MAMMAL HALL PERFORMANCE/PODCAST/FILM

FILM SCREENING AND DISCUSSION JANUARY 15, 2022 at 3pm Macbride Auditorium, University of Iowa Museum of Natural History, FREE
https://pentacrestmuseums.uiowa.edu/news/2022/01/film-mammal-hall

Mammals in Captivity - A Participatory Podcast Experience

Mammals in Captivity is participatory performance podcast, that invites the listener to a physical and sensorial journey into a natural history museum. The great thing about this particular tour is that it can be taken wherever the listener is at, regardless weather or time of day this experience is here to take listeners on ride. All what we ask from our listeners is to bring with them their imagination and curiosity.

This project was originally a larger choreographic research lead by Stephanie Miracle, Visiting Assistant Professor at University of Iowa. Miracle, along with a team of graduate and undergraduate students from the Department of Dance, were only three weeks away from premiering MAMMAL HALL, a site-specific wandering dance theater adventure designed for small audiences at the Macbride Hall Museum of Natural History (a Pentacrest Museum) in Iowa City. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this performance has been postponed indefinitely. But art making prevails. The MAMMAL HALL team regrouped via ZOOM and together developed an entirely new form through which their research might be shared. This emerging part-podcast, part-radio-play, part aural-choreography is for anyone, any age, anywhere.

​LISTEN HERE

soundcloud.com/ramin-roshandel/mammals-in-captivity

OR ON APPLE PODCASTS

TRANSCRIPTION HERE
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Choreographer/Director: Stephanie Miracle
Assistant Director: Michael Landez
Sound Designer/Composer: Ramin Roshandel
Stage Manager/Assistant Producer: Mariana Tejeda
Performers/Co-creators: Danica Clayton, Bennett Cullen, Sabrina Duke, Jenny Fairman, Laila Franklin, Hunter Glenn, Julia Miller, Alyssa Simpson, Anna Wetoska, Dorothea Yu

Archival recordings of Donald Wanatee, esteemed elder of the Sac and Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa (Meskwaki), used with permission from the Museum of Natural History.

Special thanks to the Pentacrest Museum and University of Iowa Museum of Natural History staff: Liz Crooks, Cindy Opitz, Jessica Smith, Elizabeth Fouts, and Sheerena Honary. Also thank you to the Division of Performing Arts and UIowa Dance Department.


FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS PROJECT 
Contact: [email protected]

SHORT 360 interactive Documentary about MAMMAL HALL
by Alyssa Simpson and Lauren Chesire

MAMMAL HALL 

LIVE PERFORMANCES CANCELED 
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DUE TO COVID-19 PANDEMIC