etc. Any items not sold will be given to Goodwill after the sale. For more information, call 471-0363 or visit stringproject.music.utexas.edu.
This article appears in October 22 • 2004.