Students in the new Princeton course learn skills like the practice of “close looking,” borrowed from art history, then apply them as catalysts for collaboration and innovation.
Princeton senior Julie Shin's "Power Play" employs the audience/performer relationship as a mechanism for exploring the realities of power and pressure between women and society. Asking both the performer and viewer to consider the extent of their control over the environment, the piece is an intimate look at the nuances of ownership when subjected to the gaze. Open to Princeton students, faculty and staff. Free tickets required.
Princeton senior Julie Shin's "Power Play" employs the audience/performer relationship as a mechanism for exploring the realities of power and pressure between women and society. Asking both the performer and viewer to consider the extent of their control over the environment, the piece is an intimate look at the nuances of ownership when subjected to the gaze. Open to Princeton students, faculty and staff. Free tickets required.
University dance students premiere new filmed works online
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In locations as vast as an open field and as intimate as a slant-roofed attic, new dance works by students choreographed specifically for film will premiere online in the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Dance “Spring Dance Festival - April,” 8 p.m. on Friday, April 30.
The free program on Zoom will showcase the independent thesis works of seniors Sophie Blue, Liam Lynch and Enver Ramadini. Each conceived and choreographed pieces for presentation via video in a virtual environment, “exploring the translation of movement specifically for the camera“:
Sophie Blue’s “əˈfem(ə)rəl,” filmed in a field near Princeton University. will be part of Princeton University Program in Dance s online Spring Dance Festival on April 30.Photo courtesy of Sophie Blue