 This Week at the Lewis CenterWeek of November 10, 2013
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Photo by Tracy Patterson
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This year's Fall Show is a bold new interpretation of one of Shakespeare's best-loved comedies
Opens tonight! Friday, November 8 at 8:00 p.m.
Also Saturday, November 9 at 8:00 p.m. and
Thursday-Saturday, November 14-16 at 8:00 p.m.
The Program in Theater presents 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 '06. 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 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.
Following the Saturday, November 9, performance the Lewis Center will host a special Freshman Night talk-back led by the director and Lewis Center Chair Michael Cadden. With the audience, they will investigate the connections between Shakespeare's play and Professor Kwame Anthony Appiah's book, The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen. Appiah is the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton, and his book was President Eisgruber's Pre-Read selection for the Class of 2017. Another special talk-back led by Cadden and 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
Closing today! 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 courtesy of Philip King
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Discussion on "The Irish Song Lyric
from Tom Moore to Christy Moore"
Today! Friday, November 8 at 4:30 p.m.
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 today 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 Catherine Mauger
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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet reads
at Princeton Public Library
Monday, November 11 at 7:30 p.m.
On Monday, November 11, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet C.K. Williams will read from his work as part of the Poets at the Library program at the Princeton Public Library. Williams is a Professor Emeritus of Creative Writing in the Lewis Center and has won the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Ruth Lilly Prize, among other honors. The reading will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Community Room on the second floor of the public library in Princeton. The event is free and open to the public.
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Photo by Tim Lueke
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Performance Central presents
a multimedia performance
by Anonymous Ensemble
Tuesday - Thursday, November 12-14 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 work will be further developed with input from audiences in Princeton before its New York City premiere in February. Eamonn Farrell of Anonymous Ensemble is scheduled to teach a theater/visual arts course at the Lewis Center in the spring of 2014. 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 by Denise Applewhite
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Presenting recent work
by students in fall courses
Opens Wednesday, November 13
The Program in Visual Arts presents an exhibition of recent and in-progress work by students in introductory painting and "Painting Without Canvas" courses that will be on view from Wednesday, November 13 through Tuesday, November 26 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 (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, 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 and scholars, such as Fiddler lyricist Sheldon Harnick, will take place from 10:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Friday, November 15. To see the full schedule of events, click here. 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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First installation of this 'constructed situation' in an academic setting
Monday through Friday, November 18-22 at various times
The Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities and the Program in Visual Arts will host This situation by Tino Sehgal on November 18 through 22. In the words of Sehgal, This situation is a "constructed situation" akin to a contemporary salon in which live interpreters, drawing on quotations selected from 500 years of thought, discuss among themselves and with visitors such issues as the aesthetics of existence and the implications of moving from a society of lack to a society of abundance. This situation will be presented Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, November 18 through 20 from 2:00 to 6:00 p.m.; Thursday, November 21 from noon to 4:00 p.m.; and Friday, November 22 from noon to 6:00 p.m. in Room 301 at the Lewis Center for the Arts at 185 Nassau Street. A companion event entitled Art and School: A Symposium exploring This situation will be presented on Thursday, November 21 at 4:30 p.m. in the Betts Auditorium in the School of Architecture. Both events are free and no tickets or reservations are necessary.
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Photo by Isometric Studio
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A screening of the film and conversation with
Jill Dolan and Jeffrey Friedman
Monday, November 18 at 4:30 p.m.
On Monday, November 18, the Critical Encounters Lecture Series will host a screening of the film Lovelace, featuring Amanda Seyfried, James Franco, Sharon Stone, and Chris Noth. After the film, Jeffrey Friedman, one of the film's co-directors and a documentary filmmaker and producer of the award-winning films Howl, Paragraph 175, and The Celluloid Closet, will engage in conversation with Jill Dolan, the Annan Professor of English, Professor of Theater in the Lewis Center, and the Director of the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies at Princeton. They will discuss feminism, pornography and Friedman's new piece about Linda Lovelace. The screening will begin at 4:30 p.m. in Betts Auditorium at the School of Architecture, with the conversation to follow. The event is free and open to the public.
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Photo by Samuel Lipoff
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Opportunity for students to learn Wu Shu and Tai Chi
Tuesday, November 19 at 7:00 p.m.
The Princeton Atelier and the Program in Dance will offer an opportunity for students to learn from acclaimed martial arts choreographer Teake during a master class on Tuesday, November 19. Teake trained and performed in China with Zhejang National Wu Shu Team and Shi Xiaolong Wu Shu Academy. The class will incorporate Wu Shu and Tai Chi techniques and will serve as an audition for New Adventures of Monkey: A Martial Arts Opera, a Spring 2014 Atelier/Dance course offered by Teake and director, choreographer, and Senior Lecturer in Dance Rebecca Lazier. Students in the course will perform Journey Beyond the West: The New Adventures of Monkey, award-winning composer Fred Ho's adaptation of the 16th century Chinese novel Journey to the West. The class will begin at 7:00 p.m. in the Dance Studio at New South and is open to all Princeton students to participate and for the public to observe.
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Photo courtesy of Jennifer Gilmore
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Lecturer in the Program in Creative Writing Jennifer Gilmore's most recent novel, The Mothers (2013), will be adapted for film by Academy Award-winning actress Rachel Weisz, according to New York Magazine. The Mothers has been praised by the New York Times as "spirited and admirably frank," as it draws from Gilmore's own experiences and struggles with adopting a child. She is the author of two other acclaimed novels, Golden Country and Something Red.
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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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