WashU Dance Collective to perform
The Washington University Dance Collective, the resident dance company of the Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences, will present “Transcendence,” an evening of new and original choreography, April 4 and 5 in Edison Theatre.
Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ and the Blood Moon Orchestra April 6
Composer and instrumentalist Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ, celebrated for her “rippling blend of musical genres” (San Francisco Classical Voice), will join her ensemble, the Blood Moon Orchestra, for a recital Sunday, April 6. The performance will conclude WashU’s 2025 Great Artists Series.
WashU announces 2026 Great Artists Series
The Department of Music in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis will host six performances by internationally renowned performers as part of the 2026 Great Artists Series.
¿Te puedo contar algo?
“¿Te puedo contar algo?”, an evening-length concert featuring new and original works by MFA candidates Tess Angelica Losada-Tindall and Lourdes del Mar Santiago Lebrón in Arts & Sciences, will explore the nature, power and necessity of grief March 21 and 22 in WashU’s Edison Theatre.
Powers wins book award from cinema society
John Powers, an assistant professor of film and media studies in Arts & Sciences, has won the 2024 Best First Book Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.
Kurtz explores ethical practice in capoeira
Esther Viola Kurtz, in the Department of Music in Arts & Sciences, has published an article titled “Call, Response, and Compromisso: Ethical Practice in Capoeira of Backland Bahia, Brazil.”
Opera star Lawrence Brownlee March 23
Tenor Lawrence Brownlee, “an international star in the bel canto operatic repertory” (New York Times), will join pianist Kevin Miller for an intimate recital March 23. The program will span music of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.
A Beautiful Fight
The Racial Politics of Capoeira in Backland Bahia
“A Beautiful Fight” examines the potentials and limits of capoeira Angola to cohere a multiracial community committed to antiracist struggle.
Lost in Words
Short Stories
Lost in Words is Ann Calandro’s debut collection of short fiction with stories that glide from “brief dreamlike appreciations of friendships to longer narratives about families,” writes author Carol Sklenicka. “Her sentences are perfection, whether describing fries “crisp on the outside and meltingly soft within” or a survey designed to tell us where we can […]
Grammy winner Yefim Bronfman March 2
Yefim Bronfman, “a powerhouse pianist with a tone of crystalline clarity” (Los Angeles Times), will perform music of Mozart, Schumann, Debussy and Tchaikovsky March 2 for WashU’s Great Artists Series.
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