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  Performance & Time Arts
Friday & Saturday, May 2 & 3, 8 p.m.
College Hill Town Hall
1805 Larch Ave. 45224
The May 2008 Performance & Time Arts concert, produced by Aoife
Bratton, remains true to the vision of a performance arts series that
favors experimentation, collaboration and media mixing. Several of the
area's most accomplished composers, poets and performers come together
to present some of their best work.
 Will Davis | Outrageous performance artist Shirley Maul enlists the aid of a gang of "internationally famous neuro-scientists," including Bill Donnelly, Beth Franks, Steve Kreimer and Steve Schuckman,
to take us on a merry romp through subterranean cavities of secrets,
lies and confabulations, asking the question, "Who are we anyway?" Her
new work is entitled Life's Persistent Questions. Will Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, by Will Davis,
is an inspired solo performance that combines stand-up
| | comedy,
storytelling, and music to create a cabaret act that says both amusing
and sobering things about being a gay person in 21st Century America |
Performance artist Bill Donnelly presents A Friend,
a new solo work. In his inimitable way, Bill tells us “A friend can be
many things (and) intimacy can be bright and dark and warm all at
once,” leaving us to ponder, as always, exactly what he means.
Dancer Flora Leptak-Moreau and Bill Donnelly team up to show us Conflict Irresolution,
a work about the antithesis of harmony, including (mis)communication,
tension, style, and emotional and physical struggle that ultimately
leads to big time wrestling. An unlikely duo comes up with the perfect
solution to reconciling their different perspectives.
Dancer Karen Wissel and composer Alok Narayana
describe their collaboration as being a part of an inner journey
through space and time, in contrasting worlds, present and distant.
Ultimately, the work asks, “where do you fit in?” Karen Wissel will also present a new collaborative work she created with Japanese composer Kazuaki Shiota.
Composer Mara Helmuth and percussionist Allen Otte, both faculty at the College-Conservatory of Music, present No. 7 for gyil and computer,
their seventh compositional collaboration. The work is inspired by the
sound of gyil, a Ghanaian xylophone, and Otte’s handcut logs. The
traditional Dagara funeral music quoted is Ga Da Yina.
Where is My Voice? is a work for speaker and electronics by Mara Helmuth based on the poem “Vet’s Sangha: 2005” by Stephen Sunderland,
who writes, “The Veterans Sangha grew out of Buddhist priest Thich Nhat
Hanh's attempt to bring Vietnamese Vets, protestors and Vietnamese
refugees together for healing.
The Performance & Time Arts
series has a 13-year history of presenting adventurous and experimental
performance art, giving a venue to talented and creative artists
working in time-based media. The roster of artists for the May 2008
concert includes university faculty and graduate students with long
resumes alongside Cincinnati favorites. PTA can be surprising,
challenging, thought-provoking or (fill in the blank), but it always
leaves the mainstream behind.Tickets are $12 ; $8 students and seniors, ETA/Start, available at the door. Reservations at (513) 591-1222
Technical costs for the 2007-08 PTA season are sponsored by Aoife Bratton.
Poster design by Reka Juhasz
Performance & Time Arts is a project of Contemporary Dance Theater, which receives operating support from 
CELEBRATING 35 YEARS!
Contemporary
Dance Theater was founded in 1972 by Jefferson James and remains the
only arts organization in the Tri-State dedicated to promoting and
presenting contemporary dance. CDT operates a dance studio and
performance space in the historic College Hill Town Hall, 1805 Larch
Avenue, Cincinnati, 45224. For more information call (513) 591-1222 or
visit www.cdt-dance.org.
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