Ayanda Clarke leads a lecture/workshop as part of Dyane Harvey-Salaam’s dance course, “The American Dance Experience and Africanist Dance Practices”
Poet Alice Oswald gives the First Robert Fagles Lecture for Classics in the Contemporary Arts and will be in residence from October 2 until October 5, 2017
Award-winning dance scholar, educator, and author Brenda Dixon Gottschild lectures as part of a series on Black Feminist Performance
Artist and writer Walead Beshty gives a lunchtime talk on "Open Sources: Tactics of Aesthetic Resistance from the rise of Oligopoly to the Monetization of Social Labor." PLEASE NOTE: This event has been cancelled as of 10/2/17.
A conversation between Juliane Rebentisch and Martha Friedman on contemporary art practices. Rebentisch is an aesthetic philosopher and currently the Whitney J. Oates Fellow in the Humanities Council and the Department of German. Friedman is a NY-based sculptor and the Director of Princeton University’s Program in Visual Arts at the Lewis Center for the Arts.
Come see and hear about renowned American photographer Emmet Gowin’s stunning color portraits of more than one thousand species of nocturnal moths from Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, French Guiana, and Panama
Alice Oswald reads from her Griffin Poetry Prize-winning book of poems at Labyrinth Books
Roxane Gay discusses intersectionality as a black queer female writer, and how she incorporates elements of social justice into her work. Reception and book signing to follow.
Director/producer Anna Rose Holmer participates in an audience discussion after a screening of her film, The Fits
An exciting multi-day festival including concerts, plays, readings, dance performances, art exhibitions, multidisciplinary presentations, community workshops and site-specific events planned in celebration of the opening of the new Lewis Center for the Arts complex.
Making History Visible brings together historical and contemporary works to consider the role of visual art in creating an image of American identity and a multifaceted representation of history in the United States.
A two-day biennial event organized by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and Princeton professor Paul Muldoon featuring poets from around the world who will read from their work and hold panel discussions. Free and open to the public.
To celebrate the opening of the new Lewis Center for the Arts, a discussion about the architecture of Steven Holl, including its relationship to contemporary design, its meaning, and its potential for shaping and reshaping the experiences of diverse users.
A site-specific, generative, spatial acoustic sound installation by graduate student Bora Yoon features the sounds of nature and music reflecting the Liturgy of the Hours in the changing light and color of this sacred space.
This series of pointed, inquisitive and playful performance walks through the Princeton University campus, created in collaboration by theater artist Aaron Landsman and historian Alison Isenberg with Princeton students, examines how issues of race and protest, in Trenton and on campus, are imprinted on Princeton’s buildings and grounds. Tours begin on the Plaza at the Lewis Arts complex.
Under the auspices of the McCarter Lab, playwright Nathan Allen Davis will present a reading of his latest work-in-progress, followed by a Q&A discussion with the artist.
A performance of 6 original works by Princeton composers alongside the outdoor campus sculptures that inspired them. Tours begin at Richard Serra's The Hedgehog and the Fox sculpture near Taplin Auditorium (Fine Hall)
This exhibition spotlights the work of Clarence White (1871-1925), a founding member of the Photo-Secession, a gifted photographer celebrated for his beautiful scenes of quiet domesticity and outdoor idylls, and an influential teacher and photographic mentor.
Visit the Art Museum for a fun-filled day of art making and activities focused on the exhibition Transient Effects: The Solar Eclipses and Celestial Landscapes of Howard Russell Butler. Refreshments will be served.
Open Dance Rehearsals led by Stuart Singer and Raphael Xavier in Roberts Dance Studio and Murphy Dance Studio
Originally conceived by composer John Cage, the Musicircus invites a diverse group of musicians to come together and simultaneously perform any music they choose to create an anarchic community piece.
Princeton’s graduate and faculty composers present pop-up performances of their original music throughout the spaces of the Lewis Arts complex. Experience music of “the here and now” as never before in these Princeton Sound Kitchen events, directed by Daniel Trueman.
Faculty member Omri Drumlevich leads a class that explores the movement language developed by Ohad Naharin offering a creative framework for participants to connect to their bodies and imaginations, increase their physical awareness, improve their flexibility and stamina, and experience the pleasure of movement in a welcoming, accepting atmosphere. Open to people ages 16 and over.
Early Music Princeton presents a concert of the oldest (and newest) examples of Princeton music-making and composition, featuring music and poetry written, performed, collected, or dance to by residents of Princeton and Nassau Hall in the mid- and late-1700s. Current PhD composer Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade will provide a thoughtful response to this music in a new composition.
Musicians and singers of all ages and levels of skill are invited to join the Princeton University Orchestra directed by Ruth Ochs, Glee Club directed by Gabriel Crouch, and pianist Dasha Koltunyuk ’15 in a spirited community reading of Beethoven’s great Choral Fantasy in C Minor, Op. 80 for piano, vocal soloists, chorus, and orchestra — the precursor to the composer’s revolutionary ninth symphony and Ode to Joy finale.
A salon presentation of award winning playwright, screenwriter and actor Heidi Schreck's latest play
This lecture explores the dramaturgy of the foot in a series of well-known Shakespeare plays, from Richard III, As You Like It, to Macbeth. It looks at the theatrical uses of limping, pacing, stalking, tripping and says quite a bit about wandering too. The arguments may stumble but there will be running jokes and hopefully light will be shed on Shakespeare's originality.
Award-winning writers Rachel Cusk and Nathaniel Mackey read next in the 2017-18 Althea Ward Clark W'21 Reading Series.
Made up exclusively of news and White House footage, THE REAGAN SHOW chronicles the presidency of Ronald Reagan. Ushering in a new era of politics, this film explores the way in which the Reagan administration used television and media to promote their agenda. A Q&A with the filmmakers follows the screening.
In these general auditions for all of the season's music theater pieces, which include many styles of musical expression, the Program in Music Theater welcomes Princeton students of all levels of experience (or lack thereof) who would like to sing in a piece of music theater.
In these general auditions for the theater season, the Program in Theater welcomes Princeton students of all levels of experience, including those who have never performed or haven’t performed since the first grade!
Director Yance Ford participates in an educational discussion of his latest film, a cinematic memoir that explores themes of family, race, and justice
Kicking off the “Princeton Tackles Cambridge” weekend, the Tiger Entrepreneurs Conference will provide an exceptional opportunity to network with entrepreneurially-minded alumni and students.
Writer Rumaan Alam reads with creative writing seniors Katherine Farin, Elliott Hirsch, Rebecca Kahn, Anhat Karim, and Lydia Weintraub
Artist-scholar-organizer Ebony Noelle Golden lectures as part of a series on Black Feminist Performance
Beaver and Conarro visit the fall music course "Ballads, Blues, and Banjos: Folk Music in America," taught by Princeton Arts Fellow Shawn Jaeger
A conversation with Arto Lindsay, Pedro Meira Monteiro, Gabriela Nouzeilles and Bob Holman
All film screenings followed by discussion; free and open to the public.
Dance professor Judith Hamera reads from and signs copies of her latest book, "Unfinished Business: Michael Jackson, Detroit, and the Figural Economy of American Deindustrialization"
