The Lewis Center for the Arts has planned a year of exciting events! Here is a sampling of what you can expect this season:
Creative Writing
• This year’s Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series line-up includes Ling Ma, Sandra Cisneros, Marlon James, Patricia Smith, David Henry Hwang, Ilya Kaminsky, Khaled Mattawa and Hiroko Oyamada with translator David Boyd
• Creative Writing seniors will read from their work alongside guests Ada Zhang, Kwame Dawes, Vauhini Vara, and Jake Skeets in the C.K. Williams Reading Series
• On November 17 the biennial Princeton Poetry Festival returns with an international roster of poets including Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Joyelle McSweeney, John Okrent, Roger Reeves, and Philip Schultz from the U.S.; Padraig Regan from Ireland; Valzhyna Mort from Belarus; and Luci Tapahonso from the Navajo Nation.
Dance
• The annual Princeton Dance Festival featuring diverse new and repertory works by choreographers Donna Uchizono, Brian Brooks, Bill T. Jones staged by Catherine Cabeen, Shamel Pitts, Ishita Mili, and Amy Hall Garner will be presented December 1-3 at the Berlind Theatre
• Princeton Arts Fellow and choreographer Christopher “Unpezverde” Núñez and his students will share work from a course exploring ancestry and sacred trance dance practices in the tradition of western theatrical dance and connections to identity, creativity, and community
• Series of performances and new choreography by 14 seniors presented in 4 shows in the spring
Music
• In October, Princeton Arts Fellow and songwriter Kamara Thomas presents the next phase of her major multidisciplinary storytelling work Tularosa: An American Dreamtime
Theater & Music Theater
• In November, a Public Works musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Winters’ Tale will feature a community ensemble of 120 from the local region
• In February, a lively musical revue will be presented by the Princeton Playhouse Ensembles, and a production of the musical She Loves Me takes the Wallace stage in March
• The season will also feature more than 10 new plays and musicals including a choreopoem and immersive theater installations; explorations of Latin American short stories, Black women’s love, the Bangladeshi Liberation War, political resistance, and Zimbabwe’s Independence War; and new translations of plays from Chinese and French
• New this season is a spring series of presentations that investigate the relationship of theater to such varied areas as artificial intelligence, mathematics, and local government
Visual Arts
• A current exhibition in the Hurley Gallery by Chanika Svetvilas, an interdisciplinary artist and cultural worker whose practice focuses on Asian Americans, mental health difference, and accessibility
• Hodder Fellow, artist and writer sidony o’neal presents an exhibition of new work
• Tina Campt organizes a Princeton Collaboratorium residency in October
• Exhibitions of new work from a range of fall classes and solo exhibitions by seniors in the spring
• A series of film screenings
Princeton Atelier
• Students will share culminating projects from unique Atelier courses, including fall collaborations in writing TV comedy, mime and multimedia, creating opera, and graphic novels
Fund for Irish Studies
• Lectures and readings by special guests including Diarmaid Ferriter, Barry McCrea, Louise Kennedy, and Caoilinn Hughes, among others.
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Princeton students perform 'Pop,' choreographed by Caili Quan, during the 2022 Princeton Dance Festival dress rehearsal in the Berlind Theatre in December. (Photo by Maria Baranova),
