Season

Fall 2007 - Spring 2008 Season

Fall 2007

October 19 and 20 @ 7:30pm, and October 21 @ 2:00pm

Pushing it at the Seems

Written and Performed by Kimberlee Pérez

Directed by Jennifer Linde

Faculty Advisor: Frederick Corey

Pushing it at the Seems is a solo performance piece that explores the intersections of Jill Dolan’s (2005) notion of performative utopia and what writer/performer, Kimberlee Pérez, describes as the “potentiality of queer intimacy.” While we tend toward reserving intimacy as the physical, psychic, emotional, spiritual connection between two people, this performance is interested in what would be possible if we were to queer our notions of intimacy and be willing to engage in a kind of queer relationality. Pérez relies on her own personal narratives of experiences in performance relationships – both collaborations and the individual processes of writing, and performing, to get at these larger questions of queer intimacy and performative utopia.

Dolan, Jill. Utopia in Performance: Finding Hope at the Theatre. Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press, 2005.

November 2 and 3 @ 7:30pm, and November 4 @ 2:00pm

Just Read my Manifesto: A Performance with Valerie

Written and Performed by Desiree Rowe

Faculty Advisor: Cheree Carlson

Just Read my Manifesto: A performance with Valerie is a solo performance by Desiree Rowe. Rowe’s performance explores the possibilities of biographical performance intertwined with autoethnography, or auto/biography. Specifically she investigates the identity of Valerie Solanas, who is most well-known as the woman who shot Andy Warhol.* Rowe intertwines personal narrative with a bricolage of popular culture texts about Solanas and excerpts of Solanas’ writings and speeches. Rowe’s performance hopes to further illuminate how the rejection of women’s writing leads to the de-humanization of the female writer.

*For more information about Valerie Solanas: http://www.womynkind.org/valbio.htm

November 30 @ 7:00 pm: Fall Undergraduate Student Showcase

Students from each of the undergraduate performance classes come together and put on a public performance for the community.

Spring 2008

January 25 and 26 @ 7:30pm, and January 27 @ 2:00pm

Home

Written, assembled, and performed by Sara McKinnon and Karma Chávez

Faculty Advisor: Jennifer Linde

Home uses the following generative questions as a starting point for the performative inquiry of hospitality: What is home? Where is home? Who do I invite into my home? Who is not invited into my home? Why or Why not? Who do you (not) invite into your home? To access these questions, collaborators Sara McKinnon and Karma Chávez will engage multiple aesthetic performance mediums. Their performance will include performance installation, narrative, audience engagement and facilitation, and audio/visual elements. McKinnon and Chávez hope to construct a sense of home or hospitality for audiences both to enter into and engage with.

February 1 and 2 (Times: TBA)

Performing Blackness: Expressions of Cultural Identity in the African Diaspora

Organized by Olga Idriss-Davis

Performing Blackness is a festival of performance events that celebrates Black History Month. The two-day event will include guest performers and speakers as well as forums for public discussion.

March 21 and 22 @ 7:30 pm

The Night the Moon Bounced

Written and Performed by Jennifer Linde

Directed by Dustin Goltz

The Night the Moon Bounced is Linde’s exploration of family, love, and mental illness. This piece revisits events in the lives of the performer and her father. By weaving together personal narrative and audio/visual text, Linde presents a humorous, complicated, sad portrayal of the path that mental illness can take in the everyday lives of people who love one another.

April 4 and 5 @ 7:30pm, and April 6 @ 2:00pm

Relative Silence

Written and Conceptualized by Kris Acheson

Directed by Jennifer Linde

Performed by ASU undergraduate and graduate students

Faculty Advisor: Jacqueline Martinez

Relative Silence is a compilation of performative writing – short poetry and prose pieces, mostly narrative in nature, based on ethnographic and autoethnographic data. Author and conceptual artist, Kris Acheson, presents a text on the topic of silence. The performance focuses on silences within the context of addiction, particularly silences between addicts and their families. This performance piece is an extension of Acheson’s dissertation in which she presents phenomenological and semiotic analyses of the same texts.

April 18 and 19 @ 7:30pm

Taking up Space: the annual Graduate Student Showcase

Graduate students in performance studies showcase their work in a public performance for the community. The Dessie Larsen Graduate Fellowship in Performance Studies is presented at this event.

April 25 @ 7:00 pm: Spring Undergraduate Student Showcase

Students from each of the undergraduate performance classes come together and put on a public performance for the community. The Kristin Bervig Valentine Undergraduate Scholarship in Performance Studies is presented at this event.