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University of Florida, Digital Worlds InstituteSaturday, May 12, 2012University of Florida 101 Norman GymGainesville, Florida 32611-5810 This one-day event is the continuation of a project inspired and funded by the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in 2010/11. A year-long project to integrate arts and technology uncovered a rich area of creativity. Recognizing both the magic that happens when art and technology meet and the hurdles that must be overcome to make that happen. The Digital Media Festival is the culmination of the Digital Media Challenge.The Festival responds to the gaps identified by teachers, showcases student work, shares successful classroom practice and introduces strategies for teaching and learning in and through the arts and technology. REGISTER TO ATTEND

University of Florida, Digital Worlds Institute
Saturday, May 12, 2012
University of Florida 
101 Norman Gym
Gainesville, Florida 32611-5810

This one-day event is the continuation of a project inspired and funded by the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in 2010/11. A year-long project to integrate arts and technology uncovered a rich area of creativity. Recognizing both the magic that happens when art and technology meet and the hurdles that must be overcome to make that happen. The Digital Media Festival is the culmination of the Digital Media Challenge.The Festival responds to the gaps identified by teachers, showcases student work, shares successful classroom practice and introduces strategies for teaching and learning in and through the arts and technology.

REGISTER TO ATTEND

11 UF student will be heading to the 2012 UF Actor Showcase in NY After an Open Dress Rehearsal on MAY 4 at UF


Eleven students from UF College of Fine Arts School of Theatre and
Dance will present an evening of scenes, monologues and songs at the
2012 UF Actor Showcase on May 7th at the Laurie Beechman Theatre in
New York City.  Before that, please come see an open dress rehearsal
on May 4 at 5pm in G15 in the McGuire Pavilion on the University of
Florida campus.

Inaugurated in 2001, the UF Actor Showcase is an opportunity for
graduating students from UF graduate and undergraduate acting and
musical theatre programs to present their work to representatives of
the New York-based entertainment industry community (agents, casting
directors, managers and producers) to generate interest in their
talents and launch their professional careers.

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The main objective of the UF Summer Dance Intensive is to offer a comprehensive dance and art experience aimed at providing a daily studio practice (technique), opportunities to take part in the creation and performance of a new movement based work, opportunities to learn works from the repertory of The Neta Dance Company, and an opportunity to experience the breadth of possibilities within dance, movement, theatre, art and music in an environment that empowers the students to find their individual artistic voice as part of a community of artists, thinkers and life-long learners. Learn more and register at: http://conferences.dce.ufl.edu/sdf/

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Digital Worlds Institute Presents the LiveVibe TV Season 3 Finale: AH, YES!: Arts & Humanities in the Digital Age


Join us in the live studio audience for the Season Three finale of LiveVibe TV on Thursday, April 26 at 7:30 pm EST at the Digital Worlds Institute’s REVE. The show will also be streaming in real time around the world from www.livevibetv.com.
 
Season 3 host Mandy Hill will explore the ever-evolving role of Arts and Humanities in the Digital Age through a series of inspiring interviews and performances with innovative musicians, artists, humanists, and researchers including:
 
The enigmatic MONO/POLY, a musical duo fuses electronic and acoustic instruments with video feeds, computers, and hand crafted devises to create a unique musical performance.

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UF alum Lauren Caldwell is the director of the Hippodrome Theatre’s production of A Midsummer Nights Dream now playing through May 13th. Buy tickets here.This production also includes many additional UF students, alumni and staff. The cast includes alumni Matt Lindsey, Ryan George, Candice Clift, current students Matt Mercurio, Filipe Valle Costa, and Alaina Manchester, and staff/instructors Isa Garcia Rose and Sara Morsey.

UF alum Lauren Caldwell is the director of the Hippodrome Theatre’s production of A Midsummer Nights Dream now playing through May 13th. Buy tickets here.

This production also includes many additional UF students, alumni and staff. The cast includes alumni Matt Lindsey, Ryan George, Candice Clift, current students Matt Mercurio, Filipe Valle Costa, and Alaina Manchester, and staff/instructors Isa Garcia Rose and Sara Morsey.

University of Florida Bands Presents the UF Concert Bands in Concert


The University of Florida College of Fine Arts School of Music would like to announce a concert on Wednesday, April 25, 2012. The concert, which will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the University Auditorium, features the University of Florida Concert Bands under the musical direction of Mr. Archie G. Birkner, IV, Mr. Sameed Afghani, Mr. Mark Doerffel, and Mr. Michael Phillips. The program consists of John Barnes Chance’s Incantation and Dance, Gordon Jacob’s William Byrd Suite, Derek Bourgeois’s Serenade, Norman Dello Joio’s Scenes from the Louvre, Vincent Persichetti’s Pageant, Eric Whitacre’s Lux Aurumque, Alfred Reed’s The Hounds of Spring, Charles Carter’s Overture for Winds, and Dmitri Shostakovich’s Galop.

Tickets are available at the University Auditorium Box Office or by calling 352-392-2346. Ticket prices are $10 for general admission, $8 for UF faculty and staff, seniors, and non-UF students, and free for UF students with a student ID.  For additional information, please visit www.ufbands.ufl.edu or contact Stephen Salem at 352-273-3144.

Retired UF Director of Jazz Studies Gary Langford & The Jazz Project have concert on April 24th


Celebrating Jazz Appreciation Month, Gainesville Friends of Jazz proudly presents Gary Langford & The Jazz Project. They will be performing on Tuesday, April 24, 2012 at 7:30 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship located at 4225 Northwest 34th Street in Gainesville. Scott Koons, President of Gainesville Friends of Jazz, is the producer for the concert.

Concert begins at 7:30 p.m. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Ticket prices are $20 for general admission, $15 for Gainesville Friends of Jazz members and $10 for students. For more information call the Jazz Hotline at 352.379.0300 or visit us on the web at gnvfriendsofjazz.org. 

UF’s Partner, the New World School of the Arts College invites you to their Spring Concert


New World School of the Arts College Spring Concert
Thurs, Fri, Sat April 12, 13, and 14 at 7:30 pm
Sun, April 15 at 2:00pm
Featuring:
Prelude to Action (Martha Graham)
Session For Six (Anna Sokolow)
Mapping #1 (Darshan Singh Bhuller)
They Came from the North (Gerard Ebitz)
Short Stories (Josee Garant)
Untitled (Arnold Quintane) 
Click here for Tickets 
Admission: $12 ($5 students and seniors)

A showcase of talent, versatility, and virtuosity the New World School of the Arts College Spring Dance Concert presents a wide range of exciting dance works -  two classics by modern dance masters and four contemporary premieres.
“This program represents the culmination of the year’s work in which the dancers immerse themselves in the artistry and passion of choreography and bring it to life onstage. The evening will include rigorous partnering, dynamic solos, and precision group dancing in works that range from wildly witty to profoundlydramatic,” announced Mary Lisa Burns, dean of dance at NWSA.

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UF SA + AH Associate Professor Craig Smith to have THE PARASITE; A SOUND AND TEXT COMPOSITION featured at the London Studio Centre in the UK


Craig Smith and Dave Copenhaver
THE PARASITE; A SOUND AND TEXT COMPOSITION
“How Performance Thinks”
Friday, April 13, 2012
Saturday, April 14, 2012

London Studio Centre
42-50 York Way
N1 9AB London
United Kingdom

THE PARASITE; A SOUND AND TEXT COMPOSITION will be featured at the
London Studio Center in the 2012 “How Performance Thinks” organized by
the London Studio Center, the PSi Performance and Philosophy working
group, and Kingston University’s practice.research.unit. This event
will bring together practitioners and scholars concerned with the
question of how performance thinks from a wide range of overlapping
perspectives and contexts including practice-as-research, professional
practice and the emerging sub-field of Œperformance & philosophy.

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Spring BFA Dance Showcase 2012: FOIL University of FloridaSchool of Theatre and Dance Nadine McGuire Theatre and Dance Pavilion April 12-15, 2012 Contact: Nicole Hamilton Contact Phone: 352-273-0526 Tickets: 352-392-1653 We won’t spoil it but we’re boilin’ something new for FOIL 2012. So oil your engines and we will unravel your minds with our dancing bodies right before your eyes. Don’t leave your imagination behind or your glasses! Join us for a dance, a chance to glance at some space folded and molded in the Spring BFA Dance Showcase 2012 that is produced by the Dance Composition 4 students and dedicated to the creative process of making dances.  The “Comp 4” class will present choreographic works at different stages of development while sharing the production with fully realized works like Shapiro & Smith’s seminal masterpiece, To Have and To Hold.  Senior BFA Dance candidates also fill the Showcase with self-choreographed solos as well as those constructed by UF Dance Faculty Angela DiFiore, Kristin O’Neal, and Neta Pulvermacher. FOIL offers three Programs April 12th -15th in studio G6 of the Nadine McGuire Dance Pavilion across from the Reitz Union. Program A: Thursday 4/12 at 7:00 pm, Friday 4/13 at 7:00 pm and Sunday 4/15 at 2:00 pm.Program B: Thursday 4/12 at 9:00 pm, Saturday 4/14 at 7:00 pm and Sunday 4/15 at 4:00 pm. Program C: Community in Motion, Saturday 4/14 at 4:00 pm Tickets are available for $9 at the University Box Office, 352-392-1653 and Ticketmaster online. Keep your eyes peeled for opportunities to win FREE tickets during the weeks leading up to the production. The FREE Community in Motion show, Saturday April 14th at 4:00 p.m., presents a shared evening of choreographic works from professional dance companies and schools across Florida: YOW Dance, NAO Dance, Dr. Phillips Performing Arts High School, and Valencia College all hailing from Orlando, independent artist Joanne Barrett from Miami and our friends in the Swamp from Santa Fe College presenting a work choreographed by Melissa Canto-Brenner to name a few.

Spring BFA Dance Showcase 2012: FOIL
University of Florida
School of Theatre and Dance
Nadine McGuire Theatre and Dance Pavilion
April 12-15, 2012 
Contact: Nicole Hamilton
Contact Phone: 352-273-0526 
Tickets: 352-392-1653

We won’t spoil it but we’re boilin’ something new for FOIL 2012. So oil your engines and we will unravel your minds with our dancing bodies right before your eyes. Don’t leave your imagination behind or your glasses!

Join us for a dance, a chance to glance at some space folded and molded in the Spring BFA Dance Showcase 2012 that is produced by the Dance Composition 4 students and dedicated to the creative process of making dances.  The “Comp 4” class will present choreographic works at different stages of development while sharing the production with fully realized works like Shapiro & Smith’s seminal masterpiece, To Have and To Hold.  Senior BFA Dance candidates also fill the Showcase with self-choreographed solos as well as those constructed by UF Dance Faculty Angela DiFiore, Kristin O’Neal, and Neta Pulvermacher.

FOIL offers three Programs April 12th -15th in studio G6 of the Nadine McGuire Dance Pavilion across from the Reitz Union.

Program A: Thursday 4/12 at 7:00 pm, Friday 4/13 at 7:00 pm and Sunday 4/15 at 2:00 pm.
Program B: Thursday 4/12 at 9:00 pm, Saturday 4/14 at 7:00 pm and Sunday 4/15 at 4:00 pm.
Program C: Community in Motion, Saturday 4/14 at 4:00 pm

Tickets are available for $9 at the University Box Office, 352-392-1653 and Ticketmaster online. Keep your eyes peeled for opportunities to win FREE tickets during the weeks leading up to the production.

The FREE Community in Motion show, Saturday April 14th at 4:00 p.m., presents a shared evening of choreographic works from professional dance companies and schools across Florida: YOW Dance, NAO Dance, Dr. Phillips Performing Arts High School, and Valencia College all hailing from Orlando, independent artist Joanne Barrett from Miami and our friends in the Swamp from Santa Fe College presenting a work choreographed by Melissa Canto-Brenner to name a few.