Body of Knowledge tryouts

The Department of Theatre and Dance announced audition hours for Body of Knowledge, a choreography thesis by Master of Fine Arts candidate Karl Frost.

Everyone in the campus community and the general public is welcome to try out from 6 to 9 p.m. Nov. 8 at the University Club. “This is a block audition,” a flier states, “that is, it will be run as an open workshop, as opposed to individual audition slots.”

The flier further states: “Seeking people interested in the interconnections of mind, heart and body, and of the personal, political and environmental, to participate as performers in an interactive performance work.”

Rehearsals are set to begin Jan. 3, and performances are scheduled Feb. 11-13 and 18-20 in the Vanderhoef Studio Theatre, Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, and Feb. 25 to March 6 in San Francisco and Santa Cruz.

“The audition will take the form of a creative workshop,” according to the flier. “Investigations will at times be physical, at times verbal. Interactive explorations will be centered around the hard-to-define ideas of ‘meaningfulness’ and ‘authenticity,’ and will look at possibilities of receptiveness, facilitation and provocation."

Frost is the director of Body Research, his project “devoted to exploration of the self through the lens of the body.”

More information about Body of Knowledge, and Body Research and Frost.

Questions about the audition? Send an e-mail to Eric Steggall, esteggall@ucdavis.edu.

More Rumors

Studio 301 Productions, the only student-run theatre company on campus, is presenting Rumors, the Neil Simon farce, through Nov. 14. Read more.

AT A GLANCE

WHAT: Rumors, by Neil Simon and co-directed by Ulysses Morazan and Jazz Trice

WHEN:

• Nov. 5-6 and Nov. 10-13 — 8 p.m.
• Nov. 7 and 14 — 2 p.m.

WHERE: Wyatt Pavilion Theatre

TICKETS are available the Freeborn Hall box office, in person or by telephone, (530) 752-1915. $10 for students, $12 general admission.

MORE INFORMATION is available by e-mail: Studio301Productions@gmail.com.

At the Mondavi Center

• Delfeayo Marsalis Octet — In the Studio Jazz series. 8 p.m. today (Nov. 5) and Saturday, Nov. 6, Vanderhoef Studio Theatre.

• Buika — The "Flamenco Queen," a Latin Grammy nominee, with a unique sound that the Mondavi Center describes as “a blend of flamenco, jazz, soul and blues.” Her latest recording, El Último Trago, is a tribute to Mexican folkloric singer Chavela Vargas. 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 6, Jackson Hall.

• Alexander String Quartet, with Robert Greenberg — Two season ago, the quartet and Greenberg began a special series at the Mondavi Center — with four sets of concerts a year, each of them featuring string quartets by Beethoven, so that at the end of three seasons, the quartet will have performed all of them. The cycle wraps up in 2010-11, starting with the String Quartet in E-flat Major, op. 127. Each set of concerts (Nov. 7, Dec. 5, March 13 and June 5, all Sundays) comprises two performances — 2 and 7 p.m. — in the Vanderhoef Studio Theatre. The 2 p.m. series, with Greenberg's commentaries, is sold out (contact the box office if you would like to be put on a waiting list). Tickets are limited in avaiability for the 7 p.m. concert series (in which a question-and-answer session follows each performance).

• Imago Theatre: ZooZoo — A Children's Stage program featuring larger than life rabbits, hippos, penguins and more. ZooZoo is a greatest hits collection of acrobatics, dance and theatrical imagination from Imago's fun and frolicsome FROGZ and Biglittlethings. 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 7, Jackson Hall.

Tickets and more information. Or call (530) 754-2787 or (866) 754-2787.