 This Week at the Lewis CenterWeek of February 16, 2014
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Photo by Frank Wojciechowski
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Senior thesis production by
theater students Peter Giovine
and Emma Boettcher
This weekend! February 14 & 15 at 8:00 p.m.
Thursday-Saturday, February 20-22 at 8:00 p.m.
The Program in Theater presents a recent dramatic adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic, coming-of-age epic, Great Expectations by Neil Bartlett. Directed by faculty member Tim Vasen and featuring senior Peter Giovine as Pip with senior Emma Boettcher serving as dramaturg, performances begin Friday and Saturday, February 14 - 15 and continue Thursday through Saturday, February 20, 21 and 22 at 8:00 p.m. in the Marie and Edward Matthews '53 Acting Studio located at 185 Nassau Street. A talk-back will follow the February 15 performance. Click here for a behind-the-scenes look at the production, or visit this link to hear an interview with students behind the production on WPRB Princeton radio. Tickets are $12 general admission, $10 students/seniors and are available online through University Ticketing or by calling 609.258.9220, at Frist Campus Center Ticket Office, or at the door prior to each performance.
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Lecture on "The Relationship between Traditional African Music and Dance"
Monday, February 17 at 2:30 p.m.
Ayanda Clarke, a second-generation African-American musician, will share his musical knowledge and cultural experiences in a workshop on Monday, February 17, at 2:30 p.m. Clarke will examine the relationship between traditional African music and dance through video viewings, historical references, experiential discussion, and musical demonstrations. The lecture, given as part of Dyane Harvey's spring 2014 course "The American Dance Experience and Africanist Dance Practices," will be held in the Patricia and Ward Hagan '48 Dance Studio at 185 Nassau Street and is free and open to the public.
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Photo courtesy Genevieve Yue
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Lecture by Genevieve Yue
Thursday, February 20 at 4:30 p.m.
The Program in Visual Arts will kick-off a spring film lecture series on Thursday, February 20, with a lecture by film scholar and programmer Genevieve Yue. Yue, an assistant professor of Culture and Media at Eugene Lang College in The New School for Liberal Arts, will give a lecture entitled "Leader Ladies: China Girls, Film Laboratories, and Experimental Cinema" at 4:30 p.m. in the James M. Stewart '32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street with a reception following. The event, co-sponsored by the Film Studies Committee, the Council of the Humanities and the Lewis Center, is free and open to the public.
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Two artists' books by juniors.
Photo by Jaclyn Sweet
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Featuring student work
Through Friday, February 21
The Program in Visual Arts is presenting a comprehensive exhibition of new work created by students in fall semester courses in drawing, painting, photography, graphic design, sculpture and other media. The student work will be on view through Friday, February 21 in the Lucas Gallery on the second floor at 185 Nassau Street. Gallery hours: Weekdays 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The exhibition is free and open to the public.
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Photo by Bentley Drezner
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Annual dance concert showcasing
more than 50 students
Friday, February 21 at 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, February 22 at 2:00 & 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, February 23 at 1:00 p.m.
The Program in Dance will present the 2014 Spring Dance Festival, a dance concert showcasing more than 50 students performing in repertory by distinguished, internationally renowned choreographers Kyle Abraham, Bill T. Jones and Doug Varone; a premiere by Princeton Hodder Fellow Pam Tanowitz; and in new dances created by faculty members Tina Fehlandt and Rebecca Lazier. Performances will take place on Friday, February 21, at 8:00 p.m.; Saturday, February 22, at 2:00 and 8:00 p.m.; and Sunday, February 23, at 1:00 p.m. in the Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center. Tickets are $15 reserved seating, $10 students/seniors and are available through University Ticketing at 609.258.9220 or the Berlind Box Office at 609.258.2787.
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Photo by Catherine Mauger
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Premiere reading of C.K. Williams' new play
Monday, February 24 at 8:00 p.m.
On Monday, February 24, a new play by recently retired member of the Creative Writing faculty C.K. Williams, Beasts of Love, will receive a reading at 8:00 p.m. at the Princeton University Art Museum. The play is a lyrical re-telling of the story of Phaedra, Hippolytus, and Theseus. Performed by a group of student actors, the reading is directed by Professor of Theater Robert Sandberg. A talk back conversation with Williams will follow the reading. The event, part of The Phaedra Project at Princeton, is free and open to the public.
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Photo courtesy Edmund White
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Edmund White reads from his latest memoir
Tuesday, February 25 at 6:00 p.m.
Professor of Creative Writing and acclaimed author and critic Edmund White will read from his latest work, Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris, on Tuesday, February 25 at 6:00 p.m. In the memoir, White examines his time spent in Paris from 1983-1998 and his understanding of French life and culture. The reading will be held at Labyrinth Books at 122 Nassau Street in Princeton and is free and open to the public.
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Photo by Przemyslaw Graf
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Polish theater company performs its docudrama
Tuesday-Wednesday, February 25 & 26 at 8:00 p.m.
The Lewis Center's Performance Central series will host the legendary Polish theater company Theater of the Eighth Day, performing its riveting docudrama The Files, on February 25 and 26. The Files was created from actual surveillance records the secret police kept on the group between 1975 and 1983. Performances will be in English and will begin at 8:00 p.m. at the Marie and Edward Matthews '53 Acting Studio at 185 Nassau Street. A talk back discussion with members of the company will follow the performances, which are free and open to the public.
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Still from the film
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Screening and discussion of Hodder Fellow
Chinonye Chukwu's latest film
Wednesday, February 26 at 4:30 p.m.
Chinonye Chukwu, a 2013-14 Hodder Fellow at the Lewis Center, will screen her most recent short film, A Long Walk, on Wednesday, February 26. The film is an adaptation of Samuel Autman's short story "A Walk Through the Neighborhood, in which a child is publicly ridiculed by his father as a neighborhood onlooker laments over what he could have done to prevent the incident and the irreversible consequences that it causes. The screening will begin at 4:30 p.m. at the James M. Stewart '32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street. Following the screening, Autman will read his short story and discuss filmmaking, adaptation, and acting with Chukwu and the film's star, Colman Domingo. The screening, reading, and discussion are all free and open to the public.
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Photo courtesy Fintan O'Toole
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Fintan O'Toole delivers Robert Fagles Memorial Lecture
Friday, February 28 at 4:30 p.m.
Leonard Milberg '53 Visiting Lecturer in Theater Fintan O'Toole will deliver the Robert Fagles Memorial Lecture on Friday, February 28. His lecture, entitled "Mr. Bloom and the Buddha," will begin at 4:30 p.m. in the 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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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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