This is a rare opportunity to see one of the world's most visionary theater directors at work. Co-sponsored by the Program in Drama. Through this work, Dorfman and his collaborators attempt to understand more deeply the world in which they grew up, the uniquely American world defined by the burgeoning freedom of rock and roll. Co-Presented with the American Dance Festival. In it he blends characters, angry rants, and a stream of consciousness meditation on making it to the top of the ladder, on falling off the ladder and on the exhilarating thrill of the ultimate crash and burn.
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Sha Sha Higby creates evocative and haunting performances, using the exquisite and ephemeral body sculpture she painstakingly assembles and animates with her own movement. Heavily influenced by her extensive periods of study in Thailand, Japan, and Indonesia, her performances are part sculpture, part dance, part theatre. Geri Allen is one of the most versatile jazz musicians to emerge in the final decade of the twentieth century. In her work with noted jazz musicians in various ensemble configurations she has displayed her command of freer forms, charted the borders of contemporary funk and even freshened the post-bop vocabulary. Geri Allen has collaborated with such well-known jazz musicians as Ornette Coleman, Betty Carter, Wallace Roney, and Charlie Haden and, as a leader of her own trio, she produced Twenty One , an album that mixed classics and standards with many of her own original compositions.