T R I U M P H O F I S A B E L L AAn Exploration of Performance through Art and Art through Performance

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Experience an art, technology, performance and historycollaboration come to life, featuring 17th century

works presented together for the first time in the U.S.

Presented by the International Program for Creative Collaboration & Research of the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies at the University of Maryland

in collaboration with the Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library, the School of Music,

and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London

tdps.umd.edu

The International Program for Creative Collaboration and Research (IPCCR) isthe ten-year global outreach component of "Defining the Future of thePerforming Arts in the 21st Century" – an investigation of best practices inperforming arts education funded by the Robert H. Smith Family Foundation.The IPCCR initiates international collaborations for the School of Theatre,Dance, and Performance Studies at the University of Maryland, awardscollaborative initiative grants to its faculty and graduate students, develops grantproposals to support the school’s work and manages its World Outreachclassrooms and studios. "The Triumph of Isabella" is a year-long exploration of the performing artsdepicted in eight iconic paintings from the 17th century. These images have onlybeen seen together twice in modern times and are presented here through highdefinition imaging in collaboration with the Victoria & Albert Museum, London,the Prado, Madrid, and the Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Brussels. On May 31, 1615, the annual “Parade of the Craft Guilds" in Brussels, called theOmmegang, was dedicated to the Archduchess Isabella Clara Eugenia (1566-1633), co-sovereign of the Spanish Netherlands, Princess of Spain and one ofthe most remarkable women of the 17th century. The event was memorializedby the court painter, Denys Van Alsloot (c. 1568-c.1626), in eight exquisitelydetailed paintings under the title, "The Triumph of Isabella.” This exhibitionfocuses on high resolution scans of seven of Alsloot’s paintings (one is lost)which are among the most important illustrations in existence for the study offestive culture and the history of street performance in Early Modern Europe. “The Triumph of Isabella” Exhibition: An Exploration of Performance Through Art June 6, 2018 to May 31, 2019 - Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library The core exhibition of this artwork features a wide variety of supplemental itemsincluding explanatory plaques, a 9-minute documentary, “Staging the Street forIsabella: Ommegang 1615-2015,” produced for the Victoria & Albert museum; amuseum quality scale model of the most complex of the ten pageant wagonsillustrated in the artworks (a wagon with no obvious means of locomotion); ahand crafted devil’s mask made with leather and lacquer using 16th centurytechniques; and digital humanities projects developed by students, faculty andvisiting international scholars form across the University of Maryland campus.

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Archduchess andArchduke Albert as

painted by another oftheir court painters, Peter Paul Rubens.

“The Triumph of Isabella” Experience: An Exploration of Art Through Performance September 20, 2018 at 2:30 and 7:30pm; September 23, 2018 at 1:30pm Gildenhorn Recital Hall, Grand Pavilion, and Dance Theatre Stage at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland Performances will be in three acts Act I: “From the Infanta’s Triumph to the Sultan’s Elephant." Learn about the legacy of Early Modernpublic performances on 21st century street theater in this multi-media presentation by Dr. SusanHaedicke, a street theater specialist from Warwick University in England. ACT II: “Exploring Art Through Performance” features a variety of short, live performances ofphysical theater, music and dance along with short video clips of modern street theater andopportunities to check out augmented reality performances from the artwork on your smartphone.

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Act III: The “Immersive Experience” invites you onto a street in Brussels in 1615, as depicted in theartwork, but projected life-size and with a soundscapeof the city’s aural environment. You will see theimages at full scale and in magnified detail, then bewelcomed to the 1615 Ommegang by a "LivingPortrait” from the paintings. The procession, with itspageant wagons, giants, dragon, unicorn, devils,street musicians, religious statues, musketeers and representatives of all social orders will pass by —digitally animated to at life-size from the paintings.

Model of Ommegang Pageant Wagon memorializingHoly Roman Emperor Charles V. Built by MFA studentsin Theatre Design using 3-D technology and historicalhand painting techniques. International Symposium: The Iconography of Performance in the Digital Age Fall 2018 - World Outreach Seminar Room (1815) A conference, run by our graduate students, will examine the study of representations ofperformance in the visual arts. The conference will feature the telepresence of keynote speakersand audiences from other countries. A great deal has been learned from our study of these imagesand we may soon publish the conference proceedings. Our World Outreach Classrooms allow graduate students and faculty to develop innovative,project-based courses that bring UMD students together with scholar/artists and students frompartner universities around the world using a variety of digital technologies. These exciting newcourses aim to provide our students with international experiences that mirror the kind of work theywill encounter throughout their lives — cross cultural, project-based and virtual.

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