"The Zoo" - Auditions
Gilbert and Sullivan Players
Mon Jan 8, Tue Jan 9, 07-10:00pm, W20-407
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Have you been trying to get into musicals but afraid you aren't good enough? Want to audition for a fun musical? Forget about all that and come audition for "The Zoo." It's a special workshop designed for MIT students who want to learn how to be in theater. All the leads will be cast from MIT students -- there will be no outside competition. The Gilbert and Sullivan Players have people who will help train you to be in this wonderful production. Please bring two copies of a song for the pianist to play.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/gsp/www
Contact: David Euresti, savoyards-request@mit.edu
Sponsor: Gilbert and Sullivan Players
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A Workshop on How to Audition for Musical Theater
David Daly
Mon Jan 8, 06-07:00pm, W20-407
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Want to learn the correct way to audition for musical theater? Want to convey the right idea to the directors? Want to know what your motivation is? Our own David Daly, famous for his roles in "The Mikado" and "The Sorcerer", will be presenting a workshops on what to expect and how to prepare for an audition.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/gsp/www
Contact: David Euresti, savoyards-request@mit.edu
Sponsor: Gilbert and Sullivan Players
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Animals and Motivation in Acting
Ky Lowenhaupt
Tue Jan 23, 05-06:30pm, W20-407
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Ever want to be on stage but didn't think you could act? Learn the tips and tricks of improvisation and characterization with Ky Lowenhaupt.
Contact: David Euresti, Burton 412B, x5-8345, davie@mit.edu
Sponsor: Gilbert and Sullivan Players
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Audition Tips for Musical Theater
MIT Musical Theatre Guild , Edmund Golaski
Sun Jan 21, 01-03:00pm, W20 Mezz. Lounge
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Auditioning well improves your chances of getting the part you want. Recent MTG directors discuss the audition process, from choosing a song to what the director means by "Again, with feeling!". The bulk of the time will be devoted to questions.
Web: http://mit.edu/mtg/
Contact: MIT Musical Theatre Guild, W20-453, x3-6294, mtg-board@mit.edu
Sponsor: MIT Musical Theatre Guild
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Ballroom Dance Lessons
Winthrop Brown
Tue Jan 9, 16, 23, Thu Jan 25, 07-08:30pm, Sala de Puerto Rico
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Learn the basics of ballroom and latin dancing with the MIT Ballroom Dance Club. Ever wanted to learn to Swing? How about Salsa or Hustle? Come on, you can do it! It's sure to be a good time, and just think how impressed your friends will be with your new found dancing prowess. Free general dance after lesson.
Web: http://www.mit.edu/activities/bdclub/
Contact: Winthrop Brown, NW16-178, 253-1669, bdc-officers@mit.edu
Sponsor: MIT Ballroom Dance Club
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Bhangra Lessons
Sunil Vemuri , Radhika Nagpal
Schedule: TBD
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Prereq: None
Bhangra is a festive, colorful, and energetic folk dance from India. MIT Bhangra Club is offering free classes to bhangra dancers of all levels. Beginners welcome! Classes start with a bhangra-style warm-up and continue with the basic steps.
3 Classes. Please email us for time and location or check website for updates.
Web: http://www.geocities.com/bhangra_mit/
Contact: MIT Bhangra Club, bhangra-request@mit.edu
Sponsor: Sunil Vemuri, E15-120D, 617 253-5437, vemuri@mit.edu
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Bharatha Naatyam Classes, Beginner
Sumati Ram-Mohan
Schedule: TBD
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 01-Jan-2001
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: None!
Weekly beginners' classes to introduce you to the classical Indian dance form of Bharatha Naatyam! No dance experience required. Time and locations TBA. Contact sumati@mit.edu to sign up or for more information.
Contact: Sumati Ram-Mohan, sumati@mit.edu
Sponsor: MIT Bharatha Naatyam Club
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Bharatha Naatyam Classes, Intermediate
Sumati Ram-Mohan
Schedule: TBD
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 01-Jan-2001
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: Some familiarity with Bharatha Naatyam.
Weekly classes to hone your classical Indian dance skills! Content may vary from learning advanced Bharatha Naatyam steps to learning choreography, depending on the class interest and experience. Time and locations TBA. Contact sumati@mit.edu to sign up or for more information.
Contact: Sumati Ram-Mohan, sumati@mit.edu
Sponsor: MIT Bharatha Naatyam Club
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Border Morris Dancing
Debbie Lewis
Fri Jan 19, 07:45-10:00pm, Walker Squash Court
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Instant gratification on a stick! If you remember how to skip, you can dance Border. We'll teach you the figures, let you play with big sticks, and teach at least one entire dance. Live music. Bring your sneakers and enthusiasm!
Web: http://www.mit.edu/people/jcb/
Contact: John Giffin, 50-318, 642-7272, gif@mit.edu
Sponsor: Pagan Students
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Contra Dance for All
Arthur L. Anger , Larry Stone
Tue Jan 9, Tue Jan 23, 08-10:30pm, Lobdell
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Prereq: none
Join us for two evenings of Contra Dance, a traditional American form of folk dancing, directed by a caller and accompanied by exciting live music. During IAP we'll make it especially accessible to beginners. Contra Dancing uses easy-to-learn walking steps. You dance with a partner, changing partners each dance, in a line of couples called a 'set' and interacting with your partner and all the other couples. A caller first explains each dance in a 'walk-through' and then continues to prompt you during the dance. No partner is needed. Come by yourself or bring friends! Light refreshments served at the break halfway through.
These dances are part of a continuing series of dances on the Second and Fourth Tuesday of every month, so you can continue to enjoy them once you're hooked.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/fdc/www/contra.html
Contact: fdc@mit.ed
Sponsor: MIT Folk Dance Club
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Gumboot/Step Workshop
Mellisa Edoh , Saria Hassan, Nii Dodoo, Kenroy Cayetano
Mon-Fri, Jan 15-19, 22-26, 05-07:00pm, TBA
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Signup by: 12-Jan-2001
Limited to 40 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: None
Learn basic steps of the South African Gumboot dance
and its American counterpart, Step. Explore similarities
and differences between these two dance styles. Led by members of African Students' Association
Contact: Mellisa Edoh, McCormick 434, x5-8574, medoh@mit.edu
Sponsor: African Students' Association
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IAP Rueda Workshops VI through IX
William J. Melendez Diaz , Loreto Ansaldo, and the MIT Casino Rueda Group
Tue Jan 9, 16, 23, 30, 06-09:00pm, W20-491
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Prereq: None
Fee: 1240.04 for
La Rueda de Casino, originally begun in Cuba in the 1950s, consists of couples dancing salsa in a circle, following moves called by a caller who sets the pace of the dance. The MIT Casino Rueda Group will hold Workshops VI-IX during the month of January 2001. Visit our website for information on these lessons. Workshops are $12 per session or $40 if you sign up for all 4.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/rueda/www/
Contact: Rueda Inner Circle, rueda_inner_circle@mit.edu
Sponsor: Casino Rueda Group
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International Folk Dancing for Everyone
Marilyn Richards
Sun Jan 14, 21, 28, 4, 07:30-11:00pm, Lobdell
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Come dance to the world music you listen to. Learn the dances that inspired that great music! Lots of teaching! Beginners are very welcome! We dance in lines, with a partner, and in circles with a few people (these circles can really move). No partner needed and absolutely no experience necessary. Come by yourself or bring friends! This will continue as a regular series of dances on Sunday nights, so you can keep coming once you get hooked! Special events this IAP will include a swing workshop, a waltz workshop and Beginner's Nights. International Folk Dancing is also providing an IAP PE credit course.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/fdc/www/Sunday_Sched.html
Contact: fdc@mit.ed
Sponsor: MIT Folk Dance Club
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Introduction to Square Dancing
Ted Lizotte
Thu Jan 25, 08:30-10:30pm, Lobdell
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Prereq: None!
At MIT, square dancing is more than just an American folk dance, it's real-time puzzle solving in motion! Join us for an introduction to modern square dance and experience group theory at 45rpm. No experience or partner necessary, just wear comfortable shoes. Refreshments will be provided.
Web: http://www.mit.edu/activities/tech-squares/
Contact: Tara Holm, 253-7000, squares@mit.edu
Sponsor: Tech Squares
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Israeli Folk Dancing for IAP
Valerie Rosen
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Dance to music ranging from last week's Israeli pop hit to folk songs from the days of the pioneers. Come learn the newest, hottest dances in Israeli folk dancing. Lots of teaching! Lots of fun! Beginners are most welcome! No partner needed and absolutely no experience necessary. Come by yourself or bring friends. This will continue as a regular series of dances on Wednesday nights, so you can keep coming once you get hooked!
Web: http://web.mit.edu/fdc/
Contact: fdc@mit.ed
Sponsor: MIT Folk Dance Club
Special Beginner's Session
Valerie Rosen
Wed Jan 10, 07:30-09:00pm, TBD
Special Beginner's Session
Valerie Rosen
Wed Jan 17, 07:30-09:00pm, TBD
Special Beginner's Session
Valerie Rosen
Wed Jan 24, 07:30-09:00pm, TBD
Special Beginner's Session
Valerie Rosen
Wed Jan 31, 07:30-09:00pm, TBD
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MIT Community Players Play Readings
Erik Lindblad Alumni, Andrew Sexton, Bob Mussett
Mon-Thu, Jan 8, 10, 16, 18, 22, 24, 07-10:00pm, TBA
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Prereq: NONE
The MIT Community Players will be holding play readings January 8th through 24th as part of the selection process for their spring production, to be performed May 10-12. Students, faculty, staff, affiliates, and the curious are all welcome to attend. Please contact the MITCP board at mitcp-board@mit.edu if you are interested in submitting a play for consideration, otherwise just show up and have fun reading with us! All readings will begin at 7PM. Locations will be available within a week of the readings and can be found either at the MITCP website at http://web.mit.edu/mitcp or via our informational phone number (617)253-2530.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/mitcp
Contact: Erik Lindblad, 253-2530, mitcp-info@mit.edu
Sponsor: MIT Community Players
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Mime for the Imaginationally Intrigued
Vladimir Bulovic
Mon, Wed, Fri, Jan 8, 10, 12, 17, 19, 22, 24, 29, 31, 03-04:30pm, Kresge Rehearsal RmB
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 02-Jan-2001
Limited to 30 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
After we are done with you, you will love mimes and, even more, you will love being one! Join the class and explore expression and movement. Learn to express yourself without a single word. In 8 classes we will cover the basic elements of mime. We'll give you walls, leans, ropes, and all the rest you need to be a toasted piece of bread, a cog in a Xerox machine, a fish in the sea looking for trouble. Open your eyes, use your body, and think of the space around you; your imagination will paint the rest.
Contact: Vladimir Bulovic, 13-3138, x3-7012, bulovic@mit.edu
Sponsor: Center for Materials Science and Engineering
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More Border Morris Dancing!
Debbie Lewis
Fri Jan 26, 07:45-10:00pm, Lobby 10, backup: walker squash court
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
See what Border Morris is all about, and join us by making a spectacle of yourself. MOTly will be wearing performance kit -- facepaint, ragcoats, and of course, bells and big sticks. We'll teach at least one entire dance. Live music. Bring your sneakers and enthusiasm!
Web: http://www.mit.edu/people/jcb/
Contact: John Giffin, 50-318, 642-7272, gif@mit.edu
Sponsor: Pagan Students
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Pick-Up Theatre: Works-In-Progress and Information Session
Brandy Evans , Anand Sarwate, Jeanne Sun
Fri Jan 19, 04-06:00pm, TBA
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Did you miss the first Pick-Up Theatre info session? Don't even know what we're talking about? Come see what we're currently working on and help brainstorm new ideas for random acts of theatre all over campus!
Web: http://www.mit.edu/~dramashop/pickup
Contact: Brandy Evans, EC Hayden 101, x5-6116, liane@mit.edu
Sponsor: Brandy L Evans, EAST CAMPUS, HAYD, 617 225-6116, liane@mit.edu
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Roadkill Buffet Presents: The IAP Show!
Roadkill Buffet
Sat Jan 20, 08-10:00pm, MIT Room 6-120
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Roadkill Buffet, MIT's Premiere Improv Comedy Troupe, will leave you rolling in the aisles with our quick wit and comedy stylings in our Annual IAP Show. This is always our biggest show of the year, so make sure to come and join the mayhem! And heck, it's FREE!
Web: http://web.mit.edu/roadkill/www/home.html
Contact: Roadkill Buffet, rkb@mit.edu
Sponsor: Roadkill Buffet
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Roadkill Buffet's Improv Comedy Workshop
Roadkill Buffet
Wed Jan 24, 07-10:00pm, 24-121
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 23-Jan-2001
Limited to 20 participants.
Single session event
Prereq: Clothes
Learn the basic skills of improv comedy necessary to look good on stage, be the life of the party, and make the opposite sex subject to your every whim... Okay, maybe not, but you'll have a good time and learn to think quick on your feet while you're at it.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/roadkill/www/home.html
Contact: Roadkill Buffet, rkb@mit.edu
Sponsor: Roadkill Buffet
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Stage Makeup Workshop
Erik Lars Myers
Sun Jan 28, 12-02:00pm, W20-491
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Curious how mere humans can masquerade as fantastic beings? Watch Erik Lars Myers transform our very own cast, or himself, into mystical characters.
Contact: David Euresti, Burton, x5-8345, davie@mit.edu
Sponsor: Gilbert and Sullivan Players
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