The Launch of MIT Performing

Lisa Dwan in "Not I," by Samuel Beckett at the Royal Court, 2014. Credit: Finn Beales.

MIT Performing is a prototyping and presenting series curated by Professor Jay Scheib, with the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology, promotes a research-based artistic practice in the development of a new platform for contemporary performance. All of the performances scheduled will take place in the Theater at W97.

MIT Performing Schedule

Andrew Schneider

NERVOUS/SYSTEM
November 9-11, 2018

Adrienne Truscott

THIS
February 7, 8, and 9, 2019

Ayesha Jordan Glamazon hip-hop icon

Work-in-Progress Showing
February 15, 2019

Lisa Dwan “…an instrument of Beckett.” – The New York Times

Lecture/Demonstration
“A Body of Beckett”
February 21, 2019

Keeril Makan named vice provost for the arts

An acclaimed composer and longtime MIT faculty member, Makan will direct the next act in MIT’s story of artistic leadership.

The “delicious joy” of creating and recreating music

Leslie Tilley combines deep experience as a musician with cultural and formal analysis, to see how people refashion music anew.

Seen and heard: The new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building

Until very recently, Mariano Salcedo, a fourth-year MIT electronic engineering and computer science student majoring in artificial intelligence and decision-making, was planning to apply for a master’s program in computer science at MIT.

Travels with Rambax

KAOLACK, Senegal – The MIT students have just finished dinner and are crumpling soda cans into trash bins when they get the summons: “Grab your drums, grab your drums, grab your drums …”