February 6, 2012
Glenn Edgerton, Artistic Director of acclaimed Hubbard Street Dance Chicago will present a repertory and ballet master class on Friday, February 10 at 4:30 to 6:20 p.m. in the Patricia Ward Hagan '48 Dance Studio at the Lewis Center for the Arts, 185 Nassau Street. The class in which Princeton dance students will participate is free and open to the public to observe. Edgerton's class opens a series of dance master classes to be held through March.
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February 2, 2012
As Princeton University officials prepare to submit plans for the proposed Arts and Transit project to the Regional Planning Board of Princeton for site plan approval, they have selected an architect to design the new Dinky station building and Wawa and to renovate the existing station buildings for use as a restaurant and café.
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February 1, 2012
Claremont Graduate University (CGU) is pleased to announce that Timothy Donnelly of Brooklyn, New York, has won the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for his book The Cloud Corporation (Wave, Picador). The award, given annually to a mid-career poet, is one of the largest monetary poetry prizes in the United States.
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January 31, 2012
The Program in Visual Arts at Princeton University announces a series of campus-wide exhibitions of ambitious student work running through early June. Venues will include the Lucas Gallery and the James M. Stewart '32 Theater at the Lewis Center for the Arts, 185 Nassau Street; The Guggenheim Gallery of Whitman College; and the James S. Hall '34 Memorial Gallery of Butler College. Each exhibition is accompanied by a reception where visitors can meet the artists.
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January 30, 2012
(Princeton, NJ) Soprano Judith Kellock, pianist Janice Weber and theater critic Fintan O'Toole will present a chamber music performance of Ross Lee Finney's setting of poems by James Joyce on Friday, February 10 at 4:30 PM at the Taplin Auditorium in Fine Hall on the Princeton University campus. The performance is part of a series presented by Princeton's Fund for Irish Studies. The event is free and open to the public.
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January 23, 2012
Winnie Holzman, dramatist, screenwriter, actress, and librettist for the hit Broadway musical Wicked, will speak about her career at Princeton Universitys Lewis Center for the Arts on February 9 at 1:30 p.m. at Taplin Auditorium in Fine Hall. This conversation is the first of a series of talks with prominent artists currently working in the musical theater field. The talks will lead to a Musical Theater Symposium, "Making Broadway Musicals: Artists and Scholars in Conversation," on April 21, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. in the James M. Stewart '32 Theater at 185 Nassau St. The series of talks and the symposium are free and open to the public.
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January 22, 2012
A contempt-filled word: Bafu means traitor in Shona, the indigenous language in the African land that would become Zimbabwe, and The Convert is about betrayal. This world premiere at Princeton's McCarter Theatre, written by Danai Gurira and directed by Emily Mann, boasts a cast that is beyond outstanding. The performances are so riveting that the play's three hours fly by.
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January 20, 2012
Poet James Richardson and novelist/essayist Jonathan Franzen will read from their works in the Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton on Wednesday, February 8 at 4:30 p.m. Princeton student Nina Bahadur will also read from her work. The reading, part of the Althea Ward Clark W'21 Reading Series of the Program in Creative Writing at the Lewis Center for the Arts, is free and open to the public.
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January 16, 2012
From February 9-18, Princeton University will be the site of three major events centered on the banned dramatization of Alexander Pushkin's literary masterpiece Eugene Onegin. The "Onegin Project" will include two productions of the Prokofiev/Krzhizhanovsky adaptation banned by the Stalinist regime in 1936 beginning with a world premiere musical and balletic dramatization featuring the Princeton Symphony Orchestra in Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall on February 9, 2012 at 8 p.m. and continuing with the world premiere of the theatrical production with performance of the full script and music presented by the Program in Theater at the Lewis Center for the Arts from February 10 to 18, 2012. The two productions are presented under the auspices of an international conference, "After the End of Music History," in honor of the eminent musicologist Richard Taruskin.
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January 11, 2012
The Lewis Center for the Arts' Programs in Dance and Visual Arts will present new work produced by students last fall through courses in both disciplines that explores the relationships between sculpture and dance. The showing of work will take place on Friday, January 13 at 4:30 p.m. in the Lucas Gallery at Princeton University's Lewis Center for the Arts at 185 Nassau Street. The event is free and open to the public.
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January 5, 2012
The Lewis Center for the Arts will present Elephant's Graveyard by award-winning playwright George Brant, a senior thesis production directed by Christopher Ghaffari '12. Performances will be held on January 11 through 14 at 8:00 p.m. in the Marie and Edward Matthews '53 Acting Studio at 185 Nassau Street at Princeton University.
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January 3, 2012
The Lewis Center for the Arts' Princeton Atelier in collaboration with the Department of Music will present Moved by Music, a performance that explores how sound may be illuminated by the movement of the musician's body. The concert will take place on Wednesday, January 11 at 8:00 p.m. in Taplin Auditorium of Princeton University's Fine Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
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December 11, 2011
In its final week of repertory in America, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, dancing six works in three programs at the Brooklyn Academy of Music from Wednesday to Saturday, kept hitting high after high. The highs kept extending our sense both of these dancers, an exceptionally attractive, diverse and skilled group, and of Cunningham himself.
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December 9, 2011
A symposium that will examine a range of currently relevant issues within the context of the interdisciplinary field of performance studies, and include a re-enactment of the legendary 1968 performance of "Dionysus in 69", will be held on December 9 and 10 at the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University. The symposium, "Performance Studies: Memories and Futures," will feature keynote speaker Richard Schechner from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and present panel discussions on critical race studies, dance, performance ethnography, popular culture, queer identity, reception studies, and visual culture. The symposium will begin on Friday, December 9 at 3:30 p.m. and conclude Saturday, December 10 at 5:30 p.m. and will be held in the James M. Stewart '32 Theater at the Lewis Center, 185 Nassau Street in Princeton. The symposium is free and open to the public, however prior registration is required.
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December 7, 2011
The University can now move forward with its plans to build its long-planned Arts and Transit Neighborhood. On Tuesday evening the Borough Council approved a zoning ordinance granting the University the right to build its $300 million developments, ending a contentious six-year process.
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December 5, 2011
Petite Heather Watts, a giant in ballet circles, weaves between the 18 Princeton University students working at the barre in a first-floor dance studio looking out on busy Nassau Street.
As the former star of the New York City Ballet leads the class in a series of warm-up exercises, she asks them to think of the dances they're learning - masterpieces from George Balanchine including "Agon" and "Western Symphony" - as they work.
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November 30, 2011
The Lewis Center for the Arts will present Hamlet, William Shakespeare's tragic tale of revenge, ambition and majesty on December 2 and 3 at 8:15 p.m., December 4 at 2:00 p.m., December 7 through 9 at 8:00 p.m. and December 10 at 1:00 p.m. in the Roger S. Berlind Rehearsal Room at McCarter Theatre Center. Hamlet is a senior thesis production directed by Julia Keimach '12, a certificate student in the Program in Theater. All performances are free and open to the public.
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November 29, 2011
Janine Antoni, a renowned performance artist, will discuss the intersections of visual art and movement as part of a semester-long interdisciplinary series of lectures entitled "Muscle Memory" at the Lewis Center for the Arts. The lecture will take place on Tuesday, December 6 at 7:30 p.m. in the Lewis Centerâs Patricia and Ward Hagan '48 Dance Studio, 185 Nassau Street in Princeton. Cosponsored by the Programs in Dance and Visual Arts, the talk is free and open to the public.
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November 22, 2011
Alex Gansa, Co-Creator and Executive Producer of Showtime's current hit series "Homeland", will speak about his career as a television writer at the James M. Stewart '32 Theater of Princeton University's Lewis Center for the Arts on December 6th at 4:30 p.m. This event is free and open to the public.
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November 18, 2011
(Princeton, NJ) As part of the Lewis Center for the Arts' Performance Central series, Princeton University's Program in Dance will present Heather Watts and Damian Woetzel, former stars of the New York City Ballet on Monday, December 5 for "Genius UpClose: George Balanchine." Watts, a Visiting Lecturer at the university, and Woetzel will discuss the origin and evolution of works by the renowned ballet choreographer including Apollo*, Agon*, Prodigal Son*, and Jewels* among other works. Excerpts of these ballets will be performed rehearsal-style by leading dancers from the New York City Ballet. The lecture/performance will be held at 4:30 p.m. in the Roger S. Berlind Theatre, McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton. The event is free and open to the public.
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