Where:  Experimental Theater Valley Performing Arts Center

When: April 29-30   7:30 P.M.   May 1st  1:30 P.M.

Tickets: $5 Student  $10 Community

* Tickets available at Associated Students

April 29-May 1st, 2011

With a mesmerizing array of sound composition, multi-mediated imagery, critical text, and movement, The Towne of Bathe (Spring 2011) addresses the struggle over our world’s most precious resource—water and examines what happens to a community when greed, privatization, and the corporation control the source.

The performance runs April 29-May 1, 2011 in the Experimental Theater at

the Performing Arts Center, California State University, Northridge.

X Repertory Theater Company
1581 Industrial Street
Los Angeles, CA 90021

Hello All,

I want to share with you some important student work that is slowly changing our corner of the world.  As members of the student based CSUN Performance Ensemble, my students use techniques from theater, strategies from fine and performance art, their desire as activists, and theory from areas of communication, performance, critical studies and philosophy to spread the word about issues of social justice.

Performance Studies is by its nature interdisciplinary, radical, pushing the boundaries of academic success, performance expectation, audience involvement, and artistic vision. Performance Studies explores how performance operates as a way of being, knowing, performing, creating social activism in our world. As a threshold between the academy and the community, the artistic and the theoretical, the traditional and experimental, Performance Studies and the work of the Ensemble are thrilling.
And we want you to be a part of it.

As we move through many disciplinary worlds, the work we create is celebrated but not easily earmarked. Because of this, we need your support to keep growing. I urge you to think of ways that you can support this wonderful and empowering group.

COME SEE US:
In honor of Performance Studies, we invite you to a fantastic celebration of the arts on December 4th from 7-Midnight at the X Repertory Theater in funky downtown Los Angeles.

Enjoy culinary design by members of Artisan L.A. Experience, music by Los Angeles-based band The Cooling Time, the stunning sounds of Brendan Carn, and close the night dancing with DJ Professor Ben. Indulge in our Silent Art Auction. Be catapulted into the world of CSUN Performance Studies with a performance showcase and spotlight performance of Drop, a preview of Performance Ensemble’s original production The Towne of Bathe (Spring 2011).

DONATE:
Alternatively, we seek private donors who can help raise funds to find space in which to create, sponsor special programming, support student scholarship, and to support performance productions.

SPREAD THE WORD:
If you know of anyone who is interested in Performance Art, anyone who believes that performance can change the world, anyone who knows that student empowerment, social justice, and creativity is important, please send them this email.

More information regarding our showcase is in the attached flyer.

Invite your friends, family, loved ones.
Get the word out.
We need you.

love, light,
and many thanks,
Jeanine Minge

December 4th, 2010

XRTC, Downtown Los Angeles

Drop, a preview of Performance Ensemble’s original production The Towne of Bathe entices the audience with a mesmerizing array of sound composition, multi-mediated imagery, critical text, and movement. Drop, co-directed by Jeanine Minge and Nicole Embree, considers the microcosm of a rainstorm as pieces of assemblage, the drops of water that consistently make up performance ensemble’s original, innovative experiential performance work. Performance Ensemble is collaborating with local L.A. artists connecting the community to the university. Composer Michael Deragon creates live water compositions moving the audience towards thunderous upheavals and slippery condensations of sound. Mutli-media installation artist Emily Auble creates a stimulating visual experience with her multifaceted video projections.

Drop: A Celebration

What: An evening of live performance art, music, experimental sounds, culinary art, and fine art. Celebrating the intersections and collaborations of great creative minds.

Where: X Repertory Theater Company

When: December 4^th, 2010: 7pm-Midnight

As interdisciplinary artists, scholars, and performers, housed in the Department of Communication Studies at California State University, Northridge, Performance Ensemble is celebrating its import on campus and cultivating community connections.Performance Ensemble’s genuine passion, fortitude, and desire to create great works fuels our experiential, experimental, intelligent, and innovative performance work.

Performance Studies is by its nature interdisciplinary, radical, pushing the boundaries of academic success, performance expectation, audience involvement, and artistic vision. Performance Studies explores how performance operates as a way of being, knowing, performing, creating social activism in our world. As a threshold between the academy and the community, the artistic and the theoretical, the traditional and experimental, Performance Studies and the work of the Ensemble are thrilling. And we want you to be a part of it.

In honor of the interdisciplinary nature of Performance Studies, we invite you to a fantastic celebration of the arts on December 4^thfrom 7-Midnight at the X Repertory Theater in funky downtown Los Angeles.

Enjoy culinary design by members of Artisan L.A. Experience music by Los Angeles-based band The Cooling Time, the stunning sounds of Brendan Carn, and close the night dancing with DJ Professor Ben. Indulge in our Silent Art Auction. Be catapulted into the world of CSUN Performance Studies with a performance showcase and spotlight performance of Drop, a preview of Performance Ensemble’s original production The Towne of Bathe (Spring 2011).

As the little performance engine that could, we rehearse in found spaces, create with scavenged materials, and produce amazing full-stage productions. This event allows Performance Ensemble to raise funds to find space in which to create, sponsor special programming, support student scholarship, and to support performance productions.

Jeanine Minge, Ph.D.

Director of Performance Ensemble

The Towne of Bathe

April 28-May 1st, 2011

(Spring 2011) addresses the struggle over our world’s most precious resource—water and examines what happens to a community when greed, privatization, and the corporation control the source. The performance runs April 28-May 1st, 2011 in the Experimental Theatre in the Performing Arts Center, California State University, Northridge.

had a brilliant year of fabulous performances, installations, festival participation, and community collaborations.

We look forward to the many productions ahead. We hope you will join us.

Fall 2010 Meetings are Mondays 6:00-9pm in MZ 217.

Any questions about Performance Ensemble please contact Dr. Jeanine Minge at jeanine.minge@csun.edu.