 This Week at the Lewis CenterWeek of November 17, 2013
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Photo by Tracy Patterson
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Don't miss this bold new interpretation of one of Shakespeare's best-loved comedies
Final Weekend! Tickets still available
for Friday, November 15 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. Tickets are going fast for Friday and Saturday's show is sold out. Performances will take place at the Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center. 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 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
Today! Friday, November 15 until 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 15. 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. 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
Today! 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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Photo courtesy of Jason Treuting
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Opportunities to hear the music of percussionist/composer Treuting
Saturday, November 16 at 8:30 p.m.
On November 16 Jason Treuting, a 2013-15 Fellow in the Creative and Performing Arts at Princeton, will perform new experimental music as Jason Treuting and Friends at Small World Coffee at 14 Witherspoon Street in Princeton with Professor of Music Composition Dan Trueman on hardinger fiddle and Janus Trio's Beth Meyers on viola. The evening's guest artist will be NYC-based musician Grey McMurray of Knights on Earth and itsnotyouitsme on guitar. The event is free and open to the public.
Treuting will also play a solo set of his music during a Princeton Sound Kitchen event on Tuesday, November 19 at 8:00 p.m. at the Paul Robeson Center for the Arts in Princeton. Later that week, So Percussion will play Carnegie's Zankel Hall in New York City on Saturday, November 23 at 9:00 p.m. That concert will include So's new work-in-progress called Carnegie Double Music in addition to the world premiere of Bryce Dessner's Music for Wood and Strings and a performance of David Lang's the so-called laws of nature.
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Photo by M. Teresa Simao
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An exhibition of work by students in spring 2013 photography courses
Opens Monday, November 18
On November 18, the Program in Visual Arts will present Liquid Suspension, an exhibition of student work from Spring 2013 Introduction to Photography courses. The works in the exhibition were curated by Lecturer in Visual Arts Demetrius Oliver. The exhibition will run through December 6 in the James S. Hall '34 Memorial Gallery at Butler College on the University campus and is free and open to the public. Gallery hours: Monday through Sunday, 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
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First installation of this 'constructed situation'
in an academic setting
Monday - Wednesday, November 18-20 from 2:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Thursday, November 21 from 12:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Friday, November 22 from 12:00 - 6:00 p.m.
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 Jaclyn Sweet
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Presenting recent work
by students in fall courses
Through November 26
The Program in Visual Arts presents an exhibition of recent and in-progress work by students in introductory painting, advanced drawing, 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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Film still by Oleg Tcherny
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Monday, November 25 at 7:30 p.m.
The Program in Visual Arts will present the première of KINO-BRACE: Five Act Four Interval Film Thing by Oleg Tcherny, on Monday, November 25. The screening will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the James M. Stewart '32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street. A discussion with the filmmaker will follow the screening, which is free and open to the public.
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Photo by Kemy Lin
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An opportunity to see student work in progress
Tuesday, November 26 from 4:30 - 6:00 p.m.
The Program in Visual Arts will welcome visitors to the Lewis Center at 185 Nassau Street for an Open Studios event on Tuesday, November 26. Junior and senior certificate students in the Program will open their studios to the public in order to share and discuss their work. Junior studios will be accessible on the fourth floor from 4:30 to 5:15 p.m., and from 5:15 to 6:00 p.m. senior studios will be open on the second floor. Light refreshments will be served. The event is free and open to the public.
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Photo by Lily Glass
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing in the Lewis Center Claire Vaye Watkins has received the prestigious Dylan Thomas Prize for her first book, Battleborn. Watkins' collection of short stories has received several awards since its publication in 2010, including the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, The Story Prize, and the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award for Fiction from the American Academy of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
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Photo by Hope VanCleaf
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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 has been awarded the 2013 Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Society for Theatre Research. The award acknowledges her numerous achievements in scholarship in the field of theatre studies. Dolan has an award-winning blog and is the author of several books, including most recently The Feminist Spectator in Action and the second edition of her landmark book, The Feminist Spectator as Critic.
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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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