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student on stage with a picture of a woman projected onto her hands
The Arts
March 2, 2018 | 02:25 pm

International Theatre Program presents its first ‘devised’ work

The spring production We Don’t Live on Mars Yet never started out as your typical theater production. It’s what’s called a devised work — where actors, production artists, and even the director don’t know what the final play will be.

topics: featured-post, International Theatre Program, School of Arts and Sciences,
close-up photo of a conductor on stage
The Arts
March 1, 2018 | 10:48 am

Symphony Orchestra, dancers to explore theme of immigration

In her new role in the Department of Music, Rachel Waddell encourages people to “listen to classical music in a different way,” connecting an upcoming performance of Antonin Dvořák’s New World Symphony to issues of immigration, and the meaning of “home.”

topics: Arthur Satz Department of Music, events, featured-post, Rachel Waddel, School of Arts and Sciences,
detail from artist's print
The Arts
January 19, 2018 | 10:13 am

Artist Walid Raad to discuss war, art, and memory

Conceptual artist Walid Raad ’96 (PhD), an associate professor of art at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, will be the third speaker in the Humanities Center’s annual public lecture series, devoted this year to the theme of memory and forgetting.

topics: alumni, Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies, Humanities Center,
man standing in front of two pieces of art work
The Arts
January 8, 2018 | 03:43 pm

A stitcher’s story

Randall Cook, building and project manager for River Campus Libraries, turned a hobby used to relieve the stress of his previous job as a software engineering into the art quilts featured in the Memorial Art Gallery’s “Hidden Passions” series.

topics: Memorial Art Gallery, River Campus Libraries,
man breakdancing in front of a crowd
The Arts
January 8, 2018 | 12:44 pm

‘You can dance if you want to:’ Five things you might not know about dance at Rochester

Did you know you can major in dance? Or take a course in dance even if you’ve never danced before? As the annual inspireDance Festival gears up later this month, learn more about how dance and Rochester go hand in hand.

topics: events, featured-post, inspireDANCE Festival, Institute for the Performing Arts, Program of Dance and Movement, School of Arts and Sciences,
illustration of a black bird against a red background.
The Arts
November 29, 2017 | 04:41 pm

Poet James Longenbach unites spare and spooky in Earthling

This fifth collection of poetry from the Joseph H. Gilmore Professor of English had its roots in a poem he wrote called “Pastoral,” which would set the collection’s tone of “feeling or spiritual development.”

topics: Department of English, James Longenbach, literature, School of Arts and Sciences,
director standing on stage
The Arts
November 29, 2017 | 03:23 pm

Four questions for director Ken Rus Schmoll

The two-time Obie Award-winner is in Rochester to direct Octavia, a play ripped from the headlines in the year AD 62.

topics: featured-post-side, Institute for the Performing Arts, International Theatre Program, School of Arts and Sciences,
cast of actors on stage, one of them leaping through the air.
The Arts
November 22, 2017 | 10:34 am

Octavia opens at Todd Theater

The International Theatre Program closes its fall semester with the production of the rarely staged play Octavia, directed by Obie Award-winning guest director Ken Rus Schmoll.

topics: featured-post, Institute for the Performing Arts, International Theatre Program, School of Arts and Sciences,