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Washington University hosts a wide range of professional and student performing arts events, both on the Edison Theatre mainstage and in the intimate, "black box" A.E. Hotchner Studio Theatre.
The annual Edison Theatre OVATIONS! Series, launched in 1973, presents interdisciplinary, multicultural and experimental new works (as well as innovative interpretations of classical material) by nationally and internationally known artists. The popular ovations! for young people series provides specially priced Saturday matinees for audiences of all ages.
The Performing Arts Department (PAD) in Arts & Sciences offers a variety of classic, contemporary and even original drama, including the winner of the annual A.E. Hotchner Student Playwriting Competition. Meanwhile, the Dance Program's Washington University Dance Theatre concert showcases top students, selected by audition, in professionally choreographed works by visiting artists such as Donald McKayle, David Dorfman and Bebe Miller.
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Mary Jean Cowell
Coordinator, Dance Program of Performing Arts in Arts & Sciences
Cowell's professional work began in New York City where she studied with Merce Cunningham and Alwin Nikolais, among others. She performed with the Katherine Litz Company and since then has choreographed more than 50 works which have been presented in New York, Hawaii, Tokyo, and more recently in St. ...
Expertise: contemporary dance, Japanese literature, Japanese theatre, Michio Ito, Kobe Abe
Direct contact: (314) 935-4474
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mjcowell@artsci.wustl.edu
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Christine Knoblauch-O'Neal
Senior Artist-in-Residence, Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences
Christine Knoblauch-O'Neal performed for twenty years with such companies as American Ballet Theater, the National Ballet, Dancers, and the Cincinnati Ballet.
Expertise: ballet, choreography, dance
Direct contact: (314) 935-4475
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ckoneal@artsci.wustl.edu
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Bonnie Kruger
Senior Artist-in-Residence in Performing Arts in Arts & Sciences
Kruger has designed costumes for more than 100 productions in theatre, opera and dance for companies throughout the United States and Europe.
Expertise: costume design, Baroque opera, opera costumes, costumes, opera
Direct contact: (314) 935-7522
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bjkruger@artsci.wustl.edu
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Carter Lewis
Playwright-in-Residence, Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences
Lewis is playwright-in-residence at Washington University in St. Louis, prior to which he served as literary manager & playwright-in-residence at Geva Theatre in New York. He was also co-founder and playwright-in-residence for Upstart Stage in Berkeley, CA.
Expertise: playwrighting, dramaturgy, contemporary theatre, horse racing
Direct contact: (314) 935-4475
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clewis@artsci.wustl.edu
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David Marchant
Senior Artist-in-Residence, Performing Art Department in Arts & Sciences
Marchant is an active St. Louis dancer and choreographer. In addition to his work at Washington University, he is artistic advisor to Atrek Contemporary Dance Company and on faculty at COCA (the Center of Contemporary Arts).
Expertise: contemporary dance theory, comtemporary dance technique, choreography, Alexander Technique, improvisation
Direct contact: (314) 935-4476
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marchant@artsci.wustl.edu
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Rigoletto and roll
East Village Opera Company at Edison Theatre May 2
April 10,
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You've heard opera, and you've heard rock, but you've never heard opera rocked like the East Village Opera Company. Over the last five years this powerhouse ensemble — comprising a five-piece band, a string quartet and two outstanding vocalists — has created electric, hard-hitting arrangements of many of opera's "greatest hits." In May, the East Village Opera Company will make its St. Louis debut as part of the Edison Theatre OVATIONS! Series at Washington University
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March dance madness
Students take top honors at ACDFA regional conference
April 7,
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A group of 18 students dancers from the Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences has taken top honors at the Central Region conference of the American College Dance Festival Association. The conference was held March 4 to 9 at Friends University in Wichita, Kansas. The students were recognized for their performance of "Grid," an original work choreographed by Cecil Slaughter, senior lecturer in dance.
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The Lion and the Jewel
PAD to present Wole Soyinka classic April 18 to 27
April 7,
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Men versus women, modern versus traditional, culture versus colonization. Such conflicts lie at the heart of The Lion and the Jewel, a sly and subversive comedy by Nobel Prize-winning author Wole Soyinka. In April, the Performing Arts Department (PAD) in Arts & Sciences will present this deceptively light-hearted carnival of dance and song as its spring mainstage production.
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'Hana's Suitcase' bridges 2 worlds in its search for a girl who died at Auschwitz
Associated Press
and 16 others
Jan. 19,
2007 -- AP's Cheryl Wittenauer reports on the story behind Hana's Suitcase, a play that is receiving its American premiere this week at WUSTL's Edison Theatre.
Playwright Emil Sher's adaptation of the best-selling book of the same name by Karen Levine is co-produced by Edison Theatre and Metro Theater Company.
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Hemingway pal A.E. Hotchner recalls his old friend
Associated Press
and 11 others
July 21,
2005 -- Dear Papa, Dear Hotch -- letters between Ernest Hemingway and WUSTL alum A.E. Hotchner -- will be released this fall by U. Missouri Press. Hotchner talks about his friend and his life.
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Unpublished Williams poem found in bookstore
Associated Press
and 115 others
April 15,
2005 -- A previously unpublished poem by Tennessee Williams, described as having been "written out of absolute, complete despair," has been discovered in his blue test booklet from a college course in 1937.
The poem has been acquired by WUSTL, where Williams, as a student in his mid-20s, plummeted into depression before fleeing the city he said he despised.
WUSTL performing arts chair Henry Schvey found the poem and test booklet last March at Faulkner House Books in New Orleans.
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20 years after his death, a Tennessee Williams' work is staged for the first time
The New York Times
April 26,
2004 -- Twenty years after his death, one of Tennessee Williams' plays is seeing the light of a stage for the first time. "Me Vashya," an early play by Williams, will receive its world premiere at Washington University in St. Louis in February. Written in 1937 while Williams was a student here and known as Tom, his birth name, the play has remained in Washington University archives for more than 60 years. It has never been published or performed — until now.
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