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The 2008-09 Subscriber Series
How to Make it to the Dance Floor: A Salsa Guide for Women (Based on Actual Experiences)
Written and created by Cindy García
How to make it to the Dance Floor takes audiences to any given night in a fictional L.A. nightclub, where salsa dancing is approached from a variety of interpretations. Enter a red-haired Chicana feminist ethnographer who records the night’s events on a bathroom wall. When the wallflowers from the salseras' camp challenge the ethnographer’s interpretations, they collectively decipher four crucial rules. Their different histories, experiences, and dance styles propel their encounters, truces, and clashes on the dance floor.
Presented Monday, September 22, 2008 at 7p.m.
Rarig Center's Kilburn Arena Theatre
Free. Seating is availalbe on a first come-first serve basis.
The Woyzeck Project
The Woyzeck Project is an innovative, interdisciplinary production headed by U of M Theatre Arts and Dance faculty members and extraordinary Twin Cities artists Michael Sommers (artistic director, Open Eye Figure Theatre), Luverne Seifert (long-time actor), and Carl Flink (artistic director & choreographer, Black Label Movement), based on the play Woyzeck by Georg Büchner. This new work will be created collaboratively between the artistic team and cast, much like the critically acclaimed 2006 University Theatre and Dance production of The Master and Margarita, which led audiences outside to an Orwellian, apocalyptic world.
Presented October 10–18, 2008
Norris Hall on the University of Minnesota's East Bank Campus
Note: This show will feature a gallery-style walkthrough setting and will not have seating. All performances will take place in Norris Hall on the University’s East Bank Campus. Please visit theatre.umn.edu for up-to-date directions and details.
Two Comedies in Rep: Hay Fever & Present Laughter
By Noël Coward
The senior company of the University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater BFA Actor Training Program pre
sents two eccentric comedies written by British stage favorite Noël Coward. Coward’s ability to wield wit like a sword—slicing into the oddities of social behavior—makes him one of the most entertaining playwrights of the 20th century. Rest assured, Hay Fever and Present Laughter will increase your appreciation for great comedy writing while leaving you rolling in Rarig Center’s aisles.
Presented November 13–23, 2008
Rarig Center's Stoll Thrust Theatre
University Dance Theatre presents Dance Revolutions
The annual Subscriber Series offering from University of Minnesota Dance, Dance Revolutions is the product of the Cowles Visiting Artists Program, which brings world-renowned dance makers to the Twin Cities to work exclusively with students. This year’s production includes work from Cowles Visiting Artists and faculty, including a restaging of a modern dance masterpiece, José Limón’s powerful Missa Brevis. Other choreographers include Indonesian contemporary dance pioneer Sardono Kusumo, Afro-Cuban-based “Rumba-Tap” originator Max Pollak, and the Twin Cities’ own Shapiro and Smith Dance, led by U of M Dance Professor Joanie Smith.
Presented February 6–8, 2009
Rarig Center's Whiting Proscenium Theatre
Night Train to Bolina
By Nilo Cruz
Directed by Dominic Taylor
Join young Mateo and Clara as they hop on the Night Train to Bolina: a fantasy city where lost kites go, far from their rural village in Latin America. Cuban-born playwright Nilo Cruz explores an unidentified country in the midst of guerilla warfare through the eyes of two children walking the line between innocent fiction and bitter reality. With its imaginative use of storytelling, Night Train to Bolina is an adventure in youth, mysticism, and love.
Presented February 27 – March 7, 2009
Rarig Center's Kilburn Arena Theatre
A Bright Room Called Day
By Tony Kushner
Directed by Lisa Channer
Set in a Berlin apartment in multiple eras, A Bright Room Called Day relates the concerns of Agnes Eggling, a middle-aged actress and Communist in pre-Nazi Berlin, to those of Zillah, a young American woman frustrated with the governing parties of the early 1990's. Pulitzer-Prize winning playwright Tony Kushner examines two political parties’ rise to power in two different social and political climates. Kushner's exploration of human nature in the face of social change makes A Bright Room Called Day a challenging engagement in theatre.
Presented April 17–25, 2009
Rarig Center’s Stoll Thrust Theatre