(Anderson) NINA WINTHROP & DANCERS (Friday and Saturday) Nina Winthrop and her cast collaborate on the choreography for "Minority," which will bring in many guest artists during its engagement.
Mark Lamos, who has directed the Westport production, does not have the benefit of all that synergistic stage presence, but he and his cast collaborate to deliver four cogent, authentic performances.
CAST collaborates with faculty representing each of the five academic schools at MIT and several administrative departments.
The nine-person cast collaborated on putting the play together, using rehearsals and improvisations to sketch out the bones of the script.
But through her sumptuous compositions for jazz orchestras, her charisma and deceptively offhand determination, Bley persuaded an extraordinary cast to collaborate on a venture that ran to three long-playing discs, laboriously assembled from separately recorded parts.
In 1987, after spending several years at small choreographing jobs, she and a member of that show's cast, Scott Ellis, collaborated on an Off-Broadway revival of Flora, the Red Menace.
Other summer shows include "Uhuru Afrika Jump!" — a "jumping afro-diasporic dance floor explosion"; "Bent Wit Cabaret," a "high-end, low-brow variety show" with a different theme each month and a brilliant core cast of collaborating performers and musicians; and "Abbey Road: A Sugar Coated Production" that promises an unforgettable interpretation of the classic Beatles album.
Cast member David Duchovny collaborated with Howard Gordon and Chris Carter for two episodes receiving story credit.
Imposed order, says Seidman, "depends on having power over people and formal authority to coerce allegiance and compel obedience," but both are much harder to sustain today in an age of increasingly empowered, informed and connected citizens and employees who can easily connect and collaborate to cast off authority they deem illegitimate.
When a ragtag band of Louisiana Indians won their governor's support for a casino three years ago, they never could have fathomed the powerful cast of characters who would collaborate to flatten them.
This opera, one of the master's supreme works, is their latest offering, in which they collaborate with a cast that features the topnotch mezzo-sopranos Joyce DiDonato (in the title role) and Alice Coote.
