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Ann Carlson – The Symphonic Body/Food

“The Symphonic Body/Food is an orchestral dance work built entirely from gestures. Instead of using instruments, individuals from many corners of the food system in Columbus create evocative portraits onstage constructed from the movements they do every day—from sitting in a meeting to teaching a cooking class to pulling a carrot out of the ground. Part social sculpture and part jazz improvisation, The Symphonic Body/Food offers a one-of-a-kind window into the breadth of labor, passion, and struggle that makes up the complex web of how we nourish each other and ourselves.

The Symphonic Body/Food marks Carlson’s return to the Wexner Center. One of our first Artist Residency Award recipients, the celebrated choreographer and performance artist premiered her work WHITE here in 1992. She is completing this latest project working in residence at the Wex and with several community partners, including departments across Ohio State. Featuring members of Local Matters, Mid-Ohio Food Bank, NNEMAP Food Pantry, and the Wexner Center itself, each performance is followed by a complimentary, light vegan meal prepared by Columbus’s Willowbeez Soulveg.”

Friday, April 12-Sunday, April 14, Wexner Center for the Arts.

https://wexarts.org/performing-arts/ann-carlson

Calista Lyon is an Australian researcher and visual artist living and working in Columbus, Ohio. Through the mediums of photography, video, ceramics and performance she engages the archive—investigating natureculture narratives and their ecological, scientific and political entanglements. Lyon is interested in revealing the connections between bodies, histories, knowledge and knowing— reimagining forms of storytelling that might serve non-human and human worlds in our contemporary moment of ecological crises.

Lyon recently shared, The Unknown and the Unnamed, a hybrid performance drawing from a range of forms including the educational lecture, the artist talk, the memoir and family slideshow evenings. The performance was presented as part of her MFA Thesis Exhibition at Urban Arts Space.

In 2017, Lyon presented a solo exhibition at the Murray Art Museum Albury, Australia. Selected  group shows include: Urban Arts Space, The Ohio State University, Columbus (2019); DAAP Galleries, University of Cincinnati (2018); Cultural Arts Center, Columbus (2018); Angela Meleca Gallery, Columbus (2018); Beeghly Library, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware (2018); Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles (2017) and The Luckman Gallery, Los Angeles (2015) among others. Lyon is a 2019 Frontier Fellow at Epicenter and will present a solo exhibition at ROY G BIV Gallery in Columbus, Ohio in late 2019.

You can see more of Calista’s work here: http://www.calistalyon.com/

There’s magic to do when a prince learns the true meaning of glory, love and war in a new incarnation of this 1972 coming-of-age classic. “Pippin” takes us back to the time of Charlemagne as one young man struggles to be extraordinary. Featuring a thrilling score by Stephen Schwartz (“Wicked” and “Godspell”). Director Edward Carignan creates a fantastical and sexy re-imagining of the recent 2013 Broadway revival, which the New York Post called “A thrilling piece of eye-popping razzle dazzle.”

Short North Stage – This week: Thurs, Fri, Sat at 8 pm, and Sunday at 3.

https://www.shortnorthstage.org/calendar/v/678

Join American Indian/Indigenous Student Initiatives and Women’s Student Initiatives for a screening of the film Warrior Women.

Warrior Women is the story of mothers and daughters fighting for Indigenous rights in the American Indian Movement of the 1970s. Following the film screening, director Beth Castle and cast members Madonna Thunderhawk and Marcy Gilbert will be participating in a Q&A. View the film trailer at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbU9LncliVk. 

Sponsored by the Student Life Multicultural Center, the Office of Diversity and Inclusion and the Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme.

Free for OSU students! More info here: http://mcc.osu.edu/events.aspx/2019/3/28/65119/warrior-women-film-screening-with-madonna-thunderhawk-dice-?d=8

Imagine Productions presents How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

Directed by Adam James Cooper

“​Power, sex, ambition, greed…. It’s just another day at the office in this classic satire of big business.

Big business means big laughs in this delightfully clever lampoon of life on the corporate ladder. A tune-filled comic gem that took Broadway by storm, winning both the Tony Award for Best Musical and a Pulitzer Prize, How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying boasts an exhilarating score by Frank Loesser, including “I Believe in You,” “Brotherhood of Man” and “The Company Way.”

A satire of big business and all it holds sacred, How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying follows the rise of J. Pierrepont Finch, who uses a little handbook called How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying to climb the corporate ladder from lowly window washer to high-powered executive, tackling such familiar but potent dangers as the aggressively compliant “company man,” the office party, backstabbing coworkers, caffeine addiction and, of course, true love.”

March 22-24, and 29, 31! Admission $20-23.

https://www.imaginecolumbus.org/how-to-succeed-in-business-without-really-trying.html

Nothing But the Blues – Jazz Arts Group

FEATURING OMAR COLEMAN AND JOEL FRAHM March madness kicks off with the CJO getting down and dirty in blues country with Nothing But the Blues, featuring windy city blues vocalist and harmonicist Omar Coleman and saxophonist Joel Frahm. Omar Coleman’s performances are rooted in the blues, spiked with R&B urgency, and resonant with deep-soul passion. He has appeared on jazz and blues festivals internationally and been embraced by such estimable blues legends as Ruth Brown, Sean Carney, Robert Cray, Buddy Guy, Robert Randolph and Koko Taylor. Saxophonist Joel Frahm is a mainstay on New York’s jazz scene with a growing reputation for his big tenor sound, deft assertive playing, and versatility. He moves smoothly from mainstream jazz to down and dirty blues, and has performed with such high profile names as Kenny Barron, Bill Charlap, Kurt Elling, Brad Mehldau, Jane Monheit and Dianne Schuur.

Southern Theatre

Admission: $15.00-$68.00

Nothing But the Blues

Jazelynn Goudy is a dancer, educator, veteran, artist, and homie (DEVAH) from Milwaukee, WI. Shortly after graduating high school she enlisted in the United States Air Force as a Security Forces officer. From there she became a very active student on campus at the University of Wisconsin- Whitewater where she graduated with a Bachelors of Science in Liberal Studies with a minor in Dance Fall 15’. She’s traveled and researched traditional, urban, and contemporary dance and the Afro-Diaspora in Brazil, Jamaica, South Africa, and Senegal.

You can check out Jazelynn’s Lackluster video project, filmed in Milwaukee, here: https://www.facebook.com/JazelynnGoudy/videos/10155978089931105/?t=0

Her Naked Skin, a play by Rebecca Lenkiewicz, directed by Tom Dugdale. From the OSU Department of Theatre website: “The violence of the suffrage movement in England provides a backdrop for this romantic drama about a love affair between a pair of suffragettes from different social classes.”

Wednesday, February 27, 2019 – 7:30pm
Thursday, February 28, 2019 – 7:30pm
Friday, March 1, 2019 – 7:30pm
Saturday, March 2, 2019 – 7:30pm
Sunday, March 3, 2019 – 3:00pm
Tuesday, March 5, 2019 – 7:30pm
Wednesday, March 6, 2019 – 7:30pm
Thursday, March 7, 2019 – 7:30pm
Thurber Theatre

https://theatre.osu.edu/events/her-naked-skin