THE ARTS AT UGA

GMOA Staff on Double-Duty

  For Paul Manoguerra, the classroom in which he teaches his special topics art history course is a brief stroll down the hall from his office, located on the third floor of the Georgia Museum of Art (GMOA). Manoguerra works both as chief curator and curator of American art at GMOA and as a professor at the University of Georgia. He is well acquainted with both art history and teaching. “I was a Ph.D student at Michigan State University in American studies, and my concentrations were in American art history, U.S. history and museum studies while I was there,” he says. While earning his doctorate, he taught classes at Michigan State University, Lansing Community College, Kalamazoo College and Western Michigan University. Course…

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Theater, engineering to meet in UGA’s ‘Commedia Robotica’

A form of early sketch comedy—or commedia dell’arte—is opening the doors to the future of theater and robotics at the University of Georgia. This collaboration of art and science will be presented in “Commedia Robotica” Dec. 1 at 8 p.m. and Dec. 2 at 4 p.m. in the Cellar Theatre of the Fine Arts Building on Baldwin Street. Both workshops are free and open to the public. Characterized by masked archetypes and improvised performances based on sketches, commedia dell’arte began in Italy in the 14th century. At UGA, it’s providing a backdrop for UGA theater professor David Saltz and associate engineering professor Chi Thai as they bring robot Zeeb Zob to theatrical life. Zeeb Zob is a humanoid robot with…

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Spotlight on the Arts festival to include “impromptu” events across campus

Students from Bala Sarasvati's beginning and advanced Contemporary Technique classes collaborate to  create a dance fusion piece choreographed by dance seniors Toi Brown, Allison Gantz and Kristen Grubbs, which is performed to popular culture music selections. Athens, Ga. – In addition to its more than 50 previously scheduled events, the Spotlight on the Arts festival at the University of Georgia will include a series of “impromptu” events organized by students involved in the arts. The impromptu events, which are free and open to the public, will take place across campus and feature performances by musicians, theater groups and dance ensembles, as well as interactive art and games. Kristyl Dawn Tift, who is pursuing…

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Collaboration bring ancient Sanskrit play to UGA

Collaboration brings ancient Sanskrit play to UGA The earliest Sanskrit dramas, highly stylized performances of gesture and costume, music and dance, date from the first century, CE. While the tradition of performing Sanskrit plays has all but vanished, the UGA department of theatre and films studies and the Lyndon House Arts Center has collaborated on a production of this ancient Indian art form to campus.  “The Little Clay Cart,” a classical Sanskrit play performed in English, will be presented in the Cellar Theatre Saturday, Nov. 10 at 2:30 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 11 at 11a.m. The play will be performed by the Epic Actors’ Workshop, a not-for-profit theatre organization from New Jersey, and directed by Farley Richmond,…

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