November 18, 2009
FIFTY-ODD years after its smash debut on Broadway, My Fair Lady shows no signs of flagging. It's a perennial favorite among regional theaters, where it retains a capacity to charm and delight audiences, regardless of their acquaintance with its Shavian underpinnings. We need not know how much George Bernard Shaw really believed that proper elocution was the key to success. The indelible characters and the immortal tunes are sufficient for full satisfaction.
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November 16, 2009
Participants in "The Arts and the Economic Crisis" symposium Nov. 14 were asked to consider a sobering statistic -- that the $59 billion the federal government spent on elementary and secondary education is only marginally greater than the $50 billion that commercial firms spent in 2008 on junk mail.
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November 13, 2009
UPDATE: Due to a last-minute change in schedule, Rocco Landesman no longer can attend. Marjorie Garber, the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English and of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University, where she is also chair of the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, will now join the morning panel.
This symposium will feature panels and discussions with artists, representatives from national arts organizations and advocacy groups, and scholars.
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November 10, 2009
(Princeton, NJ) Princeton's Program in Creative Writing continues its 70th Anniversary Reading Series on Wednesday, November 18th with readings by Robert Stone and C.K. Williams. The readings will take place at 4:30 p.m. in the James M. Stewart Theater '32 located in the Lewis Center for the Arts at 185 Nassau Street. The event is free and open to the public. A reception and book signing will be held after the readings.
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November 2, 2009
The Program in Theater of the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University presents its Fall Show, Lerner and Loewe's musical classic My Fair Lady, in the Berlind Theatre November 13-14 and 19-21. Based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play Pygmalion, My Fair Lady is directed by faculty member Suzanne Agins '97 and stars Laura Hankin '10 in a production which is also serving as her senior creative thesis.
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October 13, 2009
After thirty-six years of teaching at Princeton University, photographer Emmet Gowin retires at the end of 2010. To mark the occasion, to honor Gowin's generosity as a teacher and perpetual student, and to celebrate his artistic legacy, the Princeton University Art Museum will present Emmet Gowin: A Collective Portrait, on view October 24, 2009, through February 21, 2010.
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October 8, 2009
Princeton University senior Becca Foresman, one of the mainstays of the Princeton theatrical community over the past four years, stars in a senior creative thesis production of Samuel Beckett's classic Happy Days, opening Friday, October 23 at 8:00 p.m. in the Marie and Edward Matthews '53 Acting Studio at the Lewis Center at 185 Nassau Street. Directed by Program faculty member Tim Vasen, Happy Day features Foresman as Winnie, an eternal optimist who, though buried up to her waist in sand and rubble, faces her harsh existence with an enduring cheerfulness and endless chatter. Handbag at her side and husband Willie (Zack Wieder '10) nearby, she never allows a day to pass without looking her best and hoping for better.
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October 7, 2009
Princeton University's Lewis Center for the Arts and McCarter Theatre Center will co-host a reading of The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later, An Epilogue, on Monday, October 12 at 8pm in the James M. Stewart '32 Theatre at the Lewis Center for the Arts, 185 Nassau St., Princeton. Staged by Michael Cadden, Director of Program in Theater at Princeton University and Mara Isaacs, Producing Director at McCarter Theatre, the reading will feature a cast of Princeton University students. This special event is free and open to the public.
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September 30, 2009
Princeton's internationally renowned Program in Creative Writing, now a part of the University's Lewis Center for the Arts, will celebrate the 70th Anniversary of creative writing at Princeton this year with a special reading series featuring distinguished writers from its current and emeritus faculty, alumni, fellows and students.
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September 25, 2009
Award-winning composer/singer David Hykes is one of the pioneers in the sacred sounds revival of harmonic chant. Winner of three National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, Hykes founded The Harmonic Choir in 1975, the western world's oldest and pre-eminent overtone ensemble.
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September 1, 2009
Women artists continue to be excluded from positions of power and visibility in the American theatre industry. Recent research, including a provocative study by Princeton alumni Emily Sands, indicates that plays by women are less frequently produced now than they were at the turn of the 20th century. More women have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in recent years, including Suzan-Lori Parks (Top Dog/Underdog) Paula Vogel (How I Learned to Drive) and this year...
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August 29, 2009
A collaboration between two longtime members of the Princeton community has produced a chamber opera based on a true story of love and courtship featuring singing, poetry and dance.
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August 27, 2009
(Princeton, NJ) Princeton's Lewis Center for the Arts' Program in Creative Writing will open its Althea Ward Clark W'21 Reading Series on Wednesday, September 23 with readings by poets Simon Armitage and Tony Hoagland. The readings will take place at 4:30 p.m. in the James M. Stewart Theater '32 located in the Lewis Center for the Arts at 185 Nassau Street. The event is free and open to the public. A reception and book signing will be held after the readings.
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July 20, 2009
The Lewis Center for the Arts has tapped two internationally renowned artists to lead Princeton's dance and visual arts programs. Susan Marshall, a leading choreographer and 2000 winner of a MacArthur "genius" fellowship, will become the first director of the dance program, which next fall will become distinct from the theater program. Joe Scanlan, a sculptor and installation artist who was an associate professor at the Yale University School of Art, is the new head of the visual arts program.
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July 19, 2009
Poet W.S. Merwin joins Bill Moyers for a wide-ranging conversation about language, his writing process, the natural world, and the insights gleaned from a much-lauded career of more than 50 years.
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July 16, 2009
A world premiere production of Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev's "Music for Athletes," recently restored by Princeton music scholar Simon Morrison, will be staged at 7:30 p.m. Friday, July 17, in Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall.
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June 26, 2009
In his first solo show in New York, Carlos Jiménez Cahua's new series, 'Lima', focuses on his native Peru and the young towns springing up in and around the vast, almost endless desert landscape.
Born in 1986 in Lima, Peru, Mr. Jiménez Cahua has studied Visual Arts at Princeton University and is the recipient of the Lucas Award in Visual Arts.
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June 24, 2009
When more than 160 playwrights and producers, most of them female, filed into a Midtown Manhattan theater Monday night, they expected to hear some concrete evidence that women who are authors have a tougher time getting their work staged than men.
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June 23, 2009
Thank you to all students who have submitted an entry in this year's Ten Minute Play contest for the best ten-minute play written by a high school junior.
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June 19, 2009
IN THE NOVELS of Jodi Picoult, terrible things happen to children of middle-class parentage: they become terminally ill, or are maimed, gunned down, killed in accidents, molested, abducted, bullied, traumatized, stirred to violence. The assault on any individual family is typically mounted from angles multiple and unforeseen.
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June 18, 2009
Paul Muldoon was a guest of Steven Colbert on Comedy Central's The Colbert Report Thursday, June 18, 2009. Listen to Paul's comments on his experiences as a poet and how poetry helps each of us to make sense of our life and the lives of our neighbors.
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June 12, 2009
Following a presentation by Princeton University on its proposed arts and transit neighborhood along Alexander Road south of McCarter Theatre, Princeton Township Committee members questioned whether the retail side of the project might siphon business from downtown Princeton. The committee did not touch on the issue of moving the Dinky station 460 feet farther away from Nassau Street, an aspect of the university's proposal which has generated opposition within the borough.
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June 11, 2009
University Vice President and Secretary Bob Durkee made the case for the University's proposed "arts and transit district" at a Township Committee work session Monday evening.
The presentation was essentially a reprise (about 25 slides and a dozen other images) of the one Mr. Durkee gave to Borough Council last month, and reiterated many of the points discussed at the numerous open houses and community meetings that have been held over the past three years: the hope of the University is to create an arts hub that would include an experimental media studio and performance hall; reduced peak hour traffic flow at Alexander Road and University Place; a relocated, upscale Dinky station; and the development of a neighborhood "that is a model of sustainability."
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June 11, 2009
"Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love" opens in NYC on June 12th at The Paris Theater, IFC Center, and BAM Rose Cinemas. It opens in Los Angeles on July 3 at the Laemmle Sunset Theater. And then, many other cities. For more information about the film and how you can see it, please visit our website at www.ibringwhatilove.com you can also watch the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj6cIBtxZIo
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June 10, 2009
The 2nd Athens Biennale 2009 HEAVEN is conceived as a multifaceted contemporary art festival that extends along the coastline of Athens, on the beaches of Palaio Faliro and Kallithea, from the Faliron Olympic Complex to Flisvos and Batis.
The organization aims to meet with even greater success than the 1st Biennale in 2007, which was visited by more than 50,000 people.
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June 2, 2009
With today's Princeton graduates stepping out of FitzRandolph Gates and into the nation's economic downturn, President Shirley M. Tilghman implored them to use their education to solve some of the world's most challenging problems.
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June 1, 2009
The 2009 Senior Awards were presented at Class Day on Monday, June 1, 2009.
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May 28, 2009
The "Spring 2009 Student Group Show" up at the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University features a variety of projects in media ranging from photography to painting to sculpture displayed on three floors of the building.
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May 26, 2009
(Princeton, NJ) On Thursday May 21, 2009, from 5-7 pm, the Arts Council of Princeton celebrates the opening of the new exhibition Selections From Lewis Center Visual Arts Faculty. The exhibition features instructors from Princeton University's Lewis Center for the Arts including: Ann Agee, Kip Deeds, Su Friedrich, John O'Connor, Gary Schneider, and James Seawright. The exhibition will be on display in the Peg and Frank Taplin Gallery from May 14 through July 3, 2009. The Taplin Gallery is located in the Paul Robeson Center for the Arts at 102 Witherspoon Street, Princeton.
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May 25, 2009
The 2009 Underclassmen Awards were presented at the Lewis Center Picnic on May 21, 2009.
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May 21, 2009
Sarah Arvio is a highly original American poet. This book includes the whole of her second collection Sono and selections from her first book Visits from the Seventh, with an audio CD of her reading all of Sono.
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May 20, 2009
(Princeton, NJ) -- Susan Marshall has been named the first director of the Program in Dance and Joe Scanlan has been selected as the new director of the Program in Visual Arts in the University's Lewis Center for the Arts.
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May 18, 2009
The summer after his freshman year at Princeton, Christopher Simpson returned home to South Kingstown, R.I., where he had lined up a part-time job at a hotel. But when he learned that a local art center was going to sit vacant all summer, he gathered some high school friends and, in a moment of impetuosity, said to them, "Let's do a play!"
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May 7, 2009
In his first public speaking appearance since his wife Natasha Richardson's tragic death, Liam Neeson quoted poet Paul Muldoon to describe how art helps heal the heart.
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May 5, 2009
Seven outstanding leaders of the American theatre were invested into the prestigious College of Fellows of the American Theatre during ceremonies at Washington's John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on April 19. Membership in the College is one of the highest honors theatre professionals and educators can confer on their peers.
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May 4, 2009
On Saturday, May 16, the Princeton Laptop Orchestra will present a program of all new works, in collaboration with renowned sound art duo Matmos, the Brooklyn-based ensemble So Percussion and shakuhachi master Riley Lee.
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April 27, 2009
Holger Staude, an economics major from Frankfurt, Germany, will be the valedictorian for Princeton's class of 2009, and Stephen Hammer, a classics major from Carrollton, Texas, will be the Latin salutatorian.
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April 22, 2009
Senior Sam Zetumer likes to work in opposing realms.
He is a math major who is earning a certificate in theater and dance. He scribbles math equations on the chalkboard while waiting for rehearsals to begin. He currently is completing two senior theses: one on set theory, and one on clowning.
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April 17, 2009
POETRY is not everyone's daily bread, but even those who would be hard pressed to name three great living poets understand its power, says Paul Muldoon, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and professor of creative writing at Princeton University.
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March 30, 2009
Beginning April 2, Princeton University's Program in Theater and Dance presents a senior thesis production of both parts of Tony Kushner's celebrated theatrical epic, Angels in America, directed by Sara-Ashley Bischoff '09 and featuring Lovell Holder '09 in the role of Prior Walter and Jordan Kisner '09 as Harper Pitt. Millennium Approaches (Part One) and Perestroika (Part Two), the two halves of the famously massive play, will perform in rotating repertory at the Marie and Edward Matthews '53 Acting Studio at 185 Nassau Street to combine for a six-hour theatrical experience.
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March 30, 2009
To celebrate poetry's vital place in our culture, Princeton University's Lewis Center for the Arts Performance Central program is honored to present the inaugural Princeton Poetry Festival. Poets from around the world will read and share their work during the two-day event on April 27 - 28 at Richardson Auditorium. The event is free but pre-registration is required.
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March 30, 2009
The Princeton University Orchestra, under the direction of Michael Pratt, will present its final performances of the season in Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall on Friday April 24 and Saturday April 25 at 8:00 p.m. The concerts are this year's Stuart B. Mindlin Memorial, named after a Princeton resident who was a member of the Orchestra's percussion section for many years, and whose name is also on the Orchestra’s endowment fund. These concerts mark the 20th Anniversary of the Mindlin Concerts.
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March 29, 2009
(Princeton, NJ) The Lewis Center for the Arts Performance Central program will present the internationally renowned experimental dance company Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel Performance Group on Saturday, April 4 at 8:00 p.m. the Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center.
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March 28, 2009
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March 27, 2009
The Lewis Center for the Arts faculty has selected Ellen Adams '10 as the recipient of the Mary Quaintance '84 Fund for the Creative Arts Award.
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March 26, 2009
On April 1st, the Lewis Center for the Arts, Program in Creative Writing Althea Ward Clark W'21 Reading Series will present a reading by the former United States Poet Laureate and acclaimed essayist Robert Pinsky. Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Paul Muldoon, chair of the Lewis Center and the Howard G.B. Clark '21 University Professor in the Humanities; professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts; director of the Princeton Atelier; and chair of the Fund for Irish Studies, will introduce Pinsky. The reading will take place at 4:30 p.m. in James M. Stewart '32 Theater located at 185 Nassau Street.
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March 23, 2009
Sydney Schiff '10, Talia Nussbaum '10 and Dominique Salerno '10 have been selected by the Lewis Center for the Arts faculty to be the recipients of the Alex Adam '07 Award. The award, established in memory of Alexander Jay Adam '07 and made possible by a generous gift from his family, provides $7000. in support to each of three undergraduates who want to spend a summer pursuing a project that will result in the creation of an original work of art.
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March 20, 2009
(Princeton, NJ) The Lewis Center for the Arts is proud to present Pleiades, a dance concert featuring choreography and performance by seven senior certificate students in the Program in Theater and Dance. The concert will also feature the company repertoire of the New York based dance company Terrain, accompanied by music by the internationally acclaimed Brentano String Quartet. Pleiades will be performed at 8 p.m. at the Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center on Friday and Saturday, March 27 - 28.
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March 18, 2009
The first edition of the BBVA Foundation's Frontiers of Knowledge Prize in the Arts, sponsored by the Spanish bank BBVA, has been awarded to American architect Steven Holl. The 400,000 euro prize (roughly US $500,000), whose announcement surprised even Holl, is a another sign of the apparent good health of the Spanish banking system, following the BBVA's recent announcement of a new headquarters building by Herzog and De Meuron.
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March 17, 2009
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon from Northern Ireland was expected to attend the gala and Maggie McCarthy, a traditional Irish dancer and musician from Cork, and vocal group Celtic Thunder were also invited.
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March 9, 2009
When creative writing professor Susanna Moore begins a writing class, she usually starts with this assignment: Write about yourself.
"Young writers reasonably say, 'I don't know what to write about,' so writing about yourself is a very literal way to begin," said Moore, who spent 20 years teaching at various institutions before coming to Princeton in 2007. "The point always is to be writing something — it leads to more writing."
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March 7, 2009
This singing competition is too venerable to be called "Metropolitan Idol," but the consequences for young careers are just as great as with "American Idol": On Sunday, four winners of the National Council Auditions, sponsored by the Metropolitan Opera, were announced after the final performance round with the Met orchestra.
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March 6, 2009
Four composers will each receive a $7500 Academy Award in Music, which honors outstanding artistic achievement and acknowledges the composer who has arrived at his or her own voice. Each will receive an additional $7500 toward the recording of one work. The winners are David Gompper, David Lang, Andrew Waggoner, and Barbara White.
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March 4, 2009
Poet Brenda Shaughnessy will read from her work at 8 p.m. March 5, in Duncker Hall, Room 201, Hurst Lounge for the Writing Program Reading Series.
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February 26, 2009
As undergraduates, Jill Dolan and Stacy Wolf, who recently joined the faculty of the Lewis Center for the Arts, both loved theater. They performed in college productions and sang with a cappella groups. But what each of them ultimately wanted to do was turn the study of theater on its head.
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February 25, 2009
Joyce Carol Oates talks about the stage adaptation of her novella, "Zombie."
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February 24, 2009
(Princeton, NJ) Princeton University's Lewis Center for the Arts, Program in Creative Writing, will open the spring Althea Ward Clark W'21 Reading Series on Wednesday, February 25 with readings by Nicholson Baker and Karen Russell. The readings will be held at 4:30 p.m. in the James M. Stewart '32 Theater, located at the Lewis Center for the Arts at 185 Nassau Street.
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February 24, 2009
Tennessee Williams' landmark play, A Streetcar Named Desire, will be presented by the Lewis Center for the Arts Program in Theatre and Dance as a creative senior thesis production by Princeton University senior Shannon Lee Clair, under the direction of Tracy Bersley, who helmed the Program’s acclaimed production of Shakespeare’s The Winter's Tale in 2007.
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February 22, 2009
(Princeton, NJ) The Lewis Center for the Arts Program in Theater and Dance and the Department of Music will co-sponsor A Conversation with Mark Morris and Simon Morrison on Tuesday, February 24 at 5:00 p.m. in 50 McCosh Hall. This event is presented in conjunction with an 8:00 p.m. performance of the Mark Morris Dance Group at the Matthews Theater at McCarter Theatre Centre.
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February 20, 2009
Of Other Spaces explores how space affects human behavior and experience.
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February 19, 2009
Princeton University's Lewis Center for the Arts Program in Theater and Dance presents Spring into Dance, the 2009 Spring Dance Festival. This year's concert features students performing works form the company repertory of Zvi Gotheiner and Takehiro Ueyama and premieres by Rebecca Lazier, Cherylyn Lavagnino and Edisa Weeks, alongside seven dances choreographed by advanced Princeton University students.
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February 18, 2009
With original puppets, masks, and music, Fabrik chronicles the life of the real Moritz Rabinowitz. A Polish Jew who immigrated to Norway to escape the pogroms, Rabinowitz became a businessman who used his position to raise awareness about anti-Semitism, resulting in the unwanted attention of the Nazis. Full of artistry and sensitivity, Fabrik has been performed to great acclaim around the world.
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February 11, 2009
Pace/MacGill Gallery is pleased to present "Emmet Gowin: Photographs." The exhibition commemorates the reprinting of Gowin's first monograph, Emmet Gowin: Photographs (Alfred A. Knopf, 1976), by exhibiting over 40 gelatin silver prints reproduced in the book. The photographs on view represent the
first body of work in Gowin's long, varied, and distinguished career.
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February 10, 2009
IN this staging of Shakespeare's play, Princeton University student Jackie Bello presents her senior creative thesis production for the Lewis Center for the Arts' Program in Theater and Dance. The play has fascinated her since she first saw it as a child.
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February 9, 2009
Brenda Shaughnessy's, recent book of poetry, Human Dark with Sugar (Copper Canyon Press, 2008) named a finalist for this year's National Book Critics Circle Award. The winner will be announced on March 12, 2009.
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January 31, 2009
The Program in Visual Arts will present Work from the Fall Semester, a group show featuring ceramics, drawings, paintings, photography and sculpture. The Opening Reception will be held on Tuesday, February 3 from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. in the Lucas Gallery at the Lewis Center for the Arts at 185 Nassau Street.
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January 30, 2009
Rebecca Lazier's new "Terminal," performed by her company, Terrain, at the Joyce SoHo on Thursday night, isn't so much a place as a state of mind.
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January 29, 2009
Princeton University senior Jackie Bello presents Othello, Shakespeare's play of love undone by unfounded jealousy, her senior creative thesis production for the Lewis Center for the Arts' Program in Theater and Dance. Othello, featuring Kelvin Dinkins as Othello and Laura Hankin as Desdemona, will open on Friday, February 6th at 8:00 p.m. in the Marie and Edward Matthews '53 Acting Studio.
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January 27, 2009
Six photographers who, by working on assignment for publications such as the New Yorker, Esquire, and the New York Times Magazine, bring their distinctive "take" on contemporary portraiture to a broad audience.
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January 13, 2009
New Amsterdam Records, launched in January 2008 with a showcase at Joe's Pub, returns
on Friday, January 30 to celebrate its first anniversary and the release of two new CDs:
Gravity and Air by composer/guitarist Andrew McKenna Lee, and Unpacking the Trailer by avant-folk quartet QQQ.
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January 5, 2009
The artists included in the show are Paul Gabrielli, Paul Lee, Erik Moskowitz and Amanda Trager, Steve Keister, Jill Levine, Sarah McDougald Kohn, Xi Le, Craig Hein, Mark Magill, and Julie Ryan. The show also includes work from the Flying Saucer Project, a collaborative enterprise with Steve Keister and Rachel Bleiweiss-Sande.
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December 23, 2008
Princeton University students will present "The Return of Ulysses," Claudio Monteverdi's opera about desire, greed and marital fidelity, with a 20th-century twist at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Jan. 9-10, in Richardson Auditorium of Alexander Hall.
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December 22, 2008
(Princeton, NJ) Princeton University student Lauren Whitehead '09 presents her senior creative thesis production for the Lewis Center for the Arts' Program in Theater and Dance, The Beat is Sweet: Memory of a Broken Dream, at the Marie and Edward Matthews '53 Acting Studio on January 9 through January 11. Featuring theater, music and dance, The Beat is Sweet stages an imagined encounter between Langston Hughes, the famed Harlem Renaissance poet, and Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca.
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December 12, 2008
The National Poetry Series is pleased to announce that Lawrence Venuti has been awarded the 2008 Robert Fagles Translation Prize. Mr. Venuti's project, Edward Hopper, is a translation of Catalan poet Ernest Farres, and will be published in 2009 by Graywolf Press. Acclaimed poet Richard Howard served as judge for this year's award.
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December 11, 2008
Eve Aschheim, senior lecturer in visual arts at the Lewis Center for the Arts, has been awarded a prestigious grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation. Aschheim is one of 25 contemporary artists to receive the $25,000 award, which is granted annually to acknowledge painters and sculptors nationwide creating work of exceptional quality.
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December 8, 2008
An event featuring the collaborative work created by students in their Princeton Atelier course with an actor/magician and theater artists is set for Wednesday, Dec. 10.
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December 4, 2008
"Flammentangel Kabarett," a senior thesis production that explores the atmosphere of creativity and freedom, decadence and fear that characterized Weimar Germany in the 1930s, will be presented Friday through Monday, Dec. 5-8, in the Matthews Acting Studio at 185 Nassau St.
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December 3, 2008
When most professors head to the library or a laboratory to conduct research, instructors in the University's dance program catch the train to New York and take to the stage to direct, choreograph or perform.
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November 26, 2008
The Program in Theater and Dance of the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University announces a senior thesis production of a new play, Flammentangel Kabarett, devised by Sarah Outhwaite '09 and Jon Feyer '09. Set in Berlin in 1933, the show explores the atmosphere of creativity and freedom, decadence and fear that characterized Weimar Germany. Flammentangel Kabarett will be performed at the Marie and Edward Matthews '53 Acting Studio at 185 Nassau Street on December 5-8th.
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November 25, 2008
L'Atelier, the French Theater Workshop, of the Department of French and Italian has been renamed L'Avant-Scene, the French Theater Workshop at Princeton.
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November 24, 2008
The Young Vic also saw American playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney take the Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright for The Brothers Size and In the Red and Brown Water that both received their British premieres there; the playwright is also about to be represented in London by the Royal Court premiere of his play Wig Out!
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November 23, 2008
Princeton senior Stephen Hammer and two 2008 graduates, Scott Moore and Timothy Nunan, have been awarded Rhodes Scholarships for graduate study at the University of Oxford.
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November 22, 2008
While you were dying is a challenging exhibit by Jocelyn Lee currently on view at the USM Area Gallery, Woodbury Campus Center, Portland. This photographic installation of prints about the recent death of Lee's mother includes images of family and friends in her mother's home, portraits of her mother, her mother's garden, and the wider landscape Lee traveled through to get to her.
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November 20, 2008
The New Museum (reopened December 2007) still feels new in its vanguard boxy Bowery reincarnation-the lobby all steel and concrete and plate glass-crowded with industrially-clad European tourists and waifish art students. This ground-floor space is employed to intentionally discordant effect to introduce...
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November 19, 2008
When Tina Fehlandt e-mailed renowned choreographer Mark Morris, with whom she had danced for 20 years, about a piece of his she could perform at Princeton's bi-annual faculty dance concert, he suggested Peccadillos...
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November 18, 2008
a documentary film about the Vogels and their collection.
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November 17, 2008
At McCarter's Berlind Theatre, two ancient Greek plays explore a bloody story tying family values to international politics. In "Iphigenia at Aulis" by Euripides, Iphigenia is sacrificed by her father for the cause of war; in "Agamemnon" by Aeschylus, his life is taken in turn. Susan Wallner talks to Princeton University director Tim Vasen about the production and its relevance to today's headlines.
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November 11, 2008
In his new exhibition "Hunting for Pheasants," Christian Tomaszewski (*1971, Gdansk/Poland) presents 40 unique posters commemorating victims of assassination as well as a single-channel video of appropriated video footage.
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November 10, 2008
Troy: After and Before, the annual Fall Show sponsored by the Lewis Center for the Arts' Program in Theater and Dance, will be performed at the Berlind Theatre November 14-15 and November 20-22. This monumental event will be comprised of two very different takes on the Trojan War: Aeschylus' Agamemnon, as translated by the late Robert Fagles, an honored member of the Princeton University community, and Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis, as translated by Lucas Barron, a Comparative Literature major in the Class of 2009.
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November 8, 2008
The Lewis Center for the Arts' Program in Theater and Dance presents Now Dance, a repertory concert that includes dance choreographed and/or performed by faculty and guests including Ze'eva Cohen, Tina Fehlandt, Zvi Gotheiner, Dyane Harvey, Patricia Hoffbauer, Mark Morris, Yvonne Rainer, Rebecca Lazier and her New York dance company Terrain. The event will be held at the Patricia and Ward Hagan '48 Dance Studio at 185 Nassau Street on Friday and Saturday, November 21-22.
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November 7, 2008
The short list of nominees for this year's Evening Standard Theatre Awards has now been announced.
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November 7, 2008
Although the Society harbors one of the earliest assembled public collections of drawings in the United States, the aesthetic richness and historical value of these assets are surprisingly little known. Attempting to share this vast trove with the public, the exhibition and its catalogue will feature highlights from the N-YHS collection—over 190 watercolors and drawings out of approximately 8,000 works, including rare sketchbooks and albums.
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November 7, 2008
Shakespeare's genius continues to astound, as much for the resonance of his themes as the brilliance and beauty of his words. These works are also an inexhaustible source of inspiration for contemporary writers. The RSC is bringing writers back into the rehearsal room to develop works with companies of actors as Shakespeare did. New works from some of the most exciting new playwrights across the world are currently under commission. The RSC's writer in residence for 2006-2008 was American Adriano Shaplin and from 2008-2010 will be another young American, Tarrell Alvin McCraney.
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November 5, 2008
Executive Director of Rhizome and Curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art will lecture on
"New Media Art: History & Current Directions"
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October 30, 2008
John O'Connor's exhibit "All of a Sudden" will be at Martin Asbek Projects, Copenhagen, Denmark from November 7, 2008 to December 6, 2008.
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October 27, 2008
Cellist Thomas Kraines will be giving a recital at 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday, November 11, 2008 in Fine Hall's Taplin Auditorium off Washington Road. It is free and open to the public.
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October 13, 2008
Tinyvices (Aperture), is an eclectic new series of monographs featuring five of the most promising photographers featured on the wildly popular website tinyvices.com, an online photography gallery founded by independent curator and photographer Tim Barber.
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October 9, 2008
September 21, 2008 - December 14, 2008
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October 9, 2008
Pierogi is pleased to present an exhibition of new works by John O'Connor.
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October 7, 2008
Amezidi, a new translation of the work by Kenyan novelist, poet and playwright Said Ahmed Mohamed, will open this weekend at the Lewis Center for the Arts. Translated and directed by Christopher J. Simpson '09, the tragicomic two-hander will be...
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September 25, 2008
Harris Lieberman is pleased to announce the first exhibition of Tommy White's sculptures. Initially conceived of as three-dimensional tools for rendering form and space in his paintings, the sculptures have become an important and distinct part of his work in the past several years.
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September 24, 2008
On the occasion of the artist's new exhibit, Flannel Tongue, which will be on view at Pierogi 2000 from Sept. 6 to Oct. 6, 2008, the painter Eve Aschheim talked with John O'Connor in his apartment/studio in Queens about his life and work.
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September 17, 2008
A major entry to the Princeton campus and community is being redesigned as a 21st-century portal with the door lodged firmly open.
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September 16, 2008
Princeton University's Lewis Center for the Arts, Program in Creative Writing, announces the fall Althea Ward Clark W'21 Reading Series. The popular series...
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September 15, 2008
The Lewis Center for the Arts is pleased to announce the expansion of its faculty with two of the most highly regarded leaders in the field of theater and performance studies.
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September 10, 2008
WHEN renowned poet, essayist, visual artist and playwright Breyten Breytenbach was imprisoned for high treason in South Africa in 1975, the guards confiscated his pens and paper daily. Without the previous...
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September 9, 2008
An open house on the University's proposed arts and transit neighborhood is set for 4:30 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 17, at the Paul Robeson Center for the Arts, 102 Witherspoon St. in Princeton.
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August 3, 2008
AFTER 35 years immersed in the world of computer music, the composer Paul Lansky talks with wonder about the enormous capacities of primitive objects carved from trees or stamped from metal sheets: violins, cellos, trumpets, pianos.
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July 16, 2008
The second edition of Creative Colleges: A Guide for Student Actors, Artists, Dancers, Musicians and Writers has named the Lewis Center for the Arts Program in Creative Writing as one of the top 200 programs in...
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June 26, 2008
William Inge's "Bus Stop," which had its world premiere in Princeton in the 1950s, will return to town June 26-July 6 as part of Princeton Summer Theater's 40th anniversary season.
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June 18, 2008
WE all wear masks. We may be completely different people outside of work than when on the clock — someone our office colleagues might not recognize.
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May 19, 2008
A sprawling exhibition of artwork by students in the Program in Visual Arts in the Lewis Center for the Arts will be on view from May 19 through June 4 at 185 Nassau St.
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May 14, 2008
The University may not begin building the new Arts Neighborhood for two years, but the $101 million gift of Peter B. Lewis '55 is already allowing the academic program at the Lewis Center for the Arts to grow.
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May 13, 2008
Two Princeton faculty members and one alumnus are among the eight new members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. They were selected for reaching the "highest level of artistic achievement."
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May 8, 2008
(Princeton, NJ) Christopher Durang's madcap 1987 comedy Laughing Wild brings to a close the 2007-2008 season of Princeton University’s Program in Theater and Dance of the Lewis Center for the Arts. The show will run Friday - Saturday, May 23 - 24, 2008 and Friday - Sunday, May 30 - June 1, 2008. All performances are at 8:00 p.m. in the Marie and Edward Matthews '53 Acting Studio at the Lewis Center for the Arts, 185 Nassau Street, Princeton.
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May 5, 2008
Princeton NJ — An African drumbeat filled the Hagan Dance Studio. "Reach up! Reach up!" instructor Dyane Harvey announced. Twenty-two students arrayed in rows before the mirrors stretched their arms to the ceiling to warm up.
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May 3, 2008
Paul Muldoon, the Howard G.B. Clark '21 University Professor in the Humanities, and Daniel Rodgers, the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History, have received Princeton's Behrman Award for distinguished achievement in the humanities. They were honored at a May 3 dinner.
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April 29, 2008
The Lewis Center for the Arts Performance Central presents "Scenario for a Non-Existing, But Possible Instrumental Actor," a one-man performance of a theatrical score written by Bocuslaw Shaeffer and featuring German actor and director Andre Erlen. The show will take place on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. at the Marie and Edward Matthews '53 Acting Studio at the Lewis Center for the Arts, 185 Nassau Street, Princeton.
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April 24, 2008
The 17 seniors in the Princeton University Orchestra will conclude their tenure with the group by tackling one of the most difficult pieces they've ever played in concerts at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, April 25-26, in Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall.
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April 23, 2008
Choosing his own path, David Carpenter ’08 hopes to bring greater luster to the humble viola
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April 21, 2008
Two professional directors from Philadelphia, a scenographer from New York, an ensemble of seasoned performers and a group of Princeton students are joining forces to bring a new work to the stage Friday and Saturday, April 25-26, at the Lewis Center for the Arts.
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April 17, 2008
Kelsey Johnson '08 decided during her junior year that her experience in the visual arts program would not be complete without a summer in Iceland. So, with the help of Lewis Center funding, Princeton sent Johnson backpacking around volcanoes.
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April 17, 2008
The connection between music and mathematics has fascinated scholars for centuries.
More than 2000 years ago Pythagoras reportedly discovered that pleasing musical intervals could be described using simple ratios.
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April 15, 2008
The Lewis Center for the Art's Princeton Atelier presents "WIND-UP", a dance theater performance showcasing the collaborative work of David Brick and Dan Rothenberg, co-directors of Headlong Dance Theater and Pig Iron Theatre Company and award-winning scenographer Mimi Lien.
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April 14, 2008
Among the first graduating class of the Peter B. Lewis Center for the Arts are four gutsy senior certificate students in the Program in Theater and Dance. They are among the few Princeton undergraduates who take on a second thesis that involves choreographing, performing and producing an evening of dance. Jessica Baylan, Jillian Olsen, Hans Rinderknecht and Francine Saunders will present "Dance Quanta" on Friday and Saturday, April 18th and 19th at 8 p.m.
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April 9, 2008
One oversees a vast collection of ancient coins. Another studies the end of the world according to the Old Testament. Another is documenting through photography and writing the violent strife among German immigrants in Brazil. The other three include an economist, a painter and a scholar of poetry.
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April 8, 2008
While the 1,976 students recently admitted to the Class of 2012 may be getting ready to bask in the summer sun and celebrate the completion of their last academic application for the next few years, they may be surprised to learn that selectivity doesn't end at the Admission Office. In fact, it may be lurking in one of the last places students would look: 185 Nassau St.
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April 4, 2008
Two years ago, in a class called "Beginning Studies in Acting," Roger Q. Mason found himself intrigued by lecturer Tim Vasen's description of a group of women who gathered at performances of William Shakespeare's plays.
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April 1, 2008
Samuel Zetumer '09 and Halcyon Person '10 have been selected by the Lewis Center for the Arts faculty to be the first recipients of the newly created Alex Adam '07 Award. The award, established in memory of Alexander Jay Adam '07 and made possible by a generous gift from his family, provides support to undergraduates who want to spend a summer pursuing a project that will result in the creation of an original work of art.
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March 31, 2008
Like many of her students, Tracy K. Smith started writing poetry in earnest as an undergraduate. Now a fast-rising star in American poetry, she is leading intensive workshops at Princeton - knowing from her own experience how important it is to inspire students as they develop as writers.
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March 17, 2008
For two days in March, Princeton University graduate students will play host to an international group of scholars and practitioners who are gathering to explore the roles of narrative and mediation in art practices that engage sound as a material. The symposium will consist of three panel discussions as well as an exhibition of audio-works for portable music players made expressly for the geography, architecture, and social spaces of the Princeton University campus.
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March 17, 2008
President Shirley M. Tilghman completed her weeklong trip to Asia with a visit to Hong Kong Thursday through Sunday, March 13-16, that featured a conference with prominent alumni from the region who are influential in shaping commerce and finance around the world as well as a campaign kickoff event.
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March 11, 2008
Any student of the classics would, one supposes, recall the tale of Orpheus and his bride Eurydice. There have been at least three operas, a ballet or two and numerous plays on the subject, but most dwell on Orpheus and his great loss and his subsequent visit to the underworld to reclaim his loved one. It's the stuff of classic legends.
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March 7, 2008
Young choreographers from three Ivy League colleges - Barnard, Harvard and Princeton - will show their work.
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March 6, 2008
Princeton senior Sarah Vander Ploeg -- a Woodrow Wilson School major who also is an accomplished lyric soprano and violist -- is one of 37 American college students awarded 2008 Marshall Scholarships.
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February 28, 2008
Now that "independent" films often cost nearly as much, feel nearly as slick, and grab nearly as many headlines as their mainstream cousins, it can take a little looking to find a movie that reflects one artist's sensibility - or explores the medium in creative ways. A good place to start looking is with the Black Maria Film Festival, a grab bag of some of the best short films released last year.
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February 25, 2008
A $4 million gift from Anthony H.P. Lee, a member of the class of 1979, will enhance the study and performance of jazz at Princeton, significantly expanding the University's ability to support performances and develop innovative research and teaching in this uniquely American and broadly influential art form.
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February 25, 2008
Senior Carlos Jimenez Cahua can be found most evenings at the digital photography lab at 185 Nassau St., scanning his pictures into the computer, editing them in Photoshop and printing them out as 8-by-10 images. Jimenez Cahua's passion for photography has taken him to Lima, Peru, on a Princeton fellowship to photograph landscapes and cityscapes, and to Florence, Italy, where he spent a semester studying at the Studio Art Centers International. He has done all of this while majoring in chemistry.
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February 21, 2008
PRINCETON, N.J. -- The Princeton Laptop Orchestra is one of 17 winners of the Digital Media and Learning Competition, which awards funds to projects that use digital media in an innovative way for formal and informal learning.
The contest, funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, awarded $238,000 to the Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk for short) to support a mobile musical laboratory that students will use to explore new ways of making music with laptops and local area networks.
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February 13, 2008
The Program in Visual Arts is presenting "Student Art: Work From the Fall 2007 Semester," a group show featuring ceramics, sculpture, painting, drawing and photography, through Friday, Feb. 15, in the Lucas Gallery, 185 Nassau St.
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February 8, 2008
Princeton University's Lewis Center for the Arts, Program in Theater and Dance, presents the 2008 Spring Dance Festival, featuring dances by Mark Morris and Susan Marshall, performed alongside choreography by Ze'eva Cohen, the Head of Dance at Princeton, Faculty Member Edisa Weeks and guest choreographer Marianela Boan, a prominent artist of Cuban origin.
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February 5, 2008
Princeton University's Lewis Center for the Arts, Program in Creative Writing, announces the spring Althea Ward Clark W '21 Reading Series. The popular series, which has featured such esteemed writers as Richard Ford, Anne Beattie, Jhumpa Lahiri, Dave Eggers and Charles Wright, will continue its tradition of bringing a dazzling and diverse array of established and emerging novelists, short story writers, memoirists and poets to Princeton.
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February 3, 2008
The Lewis Center for the Arts will present a lecture and talk back with Fiona Shaw, CBE, on Monday, February 4th at 4:30 p.m. in the Berlind Theatre. The event is free and open to the public.
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January 30, 2008
The video 'From Heart to Heart: Beethoven's Plea for Peace' featuring Maestro Gilbert Levine's performance of the complete Beethoven Missa Solemnis (with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & London Philharmonic Choir both specially flown to Cologne for this concert) will occur Tuesday, February 26th. The free 8:00 p.m. screening will be in the Frank E. Taplin Auditorium in Fine Hall. The international quartet of soloists is the Polish soprano Bozena Harasimowicz, the Finnish mezzo Monica Groop, the great, late and dearly missed, American tenor Jerry Hadley, and German basso Franz-Josef Selig.
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January 26, 2008
Princeton University's Quartet-in-residence, the Brentano String Quartet, will perform on Thursday, February 21st , at 8 p.m. in Richardson Auditorium on campus. Sponsored by the Department of Music, the ensemble's program will be Claudio Monteverdi: Four Madrigals from Book VI; Gabriela Lena Frank: Quijotadas; Elliott Carter: Quintet for Piano and String Quartet; and W. A. Mozart: Quartet in B-flat Major, K589.
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January 25, 2008
Tracy K. Smith's second collection of poetry, DUENDE, has been named a finalist in the poetry category of the first annual Essence Literary Awards.The other finalists are Acolytes by Nikki Giovanni and Totem by Gregory Pardlo. The winner will be selected by a panel of publishing experts and announced at an awards ceremony in New York City on February 7, 2008.
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January 20, 2008
Paul Muldoon is a busy man.
The humanities professor at Princeton University is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and author of 10 volumes of verse. He's also a rhythm guitarist in a rock band, a songwriter, an amateur actor and poetry editor for the New Yorker.
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January 17, 2008
Steven Holl Architects, an award-winning firm with extensive experience in the arts, has been selected to design the initial academic buildings for Princeton University's new arts and transit neighborhood.
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January 17, 2008
Members of the University community now can get a look at highlights of the final version of the Campus Plan. The comprehensive strategy to guide development through 2016 and beyond was produced over the last two years following thorough analysis of the 380-acre campus by a team of experts and significant involvement by stakeholders.
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January 16, 2008
The Alex Adam '07 Award, made possible by a generous gift from his family, will provide support to undergraduates who want to spend a summer pursuing a project that will result in the creation of an original work of art.
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January 11, 2008
The Princeton University Department of Music will present a production of Mozart's renowned opera, "The Marriage of Figaro," at 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 12, and at 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 13, in Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall.
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January 2, 2008
"The Collotype and the Artist's Book," a visually stunning artist's book exhibition showcasing the collaborative work of guest artists and students in the Princeton Atelier, will open on...
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December 31, 2007
HE WASN'T LIKE the other
Danville boys, Edith recalls.
He looked sharp that night
in 1961,clad entirely in black
for the dance at the Y; later,
she learned that he listened
to...
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December 18, 2007
Senior Julia Brav '08 has been selected to the International Association for Jazz Education (IAJE) Sisters in Jazz Collegiate All-Star Quintet. The group will perform at the IAJE 35th Annual Conference in Toronto, Canada from January 9-13, 2008 for one of the world's largest jazz gatherings, with more than 7000 educators, musicians, and industry representatives from over 35 countries expected to attend. Julia is...
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December 17, 2007
Eight Princeton undergraduates are spending the fall semester examining the plays of theater legend Edward Albee with a guest lecturer who is uniquely qualified to provide insights into the award-winning writer: Albee himself.
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December 13, 2007
Princeton University and the Royal College of Music in London have initiated a unique collaboration that will offer Princeton students the opportunity to spend the fall of their junior year at the Royal College of Music and the chance to return to London after graduation to complete a performance-oriented master's degree in one to two...
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December 10, 2007
The afternoon began with each student revealing a distinctive physical trait: a birthmark on an arm, a bald spot caused by a childhood accident, a chicken pox scar. A few hours later, the class moved into the Wilson College dance studio, where the students and the professor took turns striding across the floor as if walking a catwalk.
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December 10, 2007
PARIS, Dec. 10 - Among the American cultural phenomena that the French have taken to their collective heart (le jazz hot, le film noir, etc.), surely nothing is more surprising than the success of the choreographer Merce Cunningham over several...
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December 6, 2007
In some classrooms around campus, students are analyzing Euripedes' Greek tragedy "Bacchae" from a literary perspective. In Robert Brill's "Theatrical Design" class, 10 students are physically translating it to the stage.
The theater course pushes the boundaries of...
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December 2, 2007
Political theater will be the topic for a panel discussion and theatrical performance scheduled for Saturday, December 8th at Princeton University. The event, which is co-sponsored by the University's Lewis Center for the Arts Program in Theater and Dance, and McCarter Theatre Center, will begin at 3:30 p.m. with a reading of Joshua Casteel's Returns, based on his own experiences as an Abu Ghraib interrogator.
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November 29, 2007
A student production of "Death and the Maiden," a play by Ariel Dorfman about Chile's transition to democracy, will be presented at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Dec. 7-8, and Thursday through Saturday, Dec. 13-15, in the Matthews Acting Studio...
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November 9, 2007
Princeton University on Thursday, Nov. 8, named its new arts center the Peter B. Lewis Center for the Arts in recognition of the $101 million gift Lewis pledged last year to support the University's major arts initiative.
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October 30, 2007
"A sad tale's best for winter; I have one of sprites and goblins." So says the boy Mamillius in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, the annual Fall Show of Princeton University's Program in Theater and Dance, a division of the University's Center for the Creative and Performing Arts. The Winter's Tale shows Shakespeare, in the final stage of his theatrical career, stretching the boundaries of both tragedy and comedy to create a play unique in its form and lacerating in its exploration of the havoc that the sprites and goblins of a jealous imagination can wreak.
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September 18, 2007
In another sign of Princeton University's expanding commitment to the arts, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Jeffrey Eugenides has been named professor of creative writing in the University Center for the Creative and Performing Arts.
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September 10, 2007
The music of Michael Friedman, an incoming Hodder Fellow at Princeton University, will be featured in Gone Missing: the Concert Version on Sunday, September 23 at 8:00 p.m. at the University Center for Creative & Performing Arts.
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August 20, 2007
d'Aprile-Smith has more than 20 years of experience in public relations, outreach, community development and research for a variety of arts and cultural institutions and nonprofit organizations. Since 2004, she has worked for the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, serving for the last two years as director of external affairs. She implemented a communications plan for the council that demonstrated the public value of the arts.
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May 21, 2007
From the hum of a massive incinerator in Harrisburg, Pa., to the tonal distinctions of Chinese languages, Daniel Hawkins has found musical inspiration in atypical places. Now the Princeton senior plans to spend the next year traversing America's highways, taking his search for muses onto the open road.
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May 7, 2007
A few weeks ago Dmitri Tymoczko, the departmental representative in music, sent out an e-mail that listed the name of every senior in the department and the type of thesis each student was pursuing. Some students were listed under musicology, and some under composition. Scott Elmegreen was listed under "other."
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April 30, 2007
For John McPhee, the most significant element of putting together one of his famed New Yorker magazine articles is figuring out the structure.
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April 23, 2007
The University has unveiled a revised plan for the Alexander Street/University Place neighborhood that features a realigned intersection and an improved design that supports both the arts and the transit goals for the area.
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April 16, 2007
International scholars and performers dedicated to honoring the life and works of Baroque composer George Frideric Handel will gather at the University for the American Handel Festival and Meeting on Thursday through Saturday, April 19-21. This is the first time the American Handel Society will hold its biennial festival at Princeton.
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April 6, 2007
After months of inspired collaborations between Princeton scholars, students and artists, the curtain will rise on the University's world premiere production of "Boris Godunov" Thursday through Saturday, April 12-14, at the Berlind Theatre.
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March 26, 2007
For poet Susan Wheeler, the key to teaching writing is presenting students with all the possible ways to express themselves.
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March 26, 2007
An aged woodcut map showing the boundaries of 16th-century Russia will be featured alongside innovative stage models and lavish costume designs in a special exhibition opening Sunday, April 1, to document Princeton's efforts to mount a world-premiere production of "Boris Godunov."
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March 14, 2007
A documentary film that tells the behind-the-scenes story of a senior thesis performance by Anthony Roth Costanzo, a 2004 Princeton graduate, has won a 2007 director's choice award at the Black Maria Film and Video Festival.
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March 2, 2007
Gabe Hudson, a 2006-07 Hodder Fellow in the Council of the Humanities and lecturer in the Program in Creative Writing, has been named to Granta's "Best of Young American Novelists" list.
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February 19, 2007
The University's 2007 Spring Dance Festival on Feb. 23-25 will feature advanced student performers in new work by New York-based guest choreographers James Martin and Christopher Williams, dances by three faculty members and pieces by student choreographers.
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February 12, 2007
Hans Rinderknecht refuses to be pigeonholed. A physics major with an interest in cosmology, the Princeton junior also is fascinated with the study of dance, theater, music and languages. And he's found a way to combine these divergent pursuits into an extraordinary educational experience.
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February 5, 2007
At their Jan. 21 meeting, the University's trustees adopted a 2007-08 operating budget that holds tuition at its current level but raises undergraduate room and board rates for an overall fee increase of 4.2 percent.
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January 8, 2007
The University will commemorate the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. with its annual King Day celebration at 1 p.m. Monday, Jan. 15, in Richardson Auditorium of Alexander Hall. This year's event, which is free and open to the public, will focus on the music of human rights movements.
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December 11, 2006
Anthony D.J. Branker, director of Princeton's jazz program, spent the fall 2005 semester helping the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre develop its jazz studies curriculum. For Branker, a 1980 Princeton graduate, the challenge hearkened back to his own return to campus in 1989.
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December 6, 2006
Professional companies from New York, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh will perform recently choreographed work by the University's dance faculty in concerts at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Dec. 8-9.
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December 1, 2006
"I'm here under false pretenses," actress Meryl Streep told a packed crowd at Princeton University on Nov. 30. "My achievement, if you can call it that, is that I've basically pretended to be extraordinary people my entire life, and now I'm being mistaken for one."
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November 22, 2006
George Washington loomed above them. Drawn from life by the American artist Charles Wilson Peale in 1784, he was withstanding scrutiny from a group of 14 freshmen and their professor, Rachael DeLue.
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November 20, 2006
Graduate students in the School of Architecture will see their work in a new seminar come to life on the Berlind Theatre stage this spring.
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October 9, 2006
Distinguished Irish actors, theater directors and other luminaries well known for their award-winning roles on stage and screen will gather at the University Oct. 13-15 for discussions, readings and performances highlighting the "Players & Painted Stage" symposium.
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September 14, 2006
When Eve Aschheim enters a classroom at the beginning of the semester, she wants to get her students thinking about the relationship of ideas to paper. They may be accustomed to putting their thoughts on paper in the form of an essay or a poem. She wants them to express those thoughts not with words, but with the tip of a pencil or a paintbrush.
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August 29, 2006
An aged manuscript of a classic Irish play, long thought lost even by the renowned playwright who wrote it, has made its way to Princeton University as the gem of a momentous collection of Irish theater donated by 1953 alumnus Leonard L. Milberg.
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June 5, 2006
Chris Douthitt, 2006 valedictorian, composes impressive record of achievement.
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May 22, 2006
The University's second annual 'Art of Science' exhibition, highlighted by three winning student entries, is now on display in the hallway of the Friend Center's main floor.
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May 12, 2006
The New York Times Book Review has named "Beloved," a 1987 novel by Princeton Professor Toni Morrison, the best work of American fiction published in the past quarter century.
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May 8, 2006
Although it was the mid-1990s when Mimi Chubb's family moved from Brooklyn to California's Orange County, the pioneer spirit of the Old West was still alive and well.
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April 24, 2006
In 1975, legendary trumpeter Miles Davis famously declared, 'Jazz is dead.' For Princeton senior Megan Summers, a budding jazz historian, Davis' pronouncement helped inspire her thesis research into the development of jazz education in America.
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April 17, 2006
As an artist and a student of art history, senior Temitayo (Tayo) Ogunbiyi is drawn to works that challenge conventional notions of categorizing people by appearance, gender, nationality or other easily accessible characteristics.
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April 6, 2006
Award-winning playwright Edward Albee has been named the first recipient of the Princeton University/McCarter Theatre Playwriting Fellowship.
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April 3, 2006
In his latest work, professor of creative writing Edmund White transports us to his childhood in Illinois in the 1950s - and to a world in which being gay was commonly viewed as something reproachful.
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March 9, 2006
Some 1,200 scholars from across the nation and abroad will gather on campus Thursday through Sunday, March 23-26, for the annual meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association.
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March 2, 2006
Paul Muldoon, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and a Princeton faculty member since 1990, has been selected as the founding chair of the new University Center for the Creative and Performing Arts.
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February 20, 2006
A legendary French ballet by Vaslav Nijinsky - the choreography of which was lost for decades - will be performed by Princeton students Friday through Sunday, Feb. 24-26, at the Berlind Theatre.
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January 21, 2006
Peter B. Lewis, a 1955 graduate and trustee of Princeton University, will contribute $101 million to support a major new initiative to enhance the role of the creative and performing arts in the life of the University and its community. The gift was announced by President Shirley M. Tilghman following Jan. 20 meetings of the University's Board of Trustees.
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December 12, 2005
Scholars of great literature often are intrigued by questions that lie outside the pages of the text. For English professor Diana Fuss, one question that consumed her was: Where did my favorite writers write?
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November 21, 2005
Jeffrey Miller, a Princeton senior who aspires to become a novelist and English professor, has been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship for graduate study at the University of Oxford in England.
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November 7, 2005
Pass by the basement rehearsal space in Woolworth on a Thursday afternoon and you may hear electronic raindrops, a fast-forward reading of Dr. Seuss or a deep moaning that seems to emanate from the bottom of the ocean. You may even hear something you recognize as music, like a rockabilly jazz melody.
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May 30, 2005
It would have been much quicker to copy and paste their names into a Word document and run off a page on a laser printer. But an important part of this class involved learning about the creative process.
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May 16, 2005
At a "town hall" meeting on campus last spring, President Tilghman listed among her top priorities the expansion of academic programs in the creative and performing arts. This spring, she has charged a task force with developing alternatives for achieving this objective.
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May 16, 2005
An exhibition of images that bridge the sciences and the arts is on view at the Friend Center through early June.
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May 2, 2005
Professor C.K. Williams has been awarded the 2005 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, one of the highest honors given to American poets.
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April 25, 2005
At a table covered with sculpture of various shapes, colors and materials, four undergraduate students made final modifications to their artistic creations.
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April 14, 2005
Students in Princeton's Atelier program, which brings guest artists to campus to collaborate with students and faculty, will direct and perform "The Antient Concert," an original chamber opera written by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon and composer Daron Hagen.
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April 11, 2005
Senior Margaret Meyer is a professional-level opera singer who chose to major in comparative literature - a field in which she could combine her musical affinities, her aptitude for languages and her interest in literature.
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April 4, 2005
Final rehearsals are under way for "Le Pas d'Acier" ("The Steel Step"), one of the great lost ballets of the 20th century, which will be performed at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, April 7-9, at the Berlind Theatre.
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March 5, 2005
Honoring a legendary Russian director's unfulfilled vision for a classic tale of power and intrigue, an army of Princeton scholars and artists is working this semester to mount a world premiere production of "Boris Godunov."
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February 21, 2005
Scholars from Princeton University and other institutions are painstakingly re-creating the choreography, costumes and elaborate mechanical set of one of the great lost ballets of the 20th century, "Le Pas d'Acier" or "The Steel Step" by legendary Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev. They will bring the ballet to life exactly the way Prokofiev intended it in three performances at the University in April.
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October 11, 2004
A fellow at a research institute in Princeton receives a cream-colored envelope in her mailbox. Inside is a ticket for a concert of chamber music at the University's Richardson Auditorium. There is no note and no explanation for this gift.
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May 17, 2004
When senior Kathleen Bader thought seriously about her most advantageous career move after graduation, she came up with a surprising answer: spending a year alone in a desert.
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May 17, 2004
John Cooper, Stuart Professor of Philosophy, and James Seawright, professor of the Council of the Humanities and visual arts, have been honored with Princeton's Behrman Award for distinguished achievement in the humanities.
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April 26, 2004
Su Friedrich's evocative and experimental films challenge audiences to think in a different way about topics ranging from sexual identity to American health care.
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April 19, 2004
Anthony Roth Costanzo began singing professionally at the age of 11 -- he has appeared on Broadway and at Carnegie Hall -- but the performance he will give on May 5 in Richardson Auditorium could be described as the role of a lifetime.
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April 19, 2004
Khalil Sullivan has revived an old theatrical form in his senior thesis, a "multi-media minstrel dramedy" titled "Playing in the Dark" that will be performed at the Berlind Theatre this month.
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February 16, 2004
The Program in Theater and Dance will present its inaugural dance performance, "Spring Dance Festival 2004," in the new Roger S. Berlind Theatre at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Feb. 20-21. It will be the first time in the 35-year history of formal dance instruction at Princeton that students will perform in a space especially designed for theater and dance. The University shares the facility, which opened last fall, with McCarter Theatre.
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December 8, 2003
Willow Sainsbury, a Princeton senior from Auckland, New Zealand, has been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship, which will fund two or three years of study at the University of Oxford in England.
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November 3, 2003
Toni Morrison says there are two ripe features that aggrandize humans: love and language. So it is no wonder that her eighth novel, "Love," speaks to the human condition in search of its own voice.
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September 15, 2003
The McCarter Theatre Center dedicated its new Roger S. Berlind Theatre, a 360-seat performance space, on Sept. 8.
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April 23, 2003
Theodore Weiss, an award-winning poet, editor, literary critic and emeritus professor at Princeton, died April 15 at age 86 after a battle with Parkinson's disease. A celebration of his life and work will be held at a later date.
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April 14, 2003
Paul Muldoon, the Howard Clark '21 University Professor in the Humanities at Princeton, has won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for poetry for his latest collection, "Moy Sand and Gravel." The award was announced April 7.
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March 3, 2003
Seniors Daniel Hantman and Christopher Wendell received the University's Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, and graduate students Sarah-Jane Murray and Joshua Plotkin were recognized as co-winners of the Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship at Alumni Day ceremonies Feb. 22. These are the highest honors Princeton awards to students.
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September 10, 1997
Last spring, two novel events took place on the Princeton campus. On the fifth of May, 29 students assembled on the stage of Taplin Auditorium, then one by one stepped forward to sing unaccompanied, their mouths shaping the rounded, majestical notes of African-American congregational songs.
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The Princeton Poetry Festival has sold out. Anyone can join the wait line prior to the start of the event. All un-claimed tickets will be made available to patrons in the wait line. Please know there are no guaranteed seats.
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