Broadway Week | Larry Lane and Shelley Estes

Larry Lane made his professional debut in the musical Best Little Whorehouse in Texas working with famed choreographer/director Tommy Tune. In Broadway Tours he performed the role of Mendel in Hershel Bernardi’s production of Fiddler on the Roof, of Gregory Gardner in A Chorus Line and The Tango Dancer in Evita. He appeared in two Pulitzer Prize winning shows starring as Felix in The Normal Heart and Mark in The Shadow Box. Off-Broadway he played the lead roles in two world premieres, Come the Wolves and Heroes Left Behind. A graduate of the Professional Acting Program at Southern Methodist University, Larry’s’ life has now come full circle as he teaches in the theater department at SMU.

Shelley Estes, B.S.E., N.A.S.M, A.C.E, a native of Dallas, Texas, has combined her love of dance, Pilates, teaching and her commitment to fitness and wellness throughout her life as a vocation and avocation. After graduating from the University of Arkansas with a degree in Dance, Shelley has spent the last 25 years as a professional dancer, teacher, gymnastics coach, fitness professional, and Pilates Instructor.  Shelley has spent the last 3 years teaching Pilates to the dance majors at Southern Methodist University as an adjunct lecturer.

Amazing Oceans of Life | Mark Hixon

Dr. Mark Hixon will present the following four programs:

AMAZING OCEANS OF LIFE

Explore the beautiful and bizarre creatures that inhabit our seas, from tropical coral reefs to the deep abyss, with a leading expert. Dr. Mark Hixon uses stunning photographs, vivid video clips, and entertaining dialog to bring the undersea world indoors.

CORAL REEFS: Rainforests and Canaries of the Seas

Explore the greatest concentration of life on the Earth including the life of corals, the amazing biodiversity of reefs, how coral reefs benefit humans, and how humans are threatening the very existence of reefs.

ABYSS: Bizarre Creatures of the Deep Sea

Explore the dark recesses of the oceans, inhabited by creatures that look like characters from science fiction movies. Much of this presentation will be accompanied by video taken from deep sea submersibles.

SIMPLE WAYS YOU CAN HELP TO SAVE THE OCEANS

Listen and discuss how the seas have suffered from human activities, especially bottom trawling and ocean warming and acidification. Dr. Mark Hixon will focus on how the invisibility of the seas and the myth of their inexhaustibility have led to environmental problems that require each of us to become better ocean stewards.

Mark Hixon is a marine biologist and professor at Oregon State University. His research expertise is the ecology of coastal oceans, including kelp forests and coral reefs, which he has studied in many locations around the globe, as well as adjacent deep-sea ecosystems. A National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Fulbright Senior Scholar, and associate editor of multiple scientific journals, Mark was honored in 2003 by the Institute for Scientific Information Citation Index as the most cited author on coral-reef ecology in the Northern and Western Hemispheres. He is past chair of both the Marine Protected Areas Federal Advisory Committee (for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), and the Ocean Sciences Advisory Committee (for the U.S. National Science Foundation).

On the Web: http://hixon.science.oregonstate.edu/