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Women CenterStage!
Since launching Women CenterStage! five years ago, we have been scouring the countryside to bring you the finest in contemporary performance. Sometimes it means waiting a year or two (or more) until artists who are in demand can fit us into their jam-packed schedules. Sometimes it means providing an artistic home for well-known artists, favorites of St. Louis audiences and winners of international acclaim. And sometimes it means taking a risk on an unfamiliar face because we know you'll think they're great.

We continue to be amazed at the range of talent that's out there, women with unique perspectives, voices that deserve to be heard. We think this year's line-up was one of the most exciting and far-ranging we've offered. We hope you agree. We look forward to next year and another season of wonderful performances!

As always, we're grateful to you -- the audience -- who share this journey with us and to our partners who help us make it possible. Our heartfelt appreciation to everyone who believes that women's lives and work should be ... well ... centerstage!

Performance Information
All Women CenterStage! performances are held at the Center of Contemporary Art (COCA).

For ticket and venue information, please call COCA at 314-725-6555.

 
Women CenterStage!
2003 Season
The Chenille Sisters
January 18-19
Friday & Saturday 8:00pm
 
Gorgeous harmonies and wicked puns are trademarks of these hard-to-label ladies with the effervescent vocals. The Chenille Sisters are, according to the Milwaukee Journal, at �a place where Peter, Paul & Mary, and the Andrews Sisters and Ellen DeGeneres intersect.�
 
 
Emerging Artist Program
Creative Process: Making Our Own Dances and Music
 

Saturday, January 25 ~ 9:00 am

Join multi-talented Eleanor Dubinsky, a St. Louisan now working in New York, for a full-day dance intensive workshop that explores both making dances and making music. A multidisciplinary choreographer, dancer, cellist and vocalist, Dubinsky will guide individuals and groups in developing movement phrases � using what we intuitively bring to the creative process. The experience, created for dancers and non-dancers, musicians and non-musicians, will include manipulating recorded and live music, playing instruments and objects, and discussing the work. The day will culminate in a showing of the class�s work for family and friends and a short cello-movement performance by the instructor.

Find out more!

 
Special Workshop
Special Workshop: Sara's Jugglefest

Sunday, January 21, 11am-1pm

Hands-on workshop for the coordinationally challenged, the poetically impaired and/or spiritually unbalanced. Bring 3 juggle-able objects but leave the silk shirt at home. We'll get sweaty! Juggle your schedules and join us! All ages welcome.

$25 ($20 or COCA members)

 


Nnenna Freelon
in Concert

February 2-3, 2001
Friday and Saturday at 8:00p.m.

The international press call her "the new voice of jazz." Winner of the Billie Holiday Award from the prestigious Academie du Jazz in France and the Eubie Blake Award from New York's Cultural Crossroads, Nnenna Freelon has been heralded for her unique voice and style.

 
Joan Borysenko, Ph.D.
Special Lecture/ Workshop Opportunity
Saturday, March 3

Author of "A Woman's Journey to God: Finding the Feminine Path"
Curated by Wise Woman Productions

Our full-day experience continues this season with Dr. Joan Borysenko, a spell-binding lecturer and best-selling author whose groundbreaking work in the area of mind/body healing has attracted an enormous following.
 
Stacie Lents
in Six Hands
 a new play by Eric H. Weinberger
directed by John Michael Stringer

Part of COCA's Emerging Artists Program

April 20-21, 2001
Friday and Saturday at 8:00p.m.

Six Hands is a deft and funny exploration of music, family and the devlopment of three women, linked by a plot that spans half a century and by the music that lends meaning to each woman's life.
 
Workshop
Theatre: The Collaborative Process:
A Special Workshop for Teens & Adults

Saturday, April 15, 8 pm

Actress Stacie Lents, Playwright Eric H. Weinberger and Director John Michael Stringer will share their experiences working together on the development of the play Six Hands and will demonstrate, with class participation, how the collaborative process works. Attendance at Six Hands is recommended, but not required. Ideal for teen and adult acting students, aspiring writers, and directors.

$25 ($20 for COCA members)

Past Performances: 2000
The 2000 season brought Four Bitchin Babes, Arlene Malinowski and Christine Lavin to St. Louis.

The 2000 season was Presented by COCA and Joan Lipkin and That Uppity Theatre Company, in partnership with Wise Woman Productions and The Women's Self Help Center.

 
Past Performances: 1999
The 1999 season brought Sherry Glaser, Ntozake Shange, and Reno to St. Louis.

The 1999 season was Presented by COCA and Joan Lipkin and That Uppity Theatre Company, in partnership with Wise Woman Productions and The Women's Self Help Center.

 
Past Performances: 1998
The 1998 season brought Kathryn Grody, Janet Borrus, and Karen Finley to St. Louis.

The 1998 season was presented by COCA in cooperation with Joan Lipkin and that UPPITY theatre company, Wise Woman Productions, and the Women's Self Help Center.