 This Week at the Lewis CenterWeek of December 1, 2013
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Photo courtesy of Scott Parker
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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 in conjunction with a spring 2014 course led by Acting Director of the Program in Dance Rebecca Lazier, 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.
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Photo (L) courtesy of P. Adams Sitney; (R) by John Jameson
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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.
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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 McCarter Theatre Center. A reception will follow the performance. The event is free and open to the public, however seating is limited.
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Image courtesy of Ernie Gehr
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Experimental filmmaker presents
a 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. In each of the works, aspects of perception, pictorial space, and the character of film or digital media are meaningfully explored and celebrated. 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.
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Photo by M. Teresa Simao
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An exhibition of work by students in spring 2013 photography courses
Through Friday, 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 Friday, 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.
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Featuring recent work from
fall creative writing courses
Wednesday, December 11 at 5:15 p.m.
The final event for the semester in the Althea Ward Clark W'21 Reading Series will be a reading of student work from fall 2013 creative writing courses. On Wednesday, December 11, students will read from their recent poetry, fiction, screenwriting, and translation work. The reading will begin at 5:15 p.m. at Chancellor Green Rotunda on the University campus and is free and open to the public.
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Photo by Rob Strong
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Performance from a fall 2013 Atelier course
Wednesday, December 11 at 8:00 p.m.
On Wednesday, December 11, students in the Princeton Atelier course "Making Theater without a Script" will present a staging of various texts from The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe incorporating found choreography and sound design. Led by artistic director and founder of theater ensemble Elevator Repair Service John Collins, students in the course examined the use of choreography, sound design, space, and text before generating their own material. The performance will begin at 8:00 p.m. at the Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center and will be followed by a reception. The event is free and open to the public, however seating is limited.
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Photo by Bentley Drezner
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Performances by students in fall 2013 dance courses
Wednesday - Friday, December 11-13, 2013
From Wednesday, December 11 through Friday, December 13, the Program in Dance will present a series of performances by students in fall 2013 dance courses, including works by choreographers Bill T. Jones, Doug Varone, Kyle Abraham, Rebecca Lazier, Tina Fehlandt, and Pam Tanowitz that will be featured in the 2014 Spring Dance Festival in February. All performances will be free and open to the public.
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Photo courtesy of Jason Treuting
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Performances by Jason Treuting
With So Percussion and Jason Treuting and Friends
Thursday, December 12 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, December 14 at 8:30 p.m.
On Thursday, December 12, Arts Fellow Jason Treuting and his ensemble So Percussion will perform a new work-in-progress in the Lucas Gallery at 185 Nassau Street beginning at 7:30 p.m. And on Saturday, December 14 at 8:30 p.m., Treuting along with Professor of Music Composition Dan Trueman and Janus Trio's Beth Meyers will perform as Jason Treuting and Friends at Small World Coffee at 14 Witherspoon Street in Princeton. Both events are free and open to the public.
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Photo by Karen Yamauchi
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On October 12 Pulitzer Prize-winning author of MIDDLESEX and Professor of Creative Writing in the Lewis Center Jeffrey Eugenides was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Founded in 1780, the American Academy is one of the nation's oldest and most prestigious learned societies, and an independent research center that draws from its members' expertise to conduct studies in science and technology policy, global security, the humanities and culture, social policy, and education.
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Photo courtesy of Adam Welch
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Princeton Day School presents Adam Welch: Bricks, an exhibition of works using brick as a primary object by ceramicist and Lecturer in Visual Arts at the Lewis Center Adam Welch. For Welch, the brick is characteristic of postmodern appropriation and the marriage of concept and form. An artists' reception will be held from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, December 5 in the Anne Reid '72 Gallery. Bricks is open through December 6 at the Princeton Day School at 650 Great Road in Princeton and is free and open to the public. Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. when the school is in session. Click to read a review of the exhibition by U.S.1.
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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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