Bryn Mawr College Performing Arts Series Presents WINTRY MIX This Weekend

Get ready to mix up boundaries with WINTRY MIX, a curated sampler of new works crossing the divides between theater, dance and music. The Bryn Mawr College Performing Arts Series presents two opportunities to witness two different lineups of extraordinary performers this weekend, January 30 and 31 at 8:00 PM at the Hepburn Teaching Theater in Goodhart Hall. Each night features a different headliner joined by an array of other performers and concludes with an audience participation dance party. Most sets will last just twelve minutes, enabling the adventurous artists (and the audience) to take risks.

Flex subscriptions, including five tickets to any Performing Arts Series shows, are available for $90 each, $75 for seniors. Tickets to individual events are $20, $18 for seniors, $10 for students and Dance Pass holders, and $5 for children under 12. Tickets, subscriptions and more information are available online through Brown Paper Tickets, at brynmawr.edu/arts/series.html or by calling 610-526-5210. Bryn Mawr College is located at 101 North Merion Avenue in Bryn Mawr, PA.

Multimedia artist Cynthia Hopkins headlines the show on January 30, presenting an original, intimate musical experience that explores the connections between the personal and universal. The night also includes an original ensemble theatre piece based on Chekhov that combines a surprising mix of music and dance by songwriter/performance artist Camilla Dely; filmmaker Judy Dennis showing selections from The Dancer Films, which bring to life the cartoons of Jules Feiffer; comedian Chris Davis performing a comedy set; audiovisual artist Rucyl presenting an experimental work featuring electronic instruments of her own design; and avant-garde performance artist Annie Wilson engaging the audience with a bold and innovative work that explodes feminist stereotypes. Following the show, on the McPherson stage heralded New York performer Miguel Gutierrez then leads the audience through DEEP AEROBICS, a participatory movement experience that will have everyone up and on their feet.

The January 31st performance offers a different selection of entertainers melding music, dance, and theatre. Headliner Martha Graham Cracker, portrayed by Dito van Reigersberg, will bring her stunning gender-bending drag cabaret act to the stage for a truly unique performance of song and dance. Other performances in the evening line-up feature modern dance duo Chelsea & Magda sharing a piece blending movement and theatre; filmmaker Peter Rose offering a visual feast with selections of his experimental films exploring time through landscapes; hip-hop veteran and spoken word artist Raphael Xavier innovatively using dance and prose to tell a story; and dancer Christina Zani showing her own take on the big sweep of dance history, exploring 100 years of dance styles in ten minutes. New York City-based DJ Rekha will end the evening with a dance party merging South Asian and Bollywood music with traditional dance songs.

"We are so excited to present these artists, both young and mid-career, who are all merging genres in innovative ways," says Lisa Kraus, Curator of the Bryn Mawr College Performing Arts Series. "Wintry Mix is a chance to sample a menu of different tastes and experience what is fresh and different in contemporary performing arts. The mix of funny and serious acts will certainly be enjoyable, along with exposing our audiences to new ways of thinking!"

Support for the 2014-2015 Bryn Mawr College Performing Arts Series is provided in part from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Since 1984 the Bryn Mawr College Performing Arts Series has presented great artists and performances to audiences in the Philadelphia area, creating an environment in which the value of the arts is recognized and celebrated. Providing talks and workshops free to the public to help develop arts awareness and literacy, the Bryn Mawr College Performing Arts Series has partnered in recent seasons with such organizations as the Baryshnikov Arts Center, Bryn Mawr Film Institute, and the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival (now FringeArts). The Series has presented performances by such diverse luminaries and visionaries as Meredith Monk, John Waters, Jennifer Koh, the Khmer Arts Ensemble of Cambodia, and Urban Bush Women.

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