How We Write:
JoAnne Akalaitis and Dramaturg Jim Leverett from the Production of Euripides' Bacchae

Thursday, November 1, 7:30 pm
Cubberley Auditorium
School of Education
DIRECTIONS...

Join Hilton Obenzinger, Associate Director of the Hume Writing Center, famed director JoAnne Akalaitis, and dramaturg Jim Leverett for a conversation about the nature of artistic collaboration. The audience is invited to a reception at the Hume Writing Center (Margaret Jacks Hall 460-020) after the event.

Co-sponsored by the Hume Writing Center, Undergraduate Advising and Research, and Stanford Continuing Studies.

A Lecture with Rush Rehm: "Beauty in the Blood: Euripides'Bacchae and the Theater"

Friday, November 2, 12:00 pm
Pigott Theater
DIRECTIONS...

Rush Rehm is an actor, director, and professor of Drama and Classics and serves as Artistic Director of Stanford Summer Theater. Prof. Rehm's books include Aeschylus' Oresteia: A Theatre Version (Melbourne 1978); Greek Tragic Theatre (Routledge: London 1992, paper 1994, modern Greek translation 1999); Marriage to Death: The Conflation of Marriage and Funeral Rituals in Greek Tragedy (Princeton 1994, paper 1996); The Play of Space: Spatial Transformation in Greek Tragedy (Princeton 2002); and Radical Theatre: Greek Tragedy and the Modern World (Duckworth: London 2003).

Sponsored by Stanford Department of Drama

Dance Masterclass with David Neumann: An Introduction to Modern Dance

Monday, November 5, 7:00 pm
Roble Dance Studio 52
DIRECTIONS...

Tony Kramer, teacher of modern dance, jazz dance, composition, and improvisation and Director of the Stanford Dance Division, hosts a dance masterclass featuring David Neumann from the Advanced Beginner Group. As artistic director of the Advanced Beginner Group, David Neumann's work has been presented in New York at PS 122, Dance Theater Workshop, Central Park SummerStage (where he collaborated with John Giorno), Celebrate Brooklyn, Symphony Space (where he collaborated with Laurie Anderson), La Mama ETC, the Downtown Art Co., and Mabou Mines.

The Dance Masterclass will be open on a first come, first served basis. Audience members will be asked to participate during the masterclass.

Sponsored by Stanford Dance Division of Drama

Institute for Diversity in the Arts Discussion: Meet the Artists: A Conversation About Adaptation
with JoAnne Akalaitis, Octavio Solis & Mary Zimmerman

Thursday, November 8, 12:00 pm
Roble Studio Theater, Roble Gym
DIRECTIONS...

This discussion about adaptation and translation will feature award-winning theater artists JoAnne Alkalaitis, Octavio Solis, and Mary Zimmerman. Obie Award-winning theater director JoAnne Akalaitis JoAnne is currently working on an adaptation of the Bacchae. JoAnne founded the critically acclaimed Mabou Mines in New York. She has staged works by Euripides, Shakespeare, Strindberg, Schiller, Beckett, Genet, Williams, Philip Glass, Janacek, and her own work at Lincoln Center Theatre, New York City Opera, Goodman Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, American Repertory Theatre, Court Theatre, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, and The Guthrie Theater. JoAnne will be joined by playwright and director Octavio Solis, who is currently doing an adaptation of Don Quixote. The two will be joined by Tony award-wining Mary Zimmerman who is currently working an adaptation of Argonautica. Mary's adapted works include The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (Berkeley Rep, Second Stage, Goodman, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Seattle Rep), The Odyssey (Lookingglass, Goodman, McCarter, Seattle Rep), Arabian Nights (Lookingglass, Manhattan Theatre Club, Brooklyn Academy of Music), and Journey To The West (Goodman, Huntington, Berkeley Rep).

The mission of The Institute for Diversity in the Arts is to engage artists, students, and the Stanford community to create performance and visual art that examines the complex intersections between race, diversity, and social action.

Sponsored by Stanford Institute for Diversity in the Arts

Friday, November 9, 8:00 pm
Saturday, November 10, 6:00 pm
Roble Studio Theater, Roble Gym
DIRECTIONS...

Join us for a peek at the creative process, with JoAnne Akalaitis and her artistic team during an open working rehearsal of the Bacchae.

Tyrants, Gods & Wild Women: Aspects of The Bacchae in Performance

A Symposium to accompany The Public Theater's workshop production Saturday, November 10, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Bldg 200, room 034
DIRECTIONS...

This symposium will include an all-day lecture series beginning with a lecture from Lauri Reitzammer (UC-Berkeley and Stanford) titled "Sex, Drugs, and Kettle-drums: Euripides' Bacchae and Athenian Religion." She will be followed by Eirene Visvardi (Brandeis University) with a lecture titled "Fears Ancient and Modern: Choral Emotion in the Bacchae," Mark Griffith (Uc-Berkeley) with a lecture titled "Sounds like Dionysos? Recapturing the Music of Greek Theater," Gonda van Steen (University of Arizona) with "Euripides' Bacchae: The Modern Greeks and the Irrational," and Richard P. Martin (Stanford) will close with "Hearing the Bacchae: Music in and Around the Text."

10:00 a.m. Introduction: Richard P. Martin, Chairman, Stanford Dept. of Classics

10:15-11:15 a.m.
Lauri Reitzammer (UC-Berkeley and Stanford)
"Sex, Drugs, and Kettle-drums: Euripides' The Bacchae and Athenian Religion"

11:15-11:30 a.m. Coffee break

11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Eirene Visvardi (Brandeis University)
"Fears Ancient and Modern: Choral Emotion in The Bacchae"

12:30-1:45 p.m. Lunch break

1:45-2:45 p.m.
Mark Griffith (UC-Berkeley)
"Sounds like Dionysos? Recapturing the Music of Greek Theater"

2:45-3:45 p.m.
Gonda van Steen (University of Arizona)
"Euripides' The Bacchae: The Modern Greeks and the Irrational."

3:45-4:00 p.m. Coffee break

4:00-5:00 p.m. Richard P. Martin (Stanford)
"Hearing the The Bacchae: Music in and Around the Text"

Sponsored by Stanford Department of Classics