Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University
This Week at the Lewis Center
Week of November 24, 2013
First installation of this 'constructed situation'
in an academic setting
Today! Friday, November 22 from 12:00 - 6:00 p.m.


The Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities and the Program in Visual Arts are hosting Tino Sehgal's This situation for one final day on Friday, November 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 today from noon to 6:00 p.m. in Room 301 at the Lewis Center for the Arts at 185 Nassau Street and is free and open to the public.

headshot of susan
Photo by Tom Grimes
New York premi�re of Susan 
Marshall's latest dance piece 
Today! Friday, November 22 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, November 23 at 5:00 and 7:30 p.m.


As part of the 2013 Next Wave Festival, Director of the Program in Dance Susan Marshall presents her latest choreographed work entitled Play/Pause, a dialogue between the real and virtual that features a commissioned score by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang. Performances are Friday, November 22 at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, November 23 at 5:00 and 7:30 p.m. at BAM Fisher (Fishman Space) at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Tickets are available here

Dinky train
Film still by Oleg Tcherny
A film by Oleg Tcherny
Monday, November 25 at 7:30 p.m.


The Film Studies Committee and the Program in Visual Arts present the premi�re of KINO BRACE: Five Act Four Interval Film Thing by Belarusian filmmaker Oleg Tcherny, on Monday, November 25. In his digital videos, Tcherny distorts the progression of images and pushes the boundaries of visual, auditory, and conceptual abstraction. 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.

art in gallery
Photo by Jaclyn Sweet
Presenting recent work 
by students in fall courses
Through Tuesday, 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 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.

artist in studio
Photo by M. Teresa Simao
An opportunity to see 
student work in progress
Tuesday, November 26 from 4:30 - 6:00 p.m.


The Program in Visual Arts welcomes 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. Musician/composer Jason Treuting, a 2013-15 Princeton Fellow in the Creative and Performing Arts, will perform beginning at 5:15 p.m. and light refreshments will be served. The event is free and open to the public.

students in gallery
Photo by M. Teresa Simao
An exhibition of work by students in spring 2013 photography courses
Through December 6


Liquid Suspension, an exhibition of student work from Spring 2013 Introduction to Photography courses curated by Lecturer in Visual Arts Demetrius Oliver, is on view 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: Daily from 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

In the Coming Weeks

scott performing
Photo courtesy of Scott Parker
With martial artist Scott Parker 
Tuesday, December 3 from 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Saturday, December 7 from 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. 


The Princeton Atelier and the Program in Dance will offer two master classes with acclaimed Wu Shu artist Scott Parker who, along with Acting Director of the Program in Dance Rebecca Lazier, will lead the spring 2014 course ATL 498/DAN 498 Journey Beyond the West: The New Adventures of Monkey - A Martial Arts Opera. Wu Shu is a contemporary form of Chinese performance-based martial arts that lies on the spectrum between dynamic dance and self-defense. The master class will incorporate Wu Shu techniques and will serve as an audition for the course in which students will create and perform Journey Beyond the West: The New Adventures of Monkey, composer Fred Ho's contemporary adaptation of the 16th-century Chinese novel, Journey to the West. This action-adventure, musical-fantasy told through martial arts, dance and music is designed for martial artists of all styles and levels, dancers of all genres, and acrobats
 
The first master class will be held on Tuesday, December 3 from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. in the Dance Studio at New South. The second master class will be held on Saturday, December 7 from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. in the Patricia and Ward Hagan '48 Dance Studio at 185 Nassau Street. Interested students need only attend one of the master classes. The classes are open to all Princeton students to participate and for the public to observe.

headshots of Sitney and Heller-Roazen
Photo (L) courtesy of P. Adams Sitney; (R) by John Jameson
A conversation with Daniel Heller-Roazen
and P. Adams Sitney 
Wednesday, December 4 at 6:00 p.m.


On Wednesday, December 4, Labyrinth Books will host a conversation between Daniel Heller-Roazen and P. Adams Sitney about the subject of Heller-Roazen's latest book: the evolution of hidden languages. Published in August, Dark Tongues: The Art of Rogues and Riddlers explores the history of willfully obscure languages and the common crafts of rogues and riddlers, which play sound and sense against each other. Sitney is a Professor of Visual Arts in the Lewis Center and Daniel Heller-Roazen is a Professor of Comparative Literature and on the Council of the Humanities at Princeton. The conversation will begin at 6:00 p.m. at Labyrinth Books at 122 Nassau Street in Princeton and is free and open to the public

colorful graphic
Performances from music, theater, & songwriting course 
Wednesday, December 4 at 7:30 p.m.


Students in the Princeton Atelier course Stories to Stage, Words and Song: A Study in Adaptation will present a lively evening of songs, monologues and scenes created during the fall semester. The course, led by singer/songwriter Suzzy Roche and novelist Meg Wolitzer, challenged students to work with their own creative writing, musical composition, scene work, and character development, as well as assigned pieces of literature in order to develop original work. The performance will begin on Wednesday, December 4 at 7:30 p.m. at the Berlind Theatre Rehearsal Room at the McCarter Theatre Center. Seating is limited. The event is free and open to the public

The Quiet Car
Image courtesy of Ernie Gehr
Experimental filmmaker presents 
John Sacret Young '69 Lecture 
Wednesday, December 4 at 7:30 p.m.


On Wednesday, December 4, the Film Studies Committee and the Program in Visual Arts will present a John Sacret Young '69 Lecture. American experimental filmmaker Ernie Gehr will show and discuss his recent digital works Photographic Phantoms, Winter Morning, The Quiet Car, Auto-Collider XVIII, and Brooklyn Series which debuted at the New York Film Festival earlier this fall. The screening and discussion will take place at 7:30 p.m. at the James M. Stewart '32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street and are free and open to the public


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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