Arts & Culture

Lois GreenfieldMonique HaleyThe River North Chicago Dance Company, the eclectic, 13-member ensemble known for packing concerts with short, engaging works by contemporary choreographers, will return to Washington University’s Edison Theatre for a trio of performances Jan. 21-23.

Hannah Wilke, “Intra-Venus #4, February 19, 1992,” (1992-93)Women’s bodies — nude, adorned, eroticized, abstracted — figure prominently in the history of art. Yet the art of women’s health is shockingly new. In January, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis will present Inside Out Loud: Visualizing Women’s Health in Contemporary Art, the first major museum-level exhibition dedicated to the topic. The show tracks the emergence of women’s health in American art from the early 1980s to the present, and includes approximately 50 artworks in a variety of traditional and cutting-edge media by more than 30 internationally known artists and artists’ groups.

Remembering Einstein’s “miracle year.”The United Nations has declared 2005 the International Year of Physics — and there’s a very good reason why this particular year was chosen to raise worldwide public awareness of physics. It is also the 100th anniversary of physicist Albert Einstein’s miraculous year in which he wrote five — or three depending on whom you ask — of his most famous scientific papers. Also known as the World Year of Physics, 2005 will feature worldwide events of interest not only to physicists, but also to the general public. Two physicists from Washington University in St. Louis who are both known for their ability to speak and write clearly about physics to the layperson will be giving talks throughout 2005 about Einstein’s ideas and their impact on science and society 100 years later.

The professor emeritus in the School of Architecture’s book is titled Planning and Social Science: A Humanistic Approach.

Washington University’s Department of Music in Arts & Sciences will present a “Small Chamber Ensembles Concert” at 8 p.m. Monday, Dec. 13, in Holmes Lounge.

The Washington University Flute Choir, directed by Jan Smith, will perform at 8 p.m. Monday, Dec. 13, in the University’s Graham Chapel.

Literary historian Harold Love, the visiting Fannie Hurst Professor of Creative Literature in Washington University’s Department of English in Arts & Sciences for Fall 2004, will speak on Reading Restoration Lampoons at 8 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 9.

The Washington University Concert Band will perform music of Franz von Suppé, Malcolm Arnold and John Philip Sousa at 8 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 5, in the University’s Graham Chapel. Dan Presgrave, instrumental music coordinator in the Department of Music in Arts & Sciences, directs the program.

The Concert Choir of Washington University will perform music of Thomas Weelkes, Tomas Luis de Vittoria, Sergei Rachmaninoff and Francis Poulenc at 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 10, in Graham Chapel.

Courtesy photoBrigitta WinklerTango legend Brigitta Winkler, co-founder of the renowned Tanzart studio in Berlin, will host a weekend of dances and workshops Dec. 10-12 for The Tango Group at Washington University in St. Louis.