Arts + Design Thursdays @ BAMPFA
January 24–April 25, 2019
Presenters from a diverse range of cultural and creative backgrounds explore the specific and metaphoric connections between creative action and the possibility of personal, cultural, and social transformation.
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Stan Lai’s The Peach Blossom Land
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Films - Past
Films - Past
Events
Past Events
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Thursday, April 25, 12 PMThe House of the Spirits: Isabel Allende in Conversation with Caridad Svich
Celebrated Chilean author Allende joins in conversation with theater maker and playwright Svich about Allende’s The House of the Spirits in its many iterations: the novel, the play, and an upcoming staged performance at UC Berkeley.
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Thursday, April 18, 12 PMCalcutta to California: Sowing an American Lineage of Kathak Dance with Rachna Nivas
Nivas, codirector of the Chhandam School of Kathak and cofounder of the Leela Dance Collective, talks about her experiences as an artist, choreographer, educator, and entrepreneur of Indian classical dance.
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Thursday, April 11, 12 PMOrganic Design: A Dream Like a Dream and Ago with Stan Lai and Sandra Woodall
Playwright/director Lai and visual artist/designer Woodall engage in conversation about the idea of organic design and how it plays out in Lai’s A Dream Like a Dream and in Ago, an upcoming play being created at Berkeley.
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Thursday, April 4, 12 PMThe Village: Weaving Local Stories into Theater Epics with Stan Lai
Lai discusses the unique process he used to create The Village, one of the most celebrated plays of the recent Chinese theater.
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Thursday, March 14, 12 PMMaking Dreamers: An Oratorio of Immigration with Jimmy López
Composer López discusses Dreamer, an oratorio for orchestra, chorus, and soprano exploring the immigrant experience, which will be presented by Cal Performances this March.
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Thursday, March 7, 12 PMCurating Hans Hofmann: The Nature of Abstraction with Lucinda Barnes
Barnes, curator emerita at BAMPFA, discusses the life and legacy of Hans Hofmann and details the process of curating the museum’s major retrospective of Hofmann’s work.
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Thursday, February 28, 12 PMPerforming the Unimaginable: Theater of War with Akram Khan, Rob Bailis, and Peter Glazer
Dancer/Choreographer Akram Khan speaks with Cal Performances’ interim artistic director Rob Bailis.
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Thursday, February 21, 12 PMMartha Graham Speaking to the Moment: Creative Invention in Dance with Marni Thomas Wood
Thomas Wood delivers a talk drawing on her decades-long experience in dance, including her career as a performer and teacher with the Martha Graham Company and as founder of the dance program at UC Berkeley.
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Thursday, February 14, 12 PMThe Undefended Heart: Buddhism and Performance Practice with Joe Goode
The dance and theater artist talks about how Buddhist philosophy has changed his working method from a preordained “vision” to a process of discovery.
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Thursday, January 31, 12 PMAdaptation and Transformation with Mary Zimmerman and Stan Lai
Playwright and director Zimmerman—whose play Metamorphoses appears at Berkeley Rep this season—joins Arts + Design Thursdays series cocurator Lai to discuss adaptation as a theatrical method.
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Thursday, January 24, 12 PMCreativity: A New Approach—Series Introduction by Stan Lai
US-born, Taiwan-based playwright and director Lai introduces this season’s Arts + Design Thursdays series, which he cocurated.
Past Films
The Peach Blossom Land
Stan Lai
Taiwan, 1992Thursday, February 7 12 PMView DetailsLai’s award-winning film adaptation of his own play radically challenges the principles of filmed theater with a tale of two Taiwanese theatrical productions that collide and merge.