Author: Liam Otten

The Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences will present its third biennial “Young Choreographers Showcase“ March 28-30 in the Annelise Mertz Dance Studio. The concert will feature more than a dozen dancers in seven original works — ranging from ballet to modern, solos to large group works — by student choreographers in the PAD’s Dance Program

David MarchantShaina Goodman’s *Holding.*The Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences will present its third biennial Young Choreographers Showcase March 28 to 30 in the Annelise Mertz Dance Studio. The concert will feature more than a dozen dancers in seven original works — ranging from ballet to modern, solos to large group works — by student choreographers in the PAD’s Dance Program

*Cloudless*The work of Susan Marshall, hailed by The New York Times as “one of the most significant choreographers working today,” combines explosive athleticism with subtle yet familiar movements drawn from daily life. This month her troupe, Susan Marshall & Company, will present Cloudless, an evening-length collection of solos, duets and small group pieces, as part of the Edison Theatre OVATIONS! Series.

Courtesy PhotoA photograph of Le Corbusier’s iconic “Notre Dame du Haut” (1955) under construction in Ronchamp, France. The image — by the Hungarian-born photographer Herve (Laszlo Elkan), who worked with Le Corbusier from 1949 until the architect’s death in 1965 — is currently featured in the exhibition “The Lens of Architecture-Ronchamp through Herve.”

The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts will host a daylong symposium on “Architecture, Art and the Experience of Blackness” Thursday, March 6, in Steinberg Auditorium. The symposium will bring together more than a dozen speakers whose creative and scholarly works intersect with issues of race and identity.

The Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences has announced its Spring 2009 Faculty Fellows. The three recipients are: Guinn Batten, Ph.D., associate professor of English; Andrea Friedman, Ph.D., associate professor of history and Women & Gender Studies; and Jennifer Kapczynski, Ph.D., assistant professor of German, all in Arts & Sciences.

Willie Cole, *Sole Brother 1*The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts will host a daylong symposium on Architecture, Art and the Experience of Blackness Thursday, March 6, in Steinberg Auditorium. The symposium will bring together more than a dozen speakers whose creative and scholarly works intersect with issues of race and identity.

Slovenian philosophers Mladen Dolar and Slavoj Zizek will be in residence at the Department of English in Arts & Sciences March 3 – 6, during which time they will deliver a pair of joint lectures.

Musicians from Washington University and the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra will join forces to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of French composer Olivier Messiaen. The concert — sponsored by the Department of Music in Arts & Sciences, the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra’s Community Partnership Program and KWUR 90.3 FM — is free and […]

Pritzker Prize-winning architect Thom Mayne, known for his innovative use of forms and materials, will present the 2008 Cannon Design Lecture for Excellence in Architecture & Engineering for the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts. The lecture is free and open to the public and begins at 6:30 p.m. Monday, March 3, in […]