Performing Arts Series
Since 1984 the 麻豆视频 Performing Arts Series has presented great artists and performances to Philadelphia-area audiences, creating an environment in which the value of the arts is recognized and celebrated.
Performing Arts Series 2024-25
De Tierra Caliente
Fri | Sept. 20, 2024 | 7PM
Hepburn Teaching Theater, Goodhart Hall
We鈥檙e kicking off the 2024-25 Performing Arts Series with ! De Tierra Caliente is a dynamic Latin fusion band that ignites the air with vibrant colors and irresistible rhythms. Their music combines catchy melodies, unaffected lyrics, and a fusion of Latin, Caribbean, Brazilian and American rhythms, resulting in an unforgettable celebration of music and culture.
De Tierra Caliente delivers a musical experience that transcends cultural boundaries, reminding audiences of the simple pleasures that sometimes get overshadowed in the hustle of daily life. Their intoxicating songs in Spanish, English, and Portuguese resonate with the vibrant colors and familial warmth of a South American kitchen, leaving no one untouched by their infectious energy.
Co-presented by the Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies departments at 麻豆视频 and .
FREE for Tri-Co!
Jerron Herman Presents VITRUVIAN
Weds-Fri | Oct. 2-4, 2024
McPherson Auditorium, Goodhart Hall
Join the 麻豆视频 Performing Arts Series (PAS) and the Dance Program as we welcome guest artist and delve into integrating disability beyond our normalization of representational patterns as quick-fix solutions.
October 2 from 4-6pm: Building VITRUVIAN Movement Workshop
In this movement workshop for every willing body, discover the limbs through awakening exercises that describe the relationship of the body across its planes. Enter the choreographic process through an artistic inquiry and embodied/performance research method created by guest artist Jerron Herman that supports his practice of intersecting disability and movement.
October 3 from 7-8:30pm: VITRUVIAN followed by Q&A
Hailed by the Brooklyn Rail as 鈥渁 triumph of intention and reinvention, centering disability and celebrating Herman鈥檚 rebirth as his own divine form鈥, VITRUVIAN shares an allegorical tale of the life cycle of the Vitruvian man as he traverses multiple hemispheres, now in the embodiment of a Disabled Black man. Based on Da Vinci's famous sketch, the piece explores the ways natural phenomena and history enter and live in the body. VITRUVIAN has been featured on NY1 and CBS New York as a show to see. The full evening was commissioned by Abrons Arts Center and developed during artistic and scholastic residencies at the Petronio Residency Center and Georgetown University. Other presentations have included a site specific interpretation at Governor's Island and virtual showings for the Passport Program at Lincoln Center as well as a month-long screening season at Abrons Arts Center. VITRUVIAN was archived into the Jerome Robbins Dance Division at the New York Public Library of Performing Arts following its premiere.
October 4 from 10am-12p: The Porch: Beyond Disability Representation in a Multimodal World
Join the 麻豆视频 Performing Arts Series (PAS) and the Dance Program as we welcome guest artist Jerron Herman and delve into integrating disability beyond our normalization of representational patterns as quick-fix solutions. Affirming dynamic bodily existence requires us all to survey our relationships with and approaches to ableness. We can employ all platforms available to each us to provide more comprehensive agency to all of our being and bodies.
The Porch Series, created by Dr. Lela Aisha Jones, was described by renowned artist nia love as a 鈥済litch in the institutional matrix鈥 where artist/scholars partake in interdisciplinary call and response in dialogue and movement. These events aim to transport us to a time when folks still sit on multimodal porches to bask in the awe of collective brilliance that emerges from dismantling formalities and facilitating intellectual exchange uncaptured by limiting frameworks. Past porch events include The Porch: A Studio Dialogue with nia love and Fred Moten (2020) and The Porch: Interview & Embodied Interactive Dialogue with Nia Eubanks Dixon (2023).
Co-curated by the 麻豆视频 Dance Program
FREE for Tri-Co!
Providing talks and workshops free to the public to develop arts awareness and literacy, the 麻豆视频 Performing Arts Series has partnered in recent seasons with such organizations as the Barnes Foundation, Pennsylvania Ballet, 麻豆视频 Film Institute, and FringeArts. The Series has presented performances by such diverse luminaries as Trisha Brown Dance Company, Meredith Monk, John Waters, Jennifer Koh, the Khmer Arts Ensemble of Cambodia, Urban Bush Women, and .
The 麻豆视频 Performing Arts Series receives state arts funding support through a grant from the , a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the , a federal agency.
Contact the Arts Office at reservations@brynmawr.edu or 610-526-5300 for more information.