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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#212121">R</span></span>enowned artist and musician Laurie Anderson opens the fall season at EMPAC in Troy with a free artist talk revealing her newest major stage work.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#212121">EMPAC at Rensselaer invites Capital District Theater audiences to<span class="apple-converted-space"> “Building an ARK” with Laurie Anderson, Thursday, August 29 at 6PM. Presented in the EMPAC Theater on the
campus of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In this free talk presentation, Anderson reveals the process behind her newest music-theater work, ARK, while she is at EMPAC for a final production residency in preparation for its world premiere in Manchester in November.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Described as “a hallucinatory incantation on history and time, a dark comedy for the end of the world,” the opera stars a host of mythical and contemporary figures. Anderson’s subjects in ARK—apocalyptic climate events, technology and information
overload, American history—are warped into a story that plays with the flow of time and poses questions about the survival of the human spirit.
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<p class="MsoNormal">How does humanity need to change in order to be saved?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#212121">Join us! One night only!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#212121">EMPAC at Rensselaer presents<br>
Building an ARK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#212121">Laurie Anderson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#212121">Thursday, August 29 at 6PM<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
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Tickets: FREE, no ticket necessary<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#212121">More info & plan your visit online<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#212121">empac.rpi.edu<br>
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Doors open 30 minutes before showtime.<br>
Questions? EMPAC Box Office: 518.276.3921 (voice)<br>
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EMPAC at Rensselaer<br>
50 Eighth Street<br>
Troy, NY 12180<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#212121">On the campus of RPI – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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