Another Language Performing Arts Company

Another Language Performing Arts Company co-founders Elizabeth & Jimmy Miklavcic (Photo by John Brandon)

Another Language Performing Arts Company was founded in 1985 by Co-Directors Elizabeth and Jimmy Miklavcic in Salt Lake City, Utah.^[1] The mission of Another Language is to combine different art forms in innovative ways, and to broaden access to community arts education with the aid of today's communications technology.

Performances

Telematic Cinema Performance

• XYZ (2013), VisLab Black Box Theater, Salt Lake City, UT.
• Duel*Ality 2.0 (2012), VisLab Black Box Theater, Salt Lake City, UT.
• Duel*Ality 1.0 (2011), VisLab Black Box Theater, Salt Lake City, UT.

InterPlay Telematic Performance Series

• InterPlay: Event Horizon (2010), INSCC Theater, Salt Lake City, UT.
• InterPlay: AnARTomy (2009), INSCC Theater, Salt Lake City, UT.
• InterPlay: Carnivale (2008), INSCC Theater, Salt Lake City, UT.
• InterPlay: Nel Tempo di Sogno (2007), INSCC Theater, Salt Lake City, UT.
• InterPlay: Dancing on the Banks of Packet Creek (2006), INSCC Theater, Salt Lake City, UT.
  • Supercomputing Global, November 15, Tampa, FL.
• InterPlay: Loose Minds in a Box (2005), INSCC Theater, Salt Lake City, UT.
  • ACM SIGGRPAH 2005 - Emerging Technologies, August 3–4, 2005, Los Angeles, CA.
  • Supercomputing Global, November 17, 2005, Seattle, WA.
• InterPlay: Hallucinations (2004), INSCC Theater, Salt Lake City, UT.
• InterPlay: Intransitive Senses (2003), INSCC Theater, Salt Lake City, UT.

Multimedia Performances

• Eglantine (1991), Another Language Studio & Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT.
• A Chrysalis Project (1985), Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT.

Cinema

• Music for Bubble Biters (2005), INSCC Theater, Salt Lake City, UT.
• Creative Passings (2001), Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, Salt Lake City, UT.

Dance Performances

• Stepping Into the Light (1995), Judge Memorial High School Auditorium, Salt Lake City, UT.
• Utah Arts Festival (1995), Amphitheater Stage, Triad Center, Salt Lake City, UT.
• Experiments in a Black Box (1995), Repertory Dance Theatre Studio, Salt Lake City, UT.
• Society in a Nutshell (1994), Another Language Studio, Salt Lake City, UT.
• Utah Arts Festival (1994), Festi-Live Stage, Triad Center, Salt Lake City, UT.
• A Blank Stare and a Whisper (1993), Another Language Studio, Salt Lake City, UT.
• Utah Arts Festival (1993), Festi-Live Stage, Triad Center, Salt Lake City, UT.
• Brown Bag Concert (1993), Browning Plaza Sculpture Garden, Salt Lake City, UT.
• See and Share (1993), Another Language Studio, Salt Lake City, UT.
• Another Language in Concert (1992), Another Language Studio, Salt Lake City, UT.
• Utah Arts Festival (1992), Festi-Live Stage, Triad Center, Salt Lake City, UT.
• Bumbershoot Music & Arts Festival (1992), Intiman Playhouse, Seattle, WA.
• Fantasy Flights (1992), Another Language Studio, Salt Lake City, UT.
• Home Movies and Other Family Secrets (1991), Another Language Studio, Salt Lake City, UT.
• Springdale Concert (1991), O.C. Tanner Amphitheater, Springdale, UT.
• Utah Arts Festival (1991), Triad Center, Salt Lake City, UT.
• Moving Words (1991), Another Language Studio, Salt Lake City, UT.
• Brown Bag Concert (1991), Red Lion Plaza, Salt Lake City, UT.
• Aids Awareness Day (1991), Another Language Studio, Salt Lake City, UT.
• Dooly Gallery (1990), Dooly Gallery, Park City, UT.
• Dance Jam (1990), Kingsbury Hall, Salt Lake City, UT.
• Snow College (1990), Crane Theater, Ephraim, UT.
• On the Gutting Ledge (1990), Another Language Studio, Salt Lake City, UT.
• Utah Arts Festival (1990), Triad Center, Salt Lake City, UT.
• Krapps Last Tape (1990), Another Language Studio, Salt Lake City, UT.
• American Institute of Graphic Arts (1990), University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.
• Brown Bag Concert (1990), Exchange Place, Salt Lake City, UT.
• Rediscover Downtown (1990), Memory Grove Park, Salt Lake City, UT.
• Park City Concert (1990), Egyptian Theater, Park City, UT.
• Where Paths Seldom Cross (1989), South Temple & West Temple, Salt Lake City, UT.
• Alley (1989), Block 47, Salt Lake City, UT.
• Holds a Conversation (1989), Another Language Studio, Salt Lake City, UT.
• Ted Speaks His Mind (1986), Dinwoody Park, Salt Lake City, UT.
• As Our Thoughts Escape Us (1986), Theater 208, Salt Lake City, UT.

Music Performances

• New Music Utah (1992), Bit & Spur Saloon, Springdale, UT.
• Composer-to-Composer (1991), Sheridan Opera House, Telluride, CO.
• Sounds That Art Makes (1990), Another Language Studio, Salt Lake City, UT.
• Sounds That Art Makes (1987), Finch Lane Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT.

Publications

• CHPC Hosts Duel*Ality (2011), University of Utah Center for High Performance Computing Spring Newsletter 2011.
• InterPlay Performing on a High Tech Wire (2010), Journal of the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, Volume 87.
• InterPlay - Six Seasons of Access Grid Performance Research (2008), University of Utah Center for High Performance Computing Spring Newsletter 2008.
• Live Realtime Distributed Access Grid Performance at CHPC (2007), University of Utah Center for High Performance Computing Spring Newsletter 2007.
• InterPlay Performing on a High Tech Wire (2007), Body Space and Technology Journal, Brunel University, West London.
• Musical Performance over Internet2 using the AccessGrid (2006), International Computer Music Association (ICMC).
• CHPC and Another Language: Partners in a Box of Loose Minds (2005), University of Utah Center for High Performance Computing Fall Newsletter 2006.
• Journals In Another Language (1993), The Arts Magazine, April 1993, Volume I Number VII.

Digital Media

• XYZ (2013), Performance DVD.
• Duel*Ality 2.0 (2012), Performance DVD.
• Duel*Ality 1.0 (2011), Performance DVD.
• InterPlay: Event Horizon (2010), Performance DVD.
• InterPlay: AnARTomy (2009), Performance DVD.
• InterPlay: Carnivale (2008), Performance DVD.
• InterPlay: Nel Temp di Sogno (2007), Performance DVD.
• InterPlay: Dancing on the Banks of Packet Creek (2006), Performance DVD.
• InterPlay: Loose Minds in a Box (2005), Performance DVD.
• Music for Bubble Biters (2005), DVD.
• InterPlay: Hallucinations (2004), Performance DVD.
• InterPlay: Intransitive Senses (2003), Performance DVD.
• "What?" - A Choreographic Evolution (2003), Educational DVD.

Presentations

• Visual Scripting (2011), Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters Annual Conference, April 8, 2011, South Jordan, UT.
• InterPlay: Performing on a High Tech Wire (2010), Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters Annual Conference, April 9, 2010, Dixie College, UT.
• The Poetics of Challenge - Developing Artistic Works in an Emerging Digital Tool Set (2008)
  • Digital Resources in the Humanities and Arts Conference, September 16, 2008, Cambridge University, United Kingdom.
  • University of Utah Center for High Performance Computing Lecture Series, October 6, 2008, Salt Lake City, UT.
  • Idaho State University Dance and Theatre Department, February 20, 2009, Pocatello, ID.
  • Utah Dance in Education Association Spring Conference, March 7, 2009, Salt Lake City, UT.
• InterPlay: Performing on a High Tech Wire (2007).
  • Digital Resources in the Humanities and Arts Conference, September 11, 2007, Dartington College of Arts Devon, United Kingdom.
  • Humanities and Technology Conference - Sustainable Transformations: Technology and Its Environments, October 5, 2007 Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN.
  • Neumont University, October 2007, Salt Lake City, UT.
• InterPlay: Stepping Out of the Box (2007), Slice of Life 2007 Conference, Salt Lake City, UT.
• Production Elements Awareness of the On-Line Self (2006), Supercomputing Global, November 15, 2006, Tampa, FL.
• InterPlay in Education K-12 (2006), MAGPI - Mid-Atlantic Gigapop (point of presence) in Philadelphia for Internet 2, April 6, 2006, for participants in: Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware.
• Role of the Performer within the InterPlay Process Reflections of Citizenship, InterPlay Participation, History and Case Study: Loose Minds in a Box (2005).
  • International Federation for Theatre Research, June 27, 2005, University of Maryland at College Park, MD.
  • Humanities and Technology Conference, October 8, 2005, Snowbird, UT.
• InterPlay (2005), International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR), June 27, 2005, University of Maryland at College Park, MD.
• InterPlay: Hallucinations A Telematic Performance Form Case Study (2004).
  • Supercomputing Global November 2004, Pittsburg, PA.
  • International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR), June 27, 2005, University of Maryland at College Park, MD.
  • Humanities and Technology Conference, October 8, 2005, Snowbird, UT.

Awards

• Salt Lake City Weekly's Artys Staff Award (2011) - Duel*Ality 1.0, Best Mixed-Media Performance Art.
• Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters (2010) - InterPlay: Performing on a High Tech Wire, Best Paper Award in the Arts.
• Salt Lake City Weekly's Artys Staff Award (2009) - InterPlay: AnARTomy, Best Reason To Set Your Alarm Sunday Morning.
• Salt Lake City Weekly's Artys Readers Choice Award (2008) - InterPlay: Carnivale, Best Opera/Symphony Performance.
• Salt Lake City Weekly's Artys Staff Award (2007) - InterPlay: Nel Tempo di Sogno, Best Real-time, Distributed, Surrealistic, Cinema.
• Peoria Prize for Creativity (2006) - InterPlay: Loose Minds in a Box, National Semi-Finalist.
• Utah Arts Festival Mayor's Artists Award in Performing Arts (1995) - Another Language Directors, Elizabeth and Jimmy Miklavcic.

References

1. ↑ Carol Biddle (1993). Utah: Sate of the Arts (pg 48). Meridian International Publishing, Inc. ISBN 0-9635893-2-6.