In this rich, imaginative survey of variety musical theater, Gillian
M. Rodger masterfully chronicles the social history and class dynamics
of the robust, nineteenth-century American theatrical phenomenon that
gave way to twentieth-century entertainment forms such as vaudeville and
comedy on radio and television. Fresh, bawdy, and unabashedly aimed at
the working class, variety honed in on its audience's fascinations,
emerging in the 1840s as a vehicle to accentuate class divisions and
stoke curiosity about gender and sexuality. Cross-dressing acts were a
regular feature of these entertainments, and Rodger profiles key male
impersonators Annie Hindle and Ella Wesner while examining how both
gender and sexuality gave shape to variety. By the last two decades of
the nineteenth century, variety theater developed into a platform for
ideas about race and whiteness.
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June 2010
06/21/2010
Review: Fine Arts Quartet Summer Evening No. 3
Third Coast Digest
June 21, 2010
It had been a while since I’d heard Mary Elizabeth Williams, who is roving the world as a free-lance soprano after showing enormous promise in her late student days in Milwaukee a few years back.
She dropped in to sing Chausson’s substantial Chanson perpétuelle with the Fine Arts Quartet Sunday night. If that performance is any indicator, Williams has blossomed into the grand artist many expected her to become...
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06/20/2010
ART & DESIGN FACULTY - When handmade meets digital, sparks fly Wood, glass, technological invention at Fuller Craft
Boston Globe
June 20, 2010
BROCKTON — “Sounding,’’ an imposing sculptural work by Donald Fortescue and Lawrence LaBianca, could be an old phonograph that has mutated into a giant undersea creature. It stands in the middle of the first gallery of “The New Materiality: Digital Dialogues at the Boundaries of Contemporary Craft,’’ a vigorous...It’s the perfect centerpiece for the show, organized by independent curator Fo Wilson. “Sounding’’ is, with its rocks and rust and elegant funnel, materially delicious, and formally it refers back a century or more to the heyday of handcrafted objects. But the digital sound element is nothing anyone can touch, and its damp, ethereal murmurs clinch the work’s success.
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06/19/2010
Joseph Pabst's home - the site of a recent LGBT Film/Video Festival event - featured in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
By Jan Uebelherr
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
June 19, 2010
...Pabst is the great-great-grandson of Capt. Frederick Pabst, founder of Pabst Brewing Co.
"I'm the eldest son of the eldest son of the eldest son," says Pabst, who also counts the Uihlein name (Schlitz Brewing Co.) in his family tree...
...Pabst frequently hosts fund-raisers at his home, particularly for LGBT causes and events, including a recent party for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's LGBT Film Festival...
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PSOA FACULTY & ALUMS - Review: Present Music’s Wherehouse lightning
By Tom Strini
Third Coast Digest
June 19, 2010
...Choreographer Luc Vanier, composer Christopher Burns and dancers Jaimi Patterson and Steven Moses made the biggest impression of this remarkable night, in Love’s Fodder. Patterson and Moses sat nearly still, side by side in modified lotus position, eyes closed, for quite a long while. As Burns’ unpredictably pulsing electronic music rose, they began to explore their own and each other’s bodies, first on the floor. They rose to twine, untie and twine again into the most complex and sensual knots.
Their focus, entirely inward at first, gradually turned toward their partners. Their grappling, erotically charged from the start, intensified as their bodies warmed and gained lithe flexibility and strength through their torsos. The dance is about not only the sensuality of contact, but also about the sensuality of movement and the full engagement of musculature, respiration and thought...
06/18/2010
PSOA FACULTY - Present Music and guest to perform at nightclub
Music's Chris Burns and Dance's Luc Vanier contribute to Present Music's "Divas, Dudes and Dancers"
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
June 18, 2010
Nobody works harder than Present Music to make serious music, even difficult music, into a party...
...On Friday, PM will stage 6 and 9 p.m. concerts called "Divas, Dudes and Dancers" at The Wherehouse, 818 S. Water St., featuring music by Yun and local composer-laptop improviser Christopher Burns, as well as compositions by Steve Reich ("New York Counterpoint") and Gabriel Prokofiev ("String Quartet No. 1") . Choreographers Luc Vanier and Kelly Anderson also are contributing to the evening...
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06/16/2010
FILM FACULTY & STUDENTS - Film Dept. Chair Rob Yeo and students on "Director's Cut"
Department of Film Chair Rob Yeo and student directors recently appeared on the Wisconsin Public Television program "Director's Cut" to share and discuss films from the 29th Annual UWM Student Film Festival.
LGBT Film/Video Festival "Wolf Pack" stalks 2010 Milwaukee Pride Parade
The LGBT Film/Video Festival "Wolf Pack" scared up some great visibility for the Festival during the 2010 Milwaukee Pride Parade -- this year's theme was "fairy tales" -- on Sunday, June 13th. Scores of volunteers also kindly and enthusiastically supported the Festival at Pridefest, where they staffed the Festival's booth all weekend long.
Pictured from left to right: John & Jake Storm of Chicago, Rauley Beasley of Racine, and Carl
Whitford of Savannah, Georgia.
06/15/2010
Art & Design Faculty - Raoul Deal receives 2009 UWM Alumni Association Award for Teaching Excellence
Excerpt from the Spring 2010 edition of UWM Today
Raoul Deal has excelled in improving the opportunities for students to learn in and out of the classroom since 1999, when he began teaching Drawing 101.
"He immediately put heart and soul into teaching students, while also working to find ways to bring diverse artists to Milwaukee," wrote nominator Lee Ann Garrison, chair and associate professor in the Department of Art and Design. Deal often takes students into Milwaukee neighborhoods, running community arts projects in central city institutions such as the Walnut Way Conservation Corps, the Boys and Girls Club and the United Community Center...
Go to page 21 of UWM Today to read the full article
