Most performers
want you to turn your cell phone off before their
performance. Two UNCG graduate students not only want
you to keep your cell phone on, they want you to use
it.
Using a variety of media – including spoken
word, digital media projections, modern dance and
even cell phones – Department
of Dance graduate students Susan Haines and Julie
Mulvihill will present “Performing the Subject”
at 8 p.m. March 18 and 19 in the UNCG Dance Theatre
on the corner of Walker Avenue and Kenilworth Street.
Tickets are $10 for general admission, $7 for seniors
and children and $5 for students with a UNCG ID.
Their work will incorporate spoken word, digital media
projections and contemporary dance into a performance
that explores the representation of women in art and
draws on the work of performance artists such as Amelia
Jones, Mary Kelley and Andrea Fraser. Collaborative
artists involved in this project include choreographer
and dancer Bradley Parquette of Asheville, digital
media artist Talani Torres of Miami and lighting designer
Elizabeth Burley of Greensboro.
Haines and Mulvihill said they hope “Performing
the Subject” challenges traditional concert
conventions through a real-time audience response.
The students want audience members to use their cell
phones to “participate in the art making process”
by phoning in suggestions and feedback to cast members.
Haines is an MFA student in choreography at UNCG.
She has performed and choreographed for ballet and
modern companies in Colorado, North Carolina, Virginia
and West Virginia. She been part of the dance faculty
at UNC Asheville and currently teaches ballet, modern,
dance appreciation, and anatomy and kinesiology for
dancers at UNCG.
Mulvihill is a graduate student in dance studies at
UNCG. She dances for Rumba Latina Salsa Company, as
well as for various choreographers at UNCG. She has
performed with Birmingham Ballet and competed in American
Rhythm ballroom competitions.
For ticket information, call the UNCG
Box Office at (336) 334-4849. For more information
on this or other department events, call (336) 334-5955
or visit the Department
of Dance website.
