 This Week at the Lewis CenterWeek of October 27, 2013
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Photo by Frank Wojciechowski
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Program in Theater presents
senior thesis production
featuring Zachary Salk
Tonight! Friday,October 25 at 8:00 p.m.
The Program in Theater is presenting a senior thesis production of Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov, directed by faculty member R.N. Sandberg and featuring senior Zachary Salk as Vanya. The final performance will take place tonight, Friday, October 25 at 8:00 p.m. in the Marie and Edward Matthews '53 Acting Studio at 185 Nassau Street. Romantic and existential passions bubble to the surface and threaten to overwhelm the characters in Chekhov's dark comedy. When Professor Serebryakov returns to his late wife's estate with his lovely young wife Yelena, the lives of his brother-in-law Vanya, his daughter Sonya, and the local doctor Astrov are thrown into disarray. To view a trailer of the production, click here. Tickets: $12 general admission; $10 for students and seniors. Call Princeton University Ticketing at 609.258.9220, visit princeton.edu/utickets/ or the Frist Campus Center Ticket Office. Tickets also available at the door on the night of performances.
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Photo courtesy Jason Treuting
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Opportunity to hear the work of 2013-15 Creative Fellow Jason Treuting
Saturday, October 26 at 8:30 p.m.
On Saturday, October 26, Small World Coffee will kick-off a new monthly tradition of a performance by Jason Treuting and Friends. Treuting, a composer and a 2013-15 Fellow in the Creative and Performing Arts at Princeton, will perform along with Director of Princeton Sound Kitchen and Professor of Music Composition Dan Trueman, viola virtuoso Beth Meyers of Janus Trio, and So Percussion's Josh Quillen. The performance will begin at 8:30 p.m. at Small World Coffee at 14 Witherspoon Street in Princeton. The event is free and open to the public.
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Photo by Marcos Cisneros '15
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Presenting recent work
by students in fall courses
On view through Friday, November 8
The Program in Visual Arts presents an exhibition of recent work by students in fall introductory and advanced drawing courses that will be on view through Friday, November 8 in the Lewis Center's Lucas Gallery at 185 Nassau Street. Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
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Photo by Brad Paris
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Preview of a new collaborative work by
award-winning choreographer Pam Tanowitz
and string ensemble FLUX Quartet
Monday, November 4 at 7:00 p.m.
On Monday, November 4, the Program in Dance will present Borrowed Structures, the preview of a collaboration between Pam Tanowitz, award-winning choreographer and 2013-14 Hodder Fellow, and the classical/jazz/avant garde string ensemble FLUX Quartet. They will be presenting a preview of the yet-untitled new work to be performed by Tanowitz and her company Pam Tanowitz Dance, which includes former Merce Cunningham Company dancers Melissa Toogood and Dylan Crossman, before its New York premiere at the Joyce Theater in February. Pizza will be served at 6:00 p.m. and the performance will begin at 7:00 p.m. in the Patricia and Ward Hagan '48 Dance Studio at 185 Nassau Street. A reception will follow the performance. The event is free and open to the public.
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Photo by Fiorella Battistini
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Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa
in conversation with scholar Efraín Kristal
Tuesday, November 5 at 6:00 p.m.
The Program in Latin American Studies at Princeton is sponsoring "The Task of the Novelist," a conversation between author Mario Vargas Llosa and scholar Efraín Kristal on Tuesday, November 5. Vargas Llosa, winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature, is a Visiting Lecturer in the Program in Creative Writing at the Lewis Center and the Program in Latin American Studies. He will discuss his creative process, his meditations on literature, and his trajectory as a novelist with Efraín Kristal, chair of UCLA's Department of Comparative Literature who is currently a Visiting Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and Program in Latin American Studies at Princeton. The conversation will begin at 6:00 p.m. at McCosh 50 on the University campus. The event is free and open to the public.
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Photo courtesy Brian Rogers
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Lectures by two multimedia performance artists
Tuesday, November 5 at 7:30 p.m.
The Program in Dance will welcome visiting artists Aki Sasamoto and Brian Rogers on Tuesday, November 5, as part of a Muscle/Memory lecture series. Sasamoto is a performance artist, sculptor, and dancer whose installations consist of careful arrangements of sculpturally altered objects. Rogers is a director, video and sound artist, and co-founder of The Chocolate Factory Theater, which supports the creation of theater, dance, music and multimedia performances. The two artists will present lectures on their artistic practices at 7:30 p.m. as part of Muscle/Memory, a fall course at the Lewis Center in which visual arts and dance students pursue the question of how nearly identical movements and objects can be considered dance in some contexts and art in others. The event will be held in the Patricia and Ward Hagan '48 Dance Studio at 185 Nassau Street and is free and open to the public.
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Photo by Sigrid Estrada
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Susan Choi to read from her work at Labyrinth Books
Wednesday, November 6 at 6:00 p.m.
Pulitzer Prize finalist and Professor of Creative Writing at the Lewis Center Susan Choi will read from her latest novel, My Education, on Wednesday, November 6 at Labyrinth Books. My Education: A Novel, an intimately charged story of desire and disaster, follows graduate student Regina Gottlieb's misadventures and demonstrates what can happen when the chasm between desire and duty is too wide to bridge. The reading will begin at 6:00 p.m. at Labyrinth Books at 122 Nassau Street in Princeton. The event is free and open to the public.
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Photo courtesy Philip King
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Friday, November 8 at 4:30 p.m.
A curator, film director, writer, cultural commentator, broadcaster and musician, Philip King will discuss "The Irish Song Lyric from Tom Moore to Christy Moore," with Lewis Center Chair Michael Cadden in a conversation on Friday, November 8. Throughout his career, King has directed and produced numerous series, documentaries and events exploring Irish music and its international influence. The discussion will begin at 4:30 p.m. in the Lewis Center's James M. Stewart '32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street. The event is part of a series presented by Princeton University's Fund for Irish Studies and is free and open to the public.
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This year's Fall Show is a bold new interpretation
of one of Shakespeare's best-loved comedies
November 8-9 and 14-16, 2013
The Program in Theater will present an exciting new interpretation of one of Shakespeare's best-loved and most-produced comedies, Much Ado About Nothing, directed by Princeton alumna Lileana Blain-Cruz. This production explores the darker aspects of the play, combining elements of great humor with more serious issues of honor and shame, taking audiences on a roller coaster ride of emotions. Performances will begin on Friday and Saturday, November 8-9 and continue Thursday through Saturday, November 14-16 at 8:00 p.m. at the Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center. A special talk-back led by Lewis Center Chair Michael Cadden and Lileana Blain-Cruz will follow the Thursday, November 14 performance. Tickets: $15 general admission; $10 for students and seniors. Call Princeton University Ticketing at 609.258.9220, visit princeton.edu/utickets/ or the Frist Campus Center Ticket Office.
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The Lewis Center for the Arts encompasses Princeton University's academic programs in creative writing, dance, theater, and visual arts, as well as the interdisciplinary Princeton Atelier. The Center represents a major initiative of the University to fully embrace the arts as an essential part of the educational experience for all who study and teach at Princeton. Over 100 diverse public performances, exhibitions, readings, screenings and lectures are offered each year, most of them free or at a nominal ticket price. For more information about the Lewis Center for the Arts visit princeton.edu/arts.
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