You are invited to join The Moving Company as it kicks off its
2007-2008 performance year!

The Joslyn Art Museum September 9, 2007

The Omaha Public Library September 14, 2007

 

photo credit: Jim Williams
courtesy of Joslyn Art Museum

The Moving Company @ the Joslyn Art Museum
Family Fun Day
SPARED FROM THE STORM:
Masterworks from the New Orleans Museum of Art

Sunday, September 9,  2:00 p.m.,
Witherspoon Theatre, Joslyn Art Museum
2200 Dodge Street
Omaha, Nebraska 68102-1292

Admission is Free!
For further information call Joslyn @ (402) 342-3300

The Joslyn Art Museum has invited The Moving Company to respond to the “Spared from the Storm: Masterworks from the New Orleans Museum of Art” exhibition that involves the art works that were rescued during Hurricane Katrina. The Moving Company will respond to 6 works including paintings by Picasso, Bonnard, Vernet, Pollock, Redon, and Lorrain in a 30 minute concert in the Witherspoon Concert Hall on Sunday, September 9th at 2pm. Choreographers include Jeff Curtis, Lauren Kotulak-Bartels, Donald McKayle, Josie Metal-Corbin, Fritha Pengelly and Mary Waugh-Taylor. This event is part of the Family Fun Day that is free and open to the public.

Admission to Family Fun Day, including the exhibitions, is free - the only day when the general public can see Spared from the Storm free of charge. Family Fun Day is sponsored by Wiesman Development. Additional support is provided by the Joslyn Art Museum Association.

The Moving Company @ Omaha Public Library
Omaha Reads! at LitFest
O! WHAT A BOOK

Friday, September 14, 2007
10:00a.m., W. Dale Clark Library
215 S. 15th St.
Omaha, NE 68102

The Moving Company will perform outdoors at the
W. Dale Clark Library on the east patio, steps, sidewalk, amongst trees, and 14th street.

The downtown Omaha LitFest 2007 festival will kick off at 10am on Friday, Sept. 14 with the announcement of the titles for the “Omaha Reads: O! What a Book” citywide book club, accompanied by a site-specific dance performance by UNO's The Moving Company.

The Moving Company, with choreography by Josie Metal-Corbin, will be interpreting the selected book for adults and for children with an intergenerational cast of 14 dancers. David Corbin, guitarist/vocalist/songwriter, and Christina Allred, cellist, will provide the live accompaniment for a fifteen minute dance program that will take place on the steps and sidewalks in front of W. Dale Clark Library and in the middle of 14 th Street. Lora Kaup will be the costumer. This program will also serve as an opening event for the(downtown)lit fest.

The Moving Company, (downtown) lit fest, the Friends of Omaha Public Library and Millard Lumber have commissioned Jeff Curtis to make a dance for camera. This dance film, featuring music from Omaha musician Vern Kathol, will focus on the ups and downs of romance and relationships. Jeff Curtis’s films have been screened worldwide, most recently at the Dança em Foco 07 Festival International de Video & Dança in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The film will be shown at several libraries on the following dates:
W. Dale Clark on Saturday, Sept. 15, 10 a.m.;
Millard branch, Saturday, Sept. 22, 2 p.m.;
Milton R. Abrahams branch, Saturday, Sept. 29, 2 p.m.;
Milton R. Abrahams branch, Saturday, Oct. 6, 2 p.m.;
Benson branch on Tuesday, Oct. 16, 7 p.m.;
And Willa Cather branch, Saturday, Oct. 20, 2 p.m

Click here for more info about Omaha Reads.

Click here for more info about LitFest.

 

Josie Metal-Corbin, Director
Lauren Kotulak Bartels, Associate Director
Mary Waugh-Taylor, Choreographer-in-Residence
Jeff Curtis, 2007 Guest Artist
David E. Corbin, Company photographer