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CAMPUS COMMUNITY PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL SEPT. 18
Barnard College, in association with Columbia University 250th Anniversary Celebration, Presents Free, Public Performance Events on Saturday, Sept. 18, 2004
Featuring African Dance and an Improvisational Performances with Noted Dancer Mary Cochran and a Documentary Film Screening, "Try to Remember: The Fantasticks"
Mary Cochran, formerly principal dancer with the renowned Paul Taylor Dance Company for 12 years, becomes chair of the Barnard Dance Department this fall. She will lead student dancers in an improvisational performance from noon to 1 p.m. on Lehman Lawn . Cochran originated major roles at Paul Taylor and has worked with many noted choreographers, including Sara Hook, Alwin Nikolais, Christopher Gillis, Mark Dendy, Kenneth Tosti, and David Parsons.
Maguette Camara, the brilliant African dancer and member of the Barnard dance faculty, will lead a master class in African dance techniques with members of Jamal Joseph's Impact Theater of Harlem; community participation is welcome, from 1-2 p.m. on Lehman Lawn .
The undergraduate dance program for the Columbia University community resides at Barnard College with a faculty of artists and scholars who offer studies in modern dance and ballet, other styles such as African dance and classical Indian dance, compositional theory, multi-cultural academic courses, and courses in movement science.
Documentary Film, "Try to Remember: The Fantasticks," To Be Screened at Barnard College Theatre with Discussion by Filmmaker Eli Kabillio
On August 4, 1959, a new musical opened at the Minor Latham Playhouse on the Barnard campus during the inaugural season of Barnard Summer Theatre under the creative direction of the noted stage and screen actress Mildred Dunnock. The play, "The Fantasticks," would become the legendary and beloved world's longest-running musical, which ran for 42 years and 17,162 performances Off-Broadway in Greenwich Village before it closed on January 13, 2002. The premier at Barnard, starring Crayton Rowe and Susan Watson as the starry-eyed boy and girl next door Matt and Luisa, was one of a bill of three new American one-acts directed by Word Baker. Show Business magazine called the musical "delightfully charming."
The Barnard Theatre Department is pleased to present at 2:30 p.m. in the Minor Latham Playhouse "Try to Remember: The Fantasticks," a documentary film made on the eve of The Fantasticks's final performance at the Sullivan Street Theatre. Following the screening, Barnard faculty member Shawn-Marie Garrett will interview the filmmaker Eli Kabillio, who will discuss the film and answer questions from the audience. In his 57 minute film, Kabillio takes a wistful look back at the show's genesis, its creators Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt, and its continued worldwide popularity. The film features clips from earlier performances and interviews with the creators and original cast members F. Murray Abraham and Jerry Orbach, columnist Liz Smith, among many others.
Kabillio is an award-winning director and producer. "First Down," his documentary on the New York Sharks of the Women's Professional Football League, won the Best Documentary award at the IndieVision Film Festival. "A Hole in the Head," a documentary about trepanation (perforation of the skull), won the Best Documentary award at the Atlantic City Film Festival and the Brooklyn International Film Festival. The film was broadcast on Discovery and The Learning Channel.
The Barnard Theatre Department is committed to situating theatre within cultural and historical contexts and to helping students understand diverse traditions around the world, ranging from Shakespeare, Chinese opera, and commedia dell'arte to stage realism, expressionism and the avant-garde. The theatre major is a joint program with the Columbia major in Drama and Theatre Arts.
Lehman Lawn is located north of the main gates to Barnard at 3009 Broadway at West 117 th Street. Minor Latham Playhouse is entered through Milbank Hall, through the north campus gates on Broadway just below West 120 th Street.
Community Day is part of the year-long celebration of the 250 th anniversary of Columbia University. All events are free and open to the public. For more information, please call the Barnard Office of Public Affairs, (212) 854-2037, or visit the 250 th website: www.c250.cc.columbia.edu
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