uodsp: FW: (Im)Partial Articulations: Nov 18, 7 PM, Dougherty Dance Theatre

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From: Elizabeth Wheeler [mailto:ewheeler at uoregon.edu]
Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2016 10:44 AM
To: Jocelyn Hollander; Ellen Scott; Judith Raiskin; Heidi von Ravensberg
Subject: Fwd: (Im)Partial Articulations: Nov 18, 7 PM, Dougherty Dance Theatre

Please post widely. This amazing dance show is based on the confluence of sexual assault on college campuses and the story of Monica Lewinsky.

(IM)PARTIAL ARTICULATIONS

NOVEMBER 18, 2016, 7:00 PM

DOUGHERTY DANCE THEATRE

GERLINGER ANNEX, UNIVERSITY OF OREGON CAMPUS

1484 UNIVERSITY ST., EUGENE OR 97403

$8 GENERAL ADMISSION; $5 STUDENTS AND SENIORS

_(IM)PARTIAL ARTICULATIONS_ presents original work by two UO Dance Faculty members, Rachel Carrico and Shannon Mockli, and features dancers from the Eugene community. The artists expose the ways in which intimacy compromises impartial judgements, and they explore the continuous process of positioning oneself, through verbal and physical articulations, within a wide range of scenarios.

Carrico's work, _Dear Monica_, revisits the year 1998 in order to take a fresh look at the present. Structured as an open letter to Monica Lewinsky, the piece starts in a personal place and zooms out to consider public conversations in the U.S. about female sexuality. It compares 1998, when Carrico was a college freshman and the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal saturated the media landscape, with 2014, when sexual assault on college campuses became a topic of national conversation and Lewinsky reemerged as a public figure, speaking out against bullying. Through movement and text, _Dear Monica_ weaves personal stories together with political issues and popular culture to create a compassionate, nuanced, and sometimes-humorous space in which the audience can engage with frequently charged and divisive issues.

Conceived and directed by Rachel Carrico. Choreography: Rachel Carrico, in collaboration with the dancers: Bethany Drohmann, Brittani Holland, Jodi James, Jana Meszaros, Elana Sutton, and Jackie Thelen. Dramaturgy:
Sarah Macrorie.

  Mockli's work,_ Finding a Way of Being_, also speaks on a personal level, exploring the continuous process of positioning oneself--finding a way of being-- within varied social settings and life experiences that challenge who we think we are. Her work brings process and performance together, in which dancers navigate their positionality in relationship to the audience and each other in a context that is both self-reflective and spontaneous. Sometimes comical and sometimes challenging, this work is an homage to awkwardness, to vulnerability, and the power found in allowing oneself those experiences. Choreography: Shannon Mockli, in collaboration with the dancers: Kyra Bannister, Sarah Ebert, Jana Meszaros, and Shannon Mockli.

_(Im)Partial Articulations _lighting design: Brad Garner.

TICKETS:

$8 GENERAL ADMISSION; $5 STUDENTS AND SENIORS

ON SALE AT THE DOOR OR IN ADVANCE:

ONLINE: https://tickets.uoregon.edu/impartial-articulation [1]

  PHONE: 541-346-4363 [2]

IN PERSON: UO Ticket Office, 1395 University Street #003 Eugene OR;

Ground Floor Erb Memorial Union (EMU)

RACHEL CARRICO comes to Eugene from Stanford University, where she was the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Dance Studies in/and the Humanities in the Department of Theater & Performance Studies and the Division of Dance. She is currently a Faculty Fellow in the Department of Dance at the University of Oregon. Carrico holds a Ph.D. in Critical Dance Studies from the University of California–Riverside and an M.A.
in Performance Studies from NYU. In 2008, she co-founded the New Orleans-based ensemble performance group, Goat in the Road Productions, with whom she has created many original stage works, directed a multi-year collaboration with the Guatemalan company, Grupo de Teatro Artzénico (funded by National Performance Network’s Performing Americas Project), and launched Play/Write: A Young Playwrights’
Festival, in New Orleans schools.

SHANNON MOCKLI is an Associate Professor of Dance at the University of Oregon, where she regularly choreographs and teaches modern dance, composition, improvisation, ballet, and theory. Shannon has danced with a wide variety of choreographers such as Stephen Koester, Harry Mavromacalis of Dance Anonymous, Doug Elkins, Brent Schneider, Eric Handman, Abby Fiat, Tandy Beale, Lisa Race, Pamela Geber, Satu Hummasti and Brad Garner.  Shannon has presented both live dance work and dance film nationally and internationally including the A.W.A.R.D. Show in Seattle; the Breaking Ground Festival in Tempe, Arizona, the International Physical Theatre Lab in Slovenia, the Festival Internacional Danza al Borde in Tijuana, Mexico, and the World Dance Alliance Americas Conference in Cholula, Mexico.

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Rachel Carrico
M.A. Performance Studies, New York University Ph.D. Critical Dance Studies, University of California-Riverside

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Rachel Carrico
M.A. Performance Studies, New York University Ph.D. Critical Dance Studies, University of California-Riverside

Links:
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[1] https://tickets.uoregon.edu/impartial-articulation
[2] tel:541-346-4363