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Performance:Amelia Arguelles, piano
in 4 hours in 25 minutes
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Performance:Student Composer Concert Series
Apr. 21
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Performance:Aiden Drysdale, chamber trombone
Apr. 21
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Performance:Arturo Fernandez, piano
Apr. 22
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Performance:Voice & Opera Studio Recital
Apr. 22
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Performance:Ryan Wu, violin
Apr. 22
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Performance:Daiyao Zhong, voice
Apr. 22
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Performance:Bella Pabian & Genesis Morales, trombones
Apr. 22
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Performance:14th Annual Shirley Verrett Award Celebration
Apr. 23
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Performance:Maitri White, voice
Apr. 23
Amy Chavasse (faculty, Dance), Malcolm Tulip (faculty, Theatre & Drama), and Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance major, Anna Bodescu join together for an evening of storytelling, movement, and dance. Careening from acts boisterous and absurd to tributes reverent and tender, the three works promise an unflinching examination of the human condition. PROGRAM *Little Charlotte the Round Ray* (premiered at the Disguise Festival, Northampton, MA, May 2025) A cautionary tale, told as speculative fiction in kaleidoscopic movement, song and storytelling. It examines the desperation that can emerge from belief systems that elevate hysteria, and wishful thinking. At its core, this is a heartfelt homage to Charlotte. *Low Light* (premiered at the Beijing Dance Festival, 2014) In 1956, Rachel Carson wrote a script for the popular TV show *Omnibus* called *Something About the Sky*. She hoped to challenge the \"sterile preoccupation with things artificial\" and question our \"alienation from our source of strength.” Our absolute and essential humanness calls out for a re-imagined vocabulary of encounters. This dance seeks to uncover how this looks and feels across an expanse of emotional latitude – the imaginary line that connects points across the surface of the earth. Geographical imagery provides a framework as the dancer moves inside a quivering, episodic narrative. *deux dogtooth* (premiered at the Arthur Miller Theatre, 2017) A duet for Tulip and Chavasse that uses misappropriation and agitprop in a tightly structured improvisation that relies on intricately timed textural layering, gestures and humor. Obliquely referencing the 2009 film, *Dogtooth* by Yorgos Lanthimos, the action unfolds on and around a table, two chairs and a thick shag rug.