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Coffee & Concepts Talk
OnlineThe Center for Performance Studies at the School of Drama is happy to announce that LaDonna L Forsgren, a performance scholar from the University of Notre Dame, will share her new research about blackness and the musical stage on April 30, from 2 to 4 pm. Her talk is titled: "'Outrageous American Home Truths': Blackgirl Wit, Imagination, and Folklore in Contemporary Musical Theatre."
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Earth Matters on Stage: a Book Talk with Theresa J. May
FeaturedHutchinson Hall - Room 154 BOX 353950, Seattle, WA, United StatesYou're invited to join us for a book talk and conversation with Theresa J. May, a professor and director/devisor/ecodramaturg at the University of Oregon and an alum of our PhD program in Theatre History, Theory and Criticism. Theresa May will be our guest in the Friday afternoon PhD seminar on October 22. She'll talk about her recently published book, Earth Matters On Stage: Ecology and Environment in the American Theater (Routledge, 2020), a study of the way American theatre and performance...
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Dis-Orient: Autumn Talks; Landscapes of Erasure and Presence
FeaturedCMU 120“Dis-Orient” is an encounter whereby a series of presentations | papers are delivered by the members of the cluster and by external Guests and Alumni. The latter will deliver purviews of artistic disciplines practiced at their homeland and that challenge the dominating grand narrative. Having as a title "Landscapes of Erasure and Presence", the first encounter of "Dis-Orient: Autumn talks" will host three panelists sharing their research practices around architecture & theatre. Thus, choreographies of spaces as architectural manifestations of monumentality, bigness...
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The Caravan of Central American Mothers in Mexico
FeaturedCMU 120The School of Drama, the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, and the Department of Dance are glad to invite you to a talk by performance historian Ana E. Puga from Ohio State University. Her talk, titled “The Caravan of Central American Mothers in Mexico: Protesting Migrant Disappearance on a Transnational Stage-in-Motion” examines the artistic and activist performances of women commemorating the lives of lost relatives who disappeared while traveling as undocumented migrants from Central America to Mexico.
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“Yoko Ono and the Art of the Breakdown” | Minoritarian Performance Research Cluster
Simpson Center for the HumanitiesJoshua Chambers-Letson "Yoko Ono and the Art of the Breakdown" | A Minoritarian Performance Research Cluster Event
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The Sound of a World Within Worlds: Words, Music, Yiddish, and Culture
Kane Hall 4069 Spokane Ln NE, seattle, WA, United StatesFor this year’s Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies, Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell, a classically trained and internationally acclaimed vocalist, composer and arranger specializing in music in the Yiddish language, will perform with accompanist Dmitri Gaskin. Through oration and art music, they will take us on a melodic journey through a variety of elements come together to shape Russell’s unique genre of Jewish musicality.