2011-12 Season: "Immigration, Migration and Transplantation in Performance"
This season explores the theme of transforming, transferring, or hybridizing cultural identity, and its expression in drama, music, and dance. We will look particularly at how immigrants use performance to tell their stories.
Chris Washburne and the SYOTOS Band
Friday, February 10, 2012
Rococo Theatre
Star jazz musician and ethnomusicologist, Chris Washburne (Ph.D. Columbia University), and the SYOTOS Band push the boundaries of Latin jazz...
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In The Heights
Co-presented with the Lied Center for Performing Arts and the University Program Council
March 2-3, 2012
Lied Center for Performing Arts
A Tony-award winning, contemporary musical about a New York City Latino community on the brink of change...
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This is Tango Now
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Lied Center for Performing Arts
This is Tango Now explores the issues of identity and willpower in a breathtaking performance. Under the guidance of the mysterious Duende, the Marionette breaks free from her Puppeteer...
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The Interdisciplinary Arts Symposium is sponsored by the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts, presented, in part, by the Lied Center for Performing Arts, and funded, in part, by the Hixson-Lied Endowment. The IAS Spring 2012 activities are funded, in part, by a grant from the Cooper Foundation.
