Tickets for Gallim Dance and Marc Bamuthi Joseph’s Word Becomes Flesh are now on sale online! Click here to buy your tickets. EVENING PERFORMANCES Hartford Steel Symphony – Tuesday, July 2, 7pm, CFA Courtyard, FREE! (Rain Location: Crowell Concert Hall) Gallim Dance – Thursday, July 11 & Friday, July 12 at 8pm, CFA Theater (New [...]
Posted in Theater on Apr. 10, 2013 by Monica Tinyo
CFA Arts Administration Intern Monica M. Tinyo ’13 talks to playwright Christina Anderson, who will be giving the free talk “The Theater as Apparatus: Why This Play? Why Now?” on Friday, April 12, 2013 at 4:15pm in CFA Hall. When asked in an interview “why theater?”, Christina Anderson answered “I love the fact that [...]
CFA Arts Administration Intern Monica M. Tinyo ’13 surveys this week’s offerings at the Center for the Arts. What are you doing this weekend? Are you rocking out to the music of the Grateful Dead? Watching an outdoor puppet show? Maybe you are listening to an orchestra of laptops, or expanding your idea of art. [...]
Posted in Theater on Feb. 14, 2013 by Andrew Chatfield
Director of the Center for the Arts Pamela Tatge talks with Lee Breuer, who conceived and adapted (with Maude Mitchell) “Glass Guignol: The Brother and Sister Play,” which will receive its first Connecticut performance on Saturday, February 16 at 8pm. One of my top ten theater experiences of all time was seeing Lee Breuer [...]
Posted in Dance on Feb. 7, 2013 by Andrew Chatfield
Director of the Center for the Arts Pamela Tatge discusses choreographer Andrea Miller, and her company Gallim Dance. [The performance by Gallim Dance on Saturday, February 9, 2013 at 8pm has been canceled due to the snow storm. Ticket holders have the following options: receive a gift certificate to be used for a Breaking Ground [...]
Posted in Dance, Music on Dec. 20, 2012 by Andrew Chatfield
Wesleyan University’s Center for the Arts announces the creation of the Madhu Reddy Endowed Fund for Indian Music and Dance at Wesleyan University. Mr. Reddy, a real estate agent with William Raveis based in Glastonbury, Connecticut, established the fund with a pledge of $100,000 and presented a check for $50,000 to Pamela Tatge, Director of [...]
This spring at the Center for the Arts we bring you work that is of today: innovative, inquisitive and sure to surprise and engage you. Continuing our exploration of Music & Public Life, we bring you a concert of music from Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello–what you might have heard both in the mansion and in the [...]
Posted in Music on Dec. 7, 2012 by Monica Tinyo
John Cage turns one hundred this year, and Wesleyan is celebrating his life and work via John Cage & Public Life, which focuses on Cage’s understanding of music as a social process, and includes a lecture this afternoon by Richard Kostelanetz, the noted literary artist and author of the first biography of John Cage; [...]
Posted in Dance, Music on Oct. 16, 2012 by Andrew Chatfield
Center for the Arts Director Pamela Tatge discusses working with T. Viswanathan, and the events of the 36th annual Navaratri Festival at Wesleyan (October 17-21, 2012). I had the great fortune of working with T. Viswanathan soon after I arrived at Wesleyan to plan the annual Navaratri Festival. And in the two years I worked [...]
Posted in Music on Oct. 12, 2012 by Monica Tinyo
CFA Arts Administration Intern Monica M. Tinyo ’13 talks about “MiddletownRemix”, which is part of “Music & Public Life”, a year-long campus and community-wide exploration celebrating and studying the sounds, words, and spirit of music. Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar? —Percy Bysshe Shelley Technology can foster [...]
