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The Dance Historian Is In: Ishmael Houston-Jones
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY, United StatesDavid Vaughan was the archivist of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and author of Merce Cunningham/65 Years and Frederick Ashton and His Ballets. From 2012- 2017, Mr. Vaughan held monthly screenings of his favorite dance films and videos from our collection. David passed away in October 2017, and the Jerome Robbins Dance Division will continue screenings in his […]
A Talk with Seymour Kaplan: Dachau Liberator
Commonpoint Queens Central 67-09 108th Street, Forest Hills, NY, United StatesAt 17-years old, Seymour Kaplan enlisted in the American Army and left Brooklyn to fight against Nazi Germany. He became a machine gunner with the 692nd Tank Destroyer Battalion attached to the 42nd Infantry Division. He was one of the first American soldiers to enter the Dachau concentration camp in April 1945. As a Yiddish […]
Medieval Medicine and Literature: A Galenic Presence in Dante’s Writing
NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò 24 West 12th Street, New York, NY, United StatesThe attention to the relation between medieval medicine and Dante’s writing shows how contemporary scientific thought manifests itself both in evident and less explicit terms, which allude not to exclusively scientific concepts, but to structures of thought shared by other contemporary intellectual discussions, such as philosophy, ethics, political thought. This lecture investigates how the manifest […]
China Chic: Orientalist Representations in Western Performing Arts
Katie Murphy Amphitheatre 227 West 27th Street, New York, NY, United StatesPhil Chan is co-founder of Final Bow for Yellowface, a movement for change in the ballet community of stereotypes of Asians. From The Nutcracker to Crazy Rich Asians, Chan approaches issues of race and representation by exploring “cultural appropriation” through the lens of dance history — where he finds many parallels to fashion and costuming.
Music and Our Memories
National Jazz Museum in Harlem 58 W 129th St, New York, NY, United StatesJoin us for an evening of jazz with a side of science. Jazz musician Helen Sung will perform and neuroscientist Lenzie Ford will speak on how music connects to our emotions, thoughts, and memories. This event is a partnership between the Zuckerman Institute, Arts & Minds and The National Jazz Museum in Harlem.