Award-winning show brings Funk to Lincoln
Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk
starring Savion Glover,
winner of four 1996 Tony Awards, runs May
2-4 at the Lied Center
for Performing Arts.
George C.
Wolfe and Savion Glover, who won Tony Awards for
their direction
and choreography, respectively, of Bring in 'Da
Noise, Bring in 'Da
Funk, return to re-stage this production.
Glover will headline in
the role he created in the Broadway production.
Bring in
'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk is an ensemble musical
based on an
idea by Glover and Wolfe. It uses the rhythms and
energies of tap
to celebrate the history of the beat by presenting
text and songs
comprised of Glover's tap; poetry by Reg E. Gaines;
and music by
Ann Duquesnay, Zane Mark and Daryl Waters.
Wolfe and Glover
first worked together in 1992 on the Broadway
musical Jelly's Last
Jam. During the summer of 1994, Wolfe presented
Glover in Dancing
Under The Stars at the Delacorte Theater in
Central Park.
Noise/Funk grew out of Wolfe's idea of Savion as
a living
repository of rhythm.
Noise/Funk started as a workshop
during the summer of 1995
at The Public Theater and played until
January 1996. It then
transferred to Broadway in April 1996 and
reopened to rave reviews,
nine Tony Award nominations including
best musical, and sell-out
crowds. The first national touring
production premiered in Detroit
in October 1997 and toured
continually until June 1999. The new
touring production of Bring in
'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk reunites
the original creative team.
Wolfe and Glover direct and choreograph
a new ensemble of dancers
for this tour.
Tickets are $45, $39 and $35; university
students and those
18 and under receive a $5 discount on tickets.
They can be bought
online at <liedcenter.org>,
by phone at
472-4747, or in person at the Lied Center box office,
301 N. 12
St.
Gallery displays
projects combining hand, digital work
Advanced students in
the UNL Textiles, Clothing and Design
Department have spent the
semester exploring integrating hand
technology with digital repeat
pattern design and printing. The
Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery
is exhibiting this work in
a show called Into the Surface through
April 30.
This exhibition spans students' work from
painting in gouache
to hand printing with paint, dye and burn-out
chemicals on fabric,
to digitally printing with dyes directly onto
silk and cotton.
Students explored the potential of repeat pattern
design in commercial
applications, including apparel and home
furnishings, and its
studio and freelance applications. The class,
taught by professors
Wendy Weiss and Michael James, integrated the
digital design
process with the hand-made product.
The students printed their designs on a 60-inch-wide digital
printer. Weiss, James and professor Yiqi Yang received a University
of Nebraska 2002 Arts and Humanities Research Enhancement Award
to
train students to use the design software that interfaces
with the
printer, to bring a visiting artist in to work on the
printer and
interact with students, and to continue testing quality
factors in
printing.
Simultaneously, students worked in the print and
dye studio
to create one-of-a-kind fabric with combinations of
surface design
processes.
Brahms' Requiem on stage April 27
The UNL School of
Music and the Lied Center for Performing
Arts will bring one of the
masterpieces of composer Johannes
Brahms to the Lied Center stage
at 3 p.m. April 27.
Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45 (A German
Requiem) will feature
the talents of UNL's Concert Choir,
Collegiate Chorus, Varsity
Men's Chorus, University Women's
Chorale, University Singers,
and UNL Symphony Orchestra. Leading
the performance will be Peter
Eklund, conductor, and soloists
soprano Karen Kness and baritone
William Shomos.
The
traditional Roman Catholic text for the requiem mass is
a prayer
for the dead, filled with horrific images of the Last
Judgment.
Brahms's text, on the other hand, taken from Martin
Luther's German
translation of the Bible, seeks to comfort the
living. Next to
Handel's Messiah, the Brahms Requiem is thought
to be one of the
most regularly performed choral-orchestral works.
Eklund is
UNL director of choral activities. He conducts the
premier choral
ensemble, heads the masters and doctoral choral
conducting
programs, and conducts the Varsity Men's Chorus. Tyler
White has
been director of orchestral activities at UNL since
1994 and
prepared the orchestra for this performance. Rhonda
Fuelberth and
Keith Curington of the School of Music have also
prepared the
choirs for this performance. Kness holds bachelor's
and master's
degrees in vocal performance from UNL and is a member
of the
applied voice faculty at Doane College. Shomos is director
of opera
and UNL associate professor of voice.
Tickets for this
performance are $29, $24, and $19; tickets
are half-price for
university students and those 18 and under.
Call the Lied box
office at 472-4747 or (800) 432-3231 for tickets.
College honors
graduate work
The Hixson-Lied College of Fine and
Performing Arts will have
its annual celebration of graduate work
from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
April 25 in the Van Brunt Visitors Center.
The event is free
and open to the public.
The event
allows the college to showcase work by graduate
students in the
arts in an informal setting that allows the students
to interact
with those viewing the work, said Giacomo M. Oliva,
dean of the
Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts.
Three School of Music graduate students and up to six Department
of Art and Art History graduate students will display their work
at
the showcase. Visitors then can talk with the graduate students
about their creative processes and ask questions about the projects.
For information, call the college at 472-9339.
'Let's Talk Art' at the Sheldon
In a twist on art history 101, the Nebraska Art Association
presents "Let's Talk Art," an educational program open
to
the public, at 2 p.m. April 27 at the Sheldon Memorial Art
Gallery
and Sculpture Garden.
This lecture, the second in a series,
is to educate audiences
who are interested in art and want to
better understand the Sheldon's
collections and varied exhibitions.
The April 27 lecture is titled "Who, What and Why
Collect?"
and is presented by Phil Schrager, collector,
president and CEO
of the Pacesetter Corp. in Omaha. He will be
accompanied by Jan
Driesbach, director of the Sheldon.
The admission for each lecture is $10 for the general public,
$8
for Nebraska Art Association members, $4 for students. Payment
can
be made in advance or at the lectures. Contact Monica Babcock
at
(402) 472-2463 or <mbabcock1@unl.edu>
to
register; or send a check payable to NAA to Let's Talk Art,
Sheldon
Memorial Art Gallery, 12th and R Streets, Lincoln, NE
68588-0300.
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