Upcoming
Performances
- August 12, 2010, 8:00pm
Roped In: A Talk About the Power of String to do the Communal Thing
Mesmerizing and tantalizing, string has been a staple in human endeavor. Tying things up, tying them down, leading animals and sometimes even people, string is an integral part of the social fabric. Performance scholar and self-described instigator Anna B. Scott, Ph.D., will investigate the uses of string: jumping, tying, knotting, weaving and maybe even a little string theory.
The lecture is a collaborative investigation with the audience on the place of string in our lives as material artifact, tool, methodology, and metaphor. Please bring a piece of string! If you are adventurous, please bring your favorite string-based past-time. If you are athletic...get ready to jump! This lecture concludes Grand Performances' series on culture and string, so it is only fitting that we reel each other in, admit how entwined we have become over the course of this summer with our passion for fantastic live performance, and groan audibly a few times at the threadbare puns we live by.