Updates and reflections from Wesleyan's Center for the Arts in Middletown, Connecticut
In connection with the exhibition “We Chat: A Dialogue in Contemporary Chinese Art” on view in the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, performance artist Yan Xing worked closely with students to stage a happening at Olin Memorial Library on Friday, February 26, 2016.
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Choreographer, writer, director, and conceptualist Ralph Lemon gave a presentation about his new and old work about an imagined South in the Ring Family Performing Arts Hall on Thursday, February 25, 2016.
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Private Lessons Teacher Stan Scott and friends performed reels, jigs, waltzes, and old and new songs of emigrants, soldiers, mystics, lovers, and laborers in The Russell House on Sunday, February 21, 2016.
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A talk by playwright and director Guillermo Calderón, one of Chile’s most successful contemporary theater artists, was held on Tuesday, February 9, 2016 in Memorial Chapel.
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The Connecticut debut of Syrian vocalist/songwriter Gaida, one of the most “effusive and charming” (Timeout New York) singers on the world-music scene was held on Friday, February 5, 2016 in the Crowell Concert Hall.
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An opening reception was held for “We Chat”—A Dialogue in Contemporary Chinese Art on Tuesday, January 26, 2016 in the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery. The exhibition features works by ten young artists that reflect the state of China today, and raise questions about the sustainability of national and cultural identity in an increasingly globalized world.
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The Wesleyan University Jazz Orchestra, directed by Adjunct Professor of Music and African American Studies Jay Hoggard, and Jazz Ensembles, directed by Noah Baerman and Visiting Assistant Professor of Music and Private Lessons Teacher Pheeroan akLaff, performed an end of the semester concert on Friday, December 11, 2015 in the Crowell Concert Hall.
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Students from MUSC 109 “Introduction to Experimental Music” and special mystery guests staged their original work as part of a series of overlapping performances in their realization of John Cage’s “Musicircus” on Thursday, December 10, 2015 in the Crowell Concert Hall.
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Advanced student choreographers had their dress rehearsal for the Winter Dance Concert on Thursday, December 10, 2015 in the CFA Theater.
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Renowned percussion ensemble Mantra Percussion premiered new works written for them by Wesleyan student composers on Sunday, December 6, 2015 in World Music Hall.
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