August 30, 2008
Graudate Spotlight Performance Hour

Sept. 18-20, 2008 (DOUBLE BILL)
Breath Meter: The Poetics of Us
Written and Performed by David Hanley-Tejeda, Benjamin Haas, and David Sharp
Breath Meter: poems on the stage; spoken and not, embodied, alive. Playing in the poetic, Breath Meter recognizes the poetry of the every day the poetry in the body, the lungs, the legs and the pulse. Poetry was meant to be sung. A disciplined language experiment, Read, seen, heard and felt, an interrogative identity excavation this is the Poetics of Us.

What’s the Matter with Mike Garvin?
Directed and performed by Michael Garvin
This existential talk show blends the scholarship of auto-performance with tropes of late night comedy to explore just what is the matter the Mike Garvin.

October 9-11, 2008
Mr. Earbass Plays Croquet: Staging Edward Gory
Adapted and directed by Erin Briddick
Mr. C(lavius) F(redrick) Earbrass is, of course, the well-known novelist. Glassglue is a minor character from one of Earbrass’ drafts who assumes a fitful and cloudy reality. Drusilla is a young girl who admires views, and paper. Croquet is croquet. On the stage a curious meeting and endless drivel occur. Characters are disengaged from the page causing those nearby to recollect the miseries of work. And then everyone goes joyously to an early grave.

October 17
Guest Performer Kimberly Dark ?*

November 13-15, 2008
Rip Cardigan and the History of the Future
Written and directed by Charles Parrott
Follow the continuing adventures of science-hero Rip Cardigan, his mechanical sidekick Reddy the Robot, and the reluctant Rona Reed as they franticly race to save the future from the diabolical Doctor Improbable! This homage to the serialized radio drama of the 1940s collides the past the present and the future to explore methods of staging temporality and subversive escapism. Will our heroes be able to save future? Only time will tell!

December 2, 2008
Performing Culture Spotlight Performances*

December 4, 2008
Advanced Classes Spotlight Performances*

Spring 2009

January 24, 2009
An Evening of Faculty Performances

February 5-8, 2009
Patti Pace Performance Festival

February 12-14, 2009
BAR Corporation Presents:
Curated by BAR Corporation
BAR Corporation Presents: is three nights of interactive, experimental, process-oriented performance art. BAR Corporation Presents: invites the audience into immersive, poly-vocal, artistic encounters that encourage contemplation of various issues including (but not limited to): practices of looking, spatial reclamation via artistic practice, art in everyday life, art and improvisation, artistic agency and intimacy in the age of bureaucracy, and the gathering of artistic community.

March 26-28, 2009
Bat on a Wyre
Written and Directed by Craig Gingrich-Philbrook and Jonny Gray, with additional material generated by the cast.
In a ship voyaging on a formless, post-apocalyptic sea, an imprisoned bat may or may not be a terrorist, and may or may not hold the key to the appearance of ghostly weasels. Combining (anti)-narrative structures from horror comics and postmodern theatre, this mediated production asks which informants, which beings, and which aesthetic forms we can trust.

April 23-25, 2009
At the Mercy of Ruin
Written, directed, and performed by Patrick Santoro
You. Waiting patiently. Speaking quietly. Breathing barely. You find me, unknowingly awaiting you. And you hold me, tightly in your lucid arms. And you care for me, a lover I have never known. This is where I choose to be. At last, I am home. Listening patiently. Watching quietly. Feeling always. You. A multimedia performance, At the Mercy of Ruin is a love letter, a testament, a reminder of the pain life brings, and the beauty life allows us to become.

April 29, 2009
Performing Culture Spotlight Performances*

May 2, 2009
Advanced Classes Spotlight Performances*