Cornell Council for the Arts

Cornell’s one and only Taiko drumming group, Yamatai, will perform at PULSE 2013, incorporating traditional Taiko pieces as well as original compositions.

An experimental multimedia piece incorporating sound, live music performance, and video art to create an immersive concert experience.

The Cornell Chamber Orchestra performs collaboratively with guest ensemble PRISM Quartet.

The Cornell Fashion Collective is a student-run organization that produces an annual runway show to serve as a platform for displaying the original fashion work of Cornell students.

An installation/performance work based on The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Infamous Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe and Carolyn Goelzer’s experience of raising 200 plants from seed in various growing conditions in her studio in northeast Minneapolis.

A symposium centered around the formalistic aesthetic of the ''Darmstadt School" - Andrew Zhou and Xak Bjerken, co-directors, with Walter Zimmermann, composer-in-residence with guest artists JACK Quartet, pianist Heather O'Donnell, and Ensemble X.

A collaborative performance by CU World Drum & Dance and Nukporfe, Binghamton University’s African Drum and Dance Ensemble.

Contrapunkt presents its 3rd Annual Art Concert as an exploration of the relationships between music, visual, literary, and performance artists.

Spencer Whale, PMA '14, directs Melancholy Play: A Contemporary Farce -- a moving yet ridiculous play by Sarah Ruhl.

In this play directed by Melanie Dreyer-Lude, an undercover Latina returns to her hometown on the Arizona Border to teach the next generation about what it is to be free only to find herself and her students held hostage to the politics of fear.

Set to the rhythms of Brazil, Bel Borba Aqui: A Man and a City introduces a one-man life-force who proves that his country is a lot more than favelas, soccer, and drugs.

Hindustani Classical Music/Jazz crossover performance, featuring saxophonist George Brooks.

An afternoon and evening of innovation in electronic music, featuring the legendary Simeon Coxe of Silver Apples and Malcolm Cecil of Tonto's Expanding Head Band.

The Cornell Wind Ensemble, Cornell Chorus, and soloist Susan Botti will be performing Cosmosis.

A recital of songs and poetry by graduate composer Michael Small and recent M.F.A. graduate poet Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers.

Sound artist and musician Ellen Fullman will be in residency at Cornell this February.

A collboration between the Momenta Quartet and the Cornell Contemporary Chamber Players. 

Cornell Jazz Voices and Tarana A Cappella present a collaborative fall project.

Cornell Cinema presents Herbert Brenon's 1924 film Peter Pan with live musical accompaniment by harpiest Leslie McMichael.

Visiting artists Jake Heggie, composer, and Gene Scheer, librettist and song writer, will be in residence in the music department this November.

Presented by LGBT Studies - a cabaret performance by interdisciplinary trans performance artist Nina Arsenault.

Cornell Cinema welcomes back the Alloy Orchestra for a weekend engagement during which they’ll perform their original scores with three different programs.

Cornell Cinema presents Nahmias' and Murphy's 2011 film Unfinished Spaces.

The Melodramatics Theatre Company presents bare, a musical about a group of high school students at Catholic boarding school who are all struggling with, and coming to terms with, their identities and their sexualities.

The brother three—Joe, Pat, and John La Barbera—will perform with the Cornell University Jazz Band, under the direction of Paul Merrill.

The Cornell Cinema presents Jacqueline Goss' 2012 film The Observers.

A performance of the talented Riyaaz Qawwali. Join in on dancing, henna tattoos, delicious food and various other performances.

Critically-acclaimed alternative rock band Yo La Tengo performs at the Cornell Cinema.

Taylan Cihan, DMA ’12 candidate in the Department of Music, will present a series of events including concerts, a sound installation and a conference on music, cognition and technology. For more information: www.mcts2012.com

Kimberly Wilczak, M'LArch'12 candidate in Landscape Architecture, will present a collaborative dance performance on the concept of body movement influenced by space, elevation and location.

Bailey HallYamatai (Cornell Taiko), a student organization at Cornell University dedicated to spreading the art and joy of Taiko, or Japanese drumming, hosted a workshop in February with invited taiko drummer from New York, Kaoru Watanabe.  Mr. Watanabe is among the most accomplished taiko players on the East Coast, and is a former artistic director of the Japanese taiko ensemble Kodo.  On April 21 2012, Yamatai will present a concert at Bailey Hall featuring Yamatai's energetic taiko...

April 18 Concert, 8PM, Barnes Hall April 19 Live music and filmscreening, 7:15PM Willard Straight Theatre The Momenta Quartet will present two programs: a concert of new music for string quartet and Javanese gamelan instruments by Cornell graduate students to be performed on April 18 at Barnes Hall; and a performance of works by the Argentinian-born German composer Mauricio Kagel and Beethoven, in conjunction with a screening of Kagel’s film Ludwig Van at Cornell Cinema on April 19. The...

Lincoln Hall and Barnes Hall The Cornell Contemporary Chamber Players, a student organization at Cornell University, brings to campus Talea Ensemble, a prominent American contemporary music ensemble, for a residency, performance and two talks on the theme of contemporary music performance and composition.  The ensemble will perform new compositions by Cornell students Niccolo Athens, Charles Cacioppo, Peter Fahey, Amit Gilutz, Jesse Jones and Takuma Itoh.Schedule of events: April 13,...

March 31: Symposium, Dillingham Theatre Building, Ithaca College April 1: Rasa Workshops, Dillingham Theatre Building, Ithaca College April 1, 7:30PM: Performance, Barnes Hall The South Asia Program presents a series of events examining the theory and practice of rasa, the aesthetic expression of emotion in performance, being used in both traditional and contemporary music, dance and theatre performances and performer training contexts.Participants in the day-long symposium include...

Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts and various locations A multi-disciplinary conference organized by Nick Salvato and Sara Warner, assistant professors in Theatre Arts, designed to consonate with the Society for the Humanities exploration of sound, this gathering of artists, academics and activists will explore the utterances, echoes, moans and groans that animate contemporary studies of sex, gender and sexuality. The conference will include performances and interactive workshops by...

9PM, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts Jorge Silva, BA '12 candidate in the Departments of Theatre, Film & Dance and Government, will present a multi-media theatre piece including actors, musicians, film students and dancers. The performance will focus on music and rave as a spectacle and form of storytelling. The narrative is inspired by an orchestral album that popularized "disco" in the electronica scene, and tells of the experiences invoked by themes of Latinidad...

Barnes Hall Visiting distinguished composer and performer Pauline Oliveros, a pioneer of art music and live electronic music performance, will give a concert, public talk and public interview with Cornell faculty member Ben Piekut (Musicology of experimental music).  The concert will include a performance by Cornell Avant-Garde Ensemble (CAGE), an electroacoustic free improvisation ensemble, with Professor Oliveros. Pauline Oliveros defines a new sensibility in both listening and music...

March 13, Time TBA, Becker House Gamelan Mayangkara, a ten-member musical ensemble, led by Purbo Asmoro, presents a Klenengan (an informal musical performance) with hands-on music workshop for students from West Campus Houses, Cornell students from Indonesia and members of Cornell Gamelan Ensemble. March 14, Time TBA, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art Purbo Asmoro, one of Java's most dynamic and renowned masters of Javanese Wayang Kulit (shadow drama) gives a talk on translating Javanese...

3PM, Bailey Hall The New York Baroque Dance Company will perform in a staged performance of two excerpts from opera-ballets by André Campra and Jean-Philippe Rameau, respectively, "L'Espagne" from L'Europe galante (1697) and "Les Sauvages" from Les Indes galantes (1736). Choreography will be created by Catherine Turocy, director of the New York Baroque Dance Company, and will be performed by members of the troupe and Cornell students. The performance will be...

7:30PM, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts Byron Suber, senior lecturer in the Dance Program at Cornell University, will present his second annual dance festival, a week-long event featuring work by students, faculty, alumni and community members from Cornell University, Ithaca College and Hobart William Smith College.  Work presented will include dance, music, film and poetry readings and feature a performance by Cornell freelance private instructor and cellist Zachary Sweet, and an...

8PM and 10PM, A.D. White House Anya Gibian, BS '12 candidate in International Labor Relations and Theatre Arts, will present a theatrical installation of theatre, music, dance and set design.  The piece combines the life of Cornell's first President and his family with Shakespeare's Henry IV and examines women's often-invisible role in history.  Six actors (Anya Gibian, Juliana Kleist-Mendez, James Miller, Nick Shuhan, James Miller and Ilana Gilovich) will portray historical figures...

3PM, Barnes Hall Contrapunkt!, a music composition student organization at Cornell University, will present its second annual multi-disciplinary concert featuring compositions inspired by student works of art.  Composer, President of Contrapunkt!, and director of the event, Liza Sobel is collaborating with Cornell's Undergraduate Artist of the Year, Roxanne Yamins, to create an art installation that will be integral to the composition and enhance the sound. Alex Hallenbeck will...

7:30PM, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts Catherine "Kat" Galasso, BA '06, a performance artist, dancer, filmmaker and choreographer working in San Francisco and New York City will present "Bring on the Lumiere!" a dance theatre piece inspired by the Lumiere Brothers who invented one of the first movie cameras in 1895.  The piece premieres in San Francisco in November 2011, travels to NYC in January and to Ithaca, NY in February.  This is a...

8PM, Barnes Hall The Department of Music will celebrate the life and music of composer Robert Palmer in a chamber music concert featuring his Violin Sonata (1956), his Sonata for two pianos (1944), and his Quintet for Clarinet, String Trio, and Piano (1952).  The performers will include Cornell faculty members Xak Bjerken, piano; Miri Yampolsky, piano; and doctoral student Andrew Zhou.  Guest musicians will include Richard Faria, clarinet; Nicholas DeEugenio, violin; Wendy...

January 26, 12:30PM: Midday Series of three chamber music concerts, Lincoln Hall January 27, 8PM: Chamber Music Recital, Barnes Hall January 29, 3PM: Recital for cello and piano, Barnes Hall Miri Yampolsky, chamber music lecturer in the Department of Music will collaborate with visiting musicians Hillel Zori, cellist, head of the string department at Israel Rubin Music Academy, Tel-Aviv University, and Israeli-American violinist Carmit Zori, chamber musician, New York.  Concerts...

This calendar highlights, in chronological order,  the events and exhibitions funded in part by the CCA in Spring 2012.  Scroll down for more. -->

Risley Theatre The Melodramatics Theatre Company presents Rent, a rock musical theatre production that focuses on the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s and 90s.  The cast and staff plan to create an intimate setting of an abstract view of New York in the late 80s, working in collaboration with Ithaca College students in theatre, lighting and set design.

3PM, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts Godfrey Simmons, visiting lecturer in the Department of Theatre, Film & Dance, collaborates with Obie-winning theatre company Hoi Polloi to present a three-day workshop of a theatrical adaptation of Charles Mingus' autobiography, Beneath the Underdog.  Alec Duffy, founder and artistic director of Hoi Polloi, will direct the workshops and staged reading of this work-in-progress.  With visiting actor and Cornell alum Lori Parquet and...

November 19, 8PM, Barnes Hall: Four conductors lead movements of the Hayden Symphony Cornell Chamber Orchestra; Chris Younghoon Kim, conductor, with guest clinician Johannes Schlaefli and violinists Susan Waterbury and Nicholas DiEugenio. Features Bach’s Concerto in D Minor for two violins, BWV 1043, Elgar’s Introduction and Allegro, and Haydn’s Symphony No. 47 November 20, 3PM, Bailey Hall: Johannes Schaefli conducts Tchaikovsky Symphony Cornell Symphony Orchestra; Chris...

8PM, Barnes Hall Residency and performance by composer Tim Hodgkinson, co-founder of the politically and musically radical group "Henry Cow," with guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer Chris Cochrane, and keyboardist and sound artist Miguel Frasconi.  This collaboration of well-known new music artists includes a two-day residency, concert and talk titled "Introduction to Computer Music" by Hodgkinson on his own work composing electronic music. Ben Piekut,...

Bailey Hall As part of the Cornell Concert series, Leon Fleisher will coach students performing in the event and conduct the Cornell Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra as part of a series of concerts in Bailey Hall. Beethoven Concerto Project with Leon Fleisher

May 7, 2011, 8PM: Whalen Center, Ithaca, College (free and open to the public) May 8, 2011: 2PM: Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Cornell University (tickets) There is only one god, and her name is life: Re-imagining Kabir An interdisciplinary and collaborative performance of literature, music, and dance, interpreting the writings and messages of non-violence by 15th century Indian poet, Kabir.  Performance features Indian novelist, playwright, screenplay writer, and...

The Kitchen Theatre Company, 417 State Street, Ithaca, NY, various times below S/he is a theatre event that brings together artists from Turkey and the United States in a cultural encounter that examines issues related to gender. The play is written by American playwright Tammy Ryan and Turkish playwright Zeynep Kacar. http://theatrefilmdance.cornell.edu/events http://www.intlculturelab.org Tickets / Kitchen Theatre: 607-273-4497, visit the Ticket Center in Center Ithaca or online:...

A 36 hour performance put together by composers, actors, musicians, conceptual artists, poets, visual artist, graphic designers, and others from New York City, Ithaca, and around the country, will be passing through the Cornell campus Saturday, April 16, 2011. This enormous performance starts in New York City at 8am and will be in Ithaca at 8pm.   We would like you to be a part of it. We are turning the campus into a living dream. There is no audience; we need you to come and be part of...

Risley Theatre March 31 - April 2, 8PM; April 3, 2PM Bruce Levitt, Professor, Theatre Arts, directs Martin McDonagh's THE PILLOWMAN, a dark comedy, that won the 2004 Olivier award for Best New Play, the New York Drama Critics Award for Best New Foreigh Play, and two Tony Awards. Performed by Cornell student actors Aaron Sprecher, Myles Kenyon Rowland, and James Miller, and professional actor, guest artist David Studwell. Technical and artistic support from Angela Branneman, Warren Cross,...

Fall Creek Studio, 1201 N. Tioga Street, Ithaca, NY Three performances, 8PM Play Everywhere, a student theatre troupe consisting of student actors, architects, engineers, musicians and dancers, presents The Magic Show, by Stephen Schwartz. This musical was selected as this year's presentation for its combined large-scale stage illusions, dance routines, live musical numbers, comedy and romance. The Magic Show is a one-act musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Bob...

Barnes Hall and A.D. White House New Music in Southeast Asia: A Concert and Symposium The work of Southeast Asian composers of contemporary art music is overshadowed by the renowned traditional musics of the region and the better known work of their peers from East Asia. This concert and symposium serve as an introduction to composers who deserve to be better known, and to the scenes in which they work. The concert features music for Western strings, voices, and Indonesian gamelan...

Barnes Hall, 8:00 pm The Cornell Contemporary Chambers Players presents a concert featuring new compositions to be written by Cornell graduate composers specifically for Argento Chambers Ensemble. Located in NYC as an ensemble in residence at the Columbia University, Argento Chambers Ensemble is widely acclaimed by their remarkable performances of contemporary music, including many word premieres of significant works. Their repertoire consists of compositions by renowned composers and their...

7PM, Statler Hall Auditorium An evening of classical music performed by Ustad Shahid Parvez Kahn on sitar, accompanied by Nitin Mitta on tabla. Presented by ASHA and Bengali Student Association. Proceeds go toward the education of underprivileged children in India. Ticket information ASHA CORNELL  

First Performance: February 5, 2011, 4 - 7PM, Beverly J. Martin Elementary School Gym 302 W. Buffalo Street, Ithaca, NY Student Performance: April 9, 2011, The Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts The project is a three-phase community conversation about race at Cornell University. The project kicks off with a performance of the play Dispatches from (A)mended American with nine professional actors including Brandt Adams, Sarah K. Chalmers, and Godfrey L Simmons, Jr. This documentary...

Jannuary 27, 28, 29, 30 Based on Arnoid Schoenberg's private concert series that presented some of the seminal works of the 20C, works will be conducted by composers from the canon and from lesser-known composers, replicating as closely as possible their original context. The festival will feature four days of concerts with a musicology colloquium talk by renowned Schoenberg specialist Michael Friedmann from Yale, and pre-concert lectures by Michael Friedmann, Roger Moseley, and PhD student...

坂東鼓登治 Kabuki Dance Recital by Bandō Kotoji and Nishizaki Sakurako–October 6, 2010, 7PM Barnes Hall The program will include selections from the dance pieces Sanbasō, Kyō no shiki, a Tadanobu dance from the Yoshinoyama scene of the kabuki play Yoshitsune senbon zakura. Two of the pieces will be performed in costume, with the others performed as su-odori (in formal kimono without make-up, wig, or hand props). Workshop: October 7, 2010, 1:30-3:30PM Schwartz Center for the...

8PM, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts Solo Performance  with playwright, director and actor David Greenspan. New York Times reviews / David Greenspan

8PM, Barnes Hall An evening of North Indian Classical Music. Vishwa Mohan Bhatt on the Mohan Veena accompanied by Subhen Chatterjee on Tabla. Free and open with a suggested donation at the door

September 16:  10:00-10:45 am: lecture demonstration at Dryden High School 7:00-8:30 pm: Concert at Dryden High School September 17:  8:00 pm: Concert at Barnes Hall Sandip Burman's visit to Ithaca will include lectures, demonstrations, and performances at both Cornell and Dryden Senior High School. Performances will highlight original music composed for the event by guest performers Rick Huyge, Paul Merrill, John Stetch and Nick Walker; and traditional selections by...

All shows at 6PM, F.R. Newman Arboretum at Cornell Plantations  (near the ponds and sculpture garden). July 15-18, 22-25, and July 29-August 1, 2010 The Ithaca Shakespeare Company continues its journey through the great tragedies with Shakespeare's most concentrated thriller, a profound examination of the psychology of guilt and the forces that influence human action. This feast of swordfights, soliloquies, and the supernatural features a whole coven of witches, an evocative ruined...

Designed to attract crowds to the importance of earth, The Dancing Green Project is a collaboration between Jim Self and Colleen Wahl, with puppets by Norm Johnson, Jr. www.dancinggreenproject.com ithaca journal / singing in the rain / ithaca festival 2010 AbunDANCE TOUR 2010 June 3   Ithaca Festival Parade: “Singing in the Rain” June 6   Ithaca Festival, 2pm at the Flag Pole, Lake Cayuga Stewart Park June 12  FIGMENT, Governors Island,...

Preview: Thursday, May 27, 7:30; Performances: Friday, May 28, 7:30 PM + Saturday, May 29, 3:00 + 7:30 Barnes Hall Frank Wedekind's "LULU: A Monster Tragedy," an adaptation by JessiMichelle Pollack, is directed by George Sapio and produced by the Cornell Shakespeare Troupe and Bad Dog! Productions. With Mike Davie, Tim Fasano, RM Fury, David Kossack, Amina Omari, JessiMichele Pollack, David Romm, Matt Winberg; Marthe Hoffmann stage manager Tickets .00 Available at...

Kiplinger Theatre, Schwartz Center 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...

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...

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...

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, 12:20 PM:     Workshop on Solo Performance with Tim Miller, Schwartz Ctr for Performing Arts April...

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. Times and ticket information

Cornell Design League Fashion Show: 7PM, Barton Hall 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/

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. THREE CONCERTS at Risley Great Hall MARCH 12, 8:30PM March 13, 8:00PM March 14, 8:00PM A short opera in its entirety: Burney’s English translation...

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.

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

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. VIDEO: Free the Angels Show times and ticket information

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.

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...

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

Cornell Cinema / Willard Straight Theatre Phillips, formerly of the storied band Luna, has composed music to accompany Artist Andy Warhol's rarely seen short silent film portraits, which capture Factory superstars, socialites, celebrities, poets and anonymous teenagers in technically simple but mesmerizing shots. The Screen Tests, as Warhol called them, are newly illuminated by Dean & Britta's haunting, seductive scores.

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

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

Jon Wong, '08, will be presented with the Cornell University Undergraduate Artist Award, an annual citation given by the CCA to an outstanding undergraduate student who has demonstrated talent, dedication, and who has realized notable achievements in one or more artistic disciplines while at Cornell.  Following the award ceremony, Wong will present "Same Dance Four Times," a site-specific performance which borrows from various popular and concert dance forms, drawing attention to...

The South Asia Program presents a documentary film and concert about Kabir, a mystic philosopher and poet (b. 1440) whose profound poems emphasize unity without religious barriers.  These poems have been set to music and will be rendered by India's premier singer of Kabir poetry, Prahlad Singh Tipanya and Party.

Anillos (Rings) is a one-movement work for percussion and orchestra by Cornell composer and professor of music, Roberto Sierra.  The piece was performed by the Cornell Symphony Orchestra, during the 2008 meeting of the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society in celebration of photo exhibition, "Spectacular Saturn," at the H.F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell. The concert and exhibition were funded in part by a grant from the CCA. Tim Feeney,...

A festival of live performance featuring: Pharaoh's Daughter, Haale, Cornell Middle Eastern and Mediterranean Music Ensemble with Adam Matta, and special guests dancers: Kassar + Willow and Chandany + Teszia, artists who create, compose and dance to music that combines Middle Eastern and/or Jewish influences with a sensibility that is edgy and urban. The festival will demonstrate numerous musical forms. Pharaoh's Daughter, led by Basya Schecter, combines traditional Jewish melodies and tones...

Agbadza: Funeral Dance-Drumming of the Anlo-Ewe A Two-Part Workshop in Music of West Africa TORGBUI MIDAWO GIDEON FOLI ALORWOYIE is a former child prodigy who served in the 1960s and 1970s as the lead drummer in the Ghana National Dance Company, and is regarded as one of the eminent virtuosi of Ewe drumming.  Torgbui is presently a professor of percussion at the University of North Texas, where he leads UNT’s  African Percussion Ensemble.   DAVID LOCKE is an...

Netherlandish pianist Marcel Worms presents a concert of contemporary works inspired by the blues. Featured works come from composers of the Ukraine, Egypt, New Zealand, Italy, and the United States. Included is a piece by Chris Gendall, a Cornell graduate composer.

Brian Sentman brings sculpture and dance together to create a social commentary on Couch Potato Culture. Dancers, strapped into beanbag chairs -- the "Thorax Sack" -- are transformed into bugs and perform a dance inspired by movements of stinkbugs, beetles, and other insects. The "Thorax Sack" is a constant reminder that comfort is near but too much comfort can have a thwarting effect on one's desires. The outcome of the dance will be a DVD commodity to be bought and...

In tribute to the life and work of Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Arthur Miller, the Schwartz Center stages his first notable success, "All My Sons." In this compelling war drama, the political and personal intertwine in a story of greed, guilt, and the American Dream. Featuring guest designer Greg Robbins. Schwartz Center for the Performing Art

Part of the Cornell Dance Concert 2007, the special "Open Portal" interactive event reaches out to wide audiences through the use of webcasts, live and on-line promotional presentations. The event will explore new and emerging technologies such as "clickers," T.R.U.S.T., pipeline, and interactive sets and costumes with the intention of showcasing and celebrating the Cornell dance community and its collaborators in design and science.

Kitchen Theatre, Ithaca, NY Theatrical investigation into the life and work of French poet, Arthur Rimbaud (1854–91), directed by Ross Haarstad; with actors, dancers, visual artists, musicians and writers. 2005-06 Dance Concert, Dance Studio, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts Lansing Star Feb07

Concert by the Eastman Wind Ensemble, under the direction of former Cornell music professor Mark Davis Scatterday, at Cornell University for a community concert, to which area high school and middle school music students are specially invited.

Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts Guest vocal percussionist Adam Matta works with director Bruce Levitt, students and resident professional actors to create a new piece to be performed as part of the 2006 - 2007 theatre session. This original works mix vocal percussionists with Shakespeare's sonnets and soliloquies.

The Cornell Contemporary Chamber Players present the chamber ensemble Brave New Works, which will put on a concert of new music by Cornell graduate student composers. Barnes Hall

As part of the "Performance Practice in the 20th- Century: Measure for Measure or As You Like It? Symposium," noted writer and critic Paul Griffins and performance-artist/composer/cellist Frances-Marie Uitti will present their new mini-opera "There is Still Time."  Barnes Hall

The David Gordon Pick Up Performance Company will be in residence creating a new work based on the Brecht play "The Roundheads and Pointedheads." Their tenure will culminate in a performance of the new work. Students will be invited to observe Gordon and his company of 10 performers' rehearsals and attend a series of discussion sessions. Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.  

The Lebanese Club at Cornell University presents international dramatist Michel El-Ashkar in "A Child of Life," an internationally acclaimed monodrama that chronicles many of the highlights of the Lebanese-American poet, philosopher, and artist Kahlil Gibran. The play has been performed with standing ovations in many international cities including Beijing, Montreal, London, Dubai, Los Angeles, Amman, Zahle and more. Child of Life

The Schwartz Center presents a new stage version of the America classic "Little Women." Based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott, "Little Women" is the story of the March sisters--independent Jo, lovely Meg, delicate Beth, and precocious Amy--as they discover friendship, romance, and the power of family.

Emilie Stark-Menneg presents In/Direct Sunlight - a theatrical performance with live music accompaniment.

Cornell Avant-Garde Ensemble (CAGE) presents a full performance of Stravinsky's Histoire du Soldat, involving a diverse student population from the Music, Fine Arts, and Theatre, Film and Dance departments.  Barnes Hall

Concert and master-class with violinist Takashi Shimizu. Concert: Nov 30, 2005, 8 p.m., Barnes Hall Master Class: Dec 1, 2005, Lincoln Hall

A multi-part mini-festival of Brazilian music performances and lecture demonstrations. Paolo Sa, a recent DMA from the Federal University of Rio de Janiero State, will be a featured guest performer. Concert (Paulo Sa and Linda Chellouf): Nov 12, 2005, Barnes Hall Lecture demonstration (Paolo Sa): Nov 13, 2005, B20 Lincoln, 6-8 p.m.

Theatre production by Melodramatics Theatre. Student theatre group presents a comedy/horror musical based on a tabloid story "Weekly World News." Organized by Justin Leader. November 11 - 13, 2005, Ithaca High School.  

Performance by Ramdas Rulsule, tabla player and Kathak dancers. Barnes Hall  

Theatrical investigation into the life and work of French poet, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-91), directed by Ross Haarstad; with actors, dancers, visual artists, musicians and writers.

Dance residency and performance. Dance, music, spoken word and visual art with four visiting artists.

Highly stylized in nature, Indian temple dance utilizes power and energetic footwork (tandava), juxtaposed with sinuous feminine postures and movements (lasya) that has been handed down from teacher to disciple for thousands of years. This touring dance company brings new dance style to Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, September 29, 2005

A musical by author and composer Marc Blitzstein, with guest choreographer Todd Peterson, and guest  musical director. The Performing Arts Center.

A free, on-campus performance of concert songs, for piano and voice, composed to the texts of James Joyce. In conjunction with the biennial North American James Joyce Conference. Performers: Scott Klein, Associate Professor of English, Wake Forest University; Sandra Cotton, Ph.D. candidate in music, UNC Greensboro.

Residency of four Latina dance and performance artists with performance of Afro-Caribbean dance forms with political commentary. Part of the CCA's 2004-2005 Themed Initiative: Tolerance + Territory.

Artist Residency of James Carter with performances, lecture, open rehearsals. Concert: Jazz Festival with Paul Merrill and the Jazz Combos. Apr 28, 8 PM, Barnes Hall Concert: Jazz Festival with Jazz Ensemble II and the Jazz Combos. Apr 29, 8 PM, Barnes Hall Panel Discussion: with James Carter, Paul Merrill, Slide Hampton. Apr 30, 12:00 - 1:30, Barnes Hall Concert: Jazz Festival with Cornell Symphony Orchestra, Jazz Ensembles I with Slide Hampton and James Carter. Apr 30, 8 PM, Barnes Hall

Sidumo Jacobs, Xhosa South African choral director and teacher of traditional South African song, teaches songs from the Xhosa, Zulu and Sotho cultures to three choirs, and shares his personal perspective on life as a black South African during and after Apartheid.

Pioneer hip-hop choreographer Rennie Harris and his high-impact dance troupe.

Therapy Thru Music partners with the Franziska Racker Centers to help children with developmental disabilities better interact with their peers through music.

The Cornell Collegium (Kristin Kane and Heather Miller, directors) will present a program of early German Baroque music at 4:30 in Barnes Hall. The concert features vocal and instrumental ensembles accompanied by the Barnes Hall 18th-century organ replica.

Featuring Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman, Mrudangam Master, and others.

Pianist Marilyn Nonken performs the program "Signature Pieces," which includes three recent works written for her and ends with Charles Ives' "Concord" Sonata.

Two performances of Stravinsky's most political work, "A Soldier's Tale," with Master Puppeteer Dan Butterworth and local musicians.

Tony-nominated musical by Sybille Pearson. The story of three couples on a university campus as they deal with the consequences of parenthood. Guest Artists-in-Residence: Will Pomerantz '88, director and choreographer Troy Hourie, set designer.

Performing original scores to the incredible insect and puppet animations of Ladislaw Starewicz. In between film screenings, the Tin Hat Trio will perform five additional pieces from their repertory.

Production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses at Risley Theatre, directed by Ross Housewright Images: 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11      

Visiting Artist-in-Residence Guru Gangadhar Pradhan, dance master and master drummer, Odissa Dance Academy, India, performs with Cornell's Durga Bor. Images: 01 02 03 04 05 07 08 09

A play by Annie Weisman, takes a satiric look at the trials of two teenage girls engrossed in the world of pom-poms, Prozac, and air flips. Guest Artists Jennifer Schwartz '95, director / Chuck Hatcher, sound designer.

Intensely physical and theatrical works choreographed by Salia Sanou and Seydou Boro. Compositions combine African rituals and contemporary dance to create powerful statements of evocative beauty. Master class.

Concert of "chirimia" music of traditional street bands that use horns and percussion with a contemporary twist based on traditional songs and rhythms.

In conjunction with the New Student Reading Project. The story of Antigone subverting a politically oppressive regime has startling relevance to modern times. To create the classic Greek tragedy's sense of ritual in song and dance, Andrew Waggoner (MFA '84, DMA '86), composer, violinist, educator will produce original music to complement this lyrical adaptation. Norm Johnson, Theatre Arts, Ithaca College will create masks and conduct workshops with students.

World-famous Arab music ensemble: Simon Shaheen and his Near Eastern Music Ensemble to visit Cornell University for lecture and concert

Performance artist Tim Miller, widely known as one of the "NEA Four", who was pressured by the United States Congress to return an NEA grant because the content of his work was deemed too controversial as it included homoerotic references, gave a performance in March, 2003.  Glory Box is a funny, sexy and political work that addresses the injustices facing lesbian and gay couples in America. It recounts the trials Miller has been forced to undergo in trying to keep his...

A weekend conference was sponsored as part of the "Indians' Indians: (Re)Presentation of Native American People in the Arts" program.  Included a performance by the Spiderwoman Theater production, Persistence of Memory.  The symposium also gave a workshop to students to participate in discussions about Native American identity issues. Luci Tapahonso, Professor of American Indian Studies and English at the University of Arizona at Tucscon and author of five boks of poetry,...

Cornell University hosted a South Indian flute concert with Shashank & Ensemble.  Shashank is a phenomenal musical prodigy who gave his debut international performance at the tender age of eleven.  He has been soaring to the upper ranks of the Carnatic (South Indian) music world since then.

Pandit Tarun Bhattacharya needs no introduction to the world of Indian Classical Music. Over the years his unique style of playing the santoor, the Indian version of the dulcimer, has offered new dimensions to the scope of this versatile instrument. Trained initially under his father, Shri Robi Bhattacharya he went on to hone his skills under Pandit Dulal Roy of Calcutta. Subsequently, Pt. Bhattacharya was taken on as a disciple by none other than the legendary maestro, Pandit Ravi Shankar....

Asha-Cornell presented Hariprasad Chaurasia, a world renowned Indian flutist in concert.

Michael Crooke, CEO of Patagonia & Lost Arrow Corp. presented a lecture entitled: "Committed to the Core: What Does it Mean to be an Environmentally Responsible Company?"  The Department of Textiles & Apparel cosponsored this event.

A presentation with Carlos Morton, Chicano playwright and author of "Johnny Tenorio"

A group of three comedians whose mission is to show cultures in opposition and by opposing them bring them closer together.

The Institute for African Development hosted its annual outreach event, Africa in Ithaca, on March 31, 2001, at 7 pm at the Women's Community Building. Proceeds from the event went to an organization in the Ithaca Community. Past beneficiaries include the Community School of Music and Arts, the AME Zion Church, and the Saturday School for Science and Math. The beneficiary of 2001 was the Literacy Volunteers of Tompkins County. The event was sponsored by the Institute for African...

A lecture presented by Courtney Sloane, President and Creative Director of Alternative Design, NYC In an industry that's less than three percent African-American, Courtney Sloane is an example and an advocate of change. Featured in Interiors & Sources and Interiors magazines, Sloane is a rising star in the design industry. Her client list is extensive-focused primarily in the entertainment arena-including Sony Music, Enyce, BET, MoTown, Disney, and the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame. She is...