This week, justArts spoke with Sarai Warsoff ’16 whose senior thesis is “Uncorseted: an original dance piece.” Sarai’s thesis in the Senior Thesis Festival will explore the history and evolution of modern dance through the vocabulary of five female choreographers. justArts: What inspired you to pursue a senior thesis?
The Rose Art Museum recently announced that it is dedicating its Mildrid S. Lee Gallery as a place to foster conversation about social issues. The initiative was inspired by #FordHall2015, a twelve-day occupation of the Bernstein-Marcus Administration Building by students who were calling for expansion of racial diversity and inclusion on campus. “The space was conceived as a place of reflection and dialogue, in which works ... might serve as catalysts for conversation about issues relating to cultural bias, race, and the intersection of art and activism,” said Chris Bedford, Henry and Lois Foster director and Assistant Curator Caitlin Rubin in an email to the Justice. “The museum seeks to create a sustainable space and program that our community can rely on, in times of both peace and conflict.” The space will display pieces from the museum’s permanent collection, in keeping with the tradition of the Lee Gallery. The museum’s newsletter states that the space will also be used for “teach-ins, workshops, and close looking sessions related to racial injustice and inequality.” Currently on view are works by Al Loving, Melvin Edwards and Ellen Gallagher. Bedford and Rubin say, “We hope that this selection elicits some important questions, such as: what is the relationship between abstraction and the body?
Students visiting Usdan Dining Hall will now be able to enjoy art as they eat.
Walking into the Laurie Theater on Saturday night, I could not help but feel as if I had entered a completely different space. The theater had been transformed into a modern day kitchen — complete with a sink, kitchen island, cabinets stocked to the brim with food and drink, mostly resembling alcohol, and a refrigerator.
A beat from a single drum, an atsimevu, preceded an onslaught of rhythm from the students of Brandeis’s Ghanaian drum and dance ensemble in Friday night’s biannual “Fafali: Music and Dance from Ghana.” The class showcased the Ghanaian dance-drumming they learned this past semester in a spirited night of drumming, dancing and singing.
Friday was the first of the two nights of the 16th annual Sketch Comedy Festival, featuring opening acts by Skidmore College’s Sketchies and Yale University’s Fifth Humor, and Brandeis’s beloved Boris’ Kitchen. The Sketchies opened with a few humorous sketches.
This week, justArts spoke with Tres Fimmano ’18, who directed Tympanium Euphorium’s production of “Little Shop of Horrors” that went up in the Shapiro Campus Center Theater this past weekend.
“You stupid kite, come down out of that tree!” The large crowd huddled in the top floor of the Rose Art Museum was completely silent as Tony Arnold echoed these words from the bottom of the stairs.
I think it’s safe to say that no one at Brandeis has ever laughed so hard at a giant, fake, people-eating plant. This past weekend in the Shapiro Campus Center Theater, Tympanium Euphorium put on “Little Shop of Horrors,” a tragicomedy about a Venus flytrap hungry for human blood. The show features a lowly young man named Seymour (Nathan Schneider ’18) who works in a flower shop in a poor neighborhood.
A crowd packed into Levin ballroom on Saturday night to see “MELA 2015: Nazrana.” Presented by the South Asian Students’ Association, MELA is an annual celebration of South Asian culture and heritage.
A young woman sits at a piano while her mother rapidly types the words she sings. It seems like the set-up of a sweet domestic scene, but it is anything but.
As the Frank Ocean song went silent and the house lights dimmed, a voiceover began to play. “This is a story about alcohol ... about church ... about race ... about oceans ... about returning and leaving ... this is a story about you.” According to its program, “Collision” was “a collaborative, artistic effort to enact social change through personal narrative.” Director Kesi Kmt ’16 said that the cast rehearsed for about three weeks before presenting “Collision.” Kmt, along with Sophie Warren ’18, Ashani Peterkins ’16, Sarah McCarty ’16 and Shakeria Hicks, who does not attend Brandeis, wrote the show’s script.
This week, justArts spoke with Lina Nurhussien, president of Brandeis African Students Organization, about their 5th annual Night for Africa.
On Sunday night in the Slosberg Music Center, the Brandeis Improvisation Collective’s fall concert made people tap their feet, nod their heads and laugh to the music. Brandeis Improv Collective is an undergraduate group that plays completely improvised music.
The room hummed with excitement as performers lined the overhead balconies practicing their choreography, and spectators packed into Levin Ballroom on Thursday evening for the annual Fall Adagio Dance Company show, titled “Evolution Of Dance.” Adagio is the largest organization at the University dedicated to dance and is entirely student-run.
We are currently in the fall box office season, which is the hazy time between summer blockbusters and big holiday releases.
Henry and Lois Foster Director of the Rose Art Museum Christopher Bedford announced on Friday that collector, businessman and author Stephen M.
Despite multi-colored Christmas lights draped over the stage and set, “Ruined” is anything but a cheery play.
Despite multi-colored Christmas lights draped over the stage and set, “Ruined” is anything but a cheery play.
Kim Conaty has been appointed Curator for the Rose Art Museum. The announcement came last Tuesday in a press release, which stated that Conaty will begin her role in December.
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