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Past Events
September 2018
Dada Masilo: Giselle
Throwing caution to the wind, Johannesburg-based choreographer Dada Masilo has indelibly remixed the classical French ballet Giselle. Drawing from contemporary idioms and traditional Tswana dance, Masilo responds with a feminist defiance to the constrained beauty of inherited balletic forms. At once subversively personal and majestically timeless, this Giselle reckons with received histories and responds with a resounding dance language of…
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Ain Gordon: Radicals in Miniature
From three-time Obie Award-winner and Guggenheim Fellow Ain Gordon and acclaimed percussionist Josh Quillen comes Radicals in Miniature, an intimate requiem for friends found and lost during Gordon’s coming of age in the radical, queer, creative New York of the early 1980s and Quillen’s youth in small town Ohio in the late 90s. In a series of monologues honoring these…
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Pachedu (All Ensembles)
An event every day that begins at 8:00pm, repeating until Sat, November 17th, 2018
Pachedu is the Dance Department’s annual fall concert featuring CoDa, Kusika, Sankofa, and The Zambezi Marimba Band. The word Pachedu means “among ourselves” in the language of Zimbabwe’s Shona people and symbolizes our opportunity to share repertoire, dance, and music in development for spring ensemble performances. Each ensemble is unique, and “among ourselves” offers audiences an experience in the diverse…
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Pachedu (All Ensembles)
An event every day that begins at 8:00pm, repeating until Sat, November 17th, 2018
Pachedu is the Dance Department’s annual fall concert featuring CoDa, Kusika, Sankofa, and The Zambezi Marimba Band. The word Pachedu means “among ourselves” in the language of Zimbabwe’s Shona people and symbolizes our opportunity to share repertoire, dance, and music in development for spring ensemble performances. Each ensemble is unique, and “among ourselves” offers audiences an experience in the diverse…
Find out more »February 2019
Akram Khan Company: XENOS
The ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance’s CenterSeries is excited to present, in collaboration with Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Akram Khan, one of the most celebrated and respected dance artists today. Akram draws on the archives of the 20th century, and gives voice to the shell-shocked dream of a colonial soldier in the First World War. Performed to live music, XENOS reveals the…
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Steady Steppin’ Forward: Step Competition
Join us for the 13th Annual Steady Steppin' Forward Competition! Come see step teams from all around the Northeast battle it out for a chance at Steady Steppin' glory. Hosted by Sankofa Step Team, the competition is a celebration of step in all of forms, and with a special guest performance, you definitely don't want to miss out on this.…
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Kusika Spring Performance: "Village Gathering: Dandaro"
Kusika and Zambezi Marimba Band members hail from many places and cultures. Our spring performances feature work informed by these origins as well as traditional and contemporary folklore from Mali, Ghana, Zimbabwe and the Americas. Today’s events become tomorrow’s folklore. We raise the following questions: What is celebrated? What do we forget to remember? “Realize that you are involved in a…
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Zambezi Spring Performance: "Village Gathering: Dandaro"
Kusika and Zambezi Marimba Band members hail from many places and cultures. Our spring performances feature work informed by these origins as well as traditional and contemporary folklore from Mali, Ghana, Zimbabwe and the Americas. Today’s events become tomorrow’s folklore. We raise the following questions: What is celebrated? What do we forget to remember? “Realize that you are involved in a…
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Kusika Spring Performance: "Village Gathering: Dandaro"
Kusika and Zambezi Marimba Band members hail from many places and cultures. Our spring performances feature work informed by these origins as well as traditional and contemporary folklore from Mali, Ghana, Zimbabwe and the Americas. Today’s events become tomorrow’s folklore. We raise the following questions: What is celebrated? What do we forget to remember? “Realize that you are involved in a…
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Zambezi Spring Performance: "Village Gathering: Dandaro"
Kusika and Zambezi Marimba Band members hail from many places and cultures. Our spring performances feature work informed by these origins as well as traditional and contemporary folklore from Mali, Ghana, Zimbabwe and the Americas. Today’s events become tomorrow’s folklore. We raise the following questions: What is celebrated? What do we forget to remember? “Realize that you are involved in a…
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Sankofa: Groovin' Through Time
Sankofa, the Williams College Step Team, continues to expand on the legacy of Step, a percussive dance form, through exploration of the body as an instrument. Fresh ideas are brought to the stage every year. This year the spring concert will be shared with Levitt Fellow Shakia Johnson. Shakia has worked with Sankofa and other dancers this semester to create…
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Sankofa: Groovin' Through Time
Sankofa, the Williams College Step Team, continues to expand on the legacy of Step, a percussive dance form, through exploration of the body as an instrument. Fresh ideas are brought to the stage every year. This year the spring concert will be shared with Levitt Fellow Shakia Johnson. Shakia has worked with Sankofa and other dancers this semester to create…
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Finding One's Way Back: A Conversation with Frank Doelger '75
Frank Doelger ’75 (executive producer of Game of Thrones, John Adams, and Rome) will reflect on over thirty years in the film and television industries.
Find out more »October 2019
A Conversation with Steve Case '80
Lever's Innovation Summit presents a conversation with Steve Case '80. Steve Case is Chairman and CEO of Revolution, and one of America’s best-known and most accomplished entrepreneurs, and a pioneer in making the Internet part of everyday life. He is also the author of the New York Times bestselling book, The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur’s Vision of the Future. In…
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A Legacy Through the Repertory: Dancers from the New York City Ballet
One of the foremost dance companies in the world, New York City Ballet hosts a roster of spectacular dancers and an unparalleled repertory. The Company was founded in 1948 by George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein and quickly became world-renowned for its athletic and contemporary style. Jerome Robbins joined NYCB the following year and, with Balanchine, helped to build the astounding…
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SITI Company: "The Bacchae"
A Greek classic finds a new life in the hands of Anne Bogart and the renowned SITI Company. In a “spellbinding modern update” by Aaron Poochigian, The Bacchae reorients the tragedy of King Pentheus and Dionysus as a vividly contemporary showdown between patriarchy and gender anarchy (Los Angeles Times). SITI Company is an ensemble-based theater company whose three ongoing components…
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"Pachedu" (F)All Ensembles Performance
An event every day that begins at 8:00pm, repeating until Sat, November 23rd, 2019
Pachedu is the Dance Department’s annual fall concert featuring CoDa, Kusika, Sankofa and The Zambezi Marimba Band. The word Pachedu means “among ourselves” in the language of Zimbabwe’s Shona people and is our opportunity to share repertoire, new dance and music in development for ensemble spring performances. Each ensemble is unique and “among ourselves” offers audiences an experience in the…
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"Pachedu" (F)All Ensembles Performance
An event every day that begins at 8:00pm, repeating until Sat, November 23rd, 2019
Pachedu is the Dance Department’s annual fall concert featuring CoDa, Kusika, Sankofa and The Zambezi Marimba Band. The word Pachedu means “among ourselves” in the language of Zimbabwe’s Shona people and is our opportunity to share repertoire, new dance and music in development for ensemble spring performances. Each ensemble is unique and “among ourselves” offers audiences an experience in the…
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