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(02/17/16 10:35pm)
This past weekend, the only student-run ballet companies in the Ivy League —Princeton University Ballet, Harvard Ballet Company and Columbia Ballet Collaborative —joined forces to produce performances that both showcased and celebrated the strengths of the dance groups.
(10/21/15 9:56pm)
After history professor emerita Nell Painter saw a New York Times cover depicting the Russian bombing of Grozny, the North Caucasus-located capital of Chechnya, she wondered why white Americans were called Caucasians. After spending a semester in Germany finding out, Painter wrote “The History of White People” in 2010, discussing how formerly non-white people were classified as white through their assimilation into American society.
(04/22/15 9:25pm)
In one of the many collaborative pieces from Princeton University Ballet’s “Art in Motion,” Alice Frederick ’17, co-presidentof the Ellipses Slam Team, stands in the middle of the stage and performs Shane Koyczan’s slam poem “Instructions for a Bad Day.” As she speaks, four dancers standing in the four corners of the stage depict the poem’s instructions through the graceful motion of their bodies.
(04/15/15 8:45pm)
While the words “Once Upon a Time” evoke thoughts of Grimms’ fairy tales, Princeton’s Black Arts Company Dance (BAC) is interpreting that phrase in a whole new light during their spring show of the same name. According to artistic director Sylvia Okafor ’16, the 12-piece spring show, set for this weekend, is meant to depict the many faces of BAC.
(04/01/15 10:00pm)
In a scene from the choreographed poem “For Colored Girls,” seven women are standing in line, and the “Lady in Brown” gives a short monologue about the struggle of a prototypical black girl across America in the 1970s while the remaining six women dance, depicting her narrative.
(02/25/15 9:20pm)
Every year, the Performing Arts Council (PAC) of Princeton University, together with the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students (ODUS) work in conjunction to produce “This Is Princeton” (TIP), an annual performing arts showcase that spotlights the rich arts culture on campus. Last semester, the two organizations decided to give TIP 2015 the theme of “Black Lives Matter,” in honor of the recent activism on campus. As a result,the Fields Center is also sponsoring the event this year, and the PAC has selected an Artistic Advisory Committee of undergraduates for the first time.
(02/11/15 11:07pm)
Last summer, African American ballet dancer Misty Copeland starred in an Under Armour commercial that stunned the athletic clothing industry. In the ad, Copeland performs ballet while a narrator reads a letter of rejection from a dance company. The ad was seen as a symbol of empowerment for women and minorities.
(12/03/14 11:04pm)
Lecture: Heems: Race, Hip-Hop, Activism
(11/14/14 5:00pm)
The chant “B-A-C, B-A-C what?” echoed in Frist Film/Performance Theatre as the lights dimmed, and the Black Arts Company's fall show thus began. The 12-piece set was designed and choreographed to follow a central theme of high school and the various cliques one might run into at a typical, high-performing“Academy.” The show opens with a comedic and engaging video that lives up to the highly entertaining BAC standard for filler videos.
(11/05/14 11:05pm)
Musical: PUP’s “Little Shop of Horrors”If you liked the video game “Plants vs. Zombies,” you’lllove Princeton University Players’ musical featuring a plant with a zombie-like fondness for human flesh. In this Broadway classic, harmless nerd Seymour Krelborn(who worksin theMushnik’s Skid Row Florist Shop) discovers a mysterious plant with a not-so-harmless craving for blood. As Seymour’s crush on the shop assistant Audrey grows, so does the plant’s appetite. Tickets are on sale now, and this show only runs one weekend! Get your tickets before you get devoured by a monster plant (or before the last showon Saturdaynight)!