LAURIE ANDERSON: DIRTDAY!

Photo by Lucie Jansch

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Thursday, September 20, 2012, 8:00 pm
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Friday, September 21, 2012, 8:00 pm
McCullough Theatre
$10.00-56.00

Part of the 2012-2013 Texas Performing Arts Season

Presented in partnership with The Texas Tribune, the Department of Art + Art History, and the Visual Arts Center

As the country prepares for the 2012 presidential election, Texas Performing Arts welcomes America’s premiere performance artist, Laurie Anderson, performing her intimate but volatile piece, Dirtday! Anderson looks at politics, theories of evolution, families, and history in this riotous and soulful collection of songs and stories. As Anderson says, “Politicians are essentially story tellers. They describe the world as it is and also as they think it should be. As a fellow story teller, it seems like a really good time to think about how words can literally create the world.”

Set against a detailed and lush sonic landscape, the stories and music create a unique picture of a hallucinatory world made of dreams and reality. The third and last in her series of solo story works, which includes Happiness and The End of the Moon, Dirtday! is the culmination of Anderson’s ground breaking work in this genre.

“Laurie Anderson is a singer-songwriter of crushing poignancy- a minimalist painter of melancholy moods who addresses universal themes in the vernacular of the commonplace.”
ROLLING STONE

CAMPUS AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT EVENTS

Artist In Residence
Laurie Anderson Q&A
• Friday 09/21/12
• 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
• McCullough Theatre

REVIEWS, RESOURCES, AND MORE

Laurie Anderson Named Inaugural Distinguished Artist-In-Residence at EMPAC – Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center

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