International World Theater Hosts Polish Futurism: Bruno Jasienski's Mannequins' Ball 11/9

Next Monday, Nov 9 at 6:30 p.m. Polish Futurism: Bruno Jasieñski's Mannequins' Ball Presented by the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center for Performa 09

Join us for an evening of Polish Futurist theatre, poetry, manifestoes, and art centered upon a 30-minute contemporary performance piece based on excerpts from Bruno Jasieñski's avant-garde play Mannequins' Ball (1930), conceived and directed by American/British theatre director and choreographer Allison Troup-Jensen and her COUNTERPOINT theatre company in collaboration with fashion designers from the Parsons New School of Design. The evening will also feature additional contributions and interventions by Joanna Warsza, theatre curator and producer at the Laura Palmer Foundation, Warsaw, Marek Bartelik, Professor of Art History, Cooper Union, and installations and an intervention by Polish artist Krzysztof Zarebski, as well as a brief panel discussion moderated by Professor Daniel Gerould, CUNY. For more details, please visit our website: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/mestc/events/f09/jasienski.html

Elebash RecitAl Hall, Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Ave at 34th St.
Free! First come, first served.