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Spring 2012

NOVA

Featuring the Choreography of the UNM Dance Faculty
With special Guest Artist Takehiro Ueyama
Artistic Director Vladimir Conde Reche

Rodey Theatre blazes with the choreography of UNM’s stellar dance faculty in NOVA, February 24-March 4. Showcasing the dazzling talent of the students in the dance program, Assistant Professor Vladimir Conde Reche is the artistic director of this vibrant concert. To set his SALARYMAN, UNM welcomes guest artist, Takehiro Ueyama. Ueyama toured with the Paul Taylor Dance Company for eight years before founding his own company. Featured on the program will be Martha Graham’s Saraband, re-staged by former Martha Graham dancer Eric Newton, and coached by UNM’s Mary Anne Newhall. Head of Dance, Donna Jewell choreographs two works, a romantic solo, entitled The Butterfly and All In, a unique dance film that begins with a poker game in an Airstream trailer. Vladimir Conde Reche explores physicality in different ways in his two new works, Loss of the Absent and Destine and the fire and passion of flamenco is showcased in Alegrias, choreographed by Antonio Granjero and Eva Encinias Sandoval.

Rodey Theatre
February 24, 25 and March 2 and 3 at 7:30 pm, and February 26 and March 4 at 2:00pm
Ticket Prices $15 General, $10 Faculty & Seniors, $8 Staff & Students
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Eurydice

By Sarah Ruhl,
Directed by Matthew Lee
Co-Produced with SCRAP (UNM Student Theatre Organization)

In Eurydice Sarah Ruhl re-imagines the tragic tale of Orpheus and Eurydice. Eurydice who likes books and ideas falls in love with the talented musician Orpheus but on their wedding day Eurydice, tricked by the Nasty Interesting Man, ends up dead. By mistake Eurydice is met by her father as she enters the Underworld. A devastated Orpheus tries to find a way to see his lost love once more. Letters move easily between the dead and living and a pesky Lord of the Underworld gets in everybody’s way. Sarah Ruhl’s unique vision and beautiful language support an incredible story about death, love, memory, loss, and the struggle to balance them all.

Experimental Theatre
March 1, 2, 3, 15, and 17 at 7:30pm, and March 4 at 2:00pm
Ticket Prices $12 General, $10 Faculty & Seniors, $8 Staff & Students
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Electricidad

By Luis Alfaro
Directed by Rachel Leos
Co-Produced with SCRAP (UNM Student Theatre Organization)

Luis Alfaro transforms Sophocles' Elektra into a passionate, powerful tale of the revenge cycle in gang culture. Electricidadmourns the murder of her father, an East L.A. gang king-pin, and vows revenge. In her determination, she pulls her brother, Orestes - a young man who managed to leave "the life" - back to commit the most tragic of crimes. At once violent and vibrant, Electricidad taps into the beauty, color and ruthlessness of this abandoned desert barrio. A sassy Abuela serves to add insight to the “old world” of the cholo, while Ifigenia, the sister who returns to the barrio as a nun, shows what cholos have the potential to become. It’s a struggle to find what it means to be a proud Chola when the world around you is a prison. “Y, mija—cuidate. It’s hard to keep your balance on the edge of a knife.” --Abuela

Experimental Theatre
March 8, 9, 10, and 16 at 7:30pm, and March 11 and 18 at 2:00pm
Ticket Prices $12 General, $10 Faculty & Seniors, $8 Staff & Students
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Ilhuicamina Ilhuicamina, Flechadora del Cielo

A Flamenco Work Created by Marisol Encinias
MFA Dance Concert

Ilhuicamina, one who shoots bolts into the sky is the given name of Marisol Encinias, the creator of the flamenco work that will take place March 9th and 10th at 7:30pm at the University of New Mexico’s Rodey Theater. Ilhuicamina is the culmination of Encinias’ Master of Fine Arts degree requisite. Ilhuicamina is the product years of discovery and rediscovery, building-up and breaking down. It is a solo flamenco concert that describes an artistic journey that began decades ago, enriched through the process of her professional degree program. In the work, Encinias moves between sensations, emotions, thoughts and circumstances. Encinias embraces tradition while breaking from convention. Ilhuicamina reveals Encinias to the audience in a beautiful, alluring and meaningful manner through the profound intensity of flamenco. Musicians Vicente Griego (cante), Ricardo Anglada (toque) and Carlos Menchaca (palmas y baile) will join Marisol Encinias in this premier solo work.

Rodey Theatre
March 9 and 10 at 7:30pm
Ticket Prices $12 General, $10 Faculty & Seniors, $8 Staff & Students
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2012 Words Afire Fall Reading Series

New works by MFA Dramatic Writing Students

The University of New Mexico’s Department of Theatre and Dance is pleased to announce the line-up for the 12th Annual Words Afire New Play Festival: a series of innovative new plays written by the talented MFA students in UNM’s award winning Dramatic Writing Program, April 12 through April 22, 2012, in The Experimental Theatre on UNM’s Main Campus. Complete information at http://theatre.unm.edu/waf or call 277-4332.

Main Stage Production

Señora de la Pinta
By Law Chavez
Directed by Daniel Banks
Does fate have power over freewill? Is freewill powerless against innate instincts to take control of our lives? A climatic drama, the play is based on Sophocles’ Oedipus the King with the Chicano emphasis of loyalty and honor as well as cultural complexities of sexual identity and gender expression. “Gringo” a Chicano ex-con, vows to find vigilante justice for a young man who is believed to have been killed in the New Mexico State Prison riot of 1980. The young man is the son of a woman that Gringo loves and needs to honor in spite of the fact that he is warned by a Curandera to abandon his search. As he comes closer to finding the assailant, he is forced to deal with truths that will destroy everyone in his life including himself.
Experimental Theatre
Thursday, April 12, 7:30pm
Friday, April 13, 7:30pm
Saturday, April 14, 7:30pm
Sunday, April 15, 6:00pm
Thursday, April 19, 7:30pm
Saturday, April 21, 4:30pm

Tickets $15 General, $12 Seniors and UNM Faculty, $10 UNM Staff and All Students, Available at UNM Ticket Offices, Call 925-5858 or 1-877-664-8661, or online at www.unmtickets.com

Directed Readings

Casualties of Dreams and Sand
By Christina Hjelm
Directed by Valli Rivera
At a time when the U.S. economy is collapsing and American soldiers continue to die in the Middle East, Adriana’s home falls victim to the mortgage crisis while her soldier husband is away, fighting in Iraq. When this teenage wife decides to steal back her foreclosed home she finds herself face-to-face with an unexpected squatter that she will soon never forget.

Experimental Theatre
Thursday, April 12, 9:30pm
Friday, April 20, 9:30pm
Admission Free

Wrecking
By Kevin R. Elder
Directed by Shepard Sobel
Three brothers return to their childhood home due to the death of Christopher, their youngest brother. Their arrival conjures memories of a broken childhood, abandonment, and a teenage pact that was long forgotten. The unexpected reunion forces the brothers to acknowledge Christopher's death, and their own part in the family's long suffering dysfunction.
Experimental Theatre
Friday, April 13, 9:30pm
Saturday, April 21, 2:00pm
Admission Free

Half Empty
By Zee Eskeets
Directed by Paul Ford
Alley is young and reckless. After her father’s death, Alley fell head first into the world of late night partying and bad decision making. One night, Alley is noticed by a charming yet devious skeleton named Belvedere. He has fallen. Belvedere takes Alley into a different and dark dimension where he reigns. This is no escape. Alley begs to return home. Out of the kindness of his black little heart, Belvedere sets her on an impossible task, if she can find the secret to unconditional love, he will allow her to go home, permanently.
Experimental Theatre
Thursday, April 19, 9:30pm
Sunday, April 22, 6:00pm
Admission Free

An Evening of Screenplay Readings
By Various Writers,
Directed by Matthew McDuffie
ARTS Lab
Tuesday, April 17, 7:30pm
Admission Free

The House That Che Built
By Barney Lopez
Directed by Becca Holmes

A 17-year-old Manny finds himself homeless after his parents flee anti-immigration legislation. His classmate, Cynthia, lets him stay in a house her mom is trying to sell. A portrait of Che Guevara comes to life and educates Manny and Cynthia in social justice. With the help of an enthusiastic homeless population, Manny & Cynthia lead a revolution occupying foreclosed homes in a neighborhood near you.

Wednesday, April 18, 7:30pm
Sunday, April 22, 12pm
Admission Free

Port Twilight or The History of Science

(A Chronicle of Folly, Wisdom and Madness)
By Len Jenkin
Directed by Bill Walters

This futuristic sci-fi thriller by Obie award winning playwright Len Jenkin, takes us to the mysterious town of Port Twilight where workers at the OPME (Off-Planet Message Exchange) scan radio waves for messages from other planets. In Port Twilight, love is lost…and found, while a disgruntled biochemist, a B-movie producer, a mystical rabbi, and a team of dancing scientists, through video imagery, music, and powerful poetic language, tell an apocalyptic tale of and science and the search for knowledge.
“a work of true theatrical genius" – Dallas Morning News

April 20, 21, 26, 27, 28 at 7:30pm and April 22 and 29 at 2:00pm
Rodey Theatre
Ticket Prices $15 General, $12 Faculty & Seniors, $10 Staff & Students
For more information check http://theatre.unm.edu or call the Theatre Office at 277-4332
Tickets at UNM Ticket Offices, Call 925-5858, or online @
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Motionetics

A student choreography showcase
Artistic directors Donna Jewell and Eva Encinias

Motionetics is a showcase of original work that features the choreographic, performance and technical skill of UNM dance students in a broad range of styles. Filled with power and energy this concert is an opportunity for dance students to expand their journey into artistic independence and expression. Curated by the dance faculty and under
the artistic direction of Donna Jewell and Eva Encinias-Sandoval, Motionetics stretches dance theatre boundaries, in an edgy, inventive, and inspired concert by some of today’s most promising young artists.

Carlisle Performance Space
April 27, 28 and May 4, 5 at 7:30 pm, and April 29 and May 6 at 2:00pm
Ticket Prices $12 General, $10 Faculty & Seniors, $8 Staff & Students
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