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Thursday, April 8
Concert Hall from 10:00 am to 11:00 am
$6 students, $8 adults

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Complete with sound and lighting effects, this exciting new dance group fuses Freestyle Hip Hop with Poppin’, Lockin’, Mime, House, Jazz, Contemporary and Ethnic dance with martial arts, comedy and visual illusion. Kenichi & Company’s unique dance show, “New Moves,” successfully introduces students to the world of dance by using elements from current youth culture. All ages.

Thursday, April 8
Concert Hall 7:30 pm
$25,$ 20,$15; Five College/GCC/STCC students/17 & under $15

Kenichi Ebina & Company is an exciting new dance group that fuses Freestyle Hip Hop with Poppin’, Lockin’, Mime, House, Jazz, Contemporary and Ethnic dance styles, as well as martial arts, comedy and visual illusion. Kenichi & Company’s unique dance show, “New Moves,” is complete with sound and lighting effects, and successfully entertains many people who are not often interested in the performing arts.

Kathleen Camaratta’s Artist Statement:

My paintings are imaginary worlds subject to growth, change, explosion, and rebirth. These worlds are moving, morphing, fluctuating: the landscape having meaningfulness beyond its familiar physical identity. The sky is a non-frivolous black above a whimsically colored ground. The forms are purposely seductive against the deep dark. They are robust as well as sensual, rotund as well as elongated. They kiss, they spit, they hiss, they drip, they spew. They stick their tongues out.
The viewer is a traveler taken to the threshold of sensation, to the body of the mother earth and to the generating power of nature.
My drawings are also imaginary worlds but rather than confront they provoke mystery. They whisper possibilities in the distance. The forms are gently folding and unfolding, undulating and holding. The blacks retain the deep space while the whites enhance the near space with subtle texture. A peculiar silence hovers over the landscape.
The viewer is a dreamer embarking on an excursion, drifting slowly through the space, roaming quietly as if on tiptoe.
Studio Gallery Exhibition Dates: Sunday April 4 to Wednesday, April 28 Reception Date/Time: Thursday April 8, 5-7 Collaborative Drawing Project Led by Kathleen Camaratta in collaboration with University of Massachusett’s undergraduate and graduate art students.

When:
Sunday, April 4 – Wednesday, April 28

Tuesday, March 30 – Wednesday, April 28
Central Gallery

D.Dominick Lombardi
Mixed media sculpture and drawings.
Curated by David Gibson

Urchins, scamps, rascals are common to all cultures and eras. Like Chaplin, a lone sole fighting against the insanely powerful dominance of our global society,these mixed media sculptures and drawings with collage are a metaphor for the marginalized.

Thursday, March 25
Bezanson Recital Hall 8:00 pm
$12 General Public; $7 Students
“William Parker and Hamid Drake are the best rhythm section in jazz right now,” says Alternative Press. This has been true for 15 years. We celebrate this dynamic duo — respected around the world for their commitment and musicality — with three concerts, featuring special guests.

“Not since Don Cherry and Ed Blackwell joined forces have two musicians so organically wedded world-music influences with free jazz,” writes Jazziz. Since the late1970’s, Hamid Drake has moved easily between work with top jazz improvisers like David Murray, Don Cherry and Pharaoh Sanders, and international artists like Foday Muso Suso, Mahmoud Gania and Gigi. In 1972 Parker began playing with musicians such as Bill Dixon, Milford Graves, Billy Higgins and Sunny Murray, before becoming a member of the Cecil Taylor Unit, where he played a prominent role for over a decade. Time Out New York proclaimed William Parker one of “the 50 greatest New York musicians of all time.”

Parker and Drake invite their colleagues Lewis ‘Flip’ Barnes (trumpet) and Rob Brown (alto saxophone), the so-called Raining on the Moon Quartet. “What marks Raining on the Moon as unique in Parker’s long list of recordings is its raw accessibility,” writes Nils Jacobson. “William Parker is one of those extremely rare musicians who seem to impart a warm glow to every musical group he joins.” “When jazz historians look back on improvised music at the turn of this century,” writes The Boston Phoenix, “William Parker will stand as a giant among men.”

Monday, March 22 – Thursday, April 8

In this exhibition, curator and art historian Gary Tartokov introduces Indian artist Savi Savarkar to our community in a thoughtfully organized exhibition. In addition to highlighting Savarkar’s prowess, the exhibition demonstrates Tartokov’s tremendous skill, insight, and sensitivity as a longstanding scholar of Indian art. Savi Savarkar’s art is most remarkable for the expression of his social situation in South Asian culture as a Dalit, and for the immediacy, depth and power with which he expresses the meaning of that situation to us. In India, a nation with over a billion people, Dalits —the people usually known in the United States by their Brahmanical caste title as “untouchables”— make up seventeen per cent of the population and occupy a social and economic place at the bottom of the famous caste system, comparable to the situation of African Americans in the United States. Savarkar is the rare case of a gallery artist with a national and international reputation built upon role of being a Dalit artist, and a critique of the caste system. Viewing his art, even in the United States, brings up difficult and painful questions of intercultural and international communication and understanding. While Savarkar’s art reveals the sophistication and strength of contemporary India’s elite gallery culture, it also dwells at length in polemic confrontation with one of the greatest problems of contemporary Indian society. For all of us there is the challenge of looking not only through sensitive eyes at what may be unfamiliar, but of looking with nuanced minds. As India’s most prominent Dalit artist, he has exhibited in the international gallery scene in New Delhi, Mumbai and around India, is represented in the National Gallery of Modern Art and The Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, and has appeared at the Frankfort Book fair and in exhibitions and collections in Mexico, Germany, Sweden and the United States.

Tuesday, March 9
Concert Hall 7:30 pm
$40, $30, $15, Five College/GCC/STCC students and Youth 17 and under: $15

The all-male dance company Black Grace boasts some of New Zealand’s finest and most respected contemporary dancers. Predominantly Pacific Island and Maori, this company is renowned for its unique ability to combine their traditional and contemporary dance forms. They were a hit at Jacob’s Pillow several years ago. If you missed them then, you must experience them now!

Arts Give Back
Please bring an item from the Dakin Humane Society’s wish list. Visit their site for a list of needs.

Friday, March 5
Bowker Auditorium 8:00 pm
$20, $15; Five College/GCC/STCC students/17 & under $15

Experience Galak Tika, America’s most innovative Balinese gamelan, performing traditional and contemporary music and dance for Balinese gamelan, electric guitars, electronics, and Ensemble Robot’s Heliphon. Performing Evan Ziporyn’s rock gamelan classics Tire Fire and Amok!, traditional works featuring stunning Balinese topeng (masked dance), performed by master Balinese dancers I Madé Bandem and Ni Lu Suasti, plus Christine Southworth’s exhilarating Heavy Metal for gamelan and robotic glockenspiel, this concert promises to present a musical hybrid that “expands the horizons of both music and humanity’s relation to machines.”

Friday, March 5
Bowker Auditorium from 10:00 am to 11:00 am
$6 students, $8 adults

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Gamelan Galak Tika will demonstrate the mystical music of the Balinese shadow puppet plays, the enchanting vocal rhythms of the Kecak (monkey chant) and movements of Balinese Dance in an interactive performance for students. Legendary Balinese dancer and choreographer, I Madé Bandem will lead students in a fun filled Kecak demonstration where students will learn the basics of Balinese kotekan (interlocking rhythms) and the facial movements that makes Balinese dance so enticing.All Ages