Indulging the Imagination
Hancher’s Education Programs
• Hancher Stage Door Series 2008-2009 will be announced in May 2008.
• Spot—The
Hancher Family Arts Adventure 2008
Cyro Baptista
Rubberbandance Group
• master classes, panel discussions, community events, artist interviews
• Arts Share—Sharing Resources with Your Classroom
Education
Programming Director
Jessica
Netolicky is Hancher’s
education programming director. Email her at jessica-netolicky@uiowa.edu or
phone 319-335-0009 with any questions you have
Spot—The
Hancher Family Arts Adventure
Imagine an artist on the road, bringing the joy of creativity
to families in four Iowa towns. Hancher is the starting “Spot.”
Spot enters
the last year of a four-year state-wide project with
two great artists—Cyro
Baptista and Rubberbandance Group.
Three-day residencies in Iowa City, Marshalltown, Perry
and Spencer will bring communities together to enjoy
wonderful activities and performances. Supported by a grant
from The Wallace
Foundation, Spot
is also enhanced by a website full of activities for children
and their parents: www.spotkids.com.
Cyro Baptista
and Beat the Donkey
Sunday, May 11, 2 pm
Pre-performance
picnic included in the ticket price
Cyro Baptista is a dazzling
percussionist with a wide-eyed approach to a planet full of music. With
Beat the Donkey he has put together what the New York Times calls “an
assemblage of musicians and dancers in outrageous costumes, banging on
drums for all they’re worth . . . It makes a ruckus, and it’s
wild, vivid entertainment.” On Mother’s Day, be a part of Spot—The
Hancher Family Arts Adventure with a band that will have you up and
dancing with a distinctly Brazilian flavor seasoned with a world of musical
ingredients.
cyrobaptista.com.
Rubberbandance
Group
Saturday, June 14, 2 pm
Pre-performance
picnic included in the ticket price
Victor
Quijada danced on the street and in clubs growing up in Los Angeles with
a style that
earned him the nickname “Rubberband.” He discovered ballet
and modern dance in high school, eventually finding himself in Twyla Tharp’s
company and then in Les Grands Ballets Canadiens Montréal. He’s
taken all of those influences—from hip-hop to ballet—and created
Rubberbandance Group, an ensemble with moves like no other dance company.
The work is electric and, yes, elastic. Your family will be in the perfect “Spot” when
Quijada and Rubberbandance Group hit the stage.
rubberbandancegroup.com
This
isn’t
just kids stuff
Imagine master classes, panel discussions, community events, artist interviews
and a wide array of other events designed to enrich lives and unlock
creativity—all
of it free. Hancher is your host.
Each year, Hancher invites the community to delve deeper into a number of our events and to actively engage the arts. This season’s residencies included activities with Rennie Harris Puremovement, the cast of The Exonerated, pianist Alpin Hong and the Joe Goode Performance Group—and there may be a few more. Always free and always energizing, Hancher residency events bring artists and audiences together.
These activities are announced with each event and can be found on the main calendar.
Iowa
Arts Share– Sharing
Resources with Your Classroom
Expand your students' knowledge by using University of Iowa Arts Share
artists to lead in-school workshops before or after a Stage Door performance.
The Arts Share artist roster is made up of faculty and graduate students
from the School of Art and Art History, the Division of Performing Arts and
the UI Writers' Workshop who will develop a program designed to meet
your students' needs and complement your class curriculum. For more
information or a brochure call 319/335-1618 or email artsshare@uiowa.edu.
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