Candy Dancers

The annual Candy Dance festival in Genoa came and went last month, and as usual the SNC Gallery Club was in attendance, cooking burgers to raise money for the art department. Unfortunately I had no camera (in the rush to get out the door I left it behind), but Kath McGaughey came to the rescue and documented the experience nicely; all photos are courtesy of her.

Here is Thomas demonstrating the mysterious candy dance:

Here we are getting things set up at the main grilling and prep station:



The weather was gorgeous on Saturday morning, as seen here through the open roof of the grilling area...


Which of course meant that there was a torrential downpour Saturday afternoon. With an open roof, everyone in the grilling area was pretty much soaked.


But did we despair? Of course not. Look at us. Look at this resilience to adversity.


In fact I think Thomas just danced his way through the entire festival, rain or shine:


All in all a fantastic experience, and we sold every last patty in our possession. We are just that amazing. (Or, you know, burgers are delicious.)

SNC Art-Related Events this Weekend

SNC has a contingent out at the Candy Dance Faire in Genoa -- it's an annual pilgrimage for us, flipping & selling burgers to raise some extra dough for the department, in the middle of a giant craft faire. So come on by today or tomorrow if you're feeling a bit crafty -- and if you're also feeling a bit hungry, just follow the column of blue hamburger smoke till you see us.



If you're feeling a bit more musical and less hamburgery, there are also a couple chances to hear Music Prof Donna Axton in a piano recital with Eunice Marion, playing Mozart and Gershwin.


Here's the info via Donna:

This Saturday night (7pm) in Patterson Hall, I will be giving an informal piano recital with another pianist, Eunice Marion. We will be playing “duets” on the piano – meaning 4 hands and one piano. We will start with Mozart and end with Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue.

If you can’t make that concert we will be giving the recital again at Squaw Valley Chapel at 3 pm on Sunday

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Dance & projection at UC East Bay

Last week, Kristin and I went down to UC East Bay, to present a piece Kristin has been choreographing with some UNR students, and a projection of some animation/dance work we'd done in the past. It was presented to a couple classes, one taught by Eric Kupers and one by Kimiko Guthrie (outside of teaching, they're the artistic directors of Dandelion Dancetheater. They had a successful run of a show in New York last summer, even snagging a review in the NY Times, which was one of the summer's little thrills -- it was nice to see pictures of folks I'd worked with, reproduced in an official capacity under that stately "New York Times" header font.)



Babs put together a portable "nest," derived from the one she constructed out behind the art building, that was used as a piece of sculptural stage-setting. The dancers were Mandy Albert, Nicole da Roza, Teryn Jackson, and Daniel Miller. Nicole also edited together a projection of stills, taken from prior performances and in staged settings, which added to the dreamy atmosphere of the thing; the title of the live piece was "Dreaming in Black and White."


We got some good questions from Eric's class, kicking around the differences between projected work and live performance. Here are a few pics; a few of them have bigger versions, and look the better for it, so click on through for the full effect.

Upcoming events: Sept. 24-28

There's a ton of stuff happening in the next week or so. First up is the Pete Froslie artist talk tonight, and then you can roll into daily artsy-type events for the next four days, if you so desire:

Thursday, Sept. 24: Reception and lecture 5:00-7:00pm in the Tahoe Gallery. Lecture 5:15pm in rm 320 (Prim library). If you've checked out the show and wondered what the connection is between wood maps, bloodstains, jazz, and an elderly gentleman with a chainsaw, here's your chance to ask some questions. Answers are not guaranteed.


Friday, Sept. 25: This event is being put together by the English Program: Pulitzer prize winning writer, Bob Hass, and fellow poet, Brenda Hillman, will be on campus reading from their books this Friday from 7:00-9:00 in TCES 139. Free and open to all. Here's a link to Hass' poem "Dragonflies Mating"; and a link to Hilman's poem "Little Furnace."



Sat & Sun, Sept. 26-26: Candy Dance! The Art Department will be flipping burgers at this event, which takes over the picturesque town of Genoa for a weekend once a year -- it's a mindbogglingly extensive arts & crafts faire (it always makes me feel funny to put an "e" on the end of the word "fair," but that's the way they do it). We make a bit of cash for the department, and in the process make our peace with sizzling grease.


Monday, Sept. 28th: Megan DeArmond: Lecture and light reception 5:00-7:00pm in the Tahoe Gallery. Lecture at 5:15 in rm 320 (Prim library). She'll be talking about her show, "Between Wonder."