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Events
Ongoing November December 2010
Through November 7, 2009
San Diego Italian Film Festival
The San Diego Italian Film Festival (SDIFF), co-organized by Literature Professor Pasquale Verdicchio, has an ambitious goal: To make San Diego a high spot for Italian culture. Italy gives the world culture, and we want to share that culture through the movies we bring directly from Italy – great, award-winning, recent (with English subtitles), all with interesting stories of relationships, love, hate, work, food, identity, all the passions of life.
The SDIFF shows films throughout the year to a continually growing audience, last year filling over 5,000 seats. Almost all films are San Diego premieres, and the SDIFF is practically the only movie bridge between our local scene and Italian culture everywhere. And SDIFF also works at developing story-telling abilities, especially among the young, who will continue to create the culture we admire.
For a little while we can all be Italian; when we see an Italian film presented by the San Diego Italian Film Festival, we can join in a great moment of cultural creation all over the world, and at the same time know that all the world is contained in this one story we share right here, right now.
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Through November 25, 2009
gallery@calit2 presents Tijuana/San Diego:
Cooperation and Confrontation at the Interface
gallery@calit2, Atkinson Hall
The show brings together works by seven artists who draw upon the cultural landscape of the border region linking Tijuana and San Diego. While most of the artists are based in Tijuana, two of them – Lea Rudee and Fred Lonidier – are UC San Diego faculty members. The works in “Tijuana/San Diego: Cooperation and Confrontation at the Interface” range from digital prints to interactive multimedia.
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Through December 12, 2009
University Art Gallery presents Off the Beaten Path:
Violence, Women, and Art
University Art Gallery
For the new exhibition season the University Art Gallery presents an international exhibition entitled Off The Beaten Path: Violence, Women and Art. The exhibition brings together artists from around the world to explore the global ramifications of gender-based violence. The exhibition hopes to help create a new conversation on this important topic. The exhibition explores multiple aspects of violence against women and girls organized within several thematic categories: Violence and the Individual; Violence and the Family; Violence and the Community; Violence and Culture; Violence and Politics. The organizers hope the audience leaves the exhibition with a better understanding of the roots of abuse, a feeling of empathy, and an awareness of choice in their actions and beliefs.
The exhibition, curated by Randy Jayne Rosenberg executive director of Art Works For Change, features twenty artists from twenty-five countries.
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November 7, 2009
Music presents XVI Festival Hispanoamericano de la Guitarra
Conrad Prebys Concert Hall
5:00 pm
Roberto Limón established the Festival Hispanoamericano de Guitarra in Tijuana in 1994 with the aim of promoting the richness of Latin-American culture through the guitar in all of its expressions and genres. The music ranges from classical and contemporary to jazz and flamenco. The festival brings together artists from North, Central, and South America and Europe, particularly the Iberian Peninsula, in the culturally fertile Tijuana-San Diego border region.
2009 marks the festival's 16th anniversary, and the first year that a concert will be held at UCSD's new Conrad Prebys Concert Hall. The concert is curated by Colin McAllister (UCSD's faculty guitarist) along with festival director Limón.
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November 7, 2009
ArtPower! presents Eligh & Scarub
The Loft
9:00 pm
Whether you know them from 3 Melancholy Gypsys (3MG), Living Legends or any of their other projects, there is no denying that Eligh & Scarub are forces to be reckoned with when it come to the world of hip hop. They will be passing the mic at The Loft, so come and see what legends are made of.
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Fall Quarter 2009
Science Studies presents Colloquium Series
4:00 pm
H&SS 3027 in John Muir College
November 9: Robert S. Westman, UC San Diego
"Copernicus and the Astrologers of Cracow and Bologna: Some Science Studies Themes"
November 16: Scott Kirsch, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"The national map and the Republic of Knowledge in late nineteenth-century America"
November 23: Charles Thorpe, UC San Diego
"Participation as Post-Fordist Politics: Demos, New Labour, and Science & Technology Studies"
November 30: Jacob Stegenga, UC San Diego
"Amalgamating Evidence with Consensus Conferences and Meta-Analysis"
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November 9 - 14, 2009
Theatre and Dance presents Topdog/Underdog
The Arthur Wagner Theatre
Topdog/Underdog is the 2002 Pulitzer Prize winning play about two African American brothers, named Lincoln and Booth as a “joke” by their father, coping with women, work, poverty, gambling, racism, and their troubled upbringings. Using three-card monte as a metaphor, this play is ultimately about the Great American Con. Our production furthers UC San Diego’s conversation during the yearlong Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Celebrations.
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November 9, 2009
Music presents Myriad Trio/Charles Curtis & Reiko Uchida
Conrad Prebys Concert Hall
8:00 pm
The Department of Music presents a special chamber music concert featuring faculty cellist Charles Curtis and guest soloist Reiko Uchida. The Camera Lucida chamber music series is made possible by a generous grant from the Sam B. Ersan Chamber Music Fund.
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November 10, 2009
ArtPower! presents Dime Stories
The Loft
8:00 pm
DimeStories are 3-minutes stories read by the author. Each tiny story is sure to make you laugh, cry or think. Some are fiction, some fact, but all are true. The Showcase at The Loft features 15 pre-selected readers who won first place at the 2009 read-offs. DimeStories Theatre is a reading series across the country consisting of open mics, read-offs, showcase events, podcasts, and public radio selections. Come enjoy an evening of storytelling with a bite for everyone.
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November 12, 2009
Literature presents Nasrin Rahimieh
"Mohsen Makhmalbaf's Desire for a Different Revolutionary Moment"
4:00 pm
Literature Building, Room 155 (deCerteau)
Nasrin Rahimieh is Maseeh Chair and Director of the Dr. Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture at University of California, Irvine where she also holds an appointment as Professor of Comparative Literature. She served as Associate Dean of Arts at the University of Alberta (1999-2002) Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at McMaster University (2003-2006), and President of the International Society for Iranian Studies (2006-2008).
Her teaching and research are focused on modern Persian literature, Iranian diaspora literature, Iranian women’s writing, and contemporary Iranian cinema. Among her publications are Oriental Responses to the West (Brill 1990), Missing Persians: Discovering Voices in Iranian Cultural History (Syracuse 2001), a co-edited special issue of MELUS (The Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (Summer 2008) on Iranian American literature, and the English translation of the late Taghi Modarressi’s Persian novel, The Virgin of Solitude (2008).
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November 13, 2009
Literature presents Jodi Kim
"The Ends of Empire: Asian American Critique and the Cold War"
3:00 pm
155 Literature Building, deCerteau Room
Professor Kim’s talk, drawn from her forthcoming book, offers a critique of American empire in Asia through a reframing of the Cold War as a geopolitical, cultural, and epistemological project of gendered racial formation and imperialism undergirding U.S. global hegemony. The talk investigates how what is taken to be the bipolar Manichean rivalry between the U.S. and the Soviet Union was triangulated in Asia, and how contemporary Asian American cultural productions critically index and give complex form to this vexed triangulation.
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November 13, 2009
CLAH presents Victoria Delgadillo
"Art Activism and the Collective Voice "
6:30 pm
San Diego Central Library
UC San Diego Chicano/a~Latino/a Arts & Humanities Program (CLAH) Presents The 2nd Annual Gracia Molina De Pick Latina Feminisms
Drawing on her UCSD undergraduate student organizing skills and political belief, artist Victoria Delgadillo explores the power of the artistic collective and how various associations have amplified her work as an artist. Delgadillo will discuss her part in bringing an international outcry for resolving the horrific femicides in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico through art and her activism in converting today's exhibition spaces into town hall meeting places. Other areas of discussion will be iconography, social and cultural values/sensitivity, the power of words in art, art that has created social change, the distribution & sharing of artistic expression, and social art that transcends age and cultural barriers. A Q&A follows the presentation.
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November 13 - 15, 2009
Myth Project V - Cowboys: The American Heroes
November 13 - 14 at 8:00 pm
November 15 at 7:00 pm
SUSHI Performance and Visual Arts
390 11th Avenue @ J Street, downtown San Diego
The Myth Project V: “Cowboys: The American Heroes,” a premiere work conceived and directed by Patricia Rincon, is inspired by the history and myth of the American cowboy. Using images of the American cowboy in film, history, popular culture, and music. A wacky, humorous and sometimes bumpy ride along the rich historic trail of the iconic American cowboy.
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November 14 , 2009
University Art Gallery presents Violence and Culture
Pepper Canyon Hall, Room 122
6:00 pm
Please join the University Art Gallery in conjunction with 5 Women Who Care in a series of three discussions associated with the current exhibition and hope to explore the global ramifications of gender-based violence.
The exhibition, curated by Randy Jayne Rosenberg executive director of Art Works For Change, features twenty artists from twenty-five countries.
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November 14, 2009
ArtPower! presents Aviv String Quartet
Conrad Prebys Concert Hall
8:00 pm
The Aviv is the next generation quartet to watch. Their technical poise and deeply moving interpretations have earned them a series of prestigious prizes. The intensity of their playing is direct and honest. Sergey Ostrovsky, violin; Evgenia Epshtein, violin; Shuli Waterman, viola; Rachel Mercer, cello.
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November 14, 2009
ArtPower! presents Club Salsa
The Loft
9:00 pm
The UCSD Salsa Club presents The Loft's first ever Salsa club night this November. Whatever your level or if you've never had the pleasure before come and join us for a night of music, food and some hot latin tunes.
The class starts at 9pm followed by dancing till the wee hours of the morning.
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November 16 - 21, 2009
Theatre and Dance presents Sexual Selection:
Darwin and Shakespeare Ponder Love
Mandell Weiss Forum Theatre
Director Kim Rubinstein and Choreographer Yolande Snaith collaborate in this original dance theatre melding of William Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost and Charles Darwin’s The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. Don’t miss this celebration of the mating rituals of the human species seen through the lens of our greatest playwright and evolutionist!
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November 17, 2009
Literature presents Almudena Grandes
The James K. Binder Lectureship in Literature
"Almudena Grandes: Literature and Memory, a writer's journey"
UCSD Faculty Club - Atkinson Pavilion
6:00 pm
The lecture will be in English with a reception to follow.
Free and open to the public
The importance of the past comes alive as Almudena Grandes guides her audience on a journey through the process of becoming a writer, using the past century in Spanish history as the basis for her literary work.
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Fall Quarter 2009
Visual Arts presents Visiting Artists Series
Visual Arts Performance Space, VAF
unless otherwise noted
November 17: Mungo Thomson at 6:30pm
November 19: Matthew Ritchie at 7:00pm, MCASD
December 1: Eileen Myles at 6:30pm
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Fall Quarter 2009
Literature presents New Writing Series
Visual Arts Performance Space, VAF
November 18: Karen Joy Fowler at 4:30pm
December 1: Eileen Myles at 6:30pm
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November 18, 2009
Music presents Aleck Karis
Conrad Prebys Concert Hall
7:00 pm
Wednesdays@7 Concert Series, presented by the Department of Music: Distinguished American pianist Aleck Karis performs Modern and Romantic works, with compositions by Lei Liang, Edward Jacobs, Johannes Brahms, and Robert Schumann. A champion of the music of contemporary American composers, Karis is equally at home in the great piano literature of the 19th Century. Karis' most recent CD is "Late Piano Music of Frédéric Chopin" on Roméo Records.
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November 19, 2009
European Studies presents Remaking the Public University in the 21st Century
Rimac Annex, Dugout Conference Room
4:00 pm
The current international economic crisis, which has thrown into question free market-based economic and state policies, has paradoxically deepened trends in many regions to privatize state funded universities and reconfigure their mission as a public service and good along the lines of market-oriented models. The roundtable will seek to explore these trends and their fallout in terms of access, curricula, and research in order to reach a transnational perspective on these developments whose roots go back several decades.
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November 19, 2009
La Jolla Music Society presents Shanghai Symphony Orchestra
Copley Symphony Hall
8:00 pm
PRELUDE 7:00 pm
Dr. Paul Pickowicz, distinguished professor of history and Chinese
studies at the University of California, San Diego,will give a pre-concert
talk: "Is Shanghai the Cultural Capital of China?"
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November 19 - 29, 2009
Theatre and Dance presents The House of Bernarda Alba
Theodore and Adele Shank Theatre
After the death of her second husband, Bernarda Alba, a domineering Spanish matriarch, imposes a period of mourning on the five adult daughters. Tension mounts within the household where morality is dictated by the fanatical tyranny of ideology. Menial daily rituals are the only thing that makes the daughters lives bearable while they are slowly eaten alive by their own repression. The House of Bernarda Alba, Lorca's last play, was completed mere months before he was assassinated by the Nationalists in 1936.
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November 19 - 22, 2009
Zirk Ubu: Adrift
November 19 - 22 at 8:00 pm
November 22 at 7:00 pm
SUSHI Performance and Visual Arts
390 11th Avenue @ J Street, downtown San Diego
Featuring UC San Diego Professors Richard Cohen (Literature), Nancy Caciola (History), and Liam Clancy (Dance), Sushi Performance and Visual Art will present Zirk Ubu’s “Adrift” on November 19-22, 2009. Part circus and part mystery cult, Zirk Ubu brings together a visionary amalgam of performance genres. The diverse, eleven-member collective embraces skills ranging from aerials and acrobatics, to masking, puppetry, and object improvisation, as well as video and performance art. These elements kaleidoscopically recombine into tableaux that are, by turns, sensual, absurdist, and surreal. The final result is a theater of urban inversion, where the possible and the unimaginable dance together in the night air.
Zirk Ubu is honored to have “Adrift” produced by Sushi Performance and Visual Art. Founded in 1980, Sushi is a San Diego-based nonprofit multi-disciplinary presenting organization, which cultivates alternative voices in the contemporary arts. Contact Sushi at http://sushiart.org/, (619) 235-8466.
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Fall Quarter 2009
Philosophy presents Colloquia Program
4:00 - 6:00 pm
H&SS 7077 in John Muir College
Nonmember 20: Christian Wuthrich
December 4: Rick Grush
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November 20, 2009
Literature presents Almudena Grandes
Roundtable Discussion
"El Corazon Helado and the struggle for the recuperation of Historical Memory in Spain: A Conversation with Almudena Grandes"
Seuss Room at Geisel Library
4:00 pm
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November 20, 2009
Music presents 201F
Conrad Prebys Concert Hall
8:00 pm
Professor Charles Curtis's students perform new and experimental music.
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November 20, 2009
ArtPower! presents Crown City Rockers
The Loft
9:00 pm
Crown City Rockers are bringing their energetic and virtuosic brand of live hip-hop to The Loft fresh from performances where they've shared stages with such legendary crews as Blackalicious, Living Legends and Ozomatli. XLR8R magazine calls them “a way funkier version of the Roots.”
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November 21, 2009
University Art Gallery presents Violence and Politics
Pepper Canyon Hall, Room 106
1:00 pm
The last discussion associated with the current exhibition entitled Off the Beaten Path: Violence, Women and Art that to explore the global ramifications of gender-based violence. “Throughout the world, women and girls are victims of countless and senseless acts of violence. The range of gender-based violence is devastating, occurring, quite literally, from womb to tomb,” explains Randy Jayne Rosenberg curator and executive director of Art Works For Change. “The stories that underlie these artworks return us imaginatively to the event of violation and allow it to affect us.”
This program examines the laws that keep women in compromised positions around the world as well as within the US.
Patrick Anderson, Assistant Professor of Communication, UCSD will facilitate the discussion with Carmen Chavez from Casa Cornelia Law Center, Steve Bush who created the legislation know as Jenny’s Law, Summer Stephan who is the District Attorney of North County, San Diego.
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November 21, 2009
ArtPower! presents Eighth Blackbird
The Loft
8:00 pm
Described by The New Yorker as “friendly, unpretentious, idealistic and highly skilled,” the Grammy Award-winning eighth blackbird is widely lauded for its kinetic performing style that ignores the once-bold line between contemporary, chamber, indie, and popular music. The sextet extends the Tentacle. Grab back and hold on!
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November 23 - December 5, 2009
Theatre and Dance presents Camino Real
Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre
Camino Real takes place in an imaginary police state at the end of the road where dreams come to die. The terminal end of the Camino Real is the torturous home of broken down heroes, withered beauties, lost lovers, blocked poets, and a boxing champ whose heart no longer works. The play is their struggle to escape: their struggle with whether or not they should even try. It is a paean to hope and despair in all of its forms, and to the eternal forces that drive us always to seek the light.
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November 23, 2009
Music presents Jazz Concert
Conrad Prebys Recital Hall
8:00 pm
Jazz performers from UCSD's Department of Music swing and improvise their way through their fall concert.
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November 24, 2009
Music presents Gospel choir
Mandeville Auditorium
8:00 pm
Ken Anderson directs hundreds of voices in a concert of African-American spirituals, gospel, and blues.
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November 25, 2009
Arts Library presents Turkey Calling Show
Geisel Library, lower level - west wing
12:30 pm
The UCSD Arts Library presents their annual Turkey Calling Show at 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, November 25, 2009 (yes, that is their official Short Attention Span Series offering for the day before Thanksgiving). Lower level, West Wing, Geisel Library, UCSD.
About the show: come to the exhibit case area of the UCSD Arts Library to see an artful turkey calling exhibit. Hear UCSD undergraduate performance artist Lazaro Rabago recite an Aztec poem about our native turkey. Perform a slapstick tone poem with old-time radio sound effects artist Scott Paulson and learn how to turkey call. Story lady Melanie Treco will read a new family-friendly turkey story. The Teeny-Tiny Pit Orchestra will perform some appropriate tunes. What to expect: part performance art and part old-time radio show, hosted by Scott Paulson, outreach coordinator of the UCSD Arts Library. Free show.
Call (858)822-5758 for info or visit http://artslib.ucsd.edu
November 30, 2009
Music presents Chamber Ensembles
Conrad Prebys Recital Hall
8:00 pm
János Négyesy directs the Department of Music's chamber ensembles in their fall concert.
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December 2 & 4, 2009
Music presents Lilith
Conrad Prebys Concert Hall
7:00 pm on Dec. 2nd and 8:00 pm on Dec. 4th
Wednesdays@7 Concert Series, presented by the Department of Music: World premiere of a new opera by Guggenheim Award-winning composer Anthony Davis, with an original libretto by Thurgood Marshall Provost and Theatre Faculty Allan Havis. With an additional performance December 4, 2009 at 8 p.m. Davis is a critically acclaimed composer of operas including Tania and X: The Life and times of Malcolm X.
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December 3, 2009
Music presents Wind Ensemble
Mandeville Auditorium
8:00 pm
Maestro Robert Zelickman leads the Wind Ensemble through a challenging program that typically ranges from classical and cutting-edge and occasionally humorous.
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December 4 - 6, 2009
La Jolla Symphony & Chorus presents (E)merging Voices
Mandeville Auditorium
8:00 pm on Dec. 4th and 5th
3:00 pm on Dec. 6th
Get your tie-dyes and your love beads and come back with us to the Age of Aquarius as we present Bernstein’s stunning, often controversial Mass, one of the icons of the 1970s. Commissioned by Jackie Kennedy for the opening of The Kennedy Center, Mass follows the liturgy through the Celebrant, portrayed by UCSD Gospel Choir Director Ken Anderson, with frequent interruption and commentary from the “congregation.” We offer three performances of this rarely-heard theater-piece.
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December 7, 2009
Music presents Camera Lucida
Conrad Prebys Concert Hall
8:00 pm
- UCSD Department of Music's prestigious chamber music series continues with the
second concert of its six-concert season. The program features music by Andrieu,
Bach, Webern, and Ravel. Camera Lucida is a collaboration between members of the
UCSD music faculty and principal musicians from the San Diego Symphony. The
series is made possible by a generous contribution from the Sam B. Ersan Chamber
Music Fund.
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December 8, 2009
Helen Edison Lecture Series presents Athanasios Moulakis
Faculty Club
7:00 pm
Dr. Athanasios Moulakis joined the American University of Afghanistan at the beginning of 2008 after serving as a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, and as Onassis Foundation Fellow in Athens, Greece. Previously, he was director of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies of the University of Lugano.
Over an 11-year period Dr. Moulakis was Herbst Professor of Humanities and Professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado, where he was also Founding Director of the Herbst Program of Humanities. His publication list includes a large number of books and articles on topics in the humanities, political theory, public policy, higher education, international relations, and other scholarly fields. With a Doctorate in Philosophy (magna cum laude) degree from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Dr. Moulakis has published and lectured in five languages. He has received numerous academic honors and awards, including the American Association of Colleges and Universities’ prize for best book on liberal education.
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January 14, 2010
ArtPower! presents Grupo de Rua
Mandeville Auditorium
8:00 pm
Considered one of the most creative choreographers in a new generation of Brazilian dance-makers, Artistic Director Bruno Beltrão investigates the intersections of hip-hop technique with contemporary dance. In H3 the nine dancers tackle the limits of their coordination and skill as they collide and balance against each other, blending elements of krumping, popping, and breakdance in their duets.
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