Theater. Film. Music. Visual Art.
Refraction Arts Project
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Get your wires crossed!
What's in this box? Is it theater? Is it an installation? Is it dance?
YES!
Box 7.1
AND ON SATURDAY, APRIL 30, A DAY OF SITE-SPECIFIC ADVENTURE!
MARK YOUR CALENDARS AND FASTEN YOUR SEAT BELTS! We hope you can join us SATURDAY APRIL 30th for an all day site-specific adventure featuring performances/installations from some of Austin's most creative performers, filmmakers and dancers. Swing by the Blue Theater between noon and 1:00 that day to pick up a map and a pass ($10 gets you in to all the performances). OR just look up the address online and drive to the specific pieces that interest you ($5 for each specific performance). But we say embrace adventure!!! Take the day off and go see all of these extremely unique and innovative pieces!
We hope you can make it out to this truly unique, month-long event!
TICKET DETAILS
Festival passes: $25
Suggested donation for Fear of a Führer, Lacuna, Where Are They Now?: $12 per performance
Site-specific passes: $10
Suggested donation for single site-specific piece: $5
PASSES will be available at the Blue Theater box office on performance nights.
CALL 927-1118 extension 4 for reservations and more information.
Or email:
Cyndi@refractionarts.org
and from earlier in the Festival . . .
Playwrights Abi Basch and Kim Burke (both recently awarded the prestigious Jerome Fellowship in Minneapolis for their respective new plays), along with resident movie star and playwright Cyndi Williams, will present a genre-busting original play each week.
GIANT GALA OPENING Wed April 6th @ 8 pm
Lacuna
Where Are They Now?
Simultaneously, we've invited five visual artists to install site specific pieces in the Blue Theater.
Participating artists are:
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An exciting new collaborative work by dancer Laura Quattrochi of Shua Group (NYC), sculptor Agata Olek (NYC) and painter/video artist Thuy-Van Vu (Austin) titled Box 7.1. This performance action integrates improvisational dance, installation and video--not to be missed! Two performances only!
Friday, April 29 @ 8pm
Saturday, April 30 @ 9pm
1) Floodlines (Jaclyn Pryor) (1:00pm -- Begins in Room 2.112 of the Winship Building on the corner of San Jacinto and 23rd on the UT campus)
2) Lecture #7: Montage part 1: Chum in the Teeth of Cinema (Spencer Parsons) (2:45pm -- lecture room 3.120 in the CMA (communications building on the corner of 26th and Guadalupe)
3) Pomme (Jenny Larson) (3:30pm -- 1213 S. 6th St)
4) Elegy: a tennis shoe waltz (Sonnet Blanton, Sam Webber, & Julia M. Smith) (5:30pm -- 400 B. W. Alpine Rd., just off South Congress. Walk up the driveway, the house in back.)
5) Arrangement for Manyas and Julius (Lauren Tietz & The Improvisational Movement Project) (7:00pm--East Town Lake/ The Lagoon Pedestrian Bridge)
6) Where Are They Now? (Cyndi Williams) (8:00pm -- 709 Rio Grande)
7) The day concludes with a closing party @ the Blue Theater @ 10:00! Please join us.
includes all three plays and all site-specific performances!
includes all performances on Saturday, April 30th
(Come at 7 and check out a preview of Abi Basch's new play Fear of a Führer!)
by Abi Basch
8pm Thursday April 7th - Tuesday April 12th
Preview Wed April 6th @ 7 pm
by Kim Burke
8pm Friday April 15th-Sun 17th
by Cyndi Williams
Thurs April 21-Sun 24th
8pm Thurs-Sat
6pm Sun
preview Wed April 20th 8pm
Erin Curtis
Katalin Hausel
Cecilia Israel-Bradfield
Erick Michaud
Jared Steffensen