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PERFORMANCE ARTIST TERRY GALLOWAY PRESENTS: OUT ALL NIGHT AND LOST MY SHOES

Not quite blind as a bat, but definitely deaf as a doornail, Terry Galloway is the modern medical accident who’s asking tough questions about disability, queerness, performance, and more in Out All Night and Lost My Shoes, one of the foundational texts in the history of disability performance. It’s one hour of pure, energetic theater that mixes poetry, storytelling, stand- up, New Vaudeville and plain old corny vaudeville in a charged, moving celebration of life – hers and that of all oddballs.

HILLERBRAND & MAGSAMEN EXPERIMENTAL VIDEO/PERFORMANCE ARTISTS

Through the performative strategy of what they call formational interventions, Hillerbrand+Magsamen’s work interstices between art and cultural geography by exploring perceptions of language, identity, media, and family within a uniquely American subjectivities and created system.

Shadow Puppies

Shadow Puppies is an internationally celebrated cutting edge trio that conjures rich, complex, and entrancing worlds of electronic sound and vision in real-time.

Andrei Codrescu

On the first night, Codrescu will discuss the politics and culture(s) of East and West, the collapse of communism (which he covered for the U.S. media) and its aftermath, and the historical and literary changes that are reshaping Eastern Europe and informing his own relations to spaces of origin or adoption. On the second night, he will be reading from his new book, The Poetry Lesson (Princeton University Press, 2010).

Jennifer Grotz

Jennifer Grotz’s second book of poems, The Needle, is forthcoming in Spring 2011. Her first book of poems, Cusp, was chosen by Yusef Komunyakaa for the Bakeless Prize and also received the Natalie Ornish Best First Book Award from the Texas Institute of Letters. Her poems, essays and translations from both the French and Polish appear widely in journals such as New England Review, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and American Poetry Review, and in anthologies such as Best American Poetry and Legitimate Dangers. She teaches poetry and translation at the University of Rochester and also serves as the assistant director of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.