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Performing Arts
The Performing Arts Department of Washington University believes that the study and practice of the performing arts should play a central role in education. Theatre, dance, and film are humane, indeed "liberal" arts. These arts benefit from their inclusion in a liberal arts university, as the university itself profits from including them. The diverse historical and cultural perspectives provided by the liberal arts curriculum illuminate department majors' understanding of their developing crafts, and make them better artists. At the same time, non-majors and the university community at large have much to learn from theatre, dance, and film. For these are truly interdisciplinary arts, touching architecture, music, painting, history, literature, psychology, anthropology, and technology, so that the performing arts provide revealing windows for the historical, contemporary, and international study of culture. In the intellectual study and practical performance of theatre, dance, and film, we cultivate several aspects of human endeavor.
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Transmotion
Washington University Dance Theatre to feature original works Dec. 4-6
Nov. 20,
2009 --
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Washington University Dance Theatre (WUDT), the annual showcase of professionally choreographed works performed by student dancers, will present Transmotion, its 2009 concert, Dec. 4 to 6 in Edison Theatre. Performances — sponsored by the Performing Arts Department (PAD) in Arts & Sciences — will feature more than three dozen student dancers, selected by audition, in seven original works by faculty and guest choreographers. Pieces range from ballet and contemporary dance to works drawing on Chinese and Native American traditions.
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Chance Aesthetics Concert
Performance to feature avant-garde music Oct. 7
Sept. 29,
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Since the early 20th century avant-garde writers, artists and composers have championed the creative possibilities of the arbitrary and the accidental. Next week the Department of Music and the Dance Program in the Performing Arts Department, both in Arts & Sciences, along with the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will host a concert exploring the use of chance in modern and contemporary music. The performance — held in conjunction with the exhibition Chance Aesthetics, now on view at the Kemper Art Museum — is free and open to the public and begins at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 7, in the 560 Music Center's E. Desmond Lee Concert Hall.
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Ragtime
The Black Rep and Performing Arts Department join forces for acclaimed musical Oct. 16 to Nov. 1
Sept. 24,
2009 --
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Ragtime, Terrence McNally's acclaimed adaptation of the 1975 novel by E.L. Doctorow, is a sweeping and ambitious tale of race, class and the promise of America at the dawn of the 20th century. It is also a tremendously demanding theatrical production, requiring almost 50 actors and at least a dozen musicians. Indeed, Ragtime is so logistically challenging — more than 150 different costumes must be designed and sewn — that it virtually precludes staging by all but the largest of regional theaters. Yet next month, The Black Rep will join forces with the Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences to present this Tony Award-winning musical as the fall Mainstage production.
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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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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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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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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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World Premiere of Evie's Waltz Dances Into Repertory Theatre of St. Louis Oct. 22
Playbill.com (NY)
Oct. 22,
2008 -- Adam Hetrick previews the world premiere of Carter Lewis' Evie's Waltz, which begins performances at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis Oct. 22. The Rep commissioned playwright Lewis to pen the topical work, his fourth collaboration with The Rep. Lewis also serves as the playwright-in-residence at WUSTL.
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Tennessee Williams' residence converted into fancy condos
Associated Press
Aug. 1,
2006 -- Today, Tennessee Williams certainly would not recognize the apartment building he hated to live in as a young man in this Mississippi River city. The gutted space is being renovated into luxury condos, and the long-held claim that 4633 Westminster Place helped inspire the setting for "The Glass Menagerie" could fetch its owner, Mei Yang, some extra cash. Henry Schvey, a Williams scholar at Washington University in St. Louis, said "The Glass Menagerie" is based on several different places, at least two of which had fire escapes.
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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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