Now Happening on Thursday! Making Art and Performance Inspired by Site, History and Society

Due to Tuesday’s impending storm, this event has been moved to Thurs, Jan. 26th, still in Callahan Hall at 6 p.m.
LPL will be hosting award-winning and internationally recognized director/choreographer Stephan Koplowitz for an open community forum about site-specific performance work, how this work is created, and an inside look at his upcoming project, Mill Town to be presented by the Bates Dance Festival this coming summer. This program will take place in LPL’s Callahan Hall on Thursday, Jan. 26th at 6:00 p.m.
This will be a unique opportunity to meet Stephan Koplowitz, see examples of his work, explore the world of site-specific performance and learn about its community impact. The focus of this conversation will be centered on Mill Town, a performance installation inspired by the history, geography and culture of L/A that will feature dance, original music, video, historical artifacts and incorporating over 60 professional and local performers. The Bates Dance Festival is commissioning and presenting this work at the Bates Mill Complex in early August (2017) in partnership with several community partners including Platz Associates and Museum L-A.
Koplowitz is a director/choreographer/media artist known for his work on stage, film and site. Since 1984 he has created 87 works both here and abroad and is the recipient of the Alpert Award in the Arts, Guggenheim Fellowship, a Bessie Award and Choreography Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. As a long time educator, he recently completing ten years as Dean and Faculty of Dance at the California Institute of the Arts (2006-2016) and has been a featured artist-teacher at the Bates Dance Festival six times since 1992.
During that same week in January, Stephan is serving as a visiting artist/scholar at Bates College teaching master classes and presenting lectures about collaborative creative processes, site-specific work, and the community impact of place based art performances.
For additional information on the January 26th forum, contact the LPL Adult/Teen Services Desk at 513-3135 or LPLReference@Gmail.com   For details on the Bates Dance Festival’s Mill Town project, email them at DanceFest@Bates.edu
Right: Koplowitz’s Grand Step Project at New York Public Library.
Photo by Julie Lemberger