{"id":11178,"date":"2015-08-28T10:35:09","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T15:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/college.unc.edu\/?p=11178"},"modified":"2024-07-02T16:07:57","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T16:07:57","slug":"process-series2015-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=11178","title":{"rendered":"UNC-Chapel Hill\u2019s Process Series announces 2015\u20132016 season"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Lamentation<\/a>
Lamentation Variation Project<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Process Series, an annual performing arts program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill dedicated to developmental presentations of new works-in-progress, announces its eighth season, which includes five dynamic professional, faculty and student projects debuting on campus beginning Sept. 25.<\/p>\n

Founded by artistic director Joseph Megel, the mission of the Process Series is to illuminate ways in which artistic ideas take form and offer audiences the opportunity to examine the creative process and give their feedback as artists and performers explore new works.<\/p>\n

Offered in partnership with the Institute for the Arts and Humanities in UNC\u2019s College of Arts and Sciences, all performances are free to the public and will begin at 8 p.m.<\/p>\n

2015-2016 performances include:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cLamentation Variation Project\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Choreography and performance by UNC-Chapel Hill students, curated by Heather Tatreau<\/p>\n

Sept. 25 and Sept. 26<\/p>\n

Gerrard Hall<\/p>\n

Last spring, the Martha Graham Dance Company visited the Carolina campus, bringing with them a suite of contemporary variations on Graham\u2019s landmark 1930 solo \u201cLamentation.\u201d This harrowing portrayal of grief helped to define modern dance with its unsparing embodiment of raw emotion. Inspired and informed by this visit, UNC-Chapel Hill students created their own \u201cLamentation Variations\u201d under interdisciplinary faculty guidance, developing these responses to grief through movement, visual art and the written word. This is the first student dance project to appear in the Process Series.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd So We Walked\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Written and performed by DeLanna Studi and directed by Corey Madden<\/p>\n

Nov. 13 and Nov. 14<\/p>\n

Swain Hall<\/p>\n

Cherokee actor and writer DeLanna Studi explores the enduring impact of the Trail of Tears on contemporary communities using research, interviews and her own family\u2019s experience. Along with her father and a documentarian, Studi retraced the steps of her ancestors from their homestead in Murphy, North Carolina, to their present home near Tahlequah, Oklahoma. Studi will spend a month in residency at UNC-Chapel Hill, turning her first-hand research on the Trail of Tears into an original dramatic work. This is presented in partnership with the Center for the Study of theAmerican South, the Southern Oral History Program and the American Indian Center.<\/p>\n

\u201cMary Domingo\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

A new play by Anne Garc\u00eda Romero<\/p>\n

Feb. 19 and Feb. 20<\/p>\n

Swain Hall<\/p>\n

Mary Peabody Mann, widow of education reformer Horace Mann, hopes to carry on his work by translating a book by Domingo Sarmiento, an Argentine intellectual. As her relationship with the brilliant and attractive Domingo deepens, Mary struggles to make herself heard. She espouses gender equality, but is she ready to stand up to the men in her life? This play, originally commissioned by Chicago\u2019s Goodman Theatre, is the second in Anne Garc\u00eda Romero\u2019s trilogy about her Anglo maternal ancestor and her passion for Latin America. This is presented in partnership with the Teatro Latina\/o Series and the Program in Latina\/o Studies.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Lowest Form of Poetry\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Music by MW Duo (UNC-Chapel Hill faculty members Lee Weisert and Matthew McClure) and dance by COMPANY (Justin Tornow)<\/p>\n

March 5 and March 6<\/p>\n

Kenan Rehearsal Hall<\/p>\n

Starting from the pioneering work of Merce Cunningham and John Cage, COMPANY (choreographer Justin Tornow) and MW duo (saxophonist Matthew McClure and composer\/sound artist Lee Weisert) explore the space between clarity and abstraction in this new performance installation. Laser beams traverse the space in which dancers perform. By breaking the beams with their bodies, the dancers trigger samples from Cunningham\u2019s text \u201cSpace, Time, and Dance.\u201d Syllables, words and phrases fuse and detach, and accumulation rather than linear narrative moves the work forward.<\/p>\n

\u201cHelp Me to Find My People\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Directed by Nikkole Salter, based on the book by Heather Andrea Williams<\/p>\n

April 7 and April 8<\/p>\n

The Sonja Haynes Stone Center<\/p>\n

This new play, crafted by Obie Award winning playwright Nikkole Salter and based on the book by former UNC-Chapel Hill history professor Heather Andrea Williams, chronicles the journey of African-Americans from loss to the search for and discovery of their loved ones immediately after Emancipation, a search that still reverberates in African-American families today. Using contemporary documents \u2014 letters, articles, interviews, legal documents and newspaper advertisements \u2014 Salter brings the journey to freedom and family to vivid and visceral life. This is presented in cooperation with The Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History.<\/p>\n

Additional works to be presented beyond the series:<\/p>\n

\u201cEureka!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

New works by UNC-Chapel Hill MFA in Art alumni, curated by Jina Valentine<\/p>\n

Nov. 11 to Dec. 12<\/p>\n

John and June Allcott Gallery<\/p>\n

In the graduate art studio, a Eureka!<\/em> moment unites exhilaration and fear. The Aha! <\/em>moment may come from experiments with new materials, techniques or narratives, or from reimagining and reassessing what, why and how things are made. This exhibition of works by two dozen UNC-Chapel Hill MFA alumni showcases their graduate school turning points alongside their current work.<\/p>\n

Roundtable Reading Series<\/strong><\/p>\n

Locations and dates TBA<\/p>\n

This reading series offers playwrights a chance to hear their plays read at the earliest stages of development. Featured are \u201cThere are Others\u201d by Matt Garner (2013 UNC-Chapel Hill dramatic art MFA alumnus), \u201cSilhouettes of Service\u201d by Gregory DeCandia (current MFA candidate) and \u201cMr. Messiah\u201d by Dana Coen (director of UNC\u2019s Writing for Screen and Stage program). This is presented in partnership with PlayMakers Repertory Company and the department of dramatic art.<\/p>\n

Learn more at: http:\/\/processseries.unc.edu\/performances\/15-16-season\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Process Series: <\/strong>http:\/\/processseries.unc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Institute for the Arts and Humanities: <\/strong>http:\/\/iah.unc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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