Program Schedule
5:30 pm - doors open / social time with complimentary light refreshments & cash bar
6:00 - 6:45 pm welcome & performances
6:45 - 7:30 pm discussion with artists and local arts organizations
7:30 - 8 pm continued socializing
Performances:
Scene from the play The Wolves
Performed by actors of CU Ideas, written by Sarah Delappe
The Wolves by Sarah Delappe tells the story of a girlhood and the battles they face when questioning the world, all through a series of warmups within their indoor soccer team games. This is their time to converse about world, body, and personal conflicts while also keeping friendships and learning who they are.
About the artists: The goal of CU Ideas is to build community with the Theatre and Dance department at CU Boulder. They take time to talk with the directors for the season and help decide the next season. They work toward diversity, inclusivity, accessibility and equity for the stage. They discuss casting conflicts, show subject struggles, and personal identity discussions. The work of the group started after an open letter to the Theatre and Dance department about issues of equity, diversity and inclusion and continues to grow. The group is led by CU Ideas President Isabella Cho and Vice President Hannah Iverson.
FLESH OF EARTH
Directed, Choreographed and Performed by Iván-Daniel Espinosa
In a culture which views the body as a mechanism to be trained and the Earth as a resource to be exploited, this performance is an attempt to see again their fundamental wholeness and interconnection. Inspired and influenced by choreographer Iván-Daniel Espinosa’s extensive study of Japanese Butoh dance, the performance invites the audience to meditate on the human body’s connection to the Earth, and the multitude of ways that human beings and the more-than-human-world are interconnected. As human-induced environmental change threatens multispecies livability, this performance demonstrates a radically intimate kind of relationality, where the distinctions between human and non-human worlds disintegrate in slow and attentive bodily practice.
About the artist: Iván-Daniel Espinosa is a Latino choreographer and artistic scholar that writes about and creates work engaged with ecology, climate change, interspecies Bio-Art and site-specific performance. Iván-Daniel's artwork is highly influenced by his long-term studies of Japanese Butoh. He has trained with numerous Butoh master teachers including Hiroko and Koichi Tamano, Natsu Nakajima, Yuko Kaseki, and Seattle Butoh pioneer Joan Laage. Iván-Daniel is currently a PhD student in Theatre & Performance Studies at CU Boulder. His doctoral research examines the relationships between human bodies and mycelium fungi networks through the lenses of sound and performance.
About Con·nect:
The series is co-organized by the Antiracism Action in the Arts Study Group. The group was launched in 2020 facilitated by Boulder County Arts Alliance and the CU Boulder Office for Public and Community-Engaged Scholarship (formerly the CU Boulder Office for Outreach and Engagement), and is composed of representatives from local arts organizations, including the Dairy Arts Center, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, The Collective Community Arts Center, Commnity Roots Art Festival (CRAFt), Jewish Community Center, KGNU, the Longmont Museum, The Mariposa Collective, CU Theatre and Dance, CU Art Museum and the B2 Center. Collectively, the groups seek to promote diversity, equity, access, inclusion, and fundamental change within historically white arts institutions in Boulder County.
When: Tuesday April 16, 2024, 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Where: Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (1750 13th St., Boulder)
Free Event
1750 13th St.
Boulder, Colorado 80302
United States