Tag Archives: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

Threshold at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Feb 10

Threshold at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Feb 10

NextLOOK: Happenstance Theater
Threshold
Friday, February 10, 2017. 7PM
Presented by the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

Location: Joe’s Movement Emporium

Happenstance Theater is in residency at Joe’s Movement Emporium: February 6-10, 2017

Using spatial dynamics, movement and physical theatre, text, live sound, theatrical clown and improvisational play, Threshold explores moments of transition, from the simplicity of entering and exiting a space, to the profound transition from innocence to experience.

Happenstance Theater engages the audience by bringing curiosity and delight to the idea of crossing over into unknown spaces: the moving, meeting, leaping, partnering, parting, aging and dying that require us to cross the threshold.

Tickets: Pay what you wish, no tickets required.

Voices in the Dark at Clarice Smith, Feb 3

Voices in the Dark at Clarice Smith, Feb 3

Voices in the Dark
Celebrating Black History
Presented by The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission
Written, produced and directed by Darrell Godfrey.

Friday, February 3, 2017 at 2 & 7 PM

Fri, Feb 3, 2017 . 2:00PM
Fri, Feb 3, 2017 . 7:00PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Kay Theatre, Reserved Seating.

In 1936, 70 years after the legal end of slavery in the United States, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt approved a historical research project commissioned by the Library of Congress. The goal of this enormous project was to locate and interview African Americans who had been born into slavery during the early to mid-1800s.

More than 2,300 former slaves were interviewed; survivors of one of this country’s darkest periods. Their stories became what are now known as the WPA Slave Narratives. Several of these incredible stories are brought to life in the original stage production “Voices in the Dark.”

Tickets: $10, or Free for M-NCPPC employees. Get tickets here.

Tags: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, University of Maryland, College Park Maryland, Voices in the Dark, Darrell Godfrey, M-NCPPC

Chiflon, el silencio del carbon at Clarice Smith, Feb 2-3

Chiflon, el silencio del carbon at Clarice Smith, Feb 2-3

Chiflón, el silencio del carbón
Silencio Blanco
February 2 – 3, 2017 . 8PM

Thu, Feb 2, 2017 . 8:00PM
Fri, Feb 3, 2017 . 8:00PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Cafritz Foundation Theatre, general admission.

Silencio Blanco explores voice through the power of silence in a world where corporate greed feeds corruption. A young man is thrown out of the coal pit where he works, and in a precarious attempt to protect his livelihood and support his family, takes on a new job in the infamously sinister mine El Chiflón del Diablo. Meanwhile, a community copes with this danger in its midst and the uncertainty it sparks in their every day lives. Performing in complete silence using minimalistic marionettes, puppetry ensemble Silencio Blanco spins a universal story of humanity in the face of hardship, highlighting those who are often forgotten behind sensational headlines.

Tickets: General Public $25, Student/Youth $10, NextLEVEL $20. Buy tickets here.

The Weeping Philosophers at Clarice Smith, Jan 27-28

The Weeping Philosophers at Clarice Smith, Jan 27-28

Second Season: The Weeping Philosophers
An evening of new work by Mark Costello and Kelly Colburn
My Life Has Been Like Water by Mark Costello
untitled homage to my twenties in new york city by Kelly Colburn
January 27 & 28, 2017

Fri, Jan 27, 2017 . 7:30PM
Sat, Jan 28, 2017 . 2:00PM
Sat, Jan 28, 2017 . 7:00PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Dance Theatre, general admission.

My Life Has Been Like Water By Mark Costello

This multimedia project uses a live video loop that explores time as an architectural object; something to be controlled, built, expanded and repeated. Time as if it is poured like water: endless, flowing,emotional, momentous, pure.

untitled homage to my twenties in new york city By Kelly Colburn

A wild and nostalgic investigation of what it means to give up the thing you love most, this performance seeks to uncover what makes New York City exciting and enticing to the natives and the dreamers. Part documentary, part mockumentary, part dance, part theater, part film — this love letter explores the exhilaration, freedom, fear and regret of actively witnessing the death of your youth.

Tickets: Free, tickets required. Get tickets here. Tickets will be available to reserve starting at 12:00 Noon on Monday, January 23, 2017.

Ebon Kojo: The Last Tribe at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Dec 9

Ebon Kojo: The Last Tribe at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Dec 9

NextLOOK: Afro House
Ebon Kojo: The Last Tribe
Friday, December 9, 2016 . 7PM
Presented by the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

Location: Joe’s Movement Emporium

Afro House is in residency at Joe’s Movement Emporium: December 5-9, 2016

What if a man, struggling against being mechanical, could not accept his son as anything but a machine? Sent from a dying earth, General Ebon Kojo and Ra-7 have been ordered to “recolor” the distant and barren planet Beta-5. Upon their arrival to Beta-5, Ebon and Ra are confronted with unprecedented realities that transform them both.

In this one-man show, pianist and composer Scott Patterson uses acoustic piano, synth keyboards and sound design to weave together a story of space exploration, environmentalism, father-son relationships and social greed. Inspired by the music of Sun Ra and his film Space is the Place,Christina De Middel’s photobook Afronauts and Frances Bodomo’s film of the same name, Patterson imagines his own futuristic world, where sound and music bend the laws of physics and become instruments of creation and destruction.

Tickets: Pay what you wish, no tickets required.