ICE-Vision: Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life (Stephen and Timothy Quay, 1995)
Wednesday, November 7 at 8 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art Room S150
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ICE-Vision continues with Film Studies major Daniel LoPilato’s weekly selections of eclectic, idiosyncratic, psychotronic, or otherwise eccentric excursions into world cinema.

“A young man enters the oppressive environment of a school for servants. The all-male student body submits to strange rituals and choreographed lessons in subservience designed to reduce them to ‘absolute zero.’ Gradually, the young man’s attraction to the headmistress and his efforts to discover the secret history of the institution threaten the order of things, triggering destructive passions that lead to death and a dreamlike escape.” – Ron Magliozzi, MoMA Film

Creativity in the Research University
Wednesday, November 7 at 12:30 PM
Miller Learning Center Room 150

A roundtable discussion with Nicholas Allen, Franklin Professor of English and Director of the Willson Center; David Zucker Saltz, Head of the Department of Theatre and Film Studies and Executive Director of Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE); Mark Callahan, Artistic Director of ICE; Martijn van Wagtendonk, Associate Professor, Lamar Dodd School of Art; and Susan Thomas, Associate Professor, Hodgson School of Music and the Institute for Women’s Studies.

Part of UGA’s Spotlight on the Arts festival.

Liz Lerman Podcast and Lecture Video Available

Liz Lerman and John Borstel talk about Critical Response Process as part of the ICE Conversation series about peer review across disciplines. Podcast and transcription are available at https://ugaartscollaborative.com/arts-collab-podcast/.

A DVD of Liz Lerman’s lecture, “Hiking the Horizontal: Making Rules, Breaking Rules,” is now available for classroom use by UGA faculty and students.

Liz Lerman Residency
October 29 – November 2, 2012

Lecture: “Hiking the Horizontal: Making Rules, Breaking Rules”
Thursday, November 1 at 4 PM
Miller Learning Center Room 248

ICE is pleased to host Liz Lerman for a weeklong residency at UGA, sponsored by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, Department of Dance, Department of Theatre and Film Studies, Lamar Dodd School of Art, and Hodgson School of Music. The program is also supported in part by the President’s Venture Fund through the generous gifts of the University of Georgia Partners and other donors.

Liz Lerman is a visionary choreographer, performer, educator, and writer best known for organizing highly collaborative works that cut across traditional disciplines and communities. She has been the recipient of numerous honors, including a MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellowship and a United States Artists Ford Fellowship. Her work has been commissioned by the Lincoln Center, American Dance Festival, Harvard Law School, and the Kennedy Center among many others. Her recent work, The Matter of Origins, examines the question of beginnings through dance, media, and innovative formats for conversation supported by the National Science Foundation.

Born in Los Angeles and raised in Milwaukee, Lerman attended Bennington College and Brandeis University, received her BA in dance from the University of Maryland, and an MA in dance from George Washington University. In 1976 she founded Dance Exchange, based in the Washington DC area and now regarded as one the most innovative and creatively expansive dance companies in the world. She is the author of many articles and books including “Teaching Dance to Senior Adults” (1983), “Critical Response Process” (2003) and “Hiking the Horizontal: Field Notes from a Choreographer” (2011).

Liz Lerman’s five-day residency will feature both her mastery as a choreographer and her extraordinary ability to galvanize and inspire dialogue among multiple voices – artistic, scientific, and scholarly – in all their varied perspectives. Her visit will include workshops, a public lecture, master classes in the Department of Dance, and training in the Critical Response Process, a critical feedback methodology that evolved over the past twenty years through workshops and a book that has been adopted by many artmakers, educators, and administrators.

Lerman will be joined by John Borstel, a visual artist, writer, arts administrator, and Senior Advisor for Dance Exchange. Borstel is the co-author of “Critical Response Process,” and has travelled widely to teach and facilitate this unique feedback system, which emphasizes the values of dialogue and active involvement by the artist.

For more information about Liz Lerman, please visit http://www.lizlerman.com.

Colloquium: Performance and Photography
Wednesday, October 31 at 12:20 PM
Fine Arts Building Room 53

John Borstel is a visual artist, writer, arts administrator, and Senior Advisor for Dance Exchange, founded by Liz Lerman and regarded as one the most innovative and creatively expansive dance companies in the world. He is the co-author of “Critical Response Process,” and has travelled widely to teach and facilitate this unique feedback system, which emphasizes the values of dialogue and active involvement by the artist. His award-winning artistic work, combining aspects of photography, performance, and text, has been featured in exhibitions throughout the United States, Israel, and the United Kingdom. Borstel graduated from Georgetown University and serves on the faculty of Photoworks Glen Echo. For more information visit http://johnborstel.com.

Offered in conjunction with the Liz Lerman Residency, sponsored by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, Department of Dance, Department of Theatre and Film Studies, Lamar Dodd School of Art, and Hodgson School of Music. The program is also supported in part by the President’s Venture Fund through the generous gifts of the University of Georgia Partners and other donors.

Fulbright Seminar: Marie Porterfield Barry
Monday, October 22 from 12:20-1:10 PM
Moore College, Room 116

Attention all undergraduates and master’s students interested in Fulbright research grants for the creative and performing arts! UGA Fulbright alumna Marie Porterfield Barry (ICE Graduate Research Assistant 2008-10, MFA Art 2011), will be returning to campus to speak about her experience in Turkey and encourage other artists to consider applying for Fulbright to fund a year abroad.

For ten months in 2011-2012 as Fulbright student scholar, Marie Porterfield Barry lived in a small city in Anatolia studying the classical form of Turkish underglaze painted ceramics and initiating a collaborative public art installation with Turkish artists as a Fulbright Research Grantee in Creative & Performing Arts .

She will join us for pizza and tales of Ottoman master artists, ancient cities, and learning a foreign art in a foreign tongue. The UGA alumna will recount her Fulbright experience from the application to the adventure, offering advice to prospective candidates while sharing details of her life in Kuetahya, Turkey.

For a profile of Marie Porterfield Barry written prior to her departure, see http://honors.uga.edu/news/s_p/fulbright/porterfield.html

For more information on the U.S. Student Fulbright Program, see
http://us.fulbrightonline.org/

Please direct any questions to Maria de Rocher, campus U.S. Student Fulbright Program Advisor, at derocher@uga.edu.