MIWA MATREYEK THIS WORLD MADE ITSELF Post-Performance Discussion

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MIWA MATREYEK
THIS WORLD MADE ITSELF
Post-Performance Discussion
You are invited to remain in the theater immediately following the performance for an informal
discussion with the artist.
Funded in part by the Lewis Crickard Visiting Performing Artists Fund.
Friday, October 10, 2014 • 7 & 9 pm
Warner Bentley Theater • Dartmouth College
PROGRAM
MYTH AND INFRASTRUCTURE
Creator and Performer..................................................................................................... Miwa Matreyek
Original Music............................................................................ Anna Oxygen, Caroline Lufkin, Mileece
Additional Music...............................................................................................................................Mirah
Created with a Special Projects Grant by Princess Grace Foundation,
Seed Grant by Under the Radar Festival, and a grant from the Associate of Performing Arts Presenters.
• PAUSE •
THIS WORLD MADE ITSELF
Creator and Performer..................................................................................................... Miwa Matreyek
Music................................................................................... Steve Ellison, Careful (Eric Lindley), Mileece
Created with support from Creative Capital and a Princess Grace Foundation Special Project Grant.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Miwa Matreyek is an internationally recognized
animator, designer and multimedia artist based
in Los Angeles. She creates animated short films
as well as live works that integrate animation,
performance and video installation. Coming to
animation from a background in collage, her
work explores how animation is transformed
when combined with the body, both physically in
her performance pieces, as well as a composited
video element in her short films.
In her projection-based performances, animation
takes on a more physical and present quality,
while body and space take on a more fantastical
quality, creating an experience that is both
cinematic and theatrical. She is interested in the
slippery meeting point of cinema and theater/
performance, the moments of convergence
where fantastical illusions are created, and the
moments of divergence where the two struggles
against each other.
Her work has been shown internationally at
animation and film festivals, theater festivals,
performance festivals, as well as art galleries,
science museums, tech conferences, universities,
and more. Some past presentation include
TEDGlobal (UK), Sundance Film Festival, Wexner
Center for the Arts, Anima Mundi Animation
Festival (Brazil), Time Based Arts Festival,
REDCAT, ISEA, Theatre de la Cité (France), the
Exploratorium, EXIT festival, Fusebox Festival,
S8 (Spain), Animasivo (Mexico), Pixilerations,
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, City of Women
(Slovenia), Santiago a Mil (Chile), Manipulate (UK)
and more.
Matreyek received her MFA (2007) in
Experimental Animation and Integrated Media
at the California Institute of the Arts. She is one
of the founding members and core collaborators
of Cloud Eye Control.
CONNECTING ARTISTS TO THE COMMUNITY
While at Dartmouth, Miwa Matreyek visited Computer Science and Theater classes, met with students and
faculty of the Neukom Digital Arts Leadership and Innovation (Dali) Lab, participates in post-performance
discussions and joins students for a reception. For more information on Hop Outreach & Arts Education, call
603.646.2010 or visit hop.dartmouth.edu/online/outreach.
NEW ENglaND EXCluSIVE
CINEASTAS by Mariano Pensotti
thu Jan 15 7 pm & fri Jan 16 8 pm
tHE MOOrE tHEatEr
What’s the difference between real life and the movies? Made by
one of Latin America’s brightest theater talents, Cineastas follows
four filmmakers—young and old, struggling and successful—as they
start new projects. On an ingenious “split screen” set, virtuosic
actors switch rapid-fire between both levels depicting the
filmmakers’ lives and their films, with funny, intriguing and haunting
results. In Spanish with English subtitles. Contains some adult language.
HOP CO-COMMISSION
KRONOS QUARTET in BEYOND ZERO: 1914-1918
tue feb 10 7 pm • SPaulDINg auDItOrIuM
For 40 years, the Kronos Quartet has championed music that challenges the
global outlook. In Beyond Zero, it teams up with Serbian-born Vrebalov and
acclaimed filmmaker Bill Morrison—working with decaying archival footage
as he did in The Great Flood—to create a heart-stopping sound-and-film
narrative of WWI. It’s preceded by an absorbing cross-cultural suite of short,
circa-1914 works that characterize that era’s artistic foment.
HOTEL MODERN in THE GREAT WAR
tue & wed apr 7 & 8 7 pm
tHE MOOrE tHEatEr
A highly anticipated part of Hop programming marking the centenary of
WWI, this Dutch theater collective reprises its “live animation” show that
uses deceptively childlike means to evoke that war’s realities. While the
artists manipulate tiny props and everyday objects on miniature sets and
video-project the action, the images are brought heartbreakingly to life
by live sound effects and spoken narration from actual soldiers’ letters.
For tickets or more info call the Box Office at 603.646.2422 or visit hop.dartmouth.edu. Sign up for
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THE NILE PROJECT
fri apr 17 8 pm • SpaulDing auDitOriuM
As the Nile is fed by 11 African nations, so The Nile Project
combines the region’s master vocalists and musicians and their
magnificent, diverse traditions. On NPR’s list of five “must hear”
international albums of 2013 and inspired by Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road
Project, this creation of Ethiopian-American singer Meklit Hadero
and others is “an emotional and intellectual nexus of innovative
music and education regarding environmental issues of the Nile”
(Afropop Worldwide).
UKULELE ORCHESTRA
OF GREAT BRITAIN
wed apr 22 7 pm • SpaulDing auDitOriuM
Renowned for “perfectly polished professionalism, threaded
through with dry wit and wry humor” (The Independent), these
eight players strum, sing and make sound effects as they traipse
from Tchaikovsky to Nirvana via Otis Redding and Spaghetti
Western themes. Dressed in formal concert attire while expertly
wielding their diminutive instruments, they offer the musical
insights—and delightful daffiness—that millions relish on YouTube.
For tickets or more info call the Box Office at 603.646.2422 or visit hop.dartmouth.edu. Sign up for
weekly HopMail bulletins online or become a fan of “Hopkins Center, Dartmouth” on Facebook
HOPKINS CENTER MANAGEMENT STAFF
Jeffrey H. James ‘75a Howard Gilman Director
Marga Rahmann Associate Director/General Manager Joseph Clifford Director of Audience Engagement
Jay Cary Business and Administrative Officer Bill Pence Director of Hopkins Center Film
Margaret Lawrence Director of Programming Joshua Price Kol Director of Student Performance Programs
HOPKINS CENTER BOARD OF OVERSEERS
Austin M. Beutner ’82
Kenneth L. Burns H’93
Barbara J. Couch
James W. Giddens ’59
Allan H. Glick ’60, T’61, P’88
Barry Grove ’73
Caroline Diamond Harrison ’86, P’16
Kelly Fowler Hunter ’83, T’88, P’13, P’15
Please turn off your cell
phone inside the theater.
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Richard P. Kiphart ’63
Robert H. Manegold ’75, P’02, P’06
Nini Meyer
Hans C. Morris ’80, P’11, P’14 Chair of the Board
Robert S. Weil ’40, P’73 Honorary
Frederick B. Whittemore ’53, T’54, P’88, P’90, H’03
Jennifer A. Williams ’85
Diana L. Taylor ’77 Trustee Representative
Assistive Listening Devices
available in the lobby.
D A RT M O UTH
RECYCLES
If you do not wish to keep your playbill, please
discard it in the recycling bin
provided in the lobby. Thank you.