The play’s the thing for Michael Ouellette, an actor, director, and librettist who guides MIT theater arts students to find the real depths beneath the surface of plays. In moving from reading to performing a play, he says, “I try to open the door and take my students into the world of the play.”...
Presented as part of the Emerson/Harris Program for Private Study Masterclass Series. Supported, in part, by the Robert L. Malster (1956) Fund.
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Co-Chair of the Department of Contemporary Musical Arts composer/performer/improviser Eden MacAdam-Somer is one of today’s most exciting and...
An Afro-surrealist exploration of the afterlife, purpose, and the wounds inflicted by generational trauma, which never seem to fully heal.
Weeks before Ghana’s Great Return ceremony, a professor disappears with its centerpiece - a sculpture worth millions. Amidst the ensuing nationwide manhunt, one...
Come hear a free Zimbabwean music concert by visiting musicians Moyo Mutamba, Jennifer Kyker, and Memory Makuri! Featuring mbira, hosho, singing, and dance! Open to the entire MIT community and general public. Come early to guarantee a seat!
About the musicians: Dr. Moyo Mutamba is a professor...
Come join a free Zimbabwean music workshop with visiting musicians Moyo Mutamba, Jennifer Kyker, and Memory Makuri! All instruments and instruction provided free-of-charge and appropriate for all skill levels. Open to the entire MIT community and general public. Don’t miss this unique...
Title: Hearing Pictures: FaMLE, the MIT Laptop Ensemble presents Lucid Dreaming
Date: April 27
Location: W97-160
Time: 8pm
Abandon the waking world by joining us as we explore an altered state of electronic art. As part of the Hearing Pictures performance series, FaMLE continues our deep-dive...
Under Kira's direction, the KDF Big Band (formerly the Young Lions Jazz Orchestra) is a 16-piece jazz ensemble comprised of some of the best young emerging artists in the Northeast. The original project stemmed from her student-led big band at Columbia University— upon graduating, Kira began to...
Fresh from their trip to the Brazilian Amazon, 80 MIT musicians join Grammy-nominated guest artists in a concert featuring hot and heartfelt music of Brazil and Puerto Rico. This consciousness-raising event will include powerful and moving footage from Manaus, Brazil, where students connected with...
Blythe de Oliveira Foster (she/her/hers) values collaborations and creative conversations which bridge performance practice and community engagement.
Blythe has taught acting and voice and directed productions in the BFA and BA Programs at the University of California Santa Barbara and Salem State...
'The balance of power is ever-shifting in Daniel Irizarry’s thrillingly kaleidoscopic, boldly physical world'. The New York Times
'Rabelaisian director Daniel Irizarry, a capering theatrical creature with a goat’s appetite for heights'. The New Yorker
Daniel Irizarry is a Puerto Rican born...