Performance
An Evening of North Indian Classical Flute and Tabla
8PM Barnes Hall
The South Asia Program presents a performance by Steve Gorn on flute and Samir Chatterjee on tablas. The rasa-bhava element (the collaborative essence of the music produced by the musicians and the experience of the audience) is very present in this music.
Image: Steve Gorn
The Servant of Two Masters
Kiplinger Theatre, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts
Bursting with mistaken identities, acrobatic pratfalls, improbably miscommunications and a dash of romance, "The Servant of Two Masters" is a classic Italian comedy. The production will be directed by guest WIll Rhys, artist-in-residence at Cornell for a four-week period of workshops and classes.
Show times and ticket information
Photo by Andrew Gillis
Concert of Works for Piano and Electronic Media
8PM Barnes Hall
Shiau-uen Ding, native of Taiwan, presents a recital of new works for piano and electronic media. Ding will also present a lecture on contemporary electronic music performance practice.
Video: Shiau-uen Ding performance
Photo by Ben Kaufman
Les Petits Violons Plays Haydn
8PM, Sage Chapel
Concert + Award Presentation: Cornell University Undergraduate Artist Award winner, Dorian Komanoff Bandy (BA '10), College Scholar and music major in the College of Arts and Sciences, baroque violinist, violist, early keyboardist and conductor, will conduct a concert celebrating Haydn's bicentennial year. Bandy will lead the baroque orchestra Les Petits Violons and special guest soloists in a concert exploring music from Haydn's early and middle periods, and receive award.
Israeli Chamber Project
8PM Barnes Hall
Cornell Contemporary Chamber Players (CCCP) presents the Israeli Chamber Project (ICP) in collaboration with Cornell graduate composers. ICP and CCCP will perform newly commissioned work by Cornell graduate composer Amit Gilutz.
Nicholas Leichter Dance
Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts
Nicholas Leichter Dance fuses traditional and contemporary dance that works to engage audiences in emotional dialogues. The Department of Theatre, Film & Dance presents performances, classes, workshops, residences, lecture demonstrations, talk-backs and open rehearsals by the company.
Documentary Video Archive of Feminist Performances
Fall 2009 / Spring 2010
Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts
Collaborating with the Department of Theatre, Film and Dance, and local documentary film producer, Sue Perlgut, the archive will introduce video records to the documentation of feminist histories. The portraits will include practitioners as well as scholars, many of whom are retired or on the verge of retirement.
VIDEO: close to home productions / trailer
Program information
Momenta Quartet Concert
8PM, Barnes Hall
Contemporary music performed by the Momenta Quartet (Erik Carlson and Emilie-Anne Gendron, violins; Stephanie Griffin, viola; and Joanne Lin, cello), a New York City-based string quartet. With Wendy Richman, a leading new music violist and founding member of the International Contemporary Ensemble. Compositions by Philip Glass, Kee Yong Chong, Arthur Kampela and Gordon Beeferman.
Momenta Quartet
Momenta Quartet Concert
8PM, Barnes Hall
The Momenta Quartet will perform new works by Cornell graduate composers Charles Cacioppo, Taylan Cihan, Ryan Gallagher, Christopher Stark, and Zach Wadsworth.
Charles Burney Concert Festival
Conference and concert festival relating to the eighteenth-century musicologist Charles Burney.
CONFERENCE: Speakers will present papers relating to Burney’s career as travel writer,
historian, composer, and pedagogue. This scholarly event will be accompanied and enriched
by several live musical and theatrical performances.
CONCERTS:
MARCH 12, 8PM Barnes Hall: Project designed by music students Ellen Lockhart and Dorian Bandy, in which an actor will read excerpts from Burney’s colorful account of his research trip to Italy, and instrumentalists and singers will perform the music that he heard, using historical instruments and techniques.
MARCH 14, 2:00 pm, Cornell Cinema Theater: A short opera in its entirety: Burney’s English translation and adaptation of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s famous comic opera Le Devin du village (translated as The Cunning Man). This work, now unjustly fallen into obscurity, was immensely popular in its day. It features an appealing comic tale of love and trickery, and original music by Burney and Rousseau.
Both of these concerts will feature Cornell’s student baroque ensemble, the Petits Violons. This orchestra will be led by concertmaster Dorian Bandy, with violinists Anaar Desai-Stephens (musicology graduate student), Angela Early (biology graduate student), and violinist/violist Ken Fung (Cox Library of Music). We also have two baroque flutists, Mat Langlois (graduate musicology) and Beth Kelly (Cox Library of Music), and two baroque oboists, Evan Cortens and Monica Eason Roundy (both musicology grads).
Suzanne Farrell Ballet
Kiplinger Theatre, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts
The Department of Theatre, Film and Dance will include the Suzanne Farrell Ballet in their 2009-2010 season. For the first time on the Schwartz Center stage audiences will have an opportunity to see a highly lauded ballet company.
Gaypril: A Celebration of Queer Performance
Interdisciplinary collaboration between multiple departments and academic units on campus and between the university and the Ithaca community for a project entitled Gaypril: A Celebration of Queer Performance. Events with renowned performance artists Tim Miller and Marga Gomez.
April 1 -3: Lay of the Land, performance by Tim Miller. Kitchen Theater, Ithaca
April 2: Workshop with Tim Miller, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts
April 15: Long Island Iced Latina, performance by Marga Gomez. Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts
Tim Miller, performing artist website
Marga Gomez, performance artist website
Theatre Arts / schedule listing
Image: Marga Gomez publicity photo, Long Island Iced Latina
Cornell Design League Fashion Show
Barton Hall, Cornell University, Time TBA
ABBEY RACHEL by Abbey Liebman (BS '10, Apparel Design)
Silk painting with focus on the South West images of desert and rock formations will inspire the 9 piece line.
Cornell Design League Fashion Show
Barton Hall, Cornell University, Time TBA
LUTA MAKA by Lindsey Commons (MA '10 candidate, Apparel Design)
A collection inspired by the desert regions of the American west, with exploration of the transition from surface to line, to form, and from desert color to the absence of color. Funded in part by a grant from the CCA.
For more information: www.rso.cornell.edu/CDesignL/
Cornell Design League Fashion Show
Barton Hall, Cornell University, Time TBA
SHRED OF HER FORMER SELF by Nhu-Thu Nguyen (BA '11 candidate, Apparel Design)
A collection of 5 pieces constructed from shredded, distressed, and surface-modified fabrics, to be re-constructed into wearable art.
The Soldier's Tale by Charles Ferdinand Ramoz
8PM Barnes Hall
Performance conducted by Damien Mahiet (Ph.D musicology '11 candidate), with local performers. With visiting artist Caroline Copeland, choreographer, and visiting acotr and director Michael Tolaydo, professor of Dramatic Arts, St. Mary's College, MD.
A fusion of the arts with drama, ballet and music, in a story-telling of the Russian folktale of a soldier tricked by the devil, then tricking the devil, before meeting his final fate. The Soldier's Tale plays on the world of street or fairground entertainment to explore the relation between actors and audience, music and speech.
Sankari Vijayam: Kuchipudi Dance Drama
8PM, Barnes Hall
A Kuchipudi Dance Drama presented by Guru Bala Kondalrao and the Kuchipudi Kalakendra troupe of Visakhapatnam, India. This performance is the latest dance drama choreographed by Smt. Bala Kondalarao, founder and director of the Kuchipudi Kalakendra of Visakhapatnam, Andhra
Pradesh, South India.
“Parvati’s Victory” is based on traditional narratives from the Devi Bhagavatam, and depicts both the srngara rasa (romantic) and vira rasa (courageous) qualities of the divine feminine (Sakti) as worshipped throughout India: On the one hand The Goddess’ awakening of Siva from his perpetual state of meditation (the creation) and on the other, her preservation of that creation by defeating in battle the demons who threatened to destroy it.
The Government Inspector
Kiplinger Theatre, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts
Richard Hamburger will direct "The Government Inspector," written in 1835 by Russian master playwright, Nikolai Gogol, and adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher. The witty text rings as true and incredible as today's headlines. "The Government Inspector" is a biting satire and political farce lampooning bribery, corruption and greed in a wacky, Russian town.
In addition to directing the production, Hamburger will offer workshops and classes with students.