September Events

The Servant of Two Masters
by Carlo Goldoni
September 17-19, 24-26
Kiplinger Theatre

Bursting with mistaken identities, acrobatic pratfalls, improbable miscommunications and a dash of romance, The Servant of Two Masters is a sparkling and classic Italian comedy. Set in Venice, this commedia dell’ arte extravaganza follows the antics of a wily servant who gets the best of both his masters.

University Lecture - E. Patrick Johnson
Professor, Chair, and Director of Graduate Studies in The Department of Performance Studies and Professor in African American Studies at Northwestern University

"Pouring Tea: Black Gay Men of the South Tell Their Stories."

September 10, 2009, 4:30 pm
SB10, Schwartz Center
Free and open to the public.

Visiting Filmmaker Ashish Avikunthak
Friday, September 18 at 7:00 pm
Professor Avikunthak (Yale University) will be screening his feature film, Shadows Formless.
Co-sponsored with the South Asia Program. Free and open to the public.

Spoglia REDUX: Italy in Ithaca

With live musical performances by Mary Lorson and Jennie Lowe Stearns

Short films by Byron Suber, CU dance faculty

Inspired by scenes in Italian neo-realist and post-war films such as Rossellini's Rome, Open City, Pasolini's Accatone and Mamma Roma, Fellini's La Dolce Vita and Antonioni's The Eclipse, each one of Suber's films re-creates an iconic scene from one of these masterpieces, reproducing the movement and re-transcribing it onto an Ithaca location. The results are sometimes haunting, sometimes humorous and most often, oddly beautiful. Suber will talk about the films, which were originally created for a live multi-media performance and choreographed by him, and presented at the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts in March 2008, as part of the evening's presentation.

Saturday, September 19 at 7:30pm
Willard Straight Theatre
$8 general/$6 students

For more information: http://cinema.cornell.edu/EarlyFall09/spogliaredux.html