Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University
This Week at the Lewis Center
Week of December 8, 2013
students in gallery
Photo by M. Teresa Simao
An exhibition of work by students in spring 2013 photography courses
Through Friday, December 6


Today is the final day to view Liquid Suspension, an exhibition of student work from Spring 2013 Introduction to Photography courses curated by Lecturer in Visual Arts Demetrius Oliver, in the James S. Hall '34 Memorial Gallery at Butler College on the University campus. The gallery is open from 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. and the exhibit is free and open to the public.

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


The Princeton Atelier and the Program in Dance will offer a master class 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 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. The class is open to all Princeton students to participate and for the public to observe.

iphone views

Art for Everyone class showing
Tuesday, December 10 at 3:00 p.m.


Students in the Program in Visual Arts' fall 2013 course "Art for Everyone" will present [Insert title here.] on Tuesday, December 10. In the course led by Fia Backström, students explored whether everyone can be an artist. Is art accessible to everyone a dreamed-of utopia or a cultural nightmare? The event will begin at 3:00 p.m. in Studio 34 in the basement of Butler College on the University campus and is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be provided.

So performing
Photo by LiveWellPhoto
Performances by The Pentatonic 
Cowboy Waltzers, So Percussion, and Jason Treuting and Friends
Tuesday, December 10 at 7:00 p.m.
Thursday, December 12 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, December 14 at 8:30 p.m.


Students from the fall 2013 music course "The Composer/Performer and Performer/Composer" will present an hour of new music on Tuesday, December 10. In the course taught by Fellow in the Creative and Performing Arts Jason Treuting, students explored different ways of viewing the roles of composer and performer while forming a new musical ensemble called The Pentatonic Cowboy Waltzers. The concert, featuring music written by the ensemble for the ensemble, will also feature Treuting and So Percussion as special guests. The event will begin at 7:00 p.m. in Room 102 Woolworth on the University campus. Pizza will be served after the concert, which is free and open to the public.
 
On Thursday, December 12, So Percussion will present a work-in-progress showing of new music for four snare drums, composed by Jason Treuting. The performance will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Lewis Center's Lucas Gallery at 185 Nassau Street and is free and open to the public.
 
In addition, Treuting, 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 on Saturday, December 14 at 8:30 p.m. Free and open to the public. 

pen and book

Featuring recent work from 
fall creative writing courses
Wednesday, December 11 at 5:15 p.m.


For the next event in the Althea Ward Clark W'21 Reading Series, students will read their work from fall courses in the Program in Creative Writing. On Wednesday, December 11, students will read from their recent poetry, fiction, 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.

ERS on stage
Photo by Rob Strong
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.

student dancers
Photo by Bentley Drezner
Performances by students 
in fall 2013 Dance courses 
Wednesday, December 11 at 6:00 & 8:00 p.m.
Thursday, December 12 at 3:00 p.m.
Friday, December 13 at 11:30 a.m. & 2:00 p.m.


From December 11 through 13, the Program in Dance will present a series of performances by students in fall 2013 dance courses. Beginning on Wednesday, December 11 at 6:00 p.m., students from Lecturer in Dance John Heginbotham's "Modern Dance: Beginning Technique and Choreography" will perform. At 8:00 p.m. works by choreographers Bill T. Jones (staged by Stuart Singer), Doug Varone (staged by Eddie Taketa), Kyle Abraham (staged by Chalvar Monteiro and Connie Shiau), Rebecca Lazier, Tina Fehlandt, and Pam Tanowitz (staged by Melissa Toogood) will be performed. These works will be featured in the 2014 Spring Dance Festival in February. Lecturer in Dance Aynsley Vandenbroucke's students from "Introduction to Movement and Dance" will perform at 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, December 12; on Friday, December 13 at 11:30 a.m. Acting Director Rebecca Lazier's students from "Advanced Dance Performance and Choreographic Projects " will show their work; and at 2:00 p.m. students from Lazier's "Modern Dance: Beginning Technique and Choreography " will perform. All of the showings will take place in the Patricia and Ward Hagan '48 Dance Studio at 185 Nassau Street and are free and open to the public.

In the Coming Weeks

ink on paper
Photo courtesy of the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts
Artist's retrospective exhibition and conference 
at MoMA PS 1
Sunday, December 15 from 1:00 to 6:00 p.m.


In collaboration with MoMA PS 1, New York, the Program in Visual Arts will present an afternoon of lectures and a panel discussion about Mike Kelley, one of the most influential American artists of the past 40 years. The largest exhibition of the artist's work to-date, Mike Kelley is on view at MoMA PS 1 now through February 2, 2014. As part of the Sunday Sessions series at MoMA PS 1, Mike Kelley Looking Forward is a one-day conference with lectures by Elisabeth Sussman, Curator and Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Stacy Wolf, Professor of Theater in the Lewis Center and Director of the Princeton Atelier; and John C. Welchman, Professor in the Visual Arts Department at the University of California, San Diego and Chair of the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts, Los Angeles. In addition, artists Rachel Harrison, William Pope. L, and Joe Scanlan, Professor and Director of the Program in Visual Arts, will comprise a panel discussion with Jenny Schlenzka, Associate Curator of Live Programming at MoMA PS 1. The event will be held from 1:00 to 6:00 p.m. on Sunday, December 15 at the VW Dome at MoMA PS 1, located at 22-25 Jackson Avenue in Long Island City, New York. Tickets: FREE with a valid Princeton University ID; $10 in advance through the MoMA PS1 website; $12 the day of the event starting at noon. Photo: Taking Up Time Making (1978), ink on paper by Mike Kelley. 

Announcements

oates and wolitzer
(L) photo by Frank Wojciechowski; (R) photo by Nina Subin


Recent works by Professor of Creative Writing in the Lewis Center Joyce Carol Oates and guest artist in the Princeton Atelier Meg Wolitzer have been named to the list of 100 Notable Books of 2013 by The New York Times Book Review. Oates' novel, The Accursed (Ecco/HarperCollins) and Wolitzer's The Interestings (Riverhead) are both listed among the year's notable fiction, poetry, and nonfiction titles. 


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 arts.princeton.edu.




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