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Jill Johnson

Jill Johnson

Dance Director, Harvard Dance Center, Theater, Dance & Media (TDM); Senior Lecturer, Theater, Dance & Media; Artistic Director, Harvard Dance Project
(TDM 140R, TDM 141, TDM 90DR)

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2018 Nov 09

In Pursuit of Petipa: A Bicentennial Symposium

1:30pm

Location: 

Houghton Library
Petipa Conference LogoPresented by: Harvard Theatre Collection and the Princeton Department of Music
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2018 Nov 01

Harvard Town Hall with Ayodele Casel

5:30pm to 7:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Commons, The Smith Campus Center, 1350 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA

Join famed tap dancer and choreographer Ayodele Casel for an interactive Town Hall at Harvard Commons in The Smith Campus Center on Thursday, November 1, at 5:30pm.

Ayodele Casel's autobiographical show, While I Have the Floor, premiered to rave reviews and a sold out run at the Spoleto Arts Festival in Charleston, SC. Together with members of tall poPpy, inc. (the show's production company) Torya Beard and Darren Biggart, the Harvard community is invited to explorAyodele Case. Photo Credit: Michael Higgins.e how claiming authorship can strengthen community. An interactive experience of performance and conversation, this Town Hall is designed to investigate how claiming identity and legacy can create a path to agency and action. Ayodele Casel will also perform an excerpt from While I Have the Floor. 

Joining the conversation as co-facilitators will be Destiny Polk and Amanda Gorman '20. Destiny Polk is a Boston-based performance and teaching artist, producer, and founder of art-activist platform Radical Black Girl. Amanda Gorman '20 is a published author, community organizer, inaugural Youth Poet Laureate of the United States, and Founding Executive Director of One Pen One Page, which promotes literacy through free creative writing programming for underserved youth. 

Refreshments will be provided at the end of the event. 

Ayodele Casel is a 2018-19 artist-in-residence supported by the Harvard University Committee on the Arts (HUCA). She will also be leading a tap master class on October 29, 7:30-9pm, at Lowell Lecture Hall as part of the Harvard Dance Center Master Class & Lecture Series. Observers are welcome! Participation is free, but registration is required for both participants and observers. 

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Allison Stamiris

Allison Stamiris

West African and Contemporary Accompanist
Allison Stamiris has been studying percussion for more than 25 years and is currently performing and teaching in the Boston area with Moussa Traore, Joh Camara... Read more about Allison Stamiris
Yulia Yun

Yulia Yun

Ballet Accompanist
Uzbekistanian-born Yulia Yun is a graduate of the Uspensky Special Music School for Gifted Children in Tashkent where she majored in music theory, composition... Read more about Yulia Yun
Kelly Lenahan

Kelly Lenahan

Ballet Accompanist
Kelly Lenahan is a pianist and organist from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She recently completed a masters degree in performance at the Royal College of Music in... Read more about Kelly Lenahan
Jakov Jakoulov

Jakov Jakoulov

Ballet Accompanist
Composer and pianist Jakov Jakoulov is an author of four ballets, twelve instrumental concertos, music for over 20 theatrical, TV and cinema productions and... Read more about Jakov Jakoulov

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