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In Plain Site

Wednesday, November 5, 2025 6:00pm
Visual Arts Building
Trisha Brown Dance CompanyTICKETSFree and open to the public with registration. RSVP will go live online on Monday, Oct. 6.Part of Hancher's 53rd seasonIn Plain Site resituates the artist’s dances in unexpected locations. For this site-specific program, selections from the repertory are restaged in a dynamic relationship to their setting, expanding and amplifying Brown’s affinity for naturalizing movement to the physical environment. In dialogue with Hancher, the company will develop two...
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UI Symphony Orchestra

Wednesday, November 5, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building
UI Symphony OrchestraThis concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/events/school-music-livestream.This concert is free and open to the public.

Trisha Brown's "Floor of the Forest"

Thursday, November 6, 2025 12:00pm to 2:59pm
Visual Arts Building
Set by Tony Orrico, University of Iowa assistant professor of dance and sculpture/intermediaTICKETSFree and open to the publicPart of Hancher's 53rd seasonFirst performed in 1970 in downtown New York City by Trisha Brown and Carmen Beuchat, Floor of the Forest is danced upon a sculptural steel frame holding up a web of ropes that have been threaded with colorful used clothing. Climbing onto the apparatus, two dancers weave their way across the structure by putting on and then taking off the...

Iowa Steel Bands Fall Concert

Thursday, November 6, 2025 7:30pm
Voxman Music Building
Iowa Percussion Fall ConcertThis concert will be livestreamed here: https://music.uiowa.edu/about/live-stream-concert-schedule.This concert is free and open to the public.

Trisha Brown's "Floor of the Forest"

Friday, November 7, 2025 12:00pm to 2:59pm
Visual Arts Building
Set by Tony Orrico, University of Iowa assistant professor of dance and sculpture/intermediaTICKETSFree and open to the publicPart of Hancher's 53rd seasonFirst performed in 1970 in downtown New York City by Trisha Brown and Carmen Beuchat, Floor of the Forest is danced upon a sculptural steel frame holding up a web of ropes that have been threaded with colorful used clothing. Climbing onto the apparatus, two dancers weave their way across the structure by putting on and then taking off the...

Trisha Brown Dance Company

Friday, November 7, 2025 7:30pm
Hancher Auditorium
Dancing with Bob: Rauschenberg, Brown & Cunningham OnstagePart of Hancher's 53rd seasonIn collaboration with the Merce Cunningham Trust and the Robert Rauschenberg FoundationPresented in collaboration with the University of Iowa Department of Dance and School of Art, Art History, and DesignAn essential company honors a vital artist in a program also featuring UI dancers.In celebration of the centennial of iconoclastic American artist Robert Rauschenberg, the Trisha Brown Dance Company performs D...
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Argonautika

Friday, November 7, 2025 8:00pm
Theatre Building
Written by Mary ZimmermanAdapted from The Voyage of Jason and the ArgonautsGaius Valerius Flaccus Translated by David R. SlavittApollonius Rhodius Translated by Peter GreenDirected by Josh TurnerSing in us, Muse, the story of Jason and his Argonauts, how he was sent away on the first voyage of the world to bring back the Golden Fleece.An epic story of heroes and monsters, of enchanted islands and vengeful gods, where danger looms at every turn --- from savage kings and sea beasts to a capricious...
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Argonautika

Saturday, November 8, 2025 8:00pm
Theatre Building
Written by Mary ZimmermanAdapted from The Voyage of Jason and the ArgonautsGaius Valerius Flaccus Translated by David R. SlavittApollonius Rhodius Translated by Peter GreenDirected by Josh TurnerSing in us, Muse, the story of Jason and his Argonauts, how he was sent away on the first voyage of the world to bring back the Golden Fleece.An epic story of heroes and monsters, of enchanted islands and vengeful gods, where danger looms at every turn --- from savage kings and sea beasts to a capricious...
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Argonautika

Sunday, November 9, 2025 2:00pm
Theatre Building
Written by Mary ZimmermanAdapted from The Voyage of Jason and the ArgonautsGaius Valerius Flaccus Translated by David R. SlavittApollonius Rhodius Translated by Peter GreenDirected by Josh TurnerSing in us, Muse, the story of Jason and his Argonauts, how he was sent away on the first voyage of the world to bring back the Golden Fleece.An epic story of heroes and monsters, of enchanted islands and vengeful gods, where danger looms at every turn --- from savage kings and sea beasts to a capricious...

Almita Vamos, Violin and Ksenia Nosikova, Piano

Sunday, November 9, 2025 3:00pm
Voxman Music Building
Almita Vamos, Violin and Ksenia Nosikova, PianoAlmita Vamos, violinTanya Carey, CelloKsenia Nosikova, pianoThis concert is free and open to the public.