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<P align=center><B><U><FONT size=4 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN>Madeleine Sobota, <FONT color=black><SPAN> <I><SPAN>Out of the Box: Designing for Flexible and Found Spaces</SPAN></I></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></U></B></P>
<P align=center><B><FONT color=black size=3 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN>Wednesday, October 14, 2009, 4:30 PM-6:00 PM: Higgins 300</SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<P align=center><B><FONT color=black size=3 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN>Boston College </SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<P align=center><B><FONT color=black size=3 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN>Free and open to the public</SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<P><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN>American scenic and lighting designer Madeleine Sobota uses light as a primary component of her designs. Her </SPAN></FONT><IMG hspace=12 align=left src="cid:410-2200996121418301711@13071999" width=192 height=288>interest in experimenting with light and space has led her to move outside of traditional theaters and to explore the potential and power of raw found spaces to inform the performance and the design. She envisions that such site-specific performances could be used to explore important social issues and touch the audience in unique and poetic ways. By using the inherent qualities of the site—along with installations of light, sound, and movement inspired by the space—a performance can be created that gives the audience an immediate and personal experience—an experience not possible in traditional theatre venues.</P>
<P><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN>Madeleine Sobota is an award-winning Scenic and Lighting Designer studied </SPAN></FONT><IMG hspace=12 align=right src="cid:184671-2200996121418301712@13071999" width=175 height=264>design at Northwestern University, The Ohio State University, and with Lester Polakov in New York. With over 125 designs to her credit, Madeleine creates innovative work in traditional and non-traditional theatre spaces. Most recently, her focus has been in finding evocative spaces in which to create designer-lead site-specific work. In 2005, she was awarded a Lilly Foundation 2005-2006 Creative Renewal Fellowship to research site-specific design in London UK. Madeleine’s designs have been featured <FONT face="Bookman Old Style"><SPAN>in </SPAN></FONT><I><SPAN>TD&T,</SPAN></I> <I><SPAN>Theatre Design and Technology</SPAN></I>, in the<I><SPAN> </SPAN></I>USA National Design Exhibits at the 1999, 2003, and 2007 Prague Quadrenni
als, and in the World Stage Design Exhibition in Toronto, March 2005. In Toronto, Madeleine was awarded the World Stage Design 2005 Silver Medal in Lighting Design. She was one of four featured designers in the USA National Exhibit for the Prague Quadrennial 2007, which she co-designed with fellow designer Nic Ularu. In July 2009, Madeleine worked with Italian director Firenza Guidi and ELAN on the lighting design for the site-specific performance, <I><SPAN>Pedro Paramo is Dead,</SPAN></I> in Fuceccio, Italy. <IMG border=0 src="cid:63342-2200996121418301713@13071999" width=188 height=281></P></DIV>
<DIV>Higgins Hall is on the main campus of Boston College. It is accessible by the Green 'B' T line and there is parking - guards at gates can direct you.</DIV>
<DIV>Maps, directions and parking information to the Chestnut Hill Campus can be found on the website:<BR><A href="http://www.bc.edu/about/maps/s-chestnuthill.html">http://www.bc.edu/about/maps/s-chestnuthill.html</A></DIV>
<DIV>Visitor parking information can be found at:</DIV>
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<DIV>for other information, contact Crystal Tiala at <A href="mailto:tiala@bc.edu">tiala@bc.edu</A></DIV>
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<DIV>Crystal Tiala</DIV>
<DIV><A href="mailto:tiala@mindspring.com">tiala@mindspring.com</A></DIV>
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