Episodes
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Award-winning Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman, director of Golden Globe winner "Waltz with Bashir" (2008), discusses his cinematic imagination with David Levin, professor of Germanic Studies, Cinema & Media Studies, and Theater and Performance Studies at the University of Chicago.
Published 05/08/12
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. The David Wax Museum performs at Mandel Hall, putting the audience and band on one shared level for a concert unlike anything ever experienced in the 109-year-old auditorium's history. The band's unique fusion of Mexo-American folk music and storytelling, and brand of togetherness, music, and conversation engage everyone in the...
Published 03/28/12
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. The 2008 University of Chicago Artspeaks Fellows Program presents Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR),Composer/Violinist/Multi-media artistProgram to include: etudes4violin&electronix (aka Sonata for Violin & Turntables) with DBR & Elan Vytal aka DJ Scientific followed by a talkback moderated by Travis Jackson, Associate...
Published 07/13/09
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Provocative choreographer and dancer Bill T. Jones gives a presentation entitledThe Persistence of Questions.Jones, who was named anirreplaceable dance treasureby the Dance Heritage Coalition, will also enters a public conversation with WBEZ's Gretchen Helfrich on the questions that he continues to mull as both an artist and...
Published 07/13/09
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Choreographer and dancer Bill T. Jones participates in a workshop examining genealogies of black, gay, male dance to students in the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture; the Center for Gender Studies; and the Lesbian and Gay Studies Project. Contributing in the workshop are Waldo Johnson, Associate Professor in the...
Published 07/01/09
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Multiple Journeys: the life and work of Gómez-Peña invokes text and historical photographs to chronicle the performance art practice of post-Mexican writer, artist and activist Guillermo Gómez-Peña.By tracing his family life as well as his past 30 years in visual and literary forms, the artist discusses his work in context to the...
Published 06/24/09
Published 06/24/09
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Called a "wizard of language" by the Chicago Tribune and praised as "one of the handful of great performance artists in America today" by director Peter Sellars, Gomez-Pena will showcase his uniquely subversive style's blend of acidic Chicano humor, hybrid literary genres, rapidly shifting personaes, theatricalizations of...
Published 06/24/09