<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><a href="http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2012/fall/four-walls">http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2012/fall/four-walls</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; ">PERFORMANCE</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; ">Ralph Lemon: <i>Four Walls</i></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; ">Friday, November 16, 2012, 8 PM</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; ">Saturday, November 17, 2012, 4 PM</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; ">EMPAC Studio 1 - Goodman</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; ">Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; ">$18 general admission; $13 non-Rensselaer students, seniors, and Rensselaer faculty & staff; $6 Rensselaer students</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><img id="84364ac5-2a0a-4778-a6f0-72b5581bb046" height="155" width="320" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:8A256984-1BAC-4DF2-B08E-898957E9C566@dynamic.rpi.edu"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; ">With<i> Four Walls</i>, an EMPAC commissioned work, Ralph Lemon, in collaboration with Shoko Letton and Mike Taylor, premieres a live multimedia dance installation that provides four points of view on one dance, giving a new shape to the “dance with no form.”<br> <br>The basis of the amorphous collaborative work is a play on time, energy, and the disappearing body. This exploration engages the spectator in a creative process that is relentless in questioning the nature of what passes between performers and audiences.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; ">Live performance by Gesel Mason and Darrell Jones.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><b>Ralph Lemon</b> is a choreographer, writer, and visual artist. He currently serves as the artistic director of Cross Performance, a company dedicated to the creation of cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary performance and presentation.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "> <br>Lemon’s most recent work, <i>How Can You Stay in The House All Day And Not Go Anywhere?</i> (2008-2010) was a four-part project consisting of live performance, film, and visual art.<br> <br>Awards include a Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Artist Award and a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, two “Bessie” (NY Dance and Performance) Awards, two Foundation for Contemporary Art Awards, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, among many others.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; ">+ Ralph Lemon: <a href="http://www.ralphlemon.net/">http://www.ralphlemon.net/</a></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; ">+ <i>Four Walls</i>: <a href="http://mappinternational.org/blocks/view/404/">http://mappinternational.org/blocks/view/404/</a></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><i>Four Walls</i> is co-produced by Cross Performance Inc. and MAPP International Productions. <i>Four Walls</i> is co-commissioned and has been developed during residencies at EMPAC and at Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC) with additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; ">Tickets are $18 general admission; $13 non-Rensselaer students, seniors, and Rensselaer faculty + staff; and $6 Rensselaer students (must provide ID for discounted tickets).</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br><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><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; ">
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