CALARTS PRODUCTION TO SPOTLIGHT PUPPETRY; NEW SHOW WILL EXPLORE PERSPECTIVES ON DEATH.Byline: Daily News ``Ether ether, in chemistry ether, any of a number of organic compounds whose molecules contain two hydrocarbon groups joined by single bonds to an oxygen atom. Telegrams,'' based on author Edith Wharton's ghost stories ghost story n. A story having supernatural or frightening elements, especially a story featuring ghosts or spirits of the dead. ghost story n → cuento de fantasmas , will open next week at California Institute of the Arts California Institute of the Arts known as CalArts U.S. private institution of higher learning in Valencia. Created in 1961 through the merger of two other art institutes, it was the first in the U.S. , a production of the college's Cotsen Center for Puppetry puppetry Art of creating and manipulating puppets in a theatrical show. Puppets are figures that are moved by human rather than mechanical aid. They may be controlled by one or several puppeteers, who are screened from the spectators. and the Arts. The new, large-scale theater work, conceived and directed by Janie Geiser, will be staged at 8 p.m. March 18, 20 and 24-26, at 6:30 p.m. March 19 and at 2 p.m. March 20 in the Butler Building No. 2, 24700 McBean Parkway, Valencia. The play explores the historical longing to understand death and loss through evidence such as physical manifestations, spiritual intermediaries and 19th century spirit photography. The play will combine shadow puppetry, rod puppetry, masked actors, 16-millimeter black-and-white film projections and live music. Geiser, director of the Cotsen Center, is an internationally renowned theater director, designer and filmmaker. Her work is recognized for its sense of mystery and strength of design. She has earned numerous awards including an Obie, a Guggenheim fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts. , and a Pew PEW. A seat in a church separated from all others, with a convenient space to stand therein. 2. It is an incorporeal interest in the real property. And, although a man has the exclusive right to it, yet, it seems, he cannot maintain trespass against a person Foundation/TCG National Theatre Residency grant. The Cotsen Center was established in 1998 with a donation from Lloyd and Margit Cotsen. The center was created in recognition of puppetry's artistic history and to make the most creative developments in contemporary puppetry available to students in CalArts' various schools and departments. The play is free and open to he public. For information, call the CalArts box office at (661) 253-7800. |
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