The inaugural 2009 Performance and Time Arts presents seven budding and abutting performers in “Live Art Collision.”  Drama, dance, poetry, visual art, new music and video technology collide with social and personal performance impact.

Featured performers are:
Dancer Jessica Chavez and writer Jerry Roscoe have never met, but they are building a long-distance collaboration of movement and poetry from Jerry’s recently published collection titled The Unexamined Life. Jessica’s choreographed and improvised dances address her own identity as a woman “mixed” in more ways than cultural background. Jerry writes about Socrates, sex, vodka, turkey buzzards, and Bob Newhart.

Kendall Karg creates the role of Rachel Corrie, a twenty-three-year-old American, who was crushed to death by an Israeli Army bulldozer in Gaza as she was trying to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian home. “My Name is Rachel Corrie” is a one-woman play composed from Rachel's own journals, letters and emails--creating a portrait of a messy, articulate, Salvador Dali-loving, chain smoker who left her home to work as an activist in the heart of Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Lura Miller, artist and DAAP student, creates a new piece for the PTA. The site-specific work will take shape in the historic College Hill Town Hall. Lura Miller is a rare and energetic performance invested artist who often addresses gender issues.
 
Ethan Philbrick explores neo-colonialism, race, and global responsibility in a music-movement-theater piece he began while working in Mali. The music includes rhythms of Mali, translated onto the cello; the movement is a recoding of Malian dances; and the personal narrative speaks to whiteness, inter-connectedness, and “do-good-ism.”

Karen Wissel and Kazuaki Shiota and Sayumi Kamikawa attempt an intimate collision in “MiSsiNg ( )?”
Karen paints, beats percussion instruments, uses motion capture dance technology, and relates herself to a Zen garden. Kazu sends music files from Japan, which include the voice of Sayumi. Karen states, "You know, it's almost impossible to make love to a synthesizer." The audience will learn some Japanese. It will be a sexy, mysterious, and somewhat sad.

The Performance & Time Arts series has a 14-year history of presenting adventurous and experimental performance art, giving a venue to talented and creative artists working in time-based media. Liaise: Live Art Collision is produced by Judith Mikita & the PTA, “not your mother’s PTA”, Committee, which includes, Christina Bolden, Aoife Bratton, Jefferson James, Shirley Maul, Laura Stewart, and Karen Wissel.