MANCC Opens Season with Presentations from 3 Award Winning Artists

MANCC Opens Season with Public Presentations from Three Award Winning Artists

MANCC encourages you to join us for the following fall events:

DD Dorvillier – Panel Discussion: “Performance as Research”

September 11, 2013
2:00 pm – 3:20 pm
Dodd Hall, Werkmeister Reading Room

Choreographer DD Dorvillier will explore the concept of performance as research and discuss the creation of a new work, Diary of an Image with FSU Theatre Studies faculty Dr. Daniel Sack.
Learn more from DD Dorvillier’s profile.

Big Dance Theater, Annie-B Parson – Lecture/Demonstration “The Virtuosity of Structure: Tools for Understanding Abstraction”

September 18, 2013
10:30 am – 11:50 am
Montgomery Hall, Nancy Smith Fichter Dance Theatre

Guggenheim and USA Fellow, Annie-B Parson discusses the history and theory of post-modern dance through the prism of science, nature, and commerce. Parson focuses on creative thinking for those who consider themselves non-artists but are looking to gain new perspectives on their own work and expand their creative capacities. For more information and to reserve a seat visit Big Dance Theater’s profile.

O’Connor directs duet with Ryan Kelly and Silas Riener. Photo by Chris Cameron

Tere O’Connor – Lecture: Behind the Scenes Look at “Bleed”

October 2, 2013
10:30 am – 11:50 am
Montgomery Hall, Nancy Smith Fichter Dance Theatre

Three-time Bessie award-winning artist, Guggenheim Fellow and 2013 Doris Duke Artist Award recipient, Tere O’Connor returns to FSU to discuss his summer MANCC residency and the making of Bleed. O’Connor’s company will perform poem and Sister, two of the three pieces that comprise Bleed at Seven Days of Opening nights in the Nancy Smith Fichter Dance Theatre on October 4, at 8:00 pm. Learn more at mancc.org/artists/tereoconnor.