All tickets are $6. For tickets, visit the Fine Arts Ticket Office, (801) 422-4322 or byuarts.com/tickets. Children aged six and above will be admitted with ticket.

The performance will feature eight performance pieces with varying themes presented in choreographed dances and video presentations.

The show opens with Shayla Bott’s “Elan Vital,” a ballet based on Georges Seurat’s famous painting “Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.” Next, Caroline Prohosky’s Asian-inspired dance “A Prayer in the East” will be presented.

The program continues with Jiamin Huang’s “Props Sequence,” a piece that explores the use of traditional Chinese dance props in contemporary dance. Following that, Pat Debenham will present “I Am My Mother and My Father,” a tribute to his parents and his wife’s parents comprised of two interconnected solos.

Next, Karen Jersen will present “Morning Jog,” a dance film illustrating the great lengths a mother will go to keep her children, and herself, entertained. Kate Monson’s “Fossils and Fishes,” a dance exploring the unavoidability of the passing of time, will then be presented.

Concluding the performance will be a film of a young couple dealing with reality and romance by Caroline Prohosky titled “Nocturne” and Lisa Stoddard’s piece “Different Perspectives,” a dance about the power of perspectives in everyday life.

The production staff for “Faculty Dance Works” includes Nathan Balser and Kori Wakamatsu, artistic directors; Benjamin Sanders, production manager; Marianne Ohran, lighting designer; Troy Sales, sound designer; Ron Nuttall, dance medicine; and Julie Brigham, poster design.

For more information, contact Ken Crossley at (801) 422-9348 or ken_crossley@byu.edu.

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RSVP to ext. 2-8180 or ctlrec@byu.edu if you plan to attend.

Jamin Rowan of the College of Humanities faculty will share his ideas and experiences on transitioning from a classroom focused on delivering content to one that revolves around providing students with feedback. He’ll discuss how he has used Digital Dialog in the BYU Learning Suite to help generate class discussions and evaluations of student work that help students enhance their writing and other academic skills.

These strategies can be valuable in a wide range of disciplines, and faculty and instructors from all departments are welcome to participate.

For more information, contact the Center for Teaching and Learning at ext. 2-8180.

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Tickets are $14, with $2 discounts available to BYU alumni and senior citizens and $6 discounts for students or individuals with a BYU ID. For tickets, visit the Fine Arts Ticket Office, (801) 422-4322 orbyuarts.com/tickets. There will be no performances Sundays or Mondays. The performance on Thursday, March 7, will offer American Sign Language interpretation.

The production will feature two short pieces of theatre directed by Lindsay Livingston. Both plays have similar themes and use a distinct and contemporary storytelling approach known as devising. Devised theatre occurs when the script originates not from a writer, but through collaboration by a group of people, usually the performers.

“Gone Missing” is a 2002 play devised by the Brooklyn-based theatre company The Civilians. The piece was devised through interviews with real New Yorkers by asking one simple question: “What is something you’ve lost?”

“The Cleverest Thief” is another play devised from interviews focused on capturing the uniqueness and universality of loss, but this time the focus will be on Provo instead of New York.

“Our play, ‘The Cleverest Thief,’ is devised from the interviews that we conducted over a two-month period in 2012 and likewise investigates how the things we lose and those that we find impact how we understand ourselves, our communities and our place in the world,” Livingston said.

“We went out into our community and asked the same question; we received answers that were both similar and quite different,” she said. “We chose to tell the stories of both Provoans and New Yorkers through storytelling and various media to emphasize that how we remember our stories of loss actually shapes who we are.”

The production is also featured in 4thWall, a dramaturgy project run by the Theatre and Media Arts Department. The project works to break down the supposed wall separating the audience from the actors through insights from the rehearsal room, interesting historical information, interviews with the production team and more. For more information about 4thWall, visit 4thwalldramaturgy.byu.edu.

The cast features Annalee Hickman, Ali Kinkade, Hannah Kroff, Alizabeth Leake, James Luciano, James Lyon, Sarah Porter, Amber Richardson and Adam White.

The design and technical crew includes Hannah Richardson, production stage manager; Ariel Mitchell, dramaturg; Noah Kershisnik, production designer; Michael Kraczek, lighting designer; Hannah Kroff, prop designer; Kristy Hunter, sound designer; Josh Fawcett, master electrician; and Mark Ohran, projection system designer.

For more information, contact Ken Crossley at (801) 422-9348 or ken_crossley@byu.edu.

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Admission is free, but seating is limited. Children ages 8 and over are welcome. No food or drink is permitted in the auditorium.

Brian Keith stars with Vera Miles, Brandon de Wilde and Linda Evans in a heart-warming story filmed in northern Vermont about a man’s fight to establish a wild goose sanctuary in the face of those who want to commercialize his lakeside property.

“Those Calloways” was another live-action feature that Disney specialized in during the 1950s and 1960s aimed at family entertainment. Its accent on youthful performers accounts for the presence of Brandon de Wilde, whose role years earlier as “Joey” in the critically acclaimed “Shane” made him known to audiences the world over.

“Those Calloways” marked the first feature film appearance of  Linda Evans, who later became a household name in two long-running television series, “The Big Valley” (1965-1969) and “Dynasty” (1981-1989). It also showcased a young TV and film star named Tom Skerrit.

The showing is part of the BYU Motion Picture Archive Film Series, co-sponsored by L. Tom Perry Special Collections, the Friends of the Harold B. Lee Library and Dennis & Linda Gibson. The film was the final film score of Max Steiner, composer of more than 300 film scores for many of Hollywood’s greatest films, whose collection is preserved by L. Tom Perry Special Collections.

For more information, contact James D’Arc, (801) 422-6371, james_darc@byu.edu.

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“The judges praised our professional look, solid reporting, and strong production values,” reports Chad Curtis, broadcast news manager for ElevenNews.

More information on the awards will soon follow.

In this competition, a jury of professional peers selects over a hundred works from more than 5,000 submissions from students all over the nation. After this first selection, the jury will then choose about 25 of the students from this first round to award with student scholarships.

Congratulations to the following students who made it into the Society of Illustrators Student Competition. We wish you luck in the next round of the competition.

Artist: Renee Bates
Title: The Changeling
Instructor: Robert Barrett
Medium: mixed media

Artist: Kelsey Datwyler
Title: Haute Route
Instructor: Greg Newbold
Medium: digital

Artist: Nathan Hardyman
Title: See How They Run
Instructor: Robert Barrett
Medium: acrylic gouache

Artist: Hana Lee
Title: Jinxed
Instructor: Bethanne Andersen
Medium: gel pens, digital

Artist: Melissa Manwill
Title: Welcome Home
Instructor: Dave McClellan
Medium: digital

Artist: Melissa Manwill
Title: Communal
Instructor: Robert Barrett
Medium: graphite, digital

Artist: Miranda Meeks
Title: Peter Pan Cover
Instructor: Bethanne Andersen
Medium: digital

Artist: Miranda Meeks
Title: The Gardener
Instructor: Robert Barrett
Medium: digital

Artist: Josh Talbot
Title: Alcohol Iceberg
Instructor: Chris Thornock
Medium: acrylic, digital

Artist: Brittany Tingey
Title: Hazel
Instructor: Jake Parker, Justin Kunz
Medium: digital

Artist: Brittany Tingey
Title: Gatsby
Instructor: Wade Huntsman
Medium: digital

The program will feature “Sonata für Bratsche allein” by Paul Hindemith and Suite VI, BWV 1012 by Johann Sebastian Bach. Following an intermission the performance will conclude with “Manto” by Giacinto Scelsi and “Sarasateana” by Efrem Zimbalist.

Murrath has won numerous awards, including first prize at the Primrose International Viola Competition, second prize at the First Tokyo International Viola Competition, the special prize for the contemporary work at the ARD Munich Competition, Verbier Festival Academy’s Viola Prize and a fellowship from the Belgian–American Educational Foundation.

With repertoire extending from Bach to contemporary music by Ligeti, Kurtag and Sciarrino, Murrath has taken part in the Park Lane Group New Year Series in London to great critical acclaim, as well as commissioned, given world premieres and recorded several solo works.

Murrath began his musical education at the Yehudi Menuhin School studying with Natalia Boyarsky and went on to work in London with David Takeno at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

He graduated with an Artist Diploma from the New England Conservatory as a student of Kim Kashkashian. He is now on the viola faculty of the Longy School of Music of Bard College and the New England Conservatory.

The Primrose Memorial Concert is an annual event that honors legendary violist and former BYU faculty member, William Primrose (1903–1982). The concert series features violists from around the globe who, like Primrose, distinguish themselves on the instrument and promote its scholarship.

For more information, contact Claudine Bigelow at (801) 422-1315 or Ken Crossley at (801) 422-9348, ken_crossley@byu.edu.

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Committee objectives, proposal guidelines and applications are posted on the College of Fine Arts and Communication Web site under the Faculty Funding Grants Section, http://cfacbeta.byu.edu/departments/college/film-committee-project-proposals.  (If the link doesn’t open, paste the url in your browser.)

The Winter semester application deadline is March 15.

For more information, contact Rebecca Ott at ext. 2-8611.

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