Cynthia Novack in Memoriam Lecture: Choreographing the Headwrap—The Body as Archive
Wednesday, October 29, 2025 at 1:00pm
Bessie Schönberg Dance Studio, 247 Pine Street, Middletown, Connecticut
Wednesday, October 29, 2025 at 1:00pm
Bessie Schönberg Dance Studio, 247 Pine Street, Middletown, Connecticut
In honor of their first performance at Wesleyan in 2018, Movement of the People Dance Company’s Tyrone Bevans, Brittany Grier, and Assistant Professor of the Practice in Dance and African American Studies Joya Powell share an afternoon in embodied movement discussions of their repertory work Hair Ties. Participants will learn how MOPDC developed choreographic motifs through the art of storytelling, create their own movement phrases, and explore a short excerpt of the work.
Darius Jones: Samesoul Maker
Wednesday, October 29, 2025 at 8:00pm
Crowell Concert Hall
Wednesday, October 29, 2025 at 8:00pm
Crowell Concert Hall
Assistant Professor of Music and composer Darius Jones presents the New England premiere performance of his Samesoul Maker, featuring two female-identifying voices and two male-identifying voices, bells, and vibraphone. The work premiered at Roulette in New York in 2023, and is a companion piece to Jones’ 2014 composition The Oversoul Manual.
Student-Led Exhibition Tour
Saturday, November 1, 2025 at 2:00pm
Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery
Saturday, November 1, 2025 at 2:00pm
Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery
Wesleyan student gallery assistants will lead a guided tour of the current exhibitions in the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery. Explore the artists, themes, and curatorial context behind each show, and take part in a conversation about the work on view. Each tour lasts approximately 45 minutes.
She Walks in Beauty: Passion for Mother Earth
Saturday, November 1, 2025 at 7:00pm
Crowell Concert Hall
Saturday, November 1, 2025 at 7:00pm
Crowell Concert Hall
Wesleyan Harp Instructor Megan Sesma and renowned soprano Janinah Burnett will perform an array of international and American art songs, folk, jazz, opera, and musical theater works, encouraging the audience to contemplate the impact their lives have upon the Earth, one another, and the destiny of humanity
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