{"id":8431,"date":"2014-08-05T16:10:56","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T21:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/college.unc.edu\/?p=8431"},"modified":"2024-07-02T14:40:42","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T14:40:42","slug":"process2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=8431","title":{"rendered":"UNC Process Series features seven artistic works-in-development"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Producer\/DJ\/drummer<\/a>
Producer\/DJ\/drummer Stephen Levitin aka Apple Juice Kid (left) and musician\/educator\/activist Pierce Freelon (right), who together lead the Beat Making Lab. The title of their Process Series performance is \u201cBeat Making Lab: In Performance.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The 2014-2015 Process Series will feature seven new artistic works-in-development at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, beginning Aug. 21.<\/p>\n

All performances are at 8 p.m. Shows are free to the public, with a suggested donation of $5 at the door. The series offers audiences an opportunity to examine the creative process as artists and performers explore new ideas. Audience feedback following each performance is vital to the continued growth of the works.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor our seventh season, the Process Series will bring together performers and scholars from several different departments at UNC and from all over the country to present works from a variety of disciplines, from videography to hip-hop to interactive theater,\u201d said Joseph Megel, founder and artistic director. \u201cThis exciting year of incredibly diverse works explore a uniquely human experience, and we hope our audiences grow, engage and participate in the discussion.\u201d<\/p>\n

In partnership with UNC’s year-long focus on the Word War I centenary, the series will feature three new works investigating themes and untold stories of WWI and its legacy.<\/p>\n

The season also includes a new “in-house” play reading series in partnership with the department of dramatic art and PlayMakers Repertory Company. For more information on the readings, visit http:\/\/processseries.unc.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Performances include:<\/p>\n

\u201cDolly Wilde\u2019s Picture Show\u201d<\/strong>
\nScript by Rebecca Nesvet
\nIncorporating images from \u201cOscaria\/Oscar\u201d(1994), SPIR Conceptual Photography (Mar\u00eda DeGuzm\u00e1n and Jill Casid)
\nAug. 21 and 22
\nStudio 6, Swain Hall<\/p>\n

Combining live performance, multimedia and the photographic series \u201cOscaria\/Oscar\u201d (1994), by SPIR Conceptual Photography (Mar\u00eda DeGuzm\u00e1n and Jill Casid), \u201cDolly Wilde\u2019s Picture Show\u201d tells the story of Oscar Wilde\u2019s supposedly identical niece, one of the First World War\u2019s first female \u201cmotor-drivers.\u201d Dolly Wilde\u2019s notorious heritage and the outbreak of war give her unprecedented purpose and freedom, but also burden her with demanding ghosts. Traversing the no-man\u2019s-land between memory and photography, the 19th<\/sup> century and the 20th, Dolly struggles to build a revolutionary life in the ruins of history \u2014 as did her postwar generation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe New Generation Project: Contemporizing the African American Art Song and Negro Spiritual\u201d<\/strong>
\nBy Louise Toppin and Marquita Lister
\nSept. 5 and 6
\nRehearsal Room, Kenan Music Building<\/p>\n

In an effort to preserve America\u2019s arranged Negro spiritual and introduce unknown African American poets through art songs, internationally known sopranos Louise Toppin and Marquita Lister are pioneering \u201cThe New Generation Project.\u201d Through the project, they are commissioning new works from dozens of composers and poets to create a new songbook that confirms the contemporary relevancy of the art song and spiritual traditions.<\/p>\n

This performance was rescheduled from the 2013-2014 season.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>
A still from “Ice Music.” (photo by Tobias Johnson)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cIce Music\u201d<\/strong>
\nBy Brooks de Wetter-Smith, Lowell Liebermann and Carey McKinley
\nSept. 12 and 13
\nNelson Mandela Auditorium, FedEx Global Education Center<\/p>\n

\u201cIce Music\u201d is a multimedia work for chamber music ensemble, video and dance. It creatively explores various aspects of ice \u2014 its structure, power, fragility and its interaction with animal life and human presence. Inspiration for \u201cIce Music\u201d comes from de Wetter-Smith\u2019s trips to Antarctica, the High Arctic and explorations within glacial ice. Through its constantly shifting nature, ice underscores an undeniable connection we all share in our history as a species.<\/p>\n

This performance was rescheduled from the 2013-2014 season.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cOver the Top\u201d<\/strong>
\nBy Vanessa Gilbert and David Higgins
\nOct. 10 and 11
\nStudio 6, Swain Hall<\/p>\n

\u201cOver the Top\u201d takes on the Great War with levity and gravity as a performed, scaled history of World War I with a game for the audience. Hosted by a fictional last-living WWI veteran, \u201cOver the Top\u201d presents a garden party whose guests are personifications of the nation states involved in World War I, playing out their changing relationships and allegiances. Once Austria-Hungary throws the first lawn dart, the audience becomes mobilized as participants so they, too, can play War.<\/p>\n

\"Family<\/a>
Family photograph of Lauren Yee, author of “King of the Yees.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cKing of the Yees\u201d<\/strong>
\nBy Lauren Yee
\nNov. 6 and 7
\nSwain Hall, Studio 6<\/p>\n

Take any Chinese last name, and there exists a corresponding \u201cfamily association\u201d with branches in each major American city: Chinese men\u2019s clubs were formed over a hundred years ago after the building of the Transcontinental Railroad. For nearly 20 years, playwright Lauren Yee\u2019s father Larry has been a driving force in the Yee Family Association. And now Lauren is writing a play \u2014 about legacy, obsolescence, and the great and powerful house of Yee. Amid a backdrop of crumbling Chinatowns and all-too-lifelike museums, Lauren races through history, space and the fourth wall to find her father\u2019s story and chronicle this disappearing piece of American culture.<\/p>\n

\u201cGeomancy: Divination by Geography\u201d
\n<\/strong>By Elizabeth T. Gray Jr. and Elisabeth Lewis Corley
\nFeb. 13 and 14, 2015
\nStudio 6, Swain Hall<\/p>\n

Soldiers on the Western Front spent months or years in small geographical areas; they lived in the earth and knew every tree and rubbled farm. Their survival depended on their ability to read the land, and then on their ability to take precise actions to eliminate any threat. Using texts from a poem cycle by contemporary poet Elizabeth T. Gray Jr., World War I period texts ranging from poetry to trench songs to military instruction manuals and field maps, \u201cGeomancy: Divination by Geography\u201d explores how those actions morph into ritual and how our sense of safety depends on our deepest connections.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeat Making Lab: In Performance\u201d<\/strong>
\nA new performance by Pierce Freelon and Stephen Levitin aka Apple Juice Kid
\nMarch 20 and 21, 2015
\nStudio 6, Swain Hall<\/p>\n

Since 2012, musician\/educator\/activist Pierce Freelon and producer\/DJ\/drummer Stephen Levitin aka Apple Juice Kid have led the Beat Making Lab, an international music and cultural exchange program that promotes innovative collaboration and social\/entrepreneurial impact. The exceptional artists will work with past Beat Making Lab participants from around the world to develop a new performance fused with audience participation that demonstrates the impact of music, art and activism.<\/p>\n

The Process Series is sponsored by the Institute for the Arts and Humanities; the College of Arts and Sciences; the departments of communication studies, art, music, English and comparative literature, dramatic art, African, African American and diaspora studies; and the Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs.<\/p>\n

Process Series 2014-2105 season: <\/strong>http:\/\/processseries.unc.edu\/performances\/14-15-season\/<\/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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