Talk

Join world-renowned dancer Wendy Whelan and Brian Brooks in conversation with David Michalek’s class on Art and Emp athy. After a brief somatics workshop and a short performance, Whelan and Brooks will be joined by Michalek, Ilya Vidrin, Jill Johnson, and...

Please join Ethnicity, Migration, Rights for a lunchtime talk by Noe Montez, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Drama and Dance at Tufts University. His monograph Memory, Transitional Justice, and Theatre in Postdictatorship Argentina...

Mike Reiss ’81, a former head writer for The Simpsons, a show for which he has won four Emmy Awards, will be in discussion with students about his work as a TV and book writer. His new book, Springfield Confidential , is a humorous look at the legendary...

This talk traces the historical emergence of deadpan, a flat or neutral mode of performance that produces non-neutral responses, such as laughter. The definition of the “dead pan” as “playing a role with an expressionless face” was first recorded in a...

RESCHEDULED! About Annie Dorsen Annie Dorsen works in a variety of fields, including theatre, film, dance and, as of 2010, algorithmic theater. Most recently, Yesterday Tomorrow premiered at the Holland Festival (Amsterdam), and was presented at T2G...

A conversation on historical acting styles and instructional manuals with Sharon Marcus, Jesse Hawley, Normandy Raven Sherwood, and James P. Stanley Presented by: The Harvard Theatre Collection, Harvard University’s Department of English, and Theater...

About Annie Dorsen Annie Dorsen works in a variety of fields, including theatre, film, dance and, as of 2010, algorithmic theater. Most recently, Yesterday Tomorrow premiered at the Holland Festival (Amsterdam), and was presented at T2G (Gennevilliers) as...

Over the last four decades, artist and filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson has been internationally acclaimed for her art and films. Hershman Leeson presents her feature film Teknolust (2002, 85 min.) and a short film VertiGhost (2017, 13 min.). Following the...

Stories are much more than entertainment— they shape our world. They’ve inspired the rise and fall of empires and nations, sparked our understandings of basic political and philosophical concepts, and have given rise to religious beliefs. From Mesopotamia...

Friendship is a notoriously slippery category. The word is easy to use, hard to define; indeed, it may be so easy to use because it is so hard to define. Especially vexed is the relationship of friendship to the social bonds formed by sex, marriage, and...