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Robert Henke Administrative Assistant: Loryl Breitenbach (lbreiten@artsci.wustl.edu) | Home Page: http://artsci.wustl.edu/~pad/
Location: 312 Mallinckrodt Center Email: pad@artsci.wustl.edu Telephone: 314) 935-5858 |
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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| March dance madness Students take top honors at ACDFA regional conference (http://news-info.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/11499.html) April 7, 2008 --
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| The Lion and the Jewel PAD to present Wole Soyinka classic April 18 to 27 (http://news-info.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/11497.html) April 7, 2008 --
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| Young Choreographers Showcase Dance concert to feature seven original works March 28 to 30 (http://news-info.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/11291.html) March 13, 2008 --
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| Mary Jean Cowell Coordinator, Dance Program of Performing Arts in Arts & Sciences (http://news-info.wustl.edu/sb/page/normal/464.html) 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 / mjcowell@artsci.wustl.edu |
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| Christine Knoblauch-O'Neal Senior Artist-in-Residence, Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences (http://news-info.wustl.edu/sb/page/normal/468.html) 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 / ckoneal@artsci.wustl.edu |
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| Bonnie Kruger Senior Artist-in-Residence in Performing Arts in Arts & Sciences (http://news-info.wustl.edu/sb/page/normal/474.html)
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 / bjkruger@artsci.wustl.edu |
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| Carter Lewis Playwright-in-Residence, Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences (http://news-info.wustl.edu/sb/page/normal/466.html) 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 / clewis@artsci.wustl.edu |
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| David Marchant Senior Artist-in-Residence, Performing Art Department in Arts & Sciences (http://news-info.wustl.edu/sb/page/normal/467.html) 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 / marchant@artsci.wustl.edu |
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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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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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