Saturday, April 20, 2024 at 4:00 pm

Wendell Beavers, emeritus professor of performing arts at Naropa University, where he taught from 2003-2018, founded and chaired Naropa's MFA Theater: Contemporary Performance Program (2003-2020). He previously was a founding faculty and Director of New York University's Experimental Theater Wing (ETW) 1978-2003. He continues to teach, create performance, and perform under the auspices of his company SomaticPerformer Movement Arts that he shares with his partner, Erika Berland. He has produced, adapted, directed/choreographed hundreds of experimental theater and dance productions, mostly in educational settings, in collaboration with artists from many disciplines. These have including Luminous Emptiness: A Multi-Media Adaptation of The Tibetan Book of The Dead, The Siddhartha Project (an adaptation of Hermann Hess's Siddhartha), 23 Seconds about John Cage, Trojan Women, BeckettButoh-07, Our Town, Shakespeare's Lear: A Living Room Version, Shakespeare's The Tempest: A Musical, A Celebration Service with/by Meredith Monk. HIs solo dance work and choreography has been seen at Museum of Modern Art (NYC), Movement Research at Judson Church, Dance Theater Workshop (currently NY Live Arts), American Dance Festival, Danspace at St. Mark's Church, and many venues globally. www.beaversberlandworkshops.com