Performance Series Calendar

Like an Echo: (explosions)
Hosted by the MFA Theater: Contemporary Performance Thesis Show Series
Created by: (aaron jennejahn)
Saturday, March 13, 7:30 p.m.
Nalanda Studio Theatre, Naropa University
A release. A purge. An offering. A search for spirituality.
Free admission for all.

Hosted by the MFA Theater: Contemporary Performance Thesis Show Series
Created and Performed by Alistair Forrest Barclay
Sunday, March 14, 7:30 p.m.
Nalanda Studio Theatre, Naropa University
A young boy's investigation and interpretation of the depths of modern masculinity.
$7 general admission; Free for seniors, students and Naropa community w/ ID

MFA 1st Year Moment Work Showing
Hosted by MFA Theater: Contemporary Performance
Created by MFA 1st Year Students with the guidance of Leigh Fondakowski of Tectonic Theater Project
Wednesday, March 31, 7:30 p.m.
Nalanda Studio Theatre, Naropa University
Free and open to the public.

This “Army of Me”…
Hosted by the MFA Theater: Contemporary Performance Thesis Show Series
Created by Mariela Luzmina - with Marcin Mroz and ensemble.
Saturday, April 3, 7:30 p.m.
Nalanda Studio Theatre, Naropa University
A mandala of grotesque ego versions, illuminations, desires, and tremors of Sky... Echoes from an (un)bounded life.
$7 general admission; Free for seniors, students and Naropa community w/ ID

Flight
Hosted by the MFA Theater: Contemporary Performance Thesis Show Series
Created by Dana Hart Lubeck
Friday, April 9, 7:30 p.m.
Nalanda Studio Theatre, Naropa University
A musical exploration of love, loss and moving forward.
$7 general admission; Free for seniors, students and Naropa community w/ ID

I wanna know where the exits are, and I wanna be allowed to smoke.
Hosted by the MFA Theater: Contemporary Performance Thesis Show Series
by Rhonda J. Soikowski with Brenda Arellano
Saturday, April 10, 7:30 p.m. "Double-billed with Be Long Between Good Byes"
Sunday, April 11, 2:00 p.m. "Double-billed with Be Long Between Good Byes"
Nalanda Studio Theatre, Naropa University
$7 general admission; Free for seniors, students and Naropa community w/ ID

Be Long Between Good Byes
Hosted by the MFA Theater: Contemporary Performance Thesis Show Series
Created by Susan Pfeffer
Saturday, April 10, Time TBA "Double-billed with I wanna know where the exits are"
Sunday, April 11, Time TBA "Double-billed with I wanna know where the exits are"
Nalanda Studio Theatre, Naropa University
A dissolving city, a backward glance, a pillar of salt: the story of Mrs. Lot, the stillness in sinkholes and the tendency to turn around.
$7 general admission; Free for seniors, students and Naropa community w/ ID

Puffs: A Thesis Show
Hosted by the MFA Theater: Contemporary Performance Thesis Show Series
Created by Kate Sanderson Holly and ensemble (Jacob Coleman, Amber Whitehall, Melissa McNamara, Sandrine Hudl)
Friday, April 16, 7:30 p.m.
Nalanda Studio Theatre, Naropa University
A love story in outer space. A cloudy and constant desire for something that does not, and probably cannot exist. An American Dream.
$7 general admission; Free for seniors, students and Naropa community w/ ID

Terranautics: The View From Here
Hosted by the MFA Theater: Contemporary Performance Thesis Show Series
Written and Performed by Judson Webb
Directed by Claire Patton
Saturday, April 17, 7:30 p.m.
Nalanda Studio Theatre, Naropa University
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. - Henry David Thoreau
$7 general admission; Free for seniors, students and Naropa community w/ ID

From Inside a Junk Pile
Hosted by the MFA Theater: Contemporary Performance Thesis Show Series
Created by Danielle Lebens and Ensemble
Sunday, April 18, Noon and 4:00 p.m.
Nalanda Studio Theatre, Naropa University
He found moldy pillow stuffing and scraggly wires. He patched, buttoned, sewed, and zipped. Soon a creature began to take shape...from The Story of Frog Belly Rat Bone.
$7 general admission; Free for seniors, students and Naropa community w/ ID

Killer Is My Name
Hosted by the MFA Theater: Contemporary Performance Thesis Show Series
Sunday, April 18, 7:30 p.m.
Monday, April 19, 7:30 p.m.
Nalanda Studio Theatre, Naropa University
Written by Guenevere Donohue with additional textand songs by Sophocles, Queen, and Midnight Oil. One woman's connection and obsession with the greatest warrior of ancient Greek myth.
$7 general admission; Free for seniors, students and Naropa community w/ ID

Four Remembrance
Hosted by the MFA Theater: Contemporary Performance Thesis Show Series
Created by Melissa McNamara
Friday, April 23, 7:30 p.m.
Nalanda Studio Theatre, Naropa University
Because love grows where my Rosemary goes and nobody knows like me ~ Edison Lighthouse
$7 general admission; Free for seniors, students and Naropa community w/ ID

World Music and Dance Concert
Hosted by Dance of Africa Class
Saturday, April 24, 8:00 p.m.
Performing Arts Center, Naropa University
The Naropa University Dance of Africa Class performs tradition dances from Ghana and the Ivory Coast. Directed by Maputo Mensah. With special guests Logo Ligi.
$5 general admission; $3 for seniors, students and Naropa community w/ ID

Ma Vie En ROLE: Role-Playing, Games and other Life or Death Moments
Hosted by the MFA Theater: Contemporary Performance Thesis Show Series
Created by Kerry Lee and Jessica Wheeler
Saturday, April 24, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, April 25, 2:00 p.m.
Nalanda Studio Theatre, Naropa University
Re-assembling the dissembling ways of appearance. An investigation of the games we play in life, the roles we fill and the roles we choose, and the complete and utter chance that dictates every thing we do, with or without dice.
$7 general admission; Free for seniors, students and Naropa community w/ ID

The Whale Song
Hosted by the MFA Theater: Contemporary Performance Thesis Show Series
Created by Anna Tzakou
Sunday, April 25, TBA (forty-eight minutes before sunset)
Nalanda Studio 9185, Naropa University
A series of repetitive sounds at varying frequencies emitted to the environment and returned as echoes, to locate, identify and interpret the space around them.
$7 general admission; Free for seniors, students and Naropa community w/ ID