Painter, sculptor of Black experience delivers lecture Thursday
Art Studio Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Simphiwe Ndzube
March 3, 4:30-6 p.m., Community Education Room, Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art
Simphiwe Ndzube is a painter and sculptor who uses flamboyant color and theatrical space to tell a story of the Black experience in post-apartheid South Africa. His work was most recently the subject of a 2021 exhibition at the Denver Art Museum. Other major shows include 鈥淟ike the Snake that Fed the Chameleon鈥 (Nicodim Gallery, LA, 2021); 鈥淭he Fantastic Ride to Gwadana鈥 (Stevenson Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2020, a solo exhibit); and 鈥漌here Water Comes Together with Other Water,鈥 The 15th Lyon Biennale (Lyon, France, 2019). His work is collected by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Denver Art Museum; Mus茅e d鈥檃rt Contemporain de Lyon, France; Iziko South African National Gallery, South Africa; Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, South Africa; and many others. Ndzube has held residencies at the Dalton Warehouse Studios, South Central, LA (2018) and Greatmore Studios, Woodstock Cape Town (2016), and was awarded the Culture Creators Innovators & Leaders Award in Art (2019).
Ndzube lives and works in Los Angeles and Cape Town, South Africa.
Organized by the Department of Art and Art History. Supported by the 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis College of Letters and Science and co-sponsored by the Manetti Shrem Museum.
Time and life鈥檚 cycle explored in theatre performance this weekend
Clouds from a Crumbling Giant, March 3-5, 7-8:15 p.m., $10 Adults / $8 Faculty and Staff / $5 Students and Seniors, Wright Hall, 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis
Clouds from a Crumbling Giant, a collaborative performance project, will be presented by the 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Department of Theatre and Dance March 3-5 in the Main Theater, Wright Hall. Devised by Granada Artist-in-Residence Shinichi Iova-Koga, the project follows the birth and death of a species, an empire, a universe, a flower. Time unfolds on stage like a revolving wheel represented by an automated turntable. Vibrations 鈥 sounds created by the cast and musicians 鈥 emerge to shape the earth, rocks and people. Clouds from a Crumbling Giant teems with movement, spoken text, song and sound.
鈥淭he materials begin the process,鈥 said Iova-Koga. 鈥淭he place, the people, the machinery, the Zeitgeist. The environment offers clues for how a stage work will unfold. Our research touches on creation theories, political structures and concepts of time. The most fundamental part of the work is the exchange with the student performers, musicians and artists to synthesize an experience that converses with this moment, this place and each audience.鈥
The performers include 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis graduate and undergraduate students and San Francisco Bay Area musicians Suki O鈥橩ane, Edward Schocker and Jon Raskin.
The production鈥檚 scenic environment has been coordinated by Catherine Kunkel, staff scenic technician, and created in conjunction with students from DRA 126A: 鈥淭opics in Entertainment Engineering鈥 who, under the supervision of instructor Steven Schimdt, have installed a large turntable with full automation on the stage.
The creative team includes guest lighting designer Allen Willner; staff costume and make-up coordinator Rebecca A. Valentino; and guest composer and music director Dan Cantrell. Four graduate students are working on the project: Ann Marie Dragich, assistant choreographer/cast member; Edward Talton-Jackson, movement coach/cast member; Miriam Wolodarski, dramaturge; and J.R. Yancher, musician/cast member.
Iova-Koga is the artistic director of the physical theater and dance company inkBoat. The company has received five San Francisco Izzie awards and has toured in Asia, Europe and the U.S. Iova-Koga鈥檚 approach to mobility, composition and time stems from his experience with Anna Halprin, Daoist Internal Arts, Butoh dance, Aikido, improvisation and Noh theater.
Content warning: Clouds from a Crumbling Giant contains adult language and the production employs fog effects.
Performances begin at 7 p.m. Tickets may be purchased at the 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Ticket Office, located on the north side of Aggie Stadium, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays, by phone 530-752-2471 during the same hours, or online .
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Lecture focuses on rhythm in popular music Thursday
Valente Lecture: "Braiding the Rhythm: How Vernacular Discourse May Inform a Music Theory for the 21st Century," Thursday, March 3, 4-5:30 p.m., Everson Hall 226
Based on a review of vernacular terms and concepts from the United States and Latin America, and relating them where possible to published scholarship, this presentation will suggest a framework for talking about rhythm in popular music. It is offered as a response to calls for diversity, equity and inclusion in music studies and the need to expand the scope of music theory core courses, which are based on classical music and taught in a uniform way across most university music programs. The standard theory core is especially deficient in relation to rhythm, a dimension of popular music that has not only been ignored by theorists, but historically racialized and trivialized in the discourses surrounding popular music.
Shannon Dudley is professor and head of Ethnomusicology at the University of Washington, Seattle, where he teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses and directs the UW steelband. He is the author of Carnival Music in Trinidad (Oxford University Press 2004), Music from behind the Bridge (Oxford 2008), and numerous articles about Caribbean music. He was a curator of the bilingual museum exhibit American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. Popular Music, which debuted at the Experience Music Project in Seattle and toured 18 cities in the U.S. and Puerto Rico from 2007 to 2015; and is co-author of the recent book by the same name (University of Washington Press 2018). He coordinates the UW Ethnomusicology program鈥檚 community artist residencies, and is active in promoting dialogues between community 鈥渁rtivists鈥 in the U.S., Puerto Rico, Mexico and elsewhere.
Jazz Combos of 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis at Pitzer
Thursday, March 3, 4-5:30 p.m., Free; Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center
The Jazz Combos will be playing music of , and
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Lecture Demonstration: Concordian Dawn with Sarah Kay
Friday, March 4, 3-4:30 p.m.
Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center
Concordian Dawn, ensemble for medieval music, and Sarah Kay, troubadour scholar and Professor of French Literature, Thought and Culture at New York University, come to the campus of 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis to present a performance-lecture on music and texts from twelfth- through fourteenth-century France. Highlighting material from their forthcoming publication/recording collaboration, Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera (Cornell University Press and MSR Classics) and the ensemble鈥檚 debut studio album, 鈥淔ortuna Antiqua et Ultra鈥 (MSR Classics), the program will include songs from the troubadours, trouv猫res and Guillaume de Machaut to Guillaume Du Fay, along with instrumental dances, polyphonic motets, and conductus of the Notre Dame tradition.
新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Symphony Orchestra: 鈥楶astoral Moods鈥
Saturday, March 5, 7-9 p.m., , Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center
The program features : Three Pieces from the Pandemic, 碍耻测茅苍 (Violin Concerto) with Rachel Lee Priday and Symphony No. 8
Evoking a multitude of feelings brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis graduate student composer 鈥攚inner of the 2022 新澳门六合彩内幕信息DSO Composition Award鈥攏ames the three 鈥淧andemic鈥 pieces: (1) Scrolling; (2) Hope in these uncertain times; (3) and We are the flood. The work as a whole attempts to capture the sometimes-at-odds-with-one-another feelings we have each had during these pandemic years: anxiousness, calm, and mourning. And yet, the pieces end with a final hopeful glimmer.
鈥檚 碍耻测茅苍 was written for violinist Rachel Lee Priday and conductor Christian Baldini, and was commissioned by 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Symphony Orchestra with funds from Iberm煤sicas. In this violin concerto, 碍耻测茅苍 is represented by the violin soloist. 碍耻测茅苍 creates bright resonances against the orchestra, which represents the Earth. The connections made between the two entities are sometimes represented in harsh and rustic sounds, exploring the roots of humanity. 碍耻测茅苍 comes from the Mapudungun word 办眉测别苍 of the Mapuche people, who are indigenous peoples from portions of Chile and Argentina. 碍耻测茅苍 is a personification of the moon in their culture鈥攖he feminine of creation. Antu, the sun, and the most powerful pill谩n (deity) chose 碍耻测茅苍 as his wife, which caused the envy of the rest of the Wangulens (female stars), and ended with a revolt. Antu punished the rebels, and the Wangulens lost their luster, so, after that the brightest light of the night was 碍耻测茅苍.
As the title of the program suggests (鈥淧astoral Moods鈥), a little bit of nature is present in every piece on the program. 鈥檚 Eighth Symphony in particular is filled with natural imagery: the songs of calm rolling hills, complete with solo flute lines that echo across orchestral landscapes. Should any audience member become lost in the bucolic and waltz-like nature of the first three movements, they鈥檒l be awoken by a dramatic trumpet call in the final movement, which gives way to a rousing finale evocative of Dvo艡谩k鈥檚 Slavonic Dances.
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Garrick Ohlsson & Kirill Gerstein piano duo at Mondavi
Sunday, March 6, 2 p.m., Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center, 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis
Since his triumph as winner of the 1970 Chopin International Piano Competition, pianist Garrick Ohlsson has established himself worldwide as a musician of magisterial interpretive and technical prowess. Kirill Gerstein鈥檚 playing is distinguished by its clarity of expression, discerning intelligence and virtuosity, and an energetic, imaginative musical presence that places him at the top of his profession. This concert brings the two generational talents together in a program featuring highlights of the two-piano repertoire: Ad猫s suite from his groundbreaking opera Powder Her Face; Busoni鈥檚 homage to Bach, the Fantasia Contrappuntistica; Rachmaninoff鈥檚 own arrangement of his exhilarating late career Symphonic Dances; and the virtuosic La Valse.
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Coming up next week
Jazz Bands of 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis
March 8, 2022 - 7 p.m. - 9 p.m., , Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center
Songs include 鈥淎 Child is Born,鈥 鈥滼oshua,鈥 鈥漀ostalgia in Times Square.鈥
- Proof of COVID vaccination or a negative COVID test will be required at the door. Please take a moment to
From Moment to Movement: A Conversation on Art, Protest and Public Engagement
A Davis Humanities Institute Conversation, co-sponsored by the Manetti Shrem Museum
March 8, noon., free, via Zoom
Whether through painting, public murals, film and media, or installations, the visual arts perform an essential role in not only interrogating and protesting social and political orders, but also in offering a view of alternatives. Taking inspiration from curator Susie Kantor's exhibition From Moment to Movement: Picturing Protest in the Kramlich Collection, on view at the Manetti Shrem Museum, this conversation addresses the vital role of artists and art in the public sphere today and the challenges of critical and creative interventions in a media-saturated culture. The panel includes Susie Kantor, M.A., Associate Curator, Manetti Shrem Museum; Fiamma Montezemolo, Ph.D., artist, cultural anthropologist and Professor, Cinema and Digital Media, 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis; Marina Pugliese, Ph.D., Director of Public Art, City of Milan; and moderator Katharine Wallerstein, Associate Director, 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Humanities Institute.
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Passage by Kinetech Arts at Mondavi, low-cost event
March 9, 7:30 p.m., 8:30 p.m. and March 10, 7:30 p.m., 8:30 p.m., Tickets $35 and under
Jackson Hall
Kinetech Arts combines the work of dancers, scientists and digital artists to create innovative and socially responsible performances. Its piece PASSAGE is an immersive experience that explores the relationship between entropy and time through dance, sound and video installations. The perpetual increase of disorder, or entropy, defines the one-way direction of time. PASSAGE embraces the transience and uncertainties of each moment鈥攁nd the infinite future possibilities that are inevitably collapsed into memory as we pass through time.
This performance is being presented as part of (Science, Humanities and Arts: Process and Engagement), an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded program in which 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis students encounter the humanities, arts, and sciences integrated to express and examine the power each holds as a means of responding to our world.
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