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‘Learning play’ pushes Stanford scholars and actors to explore the contradictions of capitalism
The Stanford Summer Theater production of Bertolt Brecht’s play The Exception and the Rule is a uniquely Stanford affair: a classics student is acting in it, a music student wrote the score and a drama professor is the director. The multidisciplinary academic involvement is particularly fitting, since the show is one of the German playwright’s “learning plays,”…
Stanford’s Cantor Arts Center partners with the Google Art Project, an international online art gallery
Nothing compares to seeing a work of art in person, but there might also be nothing compared to examining a high- resolution image of a work of art that reveals details not visible to the naked eye – at least a naked eye viewing from behind a velvet rope or through protective Plexiglas. The closer-than-you-can-get-in-person…
First Night, Twelfth Night
Earlier this week the Stanford community commemorated the 75th anniversary of Memorial Auditorium with a performance in Pigott Theater of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, which was the first-night production on August 20, 1937, in what was then called Memorial Hall. We can thank the plumbers for bringing Twelfth Night back to MemAud. To quote from the evening’s program, “it…
Stanford Department of Music partners with San Francisco World Music Festival to present a course on Azerbaijani music
This spring the Stanford Department of Music in partnership with the San Francisco World Music Festival is offering an innovative music course titled Music and Culture from the Land of Fire: Introduction to Azerbaijani Mugham, taught by the festival’s Global Music Director and Azerbaijani kamancha virtuoso Imamyar Hasanov and Azerbaijani music specialist Krystal Barghelame, BA…
Art in the Metropolis
“Art in the Metropolis” is a sophomore seminar  offered in conjunction with the annual “Arts Immersion” trip to New York that takes place over spring break and is organized by the Stanford Arts Institute.  The trip, now in its fourth year, provides a group of students with the opportunity to immerse themselves in the cultural…
Stanford exhibit of San Jose’s lost Chinatown brings archaeology out of the laboratory
Visitors to the Stanford Archaeology Center find modern glass cases filled with fragments of a lost city – wooden toothbrushes and combs, buttons and leather shoes, ceramic bowls and soup spoons. These are the remnants of the once thriving Chinatown community in downtown San José. Today, these archaeological findings populate City Beneath the City, an art installation designed by…
Ram’s Head Theatrical Society Presents Spring Awakening: A New Musical
Book + Lyrics by Steven Sater Music by Duncan Sheik Winner of eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Spring Awakening is a rock musical adaptation of Frank Wedekind’s 1891 expressionist play about the trials and tribulations, and the exhilaration of the teen years. Spring Awakening takes its inspiration from one of literature’s most controversial masterpieces…
End-of-year Frost Music and Arts Festival features MGMT, Delorean and Kuroma
Following on the success of last year’s spring Revival concert that put the one-time sleepy Frost Amphitheater back on the music map, the Stanford Concert Network is presenting another crowd-pleasing lineup May 18 at the Frost Music and Arts Festival. Headliner MGMT will wrap up its national spring tour on the Farm, joined by openers…
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TEDxStanford 2013, set to the beat of breakthrough innovation [Sold Out]
TEDxStanford returns to campus on Saturday, May 11. Tickets are already sold out.TEDxStanford will be streaming live. Sign up here. Free.  This year’s theme, “Break Through,” brings a cutting-edge cast of speakers from laboratories and classrooms across the campus. Cliff Nass, the communications researcher, will, for example, talk about technology addiction and tween-age girls. Caitlin O’Connell-Rodwell, a…
Visitations: Theotokia and The War Reporter, chamber operas by Jonathan Berger, and Landfall, a collaboration between Laurie Anderson and Kronos Quartet
Only a few months after the official opening, Bing Concert Hall has revealed itself to be a masterpiece of organic design ideally suited to intimate, classical performance in a modern setting. At the same time, the space encourages creative exploration and is able to support cutting-edge technology in a way that refocuses the timeless dialogue between…
Know They Can Dance
Ballerina Jenny Koenig, ’13, speaks the sentiment of many when she says belonging to a student-run dance company “has become a fellowship and a sanctuary where my problem sets, papers and midterms cannot invade.” All kinds of dancers—whether premed major/dance minors who have been training since they were 4 or engineers who have newly discovered swing—kick…
Possessed by Place
Photographer Binh Danh, the son of refugees from Vietnam, has long been fascinated with the interplay of place and personal identity. About three years ago, he felt ready to tackle a landscape which he had dreamed about since he was a California schoolboy: Yosemite National Park. Danh, MFA ’04, a master of alternative photographic processes,…
Stanford’s Cantor Arts Center draws kids in with new family program
There’s a new pitter-patter at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford. Scurrying between the sculptures, popping by the portraits and musing at the masks are groups of children, taking part in a new program that has them drawing and sketching in the shadow of the masters. The Cantor has always welcomed families but the new program, on Sunday…
Public Discourse: Photographs by Robert Dawson
Robert Dawson has long been interested in how photography can be used to understand our relationship with the environment and in photography’s ability to shape public awareness and understanding of complex issues surrounding water, land use and our shared commons. Public Discourse: Photographs by Robert Dawson features work spanning 30 years of his career. The photographs…
Written, read and spoken
The feast of campus literary events through the end of the academic year is enough for even the most ravenous word nerd appetites. Beginning with a pair of events on March 13, the René Girard Lecture by Timothy Snyder, author of Bloodlands, and readings by Stegner Fellows Jacques Rancourt and Austin Smith, and ending on…
Stanford student explores the arts way off campus
Massive public murals typically aren’t the first image that comes to mind when the city of Lyon is mentioned. Located in east-central France between two major rivers, the Rhône and the Saône, Lyon is renowned for its Renaissance architecture, silk production and a plethora of local sausage specialties (calf’s feet anyone?). Yet a lesser-known gem…
