<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><a href="http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2012/spring/quote/peyret">http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2012/spring/quote/peyret</a></div><div><a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/146300955489937/">http://www.facebook.com/events/146300955489937/</a></div><div>PERFORMANCE: QUOTE UNQUOTE </div><div>Jean-François Peyret: <i>RE: Walden </i></div><div>Saturday, March 3, 2012, 8 PM </div><div>EMPAC Studio 1 – Goodman<br>Troy, NY</div><div>$18 general admission / $13 non-Rensselaer students, seniors, and Rensselaer faculty + staff / $6 Rensselaer students</div></div><div><br></div><div><img id="1884083c-5a2d-4706-b91e-3fdf8a758a6b" height="150" width="320" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:99BE9980-0865-48A7-9087-A6DAADD61DFB@dynamic.rpi.edu"></div><div><br></div><div>Inspired by Henry David Thoreau’s Walden Pond writings, <i>RE: Walden</i> melds theater, music, live performance, and large-scale video projection in an integrated experience that joins an automated orchestra playing with the live piano score, a single performer, and interactive video. Using voice and movement, the performer influences, triggers, and interacts with the complex web of sonic and visual elements to create a multi-layered interpretation of Thoreau’s revolutionary musings. Directed by Jean-François Peyret, this project brings together a stellar group of collaborative artists, many of whom have never been presented in the United States.</div><div><br></div><div>Director <b>Jean-François Peyret</b>’s work uses theater to imagine reveries around the living and artificial, bodies and machines, and variations on the theme of man’s technical destiny. His most recent performances include <i>Le cas de Sophie K.</i>, based on the life of Russian mathematician Sophie Kovalevskaïa, <i>Tournant autour de Galilée</i>, on which he collaborated with Françoise Balibar and Alain Prochiantz, and <i>Ex vivo/in vitro</i>. Between 1982 and 1994 he collaborated with Jean Jourdheuil on the creation of more than 15 shows, using non-dramatic texts by writers such as Montaigne or Lucrèce, and exploring the work of Heiner Müller.</div><div><br></div><div><i>RE: Walden</i> was supported via a production residency at EMPAC made possible with the support of Etant donnés: The French-American Fund for the Performing Arts, a program of FACE.</div><div><i><br></i></div><div><i>Evelyn’s Café will open at 7 PM with a full menu of meals, snacks, and beverages as well as a selection of wines - service continues after the performance. Parking is available in the Rensselaer parking lot on College Avenue.</i></div><br>Additional event information can be found on the EMPAC website: <a href="http://empac.rpi.edu/">http://empac.rpi.edu/</a>. Questions? Call the EMPAC Box Office: 518.276.3921.</body></html>