Performing Arts

Enjoy one of the final cultural events of the spring semester this weekend when the Department of Performing Arts presents On That Note... An Evening of Dance and Music, which opens Thursday night in McCrary Theatre.

The American premiere of "Pornogrpahy," directed by Kevin Otos, continues this week at the Burning Coal Theatre in Raleigh, N.C. Written in 2005 by British playwright Simon Stephens, "Pornography" deals with the emotional current of Londoners celebrating their city's successful Olympic bid before being brutally thrust into despair after the terrorist attacks on the London transportation system on July 7, 2005.

What can dance instructors do differently to help novice students avoid injury? And how do advanced students help in that regard? For Elon University senior Bridget Kelly, answering those questions has earned her acclaim at a major international conference, and her work is the latest to be featured in a series of E-net profiles on undergraduate research to be presented during CELEBRATE! 2011.

CELEBRATE! Week 2011 got underway Tuesday with a series of events that included a dance concert on the patio of the Center for the Arts. Watch some of the performance and view a gallery of images captured by Brian Meyer and Kim Walker in the Office of University Relations.

Associate Professor of Theatre Kevin Otos directs the American premier of Pornography, a play written in 2005 by Simon Stephens of the United Kingdom that deals with the bombs that were detonated in the London transportation system on July 7, a day after the city was named host for the 2012 Olympics.

Re-imagining a nearly 2,500-year-old play, the Department of Performing Arts' production of Ajax by Sophocles explores the great warrior’s PTSD-like struggles on the battlefield of a contemporary and familiar war-torn landscape. The show runs through Sunday afternoon in McCrary Theatre.

Lauren Kearns, Associate Professor of Dance and Head of the Dance Program, presented We Dance/We Remember: an autobiographical dance-making tool to invoke personal and public memory at "The ART of Public Memory" Conference held at UNC Greensboro April 8-10. Kearns has been developing and refining this dance-making technique for the past several years and is currently working on documenting the process and writing a series of articles.

Music theatre alumnus Rob Marnell '06 was featured in the March 31 edition of The News Sentinel of Fort Wayne, Ind. He spoke with reporter Sheryl Krieg about his role as Alex the Lion in a touring production of "Madagascar Live" based on the hit animated film.