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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=3
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Performance
Workshop <st1:place w:st="on">Opportunity</st1:place> for the Boston/Cambridge
Community!<font color=navy><span style='color:navy'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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FEBRUARY 18-21<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>TO PARTICIPATE IN BREAD
AND PUPPET THEATER'S<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=3
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>NEW <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>LUBBERLAND NATIONAL DANCE COMPANY</span></b>
PRODUCTION<font color=navy><span style='color:navy'> </span></font>--<font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'> </span></font>"<b><i><span
style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>MANNING</span></i></b><i><span
style='font-style:italic'>"</span></i><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=3
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>CHOREOGRAPHED BY <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>BREAD AND PUPPET</span></b> FOUNDER <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>PETER SCHUMANN</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=3
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>AT MIT (The
Cube in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Wiesner</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Building</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>, <a
href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=20+ames+street+cambridge+massachusetts&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=40.052282,78.486328&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=20+Ames+St,+Cambridge,+Middlesex,+Massachusetts+02142&z=16">20
Ames Street</a>, <st1:City w:st="on">Cambridge</st1:City>)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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necessary...)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The <b><span style='font-weight:bold'><a
href="http://breadandpuppet.org/lubberland-national-dance-company"
target="_blank"><font color="#0000cc"><span style='color:#0000CC'>Lubberland
National Dance Company</span></font></a></span></b>, a branch of the <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'><a href="http://breadandpuppet.org/" target="_blank"><font
color="#0000cc"><span style='color:#0000CC'>Bread & Puppet Theater</span></font></a></span></b>,
has produced dances with political themes in response to current events,
including <i><span style='font-style:italic'>10 No-No-No Dances</span></i> against
Israel's war on Lebanon (2006), <i><span style='font-style:italic'>27 Dirt-Cheap
Money Dances</span></i>, with Marx quotations in response to
the financial crisis (2009), and <i><span style='font-style:
italic'>7 Dances for Gaza</span></i> in commemoration of the victims
killed on the Gaza humanitarian aid flotilla (2010).<font color=navy><span
style='color:navy'><br>
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</span></font>The Company's latest work-in-progress is called "<b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>Manning</span></b>"<font color=navy><span
style='color:navy'>,</span></font> and concerns <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'><a
href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/30/wikileaks-cables-bradley-manning"
target="_blank"><font color="#0000cc"><span style='color:#0000CC'>Bradley
Manning</span></font></a></span></b>, the 23-year-old soldier who has
spent the last eight months in solitary confinement in a brig in <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">Virginia</st1:State></st1:place>, accused of
providing WikiLeaks with classified Defense Department documents.<font
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</span></font>The approximately eight dances are tentatively titled:<font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'><br>
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</span></font>1) 23 Hours-A-Day-Intensive-Solitary-Confinement Dance in a 6' x
12' Cell<font color=navy><span style='color:navy'><br>
</span></font>2) Banned-From-Exercise + Denied Pillow + Sheet Dance<font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'><br>
</span></font>3) Guards-Check-Private-Manning-Every-5-Minutes Dance<font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'><br>
</span></font>4) The Brig's Spokesman's "poppycock" Dance Saying His
Treatment is "firm, fair and respectful"<font color=navy><span
style='color:navy'><br>
</span></font>5) The American <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Academy</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Psychiatry</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>'s
"Isolation-Can-Be-As-Clinically-Distressing-As-Physical-Torture Dance<font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'><br>
</span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black'>6) Civilized
Society's Anti-Torture Dance</span></font><font color=navy><span
style='color:navy'><br>
</span></font>7) Manning's,
"We're-screwed-as-a-society-if-nothing-happens" Dance<font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'><br>
</span></font>8) Manning's
"Public-reaction-to-the-video-of-the-helicopter-massacre-in-Baghdad-gave-me-great-hope"
Dance<font color=navy><span style='color:navy'><br>
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</span></font>____________________________________________________________<font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'><br>
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</span></font>These dances are choreographed by <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>Peter Schumann</span></b> and taught by <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Maura
Gahan</span></b> and do not require prior dance experience.<font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'> </span></font>We are looking for
10-20 persons to take part in two days of rehearsals before a
public performance on Monday, February 21. <font color=navy><span
style='color:navy'> </span></font>Participants should bring comfortable
clothes to move in for rehearsals, along with a notebook, musical
instruments, water, snacks and/or meals. <font color=navy><span
style='color:navy'> </span></font>For the performance, participants will
wear all white<font color=navy><span style='color:navy'> </span></font>clothes.<font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'><br>
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</span></font>Schedule:<font color=navy><span style='color:navy'><br>
</span></font>Friday, Feb. 18th: Load-In & Meet Participants (TBA)<font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'><br>
</span></font>Saturday, Feb. 19th: Rehearse 10am-1pm; Break
1-2pm; Rehearse 2-5pm<font color=navy><span style='color:navy'><br>
</span></font>Sunday, Feb. 20th: Rehearse 10am-1pm; Break
1-2pm; Rehearse 2-5pm<font color=navy><span style='color:navy'><br>
</span></font>Monday, Feb. 21st: Warm-up 5pm;
Performance 7pm<font color=navy><span style='color:navy'><br>
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</span></font>All rehearsals and performance will take place in
E15-001 (the Cube in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Wiesner</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Building</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>, <st1:Street
w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">20 Ames Street</st1:address></st1:Street>)<font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'><br>
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</span></font>This special workshop is presented in cooperation with <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>4.360 Performance Workshop: Art, Technology, and
Live Space</span></i>, taught by John Bell.<font color=navy><span
style='color:navy'> </span></font>Funded by a Director's Grant from the
Council for the Arts at MIT, and a grant from the MIT Program in Art,
Culture and Technology.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>For more information contact John Bell<font color=navy><span
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</span></font><a href="mailto:johnbell@mit.edu" target="_blank"><font
color="#0000cc"><span style='color:#0000CC'>johnbell@mit.edu</span></font></a><font
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</span></font>617<font color=navy><span style='color:navy'>-</span></font>599<font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'>-</span></font>3250 <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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