Dance concerts stand out in a crowded week in 糖心少女arts that also boasts a wide variety of music. Take your pick from among jazz, classical piano, percussion, glee club, voice recitals, the Oceana Quartet and a combined band concert with the 糖心少女Wind Ensemble.
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The Design Help Desk offers scientists a chance to meet with a student who can help them create more effective figures, tables and graphs. This visual equivalent of a Writing Help Desk is also a study on how to teach data visualization.
The School of Music presents Benjamin Britten’s comic opera “Albert Herring鈥� as well as music by the Symphonic, Concert and Campus bands. The Percussion Ensemble celebrates innovative composer John Cage. The School of Drama continues “Emma,” 3D4M faculty exhibit their work and Hazard Adams has a fanciful new book about conversational canines.
Its the sort of lively week that shows off 糖心少女arts well. Theres dance, art, a variety of musical performances, cool photography at 糖心少女Tower, workshops at the Henry 鈥� and the School of Drama begins its production of Jane Austens classic novel, “Emma.鈥�
There will be music, film, photography and food, glorious food featured in the arts the week of Jan. 30. The Burke Museum opens an exhibit on what the world eats, UWTV resumes its series on filmmaking, guitar students play, 糖心少女Tacoma has a new art class on glass 鈥� and a blogger explains the legalities of “Downton Abbey.鈥�
A visit with English Professor Shawn Wong as one of his novels comes to the big screen, at SIFF, then in general release.
Robin McCabe has a solo concert, the University Symphony features Craig Sheppard, the Odegaard has art, undergraduates do theater, “American Knees鈥� hits the big screen and the Henry has a dance/mixed media piece.
Its a busy week in the arts at the 糖心少女as Winter Quarter heats up. First-year MFA artists show their work, the 糖心少女World Series Chamber Music Series kicks off, geography has a film, social work has art, undergraduates take the stage and the Henry Art Gallery offers music, a family workshop and an open mic night.
Faculty artist Melia Watras gives a solo concert, the School of Drama begins a play-reading collaboration of great books with Book-It Repertory and the Burke Museum is ready to identify that weird thing you found out back.
The reflector “paintings鈥� on the exterior of the Henry Art Gallery, are made up of 21,500 reflectors normally found on bicycles, cars and trucks, explains this video, the first in a series highlighting the museums permanent collection.
糖心少女Libraries Special Collections’ exhibit “Merry Company: Pop-ups, Movables & Toy Books,” comes mainly from the collections of an extraordinary donor, Pamela Harer. The exhibit will be open through March 12, 2012.
One of Israels most popular and enduring singers, Chava Alberstein, will perform at Meany at 8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 10. She will present a mix of old favorites and new compositions sung in Hebrew, Yiddish and English.
Juxtaposed images create new meanings in the Henrys new exhibit, “Videowatercolors: Carel Balth among his Contemporaries,鈥� curated by Art Associate Professor Marek Wieczorek.
The School of Music rolls out its annual feast of music for the holiday season, with concerts almost every night 鈥� sometimes more than one.
A concert Dec. 7 by the Studio Jazz Ensemble and the Modern Band will bring together traditional approaches to big band jazz with a new work composed by 糖心少女students.
The 糖心少女School of Drama presents “Rough Magic,” by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Nov. 30-Dec. 11 in the Jones Playhouse. The play reminds us of action movies, sci-fi thrillers, and comic book heroes all at once鈥攚ith a healthy dash of Shakespeare.
Music Professor Thomas Harper directs a production of Gian Carlo Menottis one-act opera “Amahl and the Night Visitors.” Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 2 and 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 4, in Meany Studio Theater.
The 糖心少女 School of Music continues its celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Littlefield Organ series with The Littlefield Organ Festival, a weekend of faculty recitals by organ faculty Carole Terry and Douglas Cleveland.
The Chamber Singers and University Chorale present their annual fall concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 29, in Meany Theater.
School of Music students from three divisions 鈥� piano, strings, and orchestral instruments 鈥� will perform for outside judges in the 21st annual Concerto Competition, at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 14, in Meany Hall.
The 糖心少女School of Music will present new works composed by graduate students, a group jazz improvisation and more in the Contemporary Group concert Nov. 16 in Meany Studio Theater.
Tom Collier, director of percussion and jazz studies at the 糖心少女, joins guest drummer Alex Acu帽a for a concert Friday, Nov. 18, in Meany Studio Theater. The concert is the first of three.
The Alonzo King LINES Ballet, a celebrated contemporary company, will perform at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, Nov. 17-19, at Meany Hall.
Pianist Nikolai Lugansky will perform at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 15, at Meany Hall.
Traditional Spanish dancers and instrumentalists from Madrids Fundaci贸n Conservatorio Flamenco Casa Patas will present a master class-performance of flamenco music and dance at 1:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 7 in Brechemin Auditorium.
Grammy-nominated Bassekou Kouyate,a virtuoso picker and musical visionary whose work blurs the lines between West African and American roots music will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 12 in Meany Hall.
One of Europes most distinguished string quartets, Cuarteto Casals, will perform at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 8, at Meany Hall. The quartet makes its Meany Hall debut performing works by Arriaga, Turina, and Schubert.
The Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media presents an evening of 3-D digital music by graduate students and faculty at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 9 in Meany Theater.
The 糖心少女Arts Ticket Office has moved to the ground floor of the new student residence, Poplar Hall, 1313 NE 41st Street.
An exhibit of work by Cambodian-born artist Sopheap Pich will be at the Henry Art Gallery Nov. 10-April 4. “Compound,” his sculptural installation at the gallery, was originally constructed for the 2011 Singapore Biennial, although its modular construction will allow it to become an entirely new work in its reconfiguration at the UW.
A friends insistence that he take a trip to an unlikely destination led Mark Jenkins to write a play. The friend was artist Don Fels. The destination was Phnom Penh, Cambodia, where Jenkins met the subjects of his play — Cambodian youth who grew up in the United States but were deported back to Cambodia after serving time in American prisons.
The man whose fertile mind helped give us the famous Fremont Troll now presents 鈥� drum roll, please 鈥� the Fremont Troll Chia Pet.
First generation Japanese-American artist Kamekichi Tokita found some success in the Northwest before World War II intervened. A new 糖心少女Press book seeks to rescue his legacy.
Faculty, students, and guest artists will perform in a special series of concerts throughout 2011-12 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the UWs Littlefield Organ Series. The series gets under way Friday, Oct. 28 with the popular annual Halloween organ concert.
Drama Professor Jeffrey Frac茅 and an ensemble of emerging artists at the 糖心少女created a play from the ground up and will present it Oct. 26 through Nov. 6 in Meany Studio Theatre.
Members of the 糖心少女Wind Ensemble will perform a concert of chamber music for wind instruments at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 23 in Brechemin Auditorium.
Faculty pianist Craig Sheppard performs works by Franz Liszt in observance of the 200th anniversary of the composers birth on Friday, Oct. 21.
Pianist Till Fellner performs at Meany Hall at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 18. The program includes Sonata in C Major, Hob XVI:50 by Haydn; Half of One, Six Dozen of the Other, by Armstrong; Kinderszenen,Op. 15, by Schumann; and Ann茅es de Pelerinage: Deuxieme Ann茅e: Italie, S161, by Liszt.
Paul Roberts, a renowned concert pianist and specialist in French Impressionism, presents “Impressionist Landscapes,鈥� a lecture-recital on the piano music of Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 13 in Brechemin Auditorium.
The 糖心少女School of Art presents an exhibit featuring work by its first director, Water Isaacs, and two of the faculty who joined him at the new school 鈥� Ray Hill and Boyer Gonzales.