FAB 2012 "Transformations"
Saturday, APRIL 28
1:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
The Fine Arts Department is alive with activity as we prepare for our annual festival of art, Fine Arts @ Branson, or FAB. Our cumulative historic knowledge remembers this to be our 13th installment of the festival. Each year we organize FAB so that each and every student of art has an opportunity to show off their cumulative development in their area of artistic study. The entire school participates in Friday’s festivities. As such, the greater Branson community is thus invited to come for the day Saturday to enjoy the performances and exhibition. The schedule for Saturday April 28th is included below. Copies of the schedule will be posted and performance specific programs will be available at the event. A brief description of the given performance or exhibition also follows the schedule below.
Bring a blanket and a picnic, or pick up snacks from the PA hosted “Food Tent”, and enjoy a day of art!
· Student Visual Art Show
Ongoing, New House, Douglas Arts Center
Centered in the New House Gallery, each visual arts student has displayed a work for your viewing pleasure. The lower floor of the Gallery is dedicated to the work of Portfolio Review students. These seniors have been honing their skills for their entire Branson careers and have spent this past year refining their individual artistic practice in creating a portfolio of work based on a unifying Artist Statement. Other group and larger individual projects or series of works are alsoon view throughout the upper campus and in various art studios. Digital movies created by visual arts students will be shown in the “Little Theater” (through the Library) throughout the day.
· Opening & A Student Film
1:00 - 1:30 Jewett Family Theater
Transitions is the culmination of a multi-disciplinary collaboration between upper level students of the visual arts, theater and music. The students worked outside of class to share intentions and ideas as they worked to create this multifaceted piece. A film installation by visual arts students served as the original inspiration for both the overarching theme of FAB and this collaborative effort.
· Classical Music & Chorus
1:40 - 2:30 Old Dining Hall
As usual, our FAB music programs feature an eclectic mix of composers and styles. The chorus and chamber singers are presenting a medley of hit tunes from the musical "Rent," and we'll have a rock band to accompany them. In contrast, but still in the "romantic" vein, The Chamber Singers will perform selections from Brahm's Zigeunerlieder (Gypsy Songs).
Our cellists(Eliel Anttila, Jake Carroll and Lindsay Allison) have been busy preparing a movement from the Telemann Cello Quartet in G Maj. Duo pianists Toki Migimatsu and RJ Pearce are deeply immersed in the Waltz from Rachmaninoff's second Suitefor Two Pianos, and RJ is also playing Astor Piazzolla's vibrant Tangata with Katarina Lee. We'll have the pleasure of hearing two major worksfor voice, Schubert's tragic Erlkonig, and selections from the Hermit Songs by Samuel Barber.
A very interesting addition to the program will be a movement from the Sonata No. 3 in gminor for violin and piano by the Chevalier de St. George. The Chevalier is a historically fascinating composer who lived and worked in Parisin the late 18th Century. He was known as "the black Mozart"and was introduced to us in a lecture given to our chamber music class this fall by alumnus Reggie Patterson '00.
· Beginning Acting, Chamber Music, Intermediate Acting, Student Films
2:40 - 3:10 Tent, Maxwell Music Hall, Jewett FamilyTheater, Little Theater
Intermediate Acting: Monty Python’s Flying Circus is a collection of sketches written by a team of Britain’s most famous comedy writers. Intermediate Acting performs some of the most popular skits from this collection. (Written by Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Terry Jones; Directed by Maura Vaughn)
Beginning Acting: La Commedia dell' Arte had its start in the second half of the 16th century. The Commedia dell' Arte bases its charm on improvisation. Improvisation in the sense that is not written, but of course it follows very precise rules: each piece is based on a specific scenario, each is performed by a distinct group of actors portraying masked stereotypes, and each uses popular themes, complex stories with lots of climax, acrobatic jumps, and romantic love scenes. (Directed by Maura Vaughn)
· Acting Performance & Advanced Acting
3:20 - 4:10 Jewett Family Theater
Acting Performance:
A completely improvised play by the infamous Acting Performance Troupe, The Overreactors. (Guest teacher: Lisa Rollins )
Advanced Acting:
Stony Brook, an original work written by the class, is a compilation of interviews, books, and documentaries about living with a developmental disability in America.
· A cappella groups - Beyond Reason & What Now?
4:20 - 4:50 Maxwell Music Hall
· Jazz Music
5:00 - 5:50 Old Dining Hall
Selections this year range from Charlie Parker to Antonio Carlos Jobim: be-bop to samba and lots in between! This ensemble has played together for some time now, and it shows in their sophistication, technical achievement and musicality.
· Beginning Acting, Chamber Music, Intermediate Acting, Student Films
6:00 - 6:30 Tent, Maxwell Music Hall, Jewett Family Theater, Little Theater
· Dance
6:40- 7:30 Jewett Family Theater
Branson dancers present choreographed events and popular dances from their favorite decade. The dancers travel though time to the music of Scott Joplin, Artie Shaw, Tito Puente, The Nice, Toni Basil, Earth, Wind and Fire, and Bassnector among others. Seniors Kali Jones and Rachel Louie have created "The Anthem" to celebrate their four-year choreographic partnership as well as a collaboration with senior Rebecca Gilbert and six senior boys in a playful 50's dance.
Dance Four presents "The Factory" based on the 1911 Shirtwaist Factory fire.
Dance Two explores a futuristic theme in "The Wall"
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