‘Berg Kicks Off Series Of Programs With Performance By Patricia Buckley
Occupied Territories: Crossing Boundaries of Art and Science, a new series at Muhlenberg College that aims to bridge the perceived gap between art and science, will kick of their programming with Evolution, a performance by Patricia Buckley, on October 8 at 8 p.m. in the Baker Theatre, Trexler Pavilion.Wednesday, September 26, 2007 01:59 PM
This event, co-sponsored by the department of theatre and dance, is free and open to the public.
The narrative in Buckley’s solo performance takes inspiration from one of the great puzzles of evolution: why did the ancestral whale – a big-brained, land-dwelling mammal – choose to return to the sea over 40 million years ago, losing its adaptation to land and beginning the process of re-adapting to marine life? Buckley uses this question to drive her explorations into family, mental illness and the limits of science. Evolution has received two fellowships from the Women’s Interart Development Series and workshop productions at Six Figures Theatre Company, The Franklin Stage Company and LeMoyne College Theatre Department. Additionally, the piece was chosen for a 2006-2007 workshop and teaching series at Gettysburg College.
Buckley is a theater performer, director, writer and educator. She is a founding member of the award-winning performance trio Gams On The Lam, whose original blend of theater, dance, clowning and satire has been performed in the U.S., Europe, Canada and Latin America since 1993. Regionally, Buckley has collaborated as a performer and writer with the Minneapolis company Theatre de la Jeune Lune. New York credits include Flesh and Blood (New York Theatre Workshop), Sweet Nothings For My Neurosurgeon (NYTW Larson Lab), Moliere’s Shorts (Actors Shakespeare Company),
Peter Ackerman’s The Urn (The Irish Arts Center), Politics as Usual (Westbeth) and sketch comedy with Mr. JumpyPants (PSNBC). She has been a guest instructor in physical theater and clowning at Brandeis University, Hamilton, Union and LeMoyne Colleges. She has been a National Performance Network Artist-in-Residence at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center and a Teaching Artist with the New York State Aesthetic Education Institute.
