2017-18 UAA Theatre season opens with performance by famous New York theatre company
by Michelle Saport |
Ping Chong + Company brings you the Alaska premier of ALAXSXA | ALASKA, a theatrical collage of multimedia, puppetry, and Central Yup'ik drum and dance,
illuminating striking moments of cross-cultural encounter. Three performers, Ryan
Conarro, Gary Upay'aq Beaver (Yup'ik) and Justin Perkins, use movement and puppetry
to reveal a series of little-known historical narratives of collisions between people
and cultures of Alaska. These histories-at times humorous, at times tragic-juxtapose
against Beaver and Conarro's own personal memories as "insider" and "outsider" in
the Last Frontier. Directed by Ping Chong and Ryan Conarro.
Show dates: Aug. 31-Sept. 2, 8 p.m. / Sept. 3, 5 p.m. Discounted tickets are available online at ArtsUAA.com.
ALAXSXA | ALASKA is a National Performance Network/Visual Artists Network Creation & Development Fund Project co-commissioned by Bunnell Street Arts Center in partnership with Juneau Arts & Humanities Council, La MaMa, NPN, and enjoys additional generous logistical support from the UAA Department of Theater & Dance and the Atwood Foundation.
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