Lamine Touré, director of Rambax, comes from a long line of griots, a caste of musicians and oral historians among the Wolof people of Senegal. Born into a family of sabar drummers, Lamine has been drumming and dancing since the age of four. He is one of Senegal’s leading percussionists. Touré...
Evan Ziporyn is a composer/clarinetist who has forged an international reputation through his genre-defying, cross-cultural works and performances. At MIT he is Inaugural Director of the Center for Art, Science and Technology (CAST), founder & Artistic Director of Gamelan Galak Tika, and...
MITHAS presents: Sandhya Manoj, Odissi dancer, and Aishwarya Balasubramanian, Bharatnatyam dancer, in a shared program. 4 pm, Kresge Little Theater. General admission $30. All students free. Visit http://www.mithas.org or contact: mithastimes@gmail.com for final listings as changes may occur.
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Ellen T. Harris (eharris@mit.edu) B.A. ’67 Brown University; M.A. ’70, Ph.D. ’76 University of Chicago, Class of 1949 Professor Emeritus at MIT is a musicologist whose work focuses on Handel, Baroque opera, and vocal performance practice. She is a regular Visiting Professor at The Juilliard...
Lowell Lindgren, Professor Emeritus of Music, Ph.D. in Musicology, Harvard University, writes about Baroque topics, focusing on London, Rome and stage design. His publications from 2001 to the present include twenty-five entries in the second edition of the New Grove Dictionary of Music (2001), a...
SHASS Research Fund Awards 2015
Five out of the twelve 2015 SHASS Research Fund awards were awarded to members of the MIT Music and Theater Arts faculty. The SHASS Research Fund supports MIT research in the humanities, arts, or social sciences that shows promise of making an important...
21M.703J Media and Methods: Performing | Coco Fusco
This course is an introduction to the history of socially engaged performance art and its strategic uses in public space, both physical and virtual. We will begin by working through some foundational theories of performance, drawing on texts by...
21M.711 Production Seminar: Live Cinema
Jay Scheib
Studio workshop leaps into the deep-end of interdisciplinary performance practices by investigating the meaningful integration of new (and used) audio, video, and broadcast technologies in live performance. Students experiment with cameras,...
21M.715 Environmental Performance: the Politics of Space and Identity
Charlotte Brathwaite
Studio seminar investigates live performance as a medium in constant flux. No play is performed the same way twice; no experience can ever be repeated. When a performance breaks the fourth wall, audiences...
