 This Week at the Lewis CenterWeek of November 3, 2013
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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 string ensemble FLUX Quartet. They will be presenting a preview of the as-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 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 in 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 of 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 course. 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 in 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 of Philip King
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Discussion on "The Irish Song Lyric
from Tom Moore to Christy Moore"
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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Photo by Marcos Cisneros '15
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This year's Fall Show is a bold new interpretation of one of Shakespeare's best-loved comedies
Friday-Saturday, November 8-9 at 8:00 p.m.
Thursday-Saturday, November 14-16 at 8:00 p.m.
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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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 Tim Lueke
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Performance Central presents a multimedia performance by Brooklyn-based Anonymous Ensemble
Tuesday - Thursday, November 12, 13 & 14 at 8:00 p.m.
The Lewis Center's Performance Central series will present I Land - An Odyssey of You, a multimedia, interactive work-in-progress by Anonymous Ensemble to be performed on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, November 12, 13 and 14. Anonymous Ensemble strives to engender a new form of audience experience that encompasses the immediacy of live performance, the fluidity of film, and is profoundly interactive. The performances will begin at 8:00 p.m. in the Marie and Edward Matthews '53 Acting Studio at 185 Nassau Street and are free and open to the public.
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Photo (L) courtesy of David Ferry;
(R) by Kenneth Noland
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Poet and writer next in Althea Ward
Clark W'21 Reading Series
Wednesday, November 13 at 4:30 p.m.
On Wednesday, November 13, National Book Award-winning poet David Ferry and critically acclaimed author Jamaica Kincaid will read from their works as part of the Althea Ward Clark W'21 Reading Series of the Program in Creative Writing in the Lewis Center. Princeton student Patience Haggin will also read from her recent translation work. The reading will begin at 4:30 p.m. at the Berlind Theatre at the McCarter Theatre Center and will be followed by a reception and book signing. The event is free and open to the public.
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"The Fiddler" is in the collection of the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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A symposium celebrating the 50th
anniversary of Fiddler on the Roof
Thursday, November 14 at 7:00 p.m.
Friday, November 15 from 10:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
One of Broadway's most successful and beloved musicals, Fiddler on the Roof, is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2014 and in honor of this milestone, the symposium "Fiddler at 50" is being held on November 14 and 15. A screening and a series of lectures along with discussions by scholars and theater artists will explore the work as an icon of musical theater and its place in Jewish-American cultural history. The symposium is being organized by Jill Dolan, Professor in Theater, the Annan Professor in English and Director of the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Stacy Wolf, Professor in Theater and Director of the Princeton Atelier. A screening of the hit 1971 film version of the musical will take place at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, November 14. Lectures and discussions with artists, such as Fiddler lyricist Sheldon Harnick, will take place from 10:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Friday, November 15. The symposium, presented by the Lewis Center and the Program in American Studies, is funded by the Lapidus Fund in American Jewish Studies. All symposium events will take place at the James M. Stewart '32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street and are free and open to the public. Photo: "The Fiddler"(1913) by Marc Chagall.
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Photo courtesy of Enda Walsh
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Tony Award-winning playwright in conversation
with Lewis Center Chair Michael Cadden
Friday, November 15 at 4:30 p.m.
Irish playwright Enda Walsh will discuss his works Disco Pigs, Hunger and Once with Lewis Center Chair Michael Cadden in a conversation on Friday, November 15. Walsh is the winner of the 2012 Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for the Broadway critical and box office hit, Once, his stage adaptation of the film by the same name. 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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