presents MIWA MATREYEK THIS WORLD MADE ITSELF Post-Performance Discussion You are invited to remain in the theater immediately following the performance for an informal discussion with the artist. Funded in part by the Lewis Crickard Visiting Performing Artists Fund. Friday, October 10, 2014 • 7 & 9 pm Warner Bentley Theater • Dartmouth College PROGRAM MYTH AND INFRASTRUCTURE Creator and Performer..................................................................................................... Miwa Matreyek Original Music............................................................................ Anna Oxygen, Caroline Lufkin, Mileece Additional Music...............................................................................................................................Mirah Created with a Special Projects Grant by Princess Grace Foundation, Seed Grant by Under the Radar Festival, and a grant from the Associate of Performing Arts Presenters. • PAUSE • THIS WORLD MADE ITSELF Creator and Performer..................................................................................................... Miwa Matreyek Music................................................................................... Steve Ellison, Careful (Eric Lindley), Mileece Created with support from Creative Capital and a Princess Grace Foundation Special Project Grant. ABOUT THE ARTIST Miwa Matreyek is an internationally recognized animator, designer and multimedia artist based in Los Angeles. She creates animated short films as well as live works that integrate animation, performance and video installation. Coming to animation from a background in collage, her work explores how animation is transformed when combined with the body, both physically in her performance pieces, as well as a composited video element in her short films. In her projection-based performances, animation takes on a more physical and present quality, while body and space take on a more fantastical quality, creating an experience that is both cinematic and theatrical. She is interested in the slippery meeting point of cinema and theater/ performance, the moments of convergence where fantastical illusions are created, and the moments of divergence where the two struggles against each other. Her work has been shown internationally at animation and film festivals, theater festivals, performance festivals, as well as art galleries, science museums, tech conferences, universities, and more. Some past presentation include TEDGlobal (UK), Sundance Film Festival, Wexner Center for the Arts, Anima Mundi Animation Festival (Brazil), Time Based Arts Festival, REDCAT, ISEA, Theatre de la Cité (France), the Exploratorium, EXIT festival, Fusebox Festival, S8 (Spain), Animasivo (Mexico), Pixilerations, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, City of Women (Slovenia), Santiago a Mil (Chile), Manipulate (UK) and more. Matreyek received her MFA (2007) in Experimental Animation and Integrated Media at the California Institute of the Arts. She is one of the founding members and core collaborators of Cloud Eye Control. CONNECTING ARTISTS TO THE COMMUNITY While at Dartmouth, Miwa Matreyek visited Computer Science and Theater classes, met with students and faculty of the Neukom Digital Arts Leadership and Innovation (Dali) Lab, participates in post-performance discussions and joins students for a reception. For more information on Hop Outreach & Arts Education, call 603.646.2010 or visit hop.dartmouth.edu/online/outreach. NEW ENglaND EXCluSIVE CINEASTAS by Mariano Pensotti thu Jan 15 7 pm & fri Jan 16 8 pm tHE MOOrE tHEatEr What’s the difference between real life and the movies? Made by one of Latin America’s brightest theater talents, Cineastas follows four filmmakers—young and old, struggling and successful—as they start new projects. On an ingenious “split screen” set, virtuosic actors switch rapid-fire between both levels depicting the filmmakers’ lives and their films, with funny, intriguing and haunting results. In Spanish with English subtitles. Contains some adult language. HOP CO-COMMISSION KRONOS QUARTET in BEYOND ZERO: 1914-1918 tue feb 10 7 pm • SPaulDINg auDItOrIuM For 40 years, the Kronos Quartet has championed music that challenges the global outlook. In Beyond Zero, it teams up with Serbian-born Vrebalov and acclaimed filmmaker Bill Morrison—working with decaying archival footage as he did in The Great Flood—to create a heart-stopping sound-and-film narrative of WWI. It’s preceded by an absorbing cross-cultural suite of short, circa-1914 works that characterize that era’s artistic foment. HOTEL MODERN in THE GREAT WAR tue & wed apr 7 & 8 7 pm tHE MOOrE tHEatEr A highly anticipated part of Hop programming marking the centenary of WWI, this Dutch theater collective reprises its “live animation” show that uses deceptively childlike means to evoke that war’s realities. While the artists manipulate tiny props and everyday objects on miniature sets and video-project the action, the images are brought heartbreakingly to life by live sound effects and spoken narration from actual soldiers’ letters. For tickets or more info call the Box Office at 603.646.2422 or visit hop.dartmouth.edu. Sign up for weekly HopMail bulletins online or become a fan of “Hopkins Center, Dartmouth” on Facebook THE NILE PROJECT fri apr 17 8 pm • SpaulDing auDitOriuM As the Nile is fed by 11 African nations, so The Nile Project combines the region’s master vocalists and musicians and their magnificent, diverse traditions. On NPR’s list of five “must hear” international albums of 2013 and inspired by Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Project, this creation of Ethiopian-American singer Meklit Hadero and others is “an emotional and intellectual nexus of innovative music and education regarding environmental issues of the Nile” (Afropop Worldwide). UKULELE ORCHESTRA OF GREAT BRITAIN wed apr 22 7 pm • SpaulDing auDitOriuM Renowned for “perfectly polished professionalism, threaded through with dry wit and wry humor” (The Independent), these eight players strum, sing and make sound effects as they traipse from Tchaikovsky to Nirvana via Otis Redding and Spaghetti Western themes. Dressed in formal concert attire while expertly wielding their diminutive instruments, they offer the musical insights—and delightful daffiness—that millions relish on YouTube. For tickets or more info call the Box Office at 603.646.2422 or visit hop.dartmouth.edu. Sign up for weekly HopMail bulletins online or become a fan of “Hopkins Center, Dartmouth” on Facebook HOPKINS CENTER MANAGEMENT STAFF Jeffrey H. James ‘75a Howard Gilman Director Marga Rahmann Associate Director/General Manager Joseph Clifford Director of Audience Engagement Jay Cary Business and Administrative Officer Bill Pence Director of Hopkins Center Film Margaret Lawrence Director of Programming Joshua Price Kol Director of Student Performance Programs HOPKINS CENTER BOARD OF OVERSEERS Austin M. Beutner ’82 Kenneth L. Burns H’93 Barbara J. Couch James W. Giddens ’59 Allan H. Glick ’60, T’61, P’88 Barry Grove ’73 Caroline Diamond Harrison ’86, P’16 Kelly Fowler Hunter ’83, T’88, P’13, P’15 Please turn off your cell phone inside the theater. R Richard P. Kiphart ’63 Robert H. Manegold ’75, P’02, P’06 Nini Meyer Hans C. Morris ’80, P’11, P’14 Chair of the Board Robert S. Weil ’40, P’73 Honorary Frederick B. Whittemore ’53, T’54, P’88, P’90, H’03 Jennifer A. Williams ’85 Diana L. Taylor ’77 Trustee Representative Assistive Listening Devices available in the lobby. D A RT M O UTH RECYCLES If you do not wish to keep your playbill, please discard it in the recycling bin provided in the lobby. Thank you.