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Spring Photos: Talk by Quiara Alegría Hudes

October 7, 2015August 18, 2015 by jscribner

Quiara Alegría Hudes is the Shapiro Distinguished Professor of Writing and Theater at Wesleyan University. Her play Water by the Spoonful received the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Her other works include the book for the 2008 Tony Award-winning “Best Musical” In the Heights, and the plays Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue (2006) and The Happiest Song Plays Last (2013). Her younger cousin grew up in “the barrio,” graduated public school, enlisted at the age of seventeen, sustained a leg injury in Iraq, and became a veteran, all by the ripe age of eighteen. This talk on April 27, 2015 in Memorial Chapel told the true backstage story of what happened after Ms. Hudes turned her cousin’s life into a trilogy of plays. For him, opening night was only the beginning.

Click here to view the full album on flickr. Images by Sandy Aldieri of Perceptions Photography.

Spring Photos: Noah Baerman Resonance Ensemble

August 19, 2015August 18, 2015 by jscribner

A pianist, composer, educator, author, and Artistic Director of Resonant Motion, “Noah Baerman is no stranger to aiming high” (David Adler, Village Voice). With a cast of instrumentalists and vocalists including alto saxophonist/flutist Kris Allen, vibraphonist Chris Dingman ’02, cellist and vocalist Melanie Hsu ’13, bassist Henry Lugo, Private Lessons Teacher and drummer Bill Carbone MA ’07, Ph.D. candidate, and vocalists Latanya Farrell, Claire Randall ’12, and Garth Taylor ’12, Mr. Baerman (on piano, synthesizer, and slide guitar) and his group presented the world premiere of his extended work The Rock and the Redemption on April 25, 2015 in Crowell Concert Hall.

Click here to view the full album on flickr. Images by Sandy Aldieri of Perceptions Photography.

Spring Photos: Wayang Kulit – Javanese Puppet Play

August 19, 2015August 18, 2015 by jscribner

University Professor of Music and dhalang (puppet master) Sumarsam and the Wesleyan Gamelan Ensemble, directed by Artist in Residence I.M. Harjito, presented a Javanese wayang kulit, the puppet play employing intricately carved leather puppets, accompanied by an ensemble of tuned-gongs, metallophones, two-stringed fiddle, xylophone, flute, and vocalists on April 24, 2015 in the World Music Hall. Click here to view the full album on flickr. Images by Sandy Aldieri of Perceptions Photography.

Spring Photos: Senior Talks in the History of Art

August 19, 2015August 18, 2015 by jscribner

Seniors in the Art History Program of Wesleyan’s Department of Art and Art History presented their talks: Alexa Burzinski, Brandon Eng, Rachel Pei Hirsch, Samuel Usdan, and Gavriella Wolf on April 20, 2015 at 41 Wyllys Ave in Room 112. Click here to view the full album on flickr. Images by Sandy Aldieri of Perceptions Photography.

Spring Photos: In/Between – Pieces in Progress

August 19, 2015August 18, 2015 by jscribner

Lebanese American writer, performer, and teaching artist Leila Buck ’99 presented a work-in-progress sharing of a collaborative theatrical work commissioned by the Center for the Arts as part of Muslim Women’s Voices at Wesleyan on April 18, 2015 in the World Music Hall.
Through theatrical scenes, storytelling, and playful improvisations with the audience, this performance-in-process invited the audience to participate in an interactive exploration of how we know what we think we know, see what we don’t, view ourselves and each other, and engage in the spaces in between. Click here to view the full album on flickr. Images by Sandy Aldieri of Perceptions Photography.

Spring Photos: Beyond The Veil

August 19, 2015August 18, 2015 by jscribner

Coordinated by the Muslim Coalition of Connecticut, this exhibition showcased photographs by regional artists that highlighted the daily lives of Muslim women in Connecticut and their contributions to society. The show explored the diversity and complexity of this community on April 14, 2015 at the Green Street Teaching and Learning Center at 51 Green Street in Middletown, CT. Click here to view the full album on flickr. Images by Sandy Aldieri of Perceptions Photography.

Spring Photos: The Nile Project

August 19, 2015August 18, 2015 by jscribner

The Connecticut premiere of The Nile Project featured a dozen musicians performing collaboratively composed songs drawn from the diverse styles and instruments of the countries along the Nile Basin—including Burundi, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, and Uganda—intertwining these traditions into a unified sound that is “joyous and even raucous” (NPR Music) on April 10, 2015 in Crowell Concert Hall. Click here to view the full album on flickr. Images by Sandy Aldieri of Perceptions Photography.

Spring Photos: The Universal Flute

August 18, 2015 by jscribner

Asian Cutural Council Senior Advisor Ralph Samuelson MA ’71 performed traditional music on shakuhachi (Japanese flute). Dancer /choreographer Eiko Otake (of Eiko & Koma) joined Mr. Samuelson, performing a variation from her solo project, A Body in Places on April 1, 2015 in the Seminar Room at the Mansfield Freeman Center of East Asian Studies. Click here to view the full album on flickr.

UniversalFlute_040115_001 — The Universal Flute

UniversalFlute_040115_008 — The Universal Flute

UniversalFlute_040115_009 — The Universal Flute

UniversalFlute_040115_013 — The Universal Flute

UniversalFlute_040115_015 — The Universal Flute

UniversalFlute_040115_012 — The Universal Flute

Images by Sandy Aldieri of Perceptions Photography.