As the name suggests, Fusion Dance Company — Brown’s oldest student-run dance group — performs in a variety of styles, from modern to hip-hop. After watching the group’s Annual Spring Show, which features music ranging from the “Chicken Dance” to a ringtone to Timbaland, it becomes clear ...
On a snowy Tuesday afternoon, a drab conference room was lit up by the excitement and laughter of three 8-year-olds animatedly chatting. “Why am I the only boy here?” asked one in cartoonish exasperation. They talked cheerfully about gym class, art and bubbles, all while eyeing the conspicuous jumble ...
“Heartwarming” and “intriguing” — those are the two words Kris Cambra, director of biomedical communications at the Alpert Medical School, used to describe “Beyond the Diagnosis,” an exhibit commemorating Rare Disease Month. The exhibit features portraits of 17 patients who suffer from ...
After endless discussion in the media, delving into casting fuss and release date strategies, the highly anticipated film adaptation of “Fifty Shades of Grey” hit theaters this weekend. Though the film’s creators promised it would whip the audience to climax and break cinematic barriers by depicting ...
Making art with eyes closed may sound like a daunting task — but for some, it could be the perfect approach to accessing creativity and expression. Founded by Social Innovation Fellow Queen Nefertiti Shabazz ’17, the student group Radical Artists aims to provide workshops that use art as a tool ...
Walking into the Sarah Doyle Women’s Center, the viewer is met by a large pastel pink painting covered in seemingly simple shapes — upon closer inspection, the shapes reveal themselves to be silhouetted human profiles and glass vessels. The painting is one of nine acrylic pieces that comprise Joshua ...
The Department of Theater Arts and Performance Studies showcased works in development by first- and second-year MFA students as part of the “Writing is Live!” workshop Feb. 7 and Feb. 8. Showing the early stage of the creative process of playwriting, the program aims to provoke a conversation between ...
Following the footsteps of one man as he investigates the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Aaron Davidman will perform as the solo actor in his self-written play “Wrestling Jerusalem.” The performance will make a pit stop at AS220 in Providence Tuesday as part of a nationwide tour, addressing the complex ...
Shakespeare meets Edward Hopper, a Roman slave chases the girl next door to win his freedom and a Chinese-American woman follows her brother into the underworld in this semester’s array of performances from the Department of Theater Arts and Performance Studies and student performance groups, forming ...
Youthful characters mingle with starker images of violence in the comics that line the walls along the second floor of the Watson Institute for International Studies. Colorful images of Mickey Mouse adorned in lavish Arabic garments and headdresses create an aura that is distinctly familiar yet rich ...
Standing at a podium in the McCormack Family Theater, Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo conjured criticism of his home country in flowing Spanish interspersed with English translations for a small gathering of students, faculty members and writers. Reading from “Cuba in Splinters,” a recently published collection ...
This post was updated February 6, 2015 at 6:08 p.m. If there is one thing students wouldn’t expect to see on a Friday evening — or ever — it’s their professors flaunting some moves and jiving away on a stage. Yet seven professors, each paired with a student dancer, will perform Friday at Dancing ...
“Wonderland,” a play directed by Rebecca Carrol ’15 and produced by the Production Workshop, is interactive in the truest sense of the word. A dizzying and realistic descent through a rabbit hole carries audience members into the pages of the familiar storybook on which this devised piece is based: ...
There’s nothing new about saying that short films have a particular freedom. Without the need to sustain a narrative for several hours, filmmakers have the opportunity to work outside traditional arcs and structures and are more willing to be playful and experimental, assured of the fact that the ...
“I still wear sneakers only at the gym,” said Matthew Paul ’09, co-founder of the sneaker company Electrolites Footwear. After working with Electrolites for seven years, Paul and his business partner and former college roommate, Doug Berman ’09, are in the process of selling their company to ...
“There is a deep responsibility I feel, which gets even deeper as I advance in age, to create the world I want to see,” said actor, filmmaker and social activist Danny Glover to a packed RISD Auditorium. Glover visited RISD Friday and delivered a speech on the connections between art, democracy ...
Benjamin Lundberg, a performance artist whose work explores issues of transnational identity, is the newest resident artist at AS220, a local nonprofit community arts center based in downtown Providence. Lundberg previously served as a member of AS220’s rotational Artist in Residence program last ...
Dietrich Neumann, professor of history of art and architecture, engages with architecture on a level greater than just teaching theoretical and studio classes on campus. His research investigates the historical significance of architecture from the late 19th century to modern day, and he has published ...
Currently on display at the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, the 7th Annual Brown/RISD Dual Degree Exhibition examines everything from the sky to the self. You will encounter drawings of common subjects, like abstract images of women, as well as more distinctive ones, such as a drawing of an exit ...
Upon entering the lobby of the List Art Center, a massive pyramidal structure of stoneware and porcelain loops bombards the eye, each loop resting delicately on top of the other like an abandoned pile of pasta. A grid of what appears to be starched underwear spans the right wall of the lobby, each pair ...
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