Event Archives
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Habby Olusesi’s Cuba Trip
Habby Olusesi: In the Spring of 2019, IPLACe helped fund Habby Olusesi (’20) on a trip to study in Cuba, looking at the art and culture of the island. Her photo blog is detailed here.
read moreTheatrical Intimacy Workshop
On August 25, the cast of the WFU production of “How I Learned to Drive,” will participate in a workshop where they will learn to stage theatrical intimacy ethically, effectively, and efficiently.
read moreEntanglements: A Conference on the Intersection of Poetry, Science, and Art
May 13-16, 2019 at Reynolda House. Check out the incredible schedule of events.
read moreAging ReImagined’s 3rd Edition.
Aging ReImagined returned 4/29/2019featuring Presentations, Performances, and Discussions.
read moreLynn Book, “Performing the Archive”
A Salon Screening and Roundtable Discussion surrounded Lynn Book’s “Performing the Archive” at ZSR Library on Tuesday April 2, 2019 at 5pm.
read moreTwo Reflections On The Artist CLYFFORD STILL
Monday Feb 25 at 5pm in Art 102- Lecture by Art Historian Robert Slikin, NYU. Tuesday Feb 26 at 7:30pm in Brendle – Still by composer James Romig – Louis Goldstein, piano.
read moreTalking about Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves
TALKING ABOUT SARAH DELAPPE’S THE WOLVES NOVEMBER 1, 2018 Dr. Christy Buchanan and Dr. Stavroula Glezakos took part in a post-show discussion on Thursday, Nov. 1, following The Wolves. Dr. Glezakos (Philosophy) was currently teaching a course on Philosophy of Love and...
read moreTim Miller
Tim Miller returned to Wake Forest University for workshops with students and to deliver his performance/lecture/rant on the Tedford Stage on October 18.
read moreOrphee Project
An intergenerational community dance company made up of of Wake Forest students, children from the WF Community Ballet program, older adults living with Parkinson’s disease and their care partners, and local professional dancers, performed The Orphée Project: An...
read moreVideo: Bassa Moda by P-Lux
Paul Bright created a “satirical fashion show” / performance called “Bassa Moda” under his pseudonym P-Lux, as part of an exhibition of his collages entitled, “di/Taglia,” at the Cloister Gallery, Ferrara, IT, July 24, 2018.
read moreTibetan Monks: Sand Mandalas and Lectures
Tibetan Monks created a sand mandala and delivered lectures as part of the Silk Road Series in October 2018.
read moreCordone & Kilgore, “Side by Side: A Steve & Eydie Tribute”
IPLACe presented this salute to the “King and Queen of the Nightclub World,” packed with some of the most recognizable songs of the 20th Century!
read moreThe Patsy Project
Christina Soriano returned to Music Carolina Summerfest for the fifth time to present her second large scale work choreographed with an intergenerational cast featuring 30 dancers aged 4 to 86. The performance featured live accompaniment by Martha Bassett…
read moreAllison Orr and From The Ground Up
Over the last three years, IPLACe has been collaborating with Forklift Danceworks to create a dance featuring the movement and stories of Custodial, Maintenance and Utilities, Landscaping, Construction, and Waste Reduction employees. The result is From The Ground Up which will be performed October 4 +5, 2019 on Hearn Plaza.
read moreSilk Road Series
A series of multidisciplinary events revolving the WFU Silk Road Series included a Spring 2019 performance by the Silk Road Ensemble. Silk Roads Winston-Salem aims to advance our understanding of global cross-cultural exchange as it relates to the historic Silk Roads through a program of themed events at WFU…
read moreMichel van der Aa Residency
Michel van der Aa is a truly multidisciplinary figure in contemporary music. A unique voice, he combines composition with film and stage direction, and script writing. Classical instruments, voices, electronic sound, actors, theatre and video…
read moreAnne Rasmussen Residency
Dr. Anne Rasmussen, a Professor and expert on gender, performance, and Islam in the Middle East and Indonesia, held a three-day residency at Wake Forest that included students from her classes on Middle Eastern instruments to demonstrate and perform them…
read moreSITI Company Visit
A member of the SITI company came and taught Viewpoints and Suzuki technique…
read moreAlexandra Beller Laban Workshop
Certified Laban specialist Alexandra Beller hosted a 4-day Laban refresher course open to Theatre and Dance faculty at Wake Forest and UNCSA…
read moreAging Reimagined 1.5
This cross-disciplinary symposium on aging capitalized on last year’s successful Aging Reimagined conference. It featured Jennie Smith Peers, Director of the National Center for Creative Aging, whose work focuses on the research and public policies to support arts in aging, and Nir Barzilai…
read moreDr. Seuss Carnival
The Theatre in Education class planned an end-of-year carnival for their students at Ashley Elementary. The carnival incorporated elements of performance and interactive activities to engage the students in the material they’d learned throughout the semester…
read moreReading of Myrmidons
In the summer of 2016, IPLACe provided funds for Cheyenne Zuck to study Ancient Greek at the Latin/Greek Institute (LGI) to go towards the translation and completion of a fragmented tragedy. She translated Myrmidons by Aeschylus…
read moreChinese Music and Art Collaboration
Haiqiong Deng, a professional Chinese guzheng player, and Nan Liu, a classically-trained Chinese artist, held a residency at Wake that included workshops with the Chinese Ensemble students, several class visits to Art and Music classes, and a final concert…
read moreTragedies of Character: Leadership Lessons from Macbeth
A discussion following a performance of Macbeth on leadership, ambition, power, war, and politics as seen in the play and today’s society, featuring the director Brook Davis, Lillie Burrow and Philip Kayser, Lady Macbeth and Macbeth respectively, and Michael Lamb…
read moreBen Whiting Residency
Ben Whiting, Wake Theatre alum and acclaimed magician, visited Wake to perform a magic show and lecture a Neuroscience class…
read moreSoundseen: Cage/Braxton/Marclay
SoundSeen presents the musical compositions of three artists – John Cage, Anthony Braxton, and Christian Marclay – in which drawings, diagrams and images take the place of standard musical notation. These visually engaging “graphic” scores convey ideas…
read moreWomen’s Leadership Symposium
Megan Hooper ’04, founder of bsmartguide.com, and Melissa Jones Briggs ’04, instructor in organizational behavior at Stanford University’s Graduate Business School, offered complementary workshops rooted in the skills they built as students involved in theater…
read moreSICK
Sick was performed as part of the second Studio Series and explored gender and sexuality in a provocative way. The show partnered with Student Health services to promote their free STD testing services. It was performed in conjunction with The Tiny Closet…
read morePop Stars Coaching
Cindy Gendrich provided acting coaching to students in a class on Pop Music as they prepared to emulate several of the stars they studied in class for Music and Fashion Day…
read moreThe Vagina Monologues
The Vagina Monologues was performed in the Hanes Art Gallery followed by a discussion of feminist activism and inclusion.
read moreEvan Mitchell Residency
Mask and movement expert Evan Mitchell held a residency at Wake that included a performance of his one-man mask performance Masked in English and Spanish and three workshops with various classes…
read morePing Chong Residency and Collidescope 3.0
Ping Chong, recipient of the 2015 National Medal of Arts, joined the Wake Forest Theatre in January and February to direct a new iteration of his piece Collidescope: Adventures in Pre- and Post- Racial America. During his time on campus, Chong spend the majority of time…
read moreThe World of Overtone Singing
Overtone/throat singing is a special technique of manipulating the vocal tract that has arisen independently throughout the world. Master khoomei (Tuvan throat singing) performer Narisu greeted visitors, answered questions about Mongolian music, and demonstrated khoomei…
read moreAllison Orr
Allison Orr (alum and dance artist) held a residency at Wake that included guest teaching several dance classes, visiting with the WGS class “Women Artists”, screening her award-winning documentary Trash Dance, and planning for a future project, Served…
read moreCapoeira Workshop
Dr. Ugo Edu, Anthropology professor and experienced instructor of Capoeira, and her collaborator Sergio Ferreira visited Wake to provide a social, political, and historical account of Capoeira to Dr. Harrington’s class on Race & Politics in Brazil as well as hold a workshop…
read moreJoel New Creative Residency
New York-based songwriter Joel New held a two-day residency at Wake that included a songwriting workshop with aspiring musical theatre writers, and a visit to Michele Gillespie’s FYS on Thomas Jefferson to help students write Hamilton-inspired music…
read moreHonk! Performance
WFU Theatre’s Honk! was performed for WSFC first graders, who received copies of The Ugly Duckling, signed by the cast, rubber duckies, and content prompts to discuss the show in their home classrooms…
read moreScreening of Eugene Onegin
A screening of Stage Russia’s presentation of Eugene Onegin performed by the Vakhtangov Theatre, free and open to the public…
read moreMarathon Reading of Der Genius
A marathon reading of Der Genius read by student and faculty aloud over a ten-hour period in Campus Grounds…
read moreEnglish Methods Class Visits
Three WFU professors visited Alan Brown’s English Methods class to help future teachers with engaging their students in the performing arts and, specifically, Shakespeare…
read moreDADA 100!
DADA 100! celebrated 100 years of DADA, discussing its historical context and embracing its legacy. The huge event took place in ZSR and involved a mixture of performances and interactive activities for participants…
read moreOktoberfest
The Katzenjammer Allstars performed live German Music to the many attendees of the annual Oktoberfest celebration, where participants learn about the importance of folk music and folk art in German culture…
read moreScott Anderson Creative Residency
Internationally-renowned novelist and journalist Scott Anderson visited Wake Forest to meet with students and speak on his article Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart. He addressed the Wake Forest community at large…
read moreMande Melody
The Cradle of Jazz Project brought 3 world-class musicians from Mali and two guest scholars to Wake. Their residency included a concert, three class visits to Music, Anthropology, and African Studies classes, and a lecture and Q&A at the Museum of Anthropology…
read moreMidsummer Performance
Students Anne Peyton Brothers and Erin Farmer performed a scene from A Midsummer Night’s Dream directed by Shane Lutz to accompany a talk by William Jordan the III on sustainability…
read moreA Conversation with Benjamin Franklin
Critically-acclaimed performer, Christopher Lowell, portrayed Benjamin Franklin in a free, one-man show on Tuesday, October 4th, at 7pm. The performance took place in the Kulynych Auditorium in the Byrum Welcome Center. Following the performance, there was a panel discussion…
read moreRhyme of China
An evening of Traditional Chinese Music and Opera featuring members of the Chinese Instruments Symphony Orchestra of NC and the NC Peking Opera Society, followed by an opportunity for the audience to meet the artists and examine their instruments…
read moreCaridad Svich Creative Residency
Caridad Svich, OBIE-Award winning, Latina playwright and playwright of WFU Theatre’s production Spark, came to campus for a four-day residency that included guest lecturing the playwriting class, hosting a playwriting workshop, engaging the audiences of Spark…
read moreAlexandra Beller
Alexandra Beller, NYC dance artist, hosted a three-day residency that involved guest classes geared to Dance and Theatre students, rehearsal work with Christina Soriano and Jessie Laurita-Spanglet, and a Q&A session and lecture about her creative practices…
read moreMegan Cramer Paisley Playwriting Workshop
Megan Cramer (‘99), led a two day playwriting workshop for Paisley’s Drama program, run by Tracy Wegner (‘18) and Stephanie Moore (‘18). It helped students with writing, acting, and directing skills, and brought structure and discipline to this WFU student-led theatre program…
read moreThe Goldberg Project
This intergenerational dance and music event feaured J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations, performed by WFU faculty pianist, Peter Kairoff. The piece featured Christina Soriano’s choreography, which united 31 child, community, and professional dancers from throughout the Triad…
read moreThinktank 2016
Ping Chong joined Wake Forest faculty, staff, and students to watch Sharon Andrews’ Development & Performance class’s final performance, complete with reception and post performance discussion on how next year’s Collidescope can change and further the discussion of race on our campus…
read moreTheatre for Youth Project
The Seussification of Romeo and Juliet with Brook Davis’s Theatre for Youth class and Paisley Middle/High School. Directed by Heather Sullivan (‘16) and Alexa Erb (‘16). Final performances at Paisley and during Wake Forest’s annual Shakespeare Day…
read moreStudent Exploration Series- Serena Cates
The Student Exploration Series gives students the opportunity to navigate each part of the creative process with support and guidance. The Exploration Series culminates…
read moreA Staged Reading of Hispanic Plays
In Greene 145, professor Sanhueza’s Spanish 347 class explored Spanish theatre with staged readings of relevant works. Features professor Leah Roy as both guest teacher and an actor alongside students…
read moreShadow Ballads Course Enhancement
Combining the stylized visuals of American “crankies” and Indonesian shadow puppet theatre (wayang) with Kroncong and old-time instrumentation, the Shadow Ballad project celebrated various traditions in an April 19th performances. Wake Forest students and Winston-Salem…
read moreStudent Exploration Series- Serena Daya
The Student Exploration Series gives students the opportunity to navigate each part of the creative process with support and guidance. The Exploration Series culminates…
read moreLakota Voices and Hand Games From the Great Plains
On Wednesday, April 16th, four members of the Lakota Nation were on campus to perform alongside the Reynolda House’s exhibit George Catlin’s American Buffalo. The performers hosted an interactive night of games and play readings, and it was free and open to the public…
read moreRed Bird Blue Bird
April 14, 2014 at 7:30pm. Ring Theatre, Scales Fine Arts Center
An original play by Nina Foster, directed by Elizabeth Patterson and sponsored by IPLACe.
With cast members from Can I Poet…
Greek and Roman Comedy Course Enhancement
Leah Roy directed/rehearsed a scene for Ted Gellar-Goad’s Greek and Roman Comedy class. Eli Bradley, Eric Bray and Isabella Basco presented two contrasting interpretations of a scene from Pseudolus. IPLACe also funded the commission of 6 authentic Greek masks for use in Dr. Gellar-Goad’s classes…
read moreVia Romen Performance
As part of the symposium “Global Governance, Democracy, and Equality: Roma/Gypsies in Contemporary Europe,” we brought in the musical group Via Romen. Via Romen, a Central and Eastern European group, is known for blending music based in traditional Romani performance…
read moreThey Wouldn’t Bite
For her Senior Honors Project, Sarah Fine brought together Wake students and members of the community for a devised theater piece about inclusion and rejection. Featuring a cast of actors of varying abilities, the crew pulled together a script from interviews and “moment-work” rehearsals…
read moreIF Labs- Encounters with Creativity at WFU
IF Labs [Inventing Futures]: Encounters with Creativity at WFU was a week-long series to celebrate the ten year anniversary of the Program for Innovation, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship (ICE). Drawing together departments like ICE, Art, Biology, and Theatre & Dance, this week featured…
read moreAging Symposium
Designed to determine what we are doing as a society to improve aging and to highlight the multi-disciplinary research happening here at Wake Forest in this field, the March 17-18 Aging Symposium featured four speakers from outside Wake Forest including one Voices of Our Time speaker…
read moreRomantic Music- Do We Know What We’re Doing
Will Crutchfield, the internationally acclaimed conductor, musicologist, author, journalist, and director of the Caramoor International Music Festival presented to Music and Journalism classes. Presentations included a singer focused presentation expressing 20th century changes…
read moreCarlos Perez and Poetry
Guitarist Carlos Perez returned to Wake Forest University for a performance in the Byrum Welcome Center! In addition to Perez’s internationally acclaimed guitar work, the performance featured readings of Spanish poetry with English translations provided in the program…
read moreCelebrating Maya Angelou
On Thursday, 2/19 at 6PM at SECCA, members of the Wake Forest and Winston-Salem communities honored the legacy of Dr. Maya Angelou. The evening featured readings of Angelou’s poetry by Wake Forest University students and faculty as well as members of the community…
read morePerspectives on Integration- Music at Little Rock Central High and Beyond
This symposium featured Brice Evans, current Director of Bands at Little Rock’s Central High School, and drew heavily on Brandon Robinson’s Ph.D. dissertation, “The Band at Little Rock Central High School Before, During, and After Integration in 1957–1958.” Using Central High as a “test case,”…
read moreWaiting for Godot Collaborations
WFU Theatre’s production of Waiting for Godot runs from Friday, February 6th through Sunday, February 15th. During the run, IPLACe is sponsoring events for collaborators across campus to look at the show through the lenses of their own disciplines…
read moreThe Looking Glass Self
Student Kim Korzen combined slam poets from WFU’s Can-I-Poet? with dancers to craft personal poetic narratives. The dancers and poets employed mirrors in their performances to explore their own identities and how they feel others view them in the Lower Dance Studio…
read morePaige McGinley Book Talk
Scholar and author Paige A. McGinley was on campus to talk about her 2014 book Staging the Blues: From Tent Shows to Tourism in which she explores the “creatively vibrant” history of blues performance. McGinley is an Assistant Professor of Performing Arts at Washington University in St. Louis…
read moreRamon Griffero and the Politics of the Dramaturgy of Space- A Lecture and Demonstration
Exploring the work of Chilean playwright/director Ramon Griffero, guest professor Adam Versényi utilized his own translations of Griffero’s plays as he investigated how Griffero’s aesthetic approach emerged out of the conditions of late twentieth century Chile…
read moreBlack Mountain Summer of 1948
On Wednesday, November 5th from 5:00-6:30PM in the Hanes Art Gallery, there was a performance to showcase student and faculty work in the style of Black Mountain College artists. The performance honored artists John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Willem De Kooning, and Erik Satie…
read moreBalinese Music, Dance and Culture Course Enhancement Project
Organized by professor Elizabeth Clendinning, professors from the Music, Dance, Anthropology and Religion departments combined to showcase the interdisciplinary nature of the Balinese performing arts. Through playing, dancing, chanting, preparing food and participating…
read moreKyle Abraham
We were thrilled to bring in dancer and choreographer Kyle Abraham to lead two masterclasses and panels in October 2014. Kyle’s work explores race, gender, sexuality, identity, and the human experience through movement…
read moreBe Steadwell- Finding Identity in Pop and Soul
Junior Clarielle Marsh, event organizer, invites you to come and enjoy a night of unique Pop & Soul. D.C. singer/songwriter Be Steadwell will be on campus in October to perform some of her original musical selections that shine light on the experiences of queer people of color…
read moreBeing Here – Todd Drake Photography Exhibition
Photographer Todd Drake combined stills of associate chaplain Imam Khalid Griggs and Muslim Wake Forest students with the self-portrait project “To Be Rather Than to Seem.” Featuring a photo exhibit in the Hanes Art Gallery…
read moreThinktank 2015
The annual IPLACe Thinktank serves to bring together voices from around campus. This year, we’re hosting performing artists and thought leaders to talk about how IPLACe can help solve problems and to celebrate what makes Wake Forest special…
read moreCapturing Grace – aperture Screening
This documentary tells the unlikely story of what happens when the world renowned Mark Morris Dance Group and people with Parkinson’s disease join forces to create a unique performance. Over the course of a year, the film captures the hopes, fears, frustrations and triumphs…
read moreVenice – The Floating City
We worked with Dr. Monique O’Connell’s FYS in the History Department to bring the performing arts to their study of early Venice. Check out these great photos from a class visit with student actors to bring the material to life…
read moreDance and Art Airmail Course Enhancement Project
The Airmail course enhancement project brought together Christina Soriano’s Improvisational Dance class, Amy Beasley’s Advanced Modern dance class, and Leigh Ann Hallberg’s Life Drawing class for a semester-long collaboration. Life Drawing students were paired…
read moreVisions of the Great Plains- George Catlin and American Indians
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Visions of the Great Plains: George Catlin and American Indians
Saturday, March 7, 2015…
(ID)entity
Under the direction of Professor Christina Soriano, Christopher Gonzalez La Corte created an original dance theatre piece about diversity, inclusion, hate, identity and the burden of having one…
read moreOffice Warming Party
On Thursday, November 18th from 4:30-6:00PM, members of the Wake Forest community dropped by our new office to help break in the new space with food, drink, and good conversation. We are now located in Tribble A106 (to the left of DeTamble Auditorium)…
read moreNot in My Neighborhood- Racism and Real Estate
The Office of the Provost, the Wake Forest University Theatre, and IPLACe are proud to present “Not In My Neighborhood: Racism and Real Estate,” a series which seeks to establish a broader context for Wake Forest University Theatre’s production of Clybourne Park…
read moreStudent Salon Series
On the first Saturday of the month, IPLACe assistant Molly Dunn is in Campus Grounds from 2-3PM hosting a conversation on the arts on campus. She is joined by Wake Forest Campus Life Fellow Paige Horton. The event is open to all students, and all drinks and snacks are paid for by IPLACe…
read moreThis Is Our Youth Talkback
On Friday, October 10th, there will be a post-show reception and talk-back featuring Dr. Terry Blumenthal, WFU Psychology professor. Come out and see This Is Our Youth in the Ring Theatre at 7:30, and stay to hear Dr. Blumenthal answer questions about the impact of drugs…
read moreReading of A Man for All Seasons
Dr. Cindy Gendrich in the Department of Theatre and Dance and James Otteson in The Center for the Study of Capitalism collaborated on a staged reading of the play A Man For All Seasons on Friday, October 3rd…
read moreSeis Miradas Por Latinoamerica
An interdisciplinary series honoring Chilean poet Pablo Neruda; events ran Monday, September 22nd through Thursday, September 25th…
read moreThese Shining Lives Postshow Talkbacks
We sponsored a number of audience Q&A “talk-backs” during the run of the Wake Forest University Theatre’s These Shining Lives in September 2014 in interrogate the connections between the show and contemporary social issues…
read moreTheatre and Education Course Enhancement Project
In the fall of 2014, the Theatre, Dance, and Education departments continued their three-year collaboration to help pre-service education students develop strategies for teaching Shakespeare. Professors Woody Hood, Brook Davis, and Leah Roy led workshops for Dr. Alan Brown’s class…
read moreStaged Reading of Original Play, Boston Marathon
A staged reading of Boston Marathon, an original play, was performed on Monday, September 15th, 2014 at 5:30PM in the Ring Theatre. The play was written by Janos Degi in collaboration with Wake Forest students…
read moreDancing with Parkinson’s- Choreography for the Seated Position
Professor Christina Soriano brought her work with individuals with Parkinson’s Disease to the Reynolda House Museum of American Art for a dance performance in collaboration with the Fall exhibition, “The Art of Seating: 200 Years of American Design”…
read moreBroadway’s Next H!t Musical- Student Improv
The popular New York City improv group, Broadway’s Next Hit Musical visited campus on September 11th, 2014.
Along with its performance as part of the Secrest Series, the group offered an improv masterclass for students from 2:00-3:30 in the Ring Theatre…
Contemporary Theatre in Spain Course Enhancement Project
In the Fall 2014 semester, Theatre professor Leah Roy brought students Jessi Wagner (’15) and Taylor Hagely (’15) to Dr. Sanhueza’s Spanish 342 class, “Contemporary Theater in Spain and Spanish America.” Leah Roy directed Jessi and Taylor’s in-class performance of a scene from the play Saverio el cruel…
read moreTraversing- Carolina Musical Festival 2014
On August 18th, 2014, twelve dancers and choreographers, four musicians, and community volunteers came together to put on “Traversing,” a site-specific dance piece exploring West End Mill Works. Audience members were led through Hoot’s Roller Bar, Muay Thai Kickboxing, Olio glassblowing studios…
read moreOver-Under II
Wake Forest dance professor Amy Beasley choreographed, directed, and edited this short film at Experimental Film Virginia in August 2014. It has since been screened at…
read moreViva Voce! A World Voice Day Celebration
In celebration of World Voice Day 2014, members of the Wake Forest University Departments of Music, Theatre and Dance, and the Wake Forest Baptist Health Center for Voice and Swallowing Disorders led an exploration of the amazing human voice…
read moreAbigail Child
Abigail Child, filmmaker, media artist, poet and theorist came to campus as part of ‘Innovation Visionaries’ Series presented in collaboration with…
read moreThe Last 5 Years
In The Last 5 Years by Jason Robert Brown, modern relationships are examined through a touching, raw lens as Jamie and Cathy struggle with balancing their relationships and their budding (or struggling) careers. In conjunction with the performance in Hanes Art Gallery…
read moreClassroom Management Course Enhancement
Secondary pre-service teachers (Education majors) got experience handling classroom management via various scenarios with the help of Theatre students. Theatre students served as the actors who played the role of students in a high school classroom. In each skit, the actors needed to react to the teacher and each other…
read moreGreek and Roman Comedy Course Enhancement Project
Theatre Professor Leah Roy worked with three student actors from the Theatre Department to prepare a reading from a scene of a comedy of Aristophanes. The students did a reading at a class meeting of Ted Gellar-Goad’s course Greek and Roman Comedy, and then led a class discussion…
read moreEmbers and Stars
Petr Ginz was a marvel. He wrote novels and poetry, made linocuts and watercolors, invented designs for spaceships and secret codes. And he was murdered by the Nazis when he was only 16. Embers and Stars, The Story of Petr Ginz is a story about imagination and courage…
read moreUrsonate
Inspired by the Hanes Gallery exhibition Letterforming, Lynn Book performed a concert-style version of Kurt Schwitters’ sound poem Ursonate. Letterforming traces how pictures became letters that became text and are sometimes becoming pictures again…
read moreCantus Vocal Ensemble with Theatre Latté Da in “All is Calm”
Professor Louie Goldstein kicked off a semester long celebration of John Cage with a Musicircus event in the Z. Smith Reynolds Library at Wake Forest University…
read moreHairspray
A film screening of the John Waters film Hairspray upon which the stage musical–and the subsequent movie musical–were based was held on October 29, in DeTamble Auditorium, with a lively discussion following…
read moreSpanish Ballads
Performance artist and ethnomusicologist Tomas Lozano played a variety of instruments (hurdy gurdy, guitar, traditional percussion instruments) and music styles from or linked to the Iberian Peninsula. He brings to life Iberian traditional music, as well as Spanish-language romances…
read moreLaramie – Inside Out
On October 9, 2013 IPLACe, along with Film Studies, Documentary Film, Department of Theatre and Dance, LGBTQ Center, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, hosted a film screening and discussion with Laramie Inside Out as a remembrance on the 15th anniversary of the death of Matthew Shepard…
read moreIdentity Crisis
Music Professor and WFU Orchestra Director David Hagy accompanied Wake Alumni Natalie Cordone and Matt Mundy at Identity Crisis: A Night of Finding Yourself at the Theatre, a public recital of Broadway show tunes in Brendle Recital Hall…
read moreDivinity School and Theatre Course Enhancement Project
Professor Tom Frank invited Theatre Professors Sharon Andrews and Brook Davis to work with students in his Divinity School class, “Spirituality and Ministry in Theater, Film, and Visual Arts.” The master class on September 28, 2013 centered around the University Theatre’s production…
read moreDancing with Parkinson’s
Theatre and Dance professor Christina Soriano continues to run the “Dancing with Parkinson’s” community class as part of a research project to see if regular participation in movement through dance can lessen some of the physical effects of Parkinson’s disease…
read moreKevin Kopelson ‘Hollywood Hasbeens’ Lecture
This lecture, by renowned queer theorist and University of Iowa professor Kevin Kopelson, took place on September 13, 2013. After being introduced by WFU Reynolds Professor Herman Rapaport (English), Professor Kopelson delivered a presentation entitled, “Hollywood Has-Beens”…
read moreKyle Haden (WFU ’99)
Roosevelt University Chicago, Viewpoints Residency, September 11-13. (Dance/Theatre/Documentary Film Petr Ginz project). Three separate classes; multiple external meetings with students and faculty…
read moreMatt Wolf Residency
While visiting Wake Forest on September 6-8, international theatre critic Matt Wolf engaged Journalism and Theatre students and faculty, and community members in a friendly conversation about his work as a London theatre critic for The New York Times…
read moreArt Students & Theatre Course Enhancement Project
Theatre Professor Leah Roy and Art Professor Morna O’Neill collaborated on a project bringing Period and Style movement into Art 273: Eighteenth-Century European Art class during the Fall 2013 semester. Two sessions introduced students to a vocabulary for…
read moreApartment House
Apartment House: an Evening of Dance and Music involved professional musicians and dancers from UNCSA and WFU’s departments of music and dance. A selection from John Cage’s 44 Harmonies from the work “Apartment House 1776”…
read moreArt & Theatre Course Enhancement Project
Funding for student Bentrice Jusu’s Senior Honors art installation, “Paradoxica Mimesis/Houses of Dignity”—design and execution of her central piece with Rob Eastman-Mullins (Theatre)…
read moreCatherine Branch Residency
Music of Difference: Exploring the Beauty in Disability and Diversity with Catherine Branch, speaker/performer and Robert Bradshaw, speaker/composer. The project draws attention to the need for people in all disciplines to find beauty in disability and diversity and to look to music…
read moreTango and More!
A concert featuring Latin American music for string quartet, piano, and voice including tango song arrangements by Argentine composer Aljandro Rutty, Associate Professor of Music-Composition at University of North Carolina at Greensboro…
read moreZenaida Romeu
Zenaida Romeu, Cuban musician and director of the internationally acclaimed, all-woman string orchestra, Camerata Romeu, collaborated with WFU Music Professor and Concert Choir Director Brian Gorelick; Conductor Matt Troy and the Winston-Salem Youth Symphony Orchestra…
read moreCole Porter revue, Let’s Misbehave
Reynolda House/Music/Theatre (Phil Archer/Cindy Gendrich/David Hagy/Leah Roy, multiple others) Edward Steichen and Cole Porter. A Cole Porter revue in conjunction with the Edward Steichen exhibit at Reynolda House, March 7, 2013…
read moreCageFest
Professor Louie Goldstein kicked off a semester long celebration of John Cage with a Musicircus event in the Z. Smith Reynolds Library at Wake Forest University. September 28, 2012. Additionally, Stephen Drury hosted a master class open to all students…
read moreDr. Thomas Moore Visit
Dr. Thomas Moore of Rollins College in Florida, one of the leading researchers in musical acoustics in the United States, is among a very few physicists for whom musical acoustics forms the basis of his research endeavors…
read moreMarisol
José Rivera’s award-winning play Marisol ran Sept. 28-29 and Oct. 3-7.
Rivera participated in an IPLACe-sponsored post-performance discussion immediately following the play on Fri., Oct. 5…