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Past Theater Residencies

Spring 2006

Universes, April 2006

Universes, a troupe of five multi-disciplined performers hailing from the South Bronx, breaks the bounds of traditional theater to create their own brand of performance, inviting old and new generations of theater-makers as well as theater-goers and newcomers to reshape the face of American theater. The members of Universes began their residency with a trip to Georgia State University for a brief performance and Q&A session for approximately 30 students in various disciplines. This event was a cooperative effort with the Rialto Center. Later, approximately 110 students, faculty, staff from Georgia State and Emory, and the general public attended Live From the Edge, a free performance on Emory’s McDonough Field.

The next day, Universes performers conducted a workshop on improvisation for twenty-five Emory students, faculty, and staff with an interest in improvisation, music, poetry, and theater. The founding members of Universes, Steven Sapp and Mildred Ruiz, also participated in a panel discussion for Emory Theater Studies majors and minors as part of the Theater Studies Colloquia series. The group performed their work, Eyewitness Blues, in the Emerson Concert Hall for an audience of nearly 150 people.

Fall 2004

Arthur Nauzyciel, Fall 2004

Arthur Nauzyciel is an acclaimed French director who has directed the Koltes play Black Battle with Dogs to critical success in Atlanta, Paris, and Hong Kong. During his six-week residency, Nauzyciel co-taught a class with Professor Tim McDonough focusing on the play he was working to produce at France's state theater, la Comédie-Française.

Nauzyciel also gave a directing workshop for actors and prepared Theater Emory for its opening production, Roberto Zucco, which took place in a parking deck on campus. All of the performances were performed for a full house. Nauzyciel's unique directing style broke the traditional boundaries of this art form and certainly expanded the definition of theater. 

Spring 2004

Alis, April - May 2004

Alis is a unique French theater troupe that uses puppets, theater, film, and visual arts to create a dream-like world in which all the arts collide and interlace into beautiful, expressionistic images.

Alis conducted a six-hour workshop for eight Atlanta theater professionals from the Center for Puppetry Arts, Out of Hand Theater, and Theatre du Reve, and presented two public performances of their unique production "pas de 3."

The Great Nickelodeon Show, March 2004

"The Great Nickelodeon Show" invokes a time when movies were shown with Vaudeville acts, songs, and lecturers. The nickelodeon was the earliest home of the movie and showed the earliest animation and short films lasting between two and fifteen minutes. The Show's archival footage, period songs, vaudeville acts, and live music make it a playful and authentic historical recreation of the early intersection of film, music, and theater.

Volunteers of America (VOA) and Vision, Strength, Access (VSA) Arts of Georgia brought clients to the performance. The VSA Arts clients were inner-city youth participating in a filmmaking program, and this was a unique opportunity for them to see the very beginnings of the film industry.