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Stardust at Clarice Smith, Jan 31-Feb 1

David Roussève/Reality presents the World Premiere of Stardust at Clarice Smith, Jan 31-Feb 1

January 31 & February 1, 2014 . 8PM

Presented By:
Clarice Smith Center
Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center Kogood Theatre. Reserved Seating.

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Regular: $35
Subscriber: $28
Senior Citizen: $30
UMD Alumni Association: $30
UMD Faculty & Staff: $28
Students & Youth: $10

Fri, Jan 31, 2014 . 8:00PM
Sat, Feb 1, 2014 . 8:00PM

Description:

Choreographed, written and directed by David Roussève, Stardust follows an African American gay urban teenager’s dreams, misgivings and challenges.

Never seen onstage, the protagonist is present only by the emotion-laden tweets and text messages he sends, which are projected onto multiple surfaces by Roussève’s long-time collaborator Cari Ann Shim Sham.

Stardust juxtaposes fluidity and freneticism, in both its movement and musical score. Lush, jazz-inflected dancing is leavened by frenetic, angular representations of the teenager’s anxious states of mind, in movement performed by a mixed-age company of dancers.

The soundscape pairs the intimate romanticism of Nat King Cole standards with rough-edged, hip-hop inflected original music by d. Sabela Grimes. Designer Christopher Kuhl’s lighting will support both the emotional textures and surreal quality of the work.

The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center co-commissioned Stardust, which will receive its world premiere at the Center. As part of his engagement at the Clarice Smith Center, Roussève will be in residency in several visits during fall 2013, working with local ministries on issues of homosexuality and acceptance in the African American community.

This tour of David Roussève is made possible by a grant from Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation with support from the National Endowment for the Arts. The presentation of Stardust was made possible by the MetLife Community Connections Fund of the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project. Major support of NDP is also provided by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Connect the Dots Dance Company presents the Nutcracker at CPAE, Dec 15

Connect the Dots Dance Company presents the Nutcracker at CPAE, Dec 15

Location: College Park Arts Exchange
Old Parish House, 4711 Knox Road, College Park MD

Nutcracker Ballet
Sunday, December 15, 2013 at 3:30pm

Connect the Dots Dance Company presents the Nutcracker, an interactive, family friendly experience that includes a narration, a ballet craft, a ballet class, and a chance to explore our costumes and sets.

Nolan Williams Jr.’s Christmas Gift at Clarice Smith, Dec 13-14

Nolan Williams Jr.’s Christmas Gift at Clarice Smith, Dec 13-14

December 13-14, 2013

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

Click Here to Buy Tickets:
Regular: $35
Subscriber: $28
Senior Citizen: $30
UMD Alumni Association: $30
UMD Faculty & Staff: $28
Students & Youth: $10

Fri, Dec 13, 2013 . 8:00PM
Sat, Dec 14, 2013 . 3:00PM
Sat, Dec 14, 2013 . 8:00PM

Description:

Nolan Williams Jr. has created a family-friendly holiday production that celebrates African American culture, spirituality and music of the season.

Inspired in part by his own childhood memories and by Charlemae Rollins’ groundbreaking publication, Christmas Gif’: An Anthology of Christmas Poems, Songs, and Stories, Williams’s production debuted at the Clarice Smith Center in December 2012 to enthusiastic response.

Nolan Williams Jr.’s Christmas Gift! features new and time-honored Christmas music, from African American spirituals and gospel to jazz and R&B, performed by soloists, a house band and the Voices of Inspiration choir. The music is woven together with selected readings from African American poets like Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston and Paul Laurence Dunbar and enhanced by projected images that evoke memories of the season.

Active Cultures Theatre presents High Tea Stories at CPAE, Dec 13

Active Cultures Theatre presents High Tea Stories at CPAE, Dec 13

Location: College Park Arts Exchange
Old Parish House, 4711 Knox Road, College Park MD

Friday, December 13, 2013 at 7:30pm

Active Cultures Theatre presents a dramatic reading of a play by a local playwright.

High Tea Stories
by Laura Zam,
directed by Mary Resing,
performed by Laura Zam and Hilary Kacser.

Friday, Dec 13, 7:30 pm, Old Parish House, 4711 Knox Road (corner of Knox and Dartmouth, one block from College Park Metro).

Commissioned by The Associated of Baltimore and produced by Active Cultures.

Description: When Chana, a character from the Book of Samuel, faces conflict and self-doubt, she turns to a group of modern day women in Baltimore for help. A modern parable, High Tea Stories celebrates the role of authenticity, community and generosity in our lives.

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The Inner Landscape at Clarice Smith, Dec 5 at 2pm

The Inner Landscape at Clarice Smith, Dec 5 at 2pm

December 5, 2013, 2pm

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center Cafritz Foundation Theatre.

Free admission, no tickets required.

Description:

The staged reading will feature excerpts of plays by Gao Xingjian, and will be performed by students of THET 489G (Globalization and Theatre).

The playwright Gao Xingjian will be present at the reading, and Dr. Claire Conceison of Duke University will facilitate the discussion. Gao Xingjian won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2000 and is a renowned writer, painter, and filmmaker. His paintings and films are exhibited at the Art Gallery at UMD until December 20.

The exhibition has been organized by The Art Gallery, curated by Professor Jason C. Kuo (Art History and Archaeology) with the support of the Department of Art History and Archaeology, the Center for East Asian Studies, the Wang Fangyu Endowment for Calligraphy Education, the Program in Chinese, the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, the Program in French, the Department of French and Italian, the Program in Asian American Studies, the Program in Film Studies, the Graduate Field Committee in Film Studies, and the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, all at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Born in 1940, in Jiangxi province in eastern China, Gao Xingjian is the first Chinese recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Mr. Gao’s interest in theatre, writing, and all things creative was instilled at an early age by his mother, an amateur actress. He began painting at age ten after his uncle gave him a notebook for his birthday. Mr. Gao describes it as “just white papers, no grid and no lines,” and it was in this where he first began writing and drawing simultaneously. Throughout the course of Gao Xingjian’s prolific career, he has had nearly thirty international exhibitions of his ink paintings and, also, illustrates all of the covers of his books.