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Encounter Machines

Monday, March 3, 2025 at 5:00pm
The Russell House, 350 High Street, Middletown

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Encounter Machines is a work-in-progress manifesto that seeks to find new relevance between architecture and opera, exploring questions of scale, queerness, fragmentation, failure, and more. The text draws on Peter Zuspan’s work designing spaces for performance (including the National Sawdust and Bushwick Starr) as well as his ongoing research on the spatial limits and possibilities of new and experimental opera. The presentation will be followed by a discussion with the multidisciplinary artist Helga Davis.

Javanese Gamelan and Dance Spring Concert

Saturday, May 3, 2025 at 7:30pm
World Music Hall

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The Wesleyan Javanese Gamelan Ensemble, under the direction of Winslow-Kaplan Professor of Music Sumarsam MA ’76 and University Professor of Music Harjito, presents a spring concert of the classical music and dance of Central Java, featuring Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance Dewati Rahmayani from the Royal Palace of Yogyakarta, and the world premiere of two commissioned works by composer Jlin, one of which will be performed live by the Javanese Gamelan Ensemble.

Read more about the spring Javanese Gamelan and Dance concert, featuring the world premiere of two commissioned works by composer Jlin.

Talk by Keller Easterling: Medium Design
Thursday, February 27, 2025 at 4:30pm
Reading Room, South Gallery, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery

Designer and writer Keller Easterling, Enid Storm Dwyer Professor of Architecture at Yale, will present the talk Medium Design.

Senior Thesis Theater Production: Dance Monkey, Dance [New Time]
Thursday, February 27, 2025 at 6:30pm
Patricelli ’92 Theater, 213 High Street, Middletown

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Conceived and performed by CJ Joseph ’25 in partial fulfillment for Honors in Theater, Dance Monkey, Dance is a performative lecture connecting fetish-like-fear political visibility to Black female performativity in modern media. The lecture is semi-immersive in the intellectual context and aims to make the audience contemplate the voyeuristic dynamics and repetitive nature between white eyes and Black female bodies.

Senior Thesis Theater Production: The Government Inspector [Sold Out]
Thursday, February 27, 2025 at 8:00pm
Patricelli ’92 Theater, 213 High Street, Middletown

Tabitha Davidson ’25 will direct a new translation and adaptation of Nikolai Gogol’s The Government Inspector (1836) in partial fulfillment for Honors in Theater.

Finding the Spirit of Inanga Closing Celebration
Friday, February 28, 2025 at 12:00pm
Smith Reading Room, Olin Library, 252 Church Street, Middletown

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Celebrate the past year of Finding the Spirit of Inanga: A Gallery of African Musical Instruments with a mini-concert by Rwandan guitar virtuoso Deo Salvator, and a short talk and demonstration by exhibition curator and Wesleyan graduate music student Chance Kinyange Boas. Refreshments will be provided.

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