The schedule hasn't yet been established for the 2011 David Mark Cohen New Works festival to take place at the University of Texas March 28 to April 2, but the website does feature a listing of titles:
The Works - At a Glance
And Then Came Tango - Through the poignant story of a penguin family, this Theatre for Young Audiences adaptation celebrates all types of families
Art Engineered - A new take on a Rube Goldberg machine
Bike Project: Austin - A devised theatrical experience witnessed by an audience on two wheels
Digital Craft: Handmade Craft Meets Digital Design - A costume installation investigating cutting edge technology
Dimentia - An installation of dance, on video. How can two-dimensional images become performance
Do You Hear What I Hear? - An interactive dance experiment where the audience picks the music
Folk - A new play that explores American identity through folklore
Footnotes for People who Don't Speak Spanish - An infomercial/self help seminar that asks, what does it mean to be "white, but not quite?"
Forced Out of (con)Text - A multi-disciplinary project using dance, music and text to explore womanhood and liberation
Hades Ladies - Dance theatre exploring the role of women in the 1980ís workplace
Hands - An interactive performance discovering hands, geared to audiences two and under
Headphone Stories - A sound installation asking, if you could tell one story what would it be?
Heart Trouble - A solo performance that looks at memory and loss through the audio tapes of her father's radio show
Jane - A multimedia dance piece that interrogates modern cultureís virtual socializing
La Canción la Tierra - A bi-lingual puppet performance extravaganza
LISTEN TO ME - Secrets and memories told through recordable sound modules scattered throughout the Winship Drama Building
Racer - A staged reading with music that follows the life of a would be country singer
Raven's Blanket - A shadow puppet experience using oral storytelling traditions
Sex in Public Education: Lessons in NOT Looking for Love - A queer solo performance exposing private experiences of sex and desire
She Creatures - Eight stories embodying different mythical creatures.
Stockpile - A site-specific play following the lives of two groups of squirrels
Swimming Upstream - A look at human conception, through puppetry, music and multimedia
Synaisthe - An intermedia, movement based work exploring our sensory experiences
The Chronicles of Bad Ass Women - Through interweaving monologues, this play tracks the lives of five Texas female outlaws
The Fictional Life of Historical Oddities - A mash-up of mediums examining the candid exploitation of Canadaís Dionne Quintuplets
The Ideal City Project - A performance installation depicting a utopian city and its inevitable ruin
The Sexy Sex Kind of Sex - Devised, interactive theatre examining the importance of consent in sexual relationships
The Sound Ascending - A chamber musical based on Tennessee Williamsí ìOrpheus Descendingî
The Transition of Doodle Pequeño - Theatre for young audiences examining the lasting effects of bullying
Transitional Spaces III - A site-specific contemporary dance employing abstract movement in pedestrian locales
When the Horse Runs Off - A small scale opera inspired by a Buddhist fable
You Can't Win - A concert staged reading inspired by the autobiography of career criminal Jack Black
zz Packer's "Our Lady of Peace" - A devised, site-specific production inspired by Packerís experience teaching in an inner-city school system
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