October Events

African-Americans in Paris
a workshop/conference

October 14 at 5:00 pm
Informal performance by Stephanie Batten Bland's Paris-based dance company, Birdlegs. Q&A to follow.

October 15 at 6:15 pm
Solo performance by Ayo Jackson followed by presentations by Emily Lordi, Paul Byron Suber, and Stephanie Batten Bland.

Free and open to the public.

Nicholas Leichter Dance

October 1 at 7:30 pm
Kiplinger Theatre

Hot new choreographer Nicholas Leichter and his company engage audiences in emotional dialogues through innovative dancing that fuses traditional with contemporary. Their newest work, Killa, features gritty dance and killa dance music.

Tickets: $25/$30

Love Song
by John Kolvenback

October 2 at 4:30 pm
October 3&4 at 7:00 pm
Black Box Series

Funny, enchanting and wonderfully touching, Kolvenbach's offbeat comedy is a rhapsody to the power of love in all its forms.

Tickets: $3 in advance, $4 at the door

Student Exploration
Murmur
by Amanda Idoko
Staged reading of Act I

October 30 at 4:30 pm
Free and open to the public

Nice People Dancing to Good Country Music
by Lee Blessing

October 21-25, 28-31 at 7:30 pm
October 25, 31 and November 1 at 2:00 pm
Class of '56 Flexible Theatre

Feisty Eve Wilfong lives above Nice People Dancing to Good Country Music, a former biker bar turned “Saturday night hangout”. Eve attempts to give her niece, a novice nun who has been asked to leave the convent due to a curious compulsion to shout profanities at odd times, advice about life and love in a mad, modern, backcountry world.

Tickets: $8/$10

U.S. Premiere
The Halfmoon Files
with filmmaker Philip Scheffner in person

Tuesday, October 27 at 7:00 pm
Willard Straight Theatre
Cornell Cinema

This film transforms a previously obscure episode in Indo-German history into a compelling meditation on the recorded voice, the archive and cultural memory.

Co-sponsored by the Institute for German Cultural Studies, the Department of German Studies, and the Department of Theatre, Film & Dance.

The Green Fuse: Literature, Ethics and the War on Ecoterror

talk by Anthony Lioi, Liberal Arts and English,
The Juilliard School

Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Free and open to the public

A.D. White House, Cornell University
Co-sponsored by the Department of Theatre, Film & Dance, The Program in Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Society for the Humanities, American Studies and the Department of English.