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National Science & Performance Collaborations on Evolution at Emory
Innumerable worldwide commemorations of Charles Darwin continue in 2009, the 200th anniversary of his birth, and Emory University’s unique contribution culminates this fall with a melding of science and arts that furthers public understanding and engagement with both. Emory’s Center for Creativity and Arts commissioned nationally-known artists to participate in the Oct. 2008 “Emory Evolution Revolution Symposium” and Feb. 2009 “Emory Evolving Arts: New Works Festival” and to collaborate with its scientists, artists and students. The resultant explorations of the intersections of creativity, art and science are performances and related “Creativity Conversations” at Emory in Oct./Nov. 2009. The Evolving Arts Commission projects and related events are detailed below (locations on Emory campus, unless noted). For tickets and information, the public may call 404-727-5050 or visit www.creativity.emory.edu.
“Where Dance and Science Meet: A Creativity Conversation”
Oct. 15, 4 p.m., free to all, Schwartz Center, Dance Studio, Emory University
Participants: David Lynn, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Chemistry and Biology, Emory University and David Neumann, choreographer and advanced beginner group founder and artistic director.
Facilitator: Rosemary Magee, Emory University Vice President and Secretary
Description: This public conversation is held as a prelude to the premiere of “Big Eater” the following night.
Sponsors: Emory Friends of Dance Lecture Series, Emory University Creativity: Arts & Innovation and Emory College Center for Creativity & Arts.
Creativity Conversations web page: www.creativity.emory.edu/creativity-conversations.shtml.
“Big Eater” advanced beginner group and artistic director David Neumann Oct. 16, 8 p.m. and Oct. 17, 7 p.m. and 9 p.m.; $15 ($10 discount categories; $5 students) Schwartz Center, Dance Studio. Box office: 404-727-5050, www.arts.emory.edu. Description: New York choreographer David Neumann, who has won the prestigious “Bessie” for performance and choreography, presents his new evolution-themed dance work created in consultation with Emory chemist David Lynn. This will be the Atlanta debut of New York’s advanced beginner group. Sponsors: Emory Coca–Cola Artist–in–Residence Program, Emory College Center for Creativity & Arts and the Hightower Fund.
“The Accumulation of Change” Lelavision Physical Music and Emory College Program in Science & Society Oct. 16, 8 p.m., Eyedrum Art & Music (off campus), 290 Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. S.E., Suite 8, Atlanta, Georgia, $15 ($10 students, senior, and artists.) (Reservations and credit cards not accepted.), www.eyedrum.org, 404-522-0655. Oct. 18, 7 p.m., Schwartz Center, Theater Lab, Emory University, free performance for Emory students and employees. For reservations, call 404-712-4624. Description: Seattle-based Lelavision’s sculptor/musician Ela Lamblin and choreographer Leah Mann, premiere “The Accumulation of Change.” David Lynn, Biomolecular Chemistry Professor, Emory, collaborated on this performance experiment, sponsored by Emory College Program in Science & Society. “Accumulation” combines Lelavision’s hybrid genre of art (kinetic musical sculpture, music and dance) with excerpts of Lynn’s research on the chemical origins of life, self-assembly and molecular evolution. The question, “Where did we come from,” is explored through “Warm Pond” a newly-created, eight-foot spinning steel helix with a musical pool at its base; modern and aerial dance to animate the sculptures; stories from Lynn’s research; audience participation in an “emergent form” game; six Atlanta actors, dancers and musicians participating in a hybrid of science-based reality show mixed with speed dating to demonstrate an interdependent ecosystem in which “couplings” will start and end based on spontaneous selection by the audience; and poetry by Dr. Arri Eisen, Senior Lecturer in Biology and Director of the Program in Science & Society, who leads a post-performance discussion. “Accumulation” is the third of eight national collaborations for Lelavision as part of their ongoing art/science exploration called “The Propagation Project.”
Creativity Conversation on “Hominid” with Frans de Waal and Ariel de Mann Nov. 15, 3:30 p.m. (follows ticketed 2 p.m. “Hominid” performance), Munroe Theater, Dobbs University Center, Emory University. The Creativity Conversation is free to all. Participants: Dr. Frans de Waal, Candler Professor of Psychology at Emory, director of the Living Links Center at Yerkes National Primate Research Center and author and Ariel de Mann, co-founder and artistic director of Out of Hand Theater and director of “Hominid.” Facilitator: Leslie Taylor, Executive Director, Emory College Center for Creativity and Arts Description: Dr. de Waal, the author and primatologist whose work inspired “Hominid” and director Ariel de Man discuss the evolution of the play and themes from the new work. Sponsors: Emory University Creativity: Arts & Innovation and Emory College Center for Creativity & Arts. Creativity Conversations web page: www.creativity.emory.edu/creativity-conversations.
"Hominid," co-written by playwright Ken Weitzman and Out of Hand Theater Presented by Theater Emory and Out of Hand Theater Directed by Emory alumna Ariel de Man of Out of Hand Theater Nov. 12-14 & 18-21, 7 p.m.; Nov. 15 & 22, 2 p.m.; Munroe Theater, Dobbs University Center; $18 ($14 discount categories; $6 Emory Students). Box office: 404-727-5050, www.arts.emory.edu. Description: On a small island in Holland, a modern day Macbeth erupts — a leader is overthrown, a community is rocked by bloodshed and greed in the new play “Hominid.” Based on the book “Chimpanzee Politics” by Dr. Frans de Waal, director, Living Links Center, Yerkes National Primate Research Center and Candler Professor of Psychology, Emory University. "Hominid" mixes de Waal's research with Dutch documentarian Bert Haanstra's "The Family of Chimps," filmed in the largest chimpanzee colony in captivity. “Hominid” was co-written by New York-based playwright Ken Weitzman and Atlanta’s Out of Hand Theater, a theater company founded by Emory graduates, including director Ariel de Man. “Hominid” is commissioned by and developed with the support of the Playwriting Center of Theater Emory, funded in part by the Emory College Center for Creativity & Arts through a commission by Emory University Creativity: Arts & Innovation. Production cosponsors are Emory's Program in Science & Society and Yerkes National Primate Research Center. Theater Emory “Hominid” web page: www.theater.emory.edu/Theater-Emory/09-Hominid Out of Hand Theater web page: www.outofhandtheater.com Related Exhibition “Origin” Organized by Emory University Libraries Oct. 14, 2009-Jan. 29, 2010, free to all, Schatten Gallery, Woodruff Library, Emory University. Commemorating the 150th anniversary of “On the Origin of Species” and the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth, the “Origin” exhibit explores the evolution of ideas. Inspired or informed by themes of origin, creation and evolution in visual art, science and literature, participants Alan Turnbull and Tara Bergin from the United Kingdom examine the evolution of “Crow” by Ted Hughes, Emory biology researcher Nancy Lowe’s explores of species and icons and University of Georgia Associate Professor or Art Michael Oliveri’s experiments with the electron microscopes and photography. Featured are a rare first edition and presentation copy, signed by Darwin, of “On the Origin of Species,” loaned by Emory alumnus Stuart Rose 76B, a Dayton, Ohio rare book collector and Manuscript Archive and Rare Book Library patron.
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EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: Video, photography, interviews and review opportunities available upon request to sacorbe@emory.edu.
Emory University Creativity: Arts & Innovation Website: www.creativity.emory.edu/creativity-arts-innovation In keeping with Emory’s mission, vision and strategic plan, “Creativity: Arts & Innovation” integrates the arts across campus, fosters creativity and contribute to the cultural life of our metropolitan area and beyond. Emory provides a liberal arts education that crosses the boundaries of the many schools and divisions of the University by using imagination to forge both new connections and new ways of seeing.
Emory College Center for Creativity & Arts www.creativity.emory.edu/center Founded in 2007, the Emory College Center for Creativity & Arts (CCA) celebrates, nurtures and inspires the act of making and studying art, and the intellectual creativity everywhere evident in a vibrant University community. The Center encourages artistic and scholarly inquiry, development of ideas across academic disciplines and art forms; supports and provides resources for artists and scholars at different stages of development; encourages familiar and surprising collaborations, passion for artistic excellence allowing for risk taking, originality and tradition, vision and revision. CCA seeks to make creativity, and the arts, central to Emory as a liberal arts institution, and to what we most value.
“Big Eater” advanced beginner group and artistic director David Neumann Oct. 16, 8 p.m. and Oct. 17, 7 p.m. and 9 p.m.; $15 ($10 discount categories; $5 students) Schwartz Center, Dance Studio. Box office: 404-727-5050, www.arts.emory.edu. Description: New York choreographer David Neumann, who has won the prestigious “Bessie” for performance and choreography, presents his new evolution-themed dance work created in consultation with Emory chemist David Lynn. This will be the Atlanta debut of New York’s advanced beginner group. Sponsors: Emory Coca–Cola Artist–in–Residence Program, Emory College Center for Creativity & Arts and the Hightower Fund.
“The Accumulation of Change” Lelavision Physical Music and Emory College Program in Science & Society Oct. 16, 8 p.m., Eyedrum Art & Music (off campus), 290 Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. S.E., Suite 8, Atlanta, Georgia, $15 ($10 students, senior, and artists.) (Reservations and credit cards not accepted.), www.eyedrum.org, 404-522-0655. Oct. 18, 7 p.m., Schwartz Center, Theater Lab, Emory University, free performance for Emory students and employees. For reservations, call 404-712-4624. Description: Seattle-based Lelavision’s sculptor/musician Ela Lamblin and choreographer Leah Mann, premiere “The Accumulation of Change.” David Lynn, Biomolecular Chemistry Professor, Emory, collaborated on this performance experiment, sponsored by Emory College Program in Science & Society. “Accumulation” combines Lelavision’s hybrid genre of art (kinetic musical sculpture, music and dance) with excerpts of Lynn’s research on the chemical origins of life, self-assembly and molecular evolution. The question, “Where did we come from,” is explored through “Warm Pond” a newly-created, eight-foot spinning steel helix with a musical pool at its base; modern and aerial dance to animate the sculptures; stories from Lynn’s research; audience participation in an “emergent form” game; six Atlanta actors, dancers and musicians participating in a hybrid of science-based reality show mixed with speed dating to demonstrate an interdependent ecosystem in which “couplings” will start and end based on spontaneous selection by the audience; and poetry by Dr. Arri Eisen, Senior Lecturer in Biology and Director of the Program in Science & Society, who leads a post-performance discussion. “Accumulation” is the third of eight national collaborations for Lelavision as part of their ongoing art/science exploration called “The Propagation Project.”
Creativity Conversation on “Hominid” with Frans de Waal and Ariel de Mann Nov. 15, 3:30 p.m. (follows ticketed 2 p.m. “Hominid” performance), Munroe Theater, Dobbs University Center, Emory University. The Creativity Conversation is free to all. Participants: Dr. Frans de Waal, Candler Professor of Psychology at Emory, director of the Living Links Center at Yerkes National Primate Research Center and author and Ariel de Mann, co-founder and artistic director of Out of Hand Theater and director of “Hominid.” Facilitator: Leslie Taylor, Executive Director, Emory College Center for Creativity and Arts Description: Dr. de Waal, the author and primatologist whose work inspired “Hominid” and director Ariel de Man discuss the evolution of the play and themes from the new work. Sponsors: Emory University Creativity: Arts & Innovation and Emory College Center for Creativity & Arts. Creativity Conversations web page: www.creativity.emory.edu/creativity-conversations.
"Hominid," co-written by playwright Ken Weitzman and Out of Hand Theater Presented by Theater Emory and Out of Hand Theater Directed by Emory alumna Ariel de Man of Out of Hand Theater Nov. 12-14 & 18-21, 7 p.m.; Nov. 15 & 22, 2 p.m.; Munroe Theater, Dobbs University Center; $18 ($14 discount categories; $6 Emory Students). Box office: 404-727-5050, www.arts.emory.edu. Description: On a small island in Holland, a modern day Macbeth erupts — a leader is overthrown, a community is rocked by bloodshed and greed in the new play “Hominid.” Based on the book “Chimpanzee Politics” by Dr. Frans de Waal, director, Living Links Center, Yerkes National Primate Research Center and Candler Professor of Psychology, Emory University. "Hominid" mixes de Waal's research with Dutch documentarian Bert Haanstra's "The Family of Chimps," filmed in the largest chimpanzee colony in captivity. “Hominid” was co-written by New York-based playwright Ken Weitzman and Atlanta’s Out of Hand Theater, a theater company founded by Emory graduates, including director Ariel de Man. “Hominid” is commissioned by and developed with the support of the Playwriting Center of Theater Emory, funded in part by the Emory College Center for Creativity & Arts through a commission by Emory University Creativity: Arts & Innovation. Production cosponsors are Emory's Program in Science & Society and Yerkes National Primate Research Center. Theater Emory “Hominid” web page: www.theater.emory.edu/Theater-Emory/09-Hominid Out of Hand Theater web page: www.outofhandtheater.com Related Exhibition “Origin” Organized by Emory University Libraries Oct. 14, 2009-Jan. 29, 2010, free to all, Schatten Gallery, Woodruff Library, Emory University. Commemorating the 150th anniversary of “On the Origin of Species” and the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth, the “Origin” exhibit explores the evolution of ideas. Inspired or informed by themes of origin, creation and evolution in visual art, science and literature, participants Alan Turnbull and Tara Bergin from the United Kingdom examine the evolution of “Crow” by Ted Hughes, Emory biology researcher Nancy Lowe’s explores of species and icons and University of Georgia Associate Professor or Art Michael Oliveri’s experiments with the electron microscopes and photography. Featured are a rare first edition and presentation copy, signed by Darwin, of “On the Origin of Species,” loaned by Emory alumnus Stuart Rose 76B, a Dayton, Ohio rare book collector and Manuscript Archive and Rare Book Library patron.
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EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: Video, photography, interviews and review opportunities available upon request to sacorbe@emory.edu.
Emory University Creativity: Arts & Innovation Website: www.creativity.emory.edu/creativity-arts-innovation In keeping with Emory’s mission, vision and strategic plan, “Creativity: Arts & Innovation” integrates the arts across campus, fosters creativity and contribute to the cultural life of our metropolitan area and beyond. Emory provides a liberal arts education that crosses the boundaries of the many schools and divisions of the University by using imagination to forge both new connections and new ways of seeing.
Emory College Center for Creativity & Arts www.creativity.emory.edu/center Founded in 2007, the Emory College Center for Creativity & Arts (CCA) celebrates, nurtures and inspires the act of making and studying art, and the intellectual creativity everywhere evident in a vibrant University community. The Center encourages artistic and scholarly inquiry, development of ideas across academic disciplines and art forms; supports and provides resources for artists and scholars at different stages of development; encourages familiar and surprising collaborations, passion for artistic excellence allowing for risk taking, originality and tradition, vision and revision. CCA seeks to make creativity, and the arts, central to Emory as a liberal arts institution, and to what we most value.
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