Brown University’s Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies offers a broad range of public lectures and talks, as well as a variety of community classes and workshops. Most of these events are offered to the public for free. These events are complimented by a full theatre production season, selected by the Sock & Buskin board, a group comprised of undergraduate students along with members of the TAPS faculty and staff.
Below is an archive of selected events and productions from recent years. Click on the links below to find out more information about each event.
SELECTED PAST EVENTS
- Rhythm of Change Festival 2016 (Festival)
February 26–February 28, 2016
Artistic Director: Michelle Bach-Coulibaly. Festival Producer: Kah Yangni.
The Rhythm of Change festival supported the exchange of art and ideas between transnational art-makers, social activists, and embodied ideologies to address gaps in understanding, consciousness and social action.
- Thomas F. DeFrantz (Talk)
February 25, 2016
Ashamu Dance Studio
Queer Social Dance, Political Leadership, and Black Popular Culture was a talk by Thomas F. DeFrantz. Professor DeFrantz was visiting Brown as part of the Rhythm of Change Festival, the Mellon Dance Studies Colloquium, and the Urban Bush Women residency with FirstWorks.
Continue reading → - Sean Metzger (Graduate Colloquium)
February 24, 2016
Becker Library, Lyman Hall
Human Traffic, Seascapes, and Theatricality
Continue reading → - Maria Irene Fornes Residency (Informal Showing)
February 13–16, 2016
Granoff Center, Studio 1
Students were invited to join Michelle Memran and Katie Pearl ’15 MFA for an informal showing of their multi-media, performance-based exploration of Irene Fornés. By juxtaposing characters and scenes from Irene’s plays with film footage of Irene after she stopped writing due to dementia, the artists sought out connections between Fornés and her work.
Continue reading → - Urban Bush Women: Building Trust Through Process (Workshop)
February 10, 2016
Rites and Reason Theatre
Africana Studies’ Rites and Reason Theatre and FirstWorks presented a workshop exploring falling, rolling, stillness, connecting through focus, counterbalance, lifting using minimal effort, centering and integration of breath, and being attentive to our partner(s) and surroundings. The workshop was led by Urban Bush Women’s Founder, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and dancers from the company.
Continue reading → - Gwendolyn Alker (Talk & Workshop)
February 8, 2016
Granoff Center, Studio One
Gwendolyn Alker, New York University Department of Drama, was to present Listen I feel: A lecture/workshop on the plays of Maria Irene Fornés. The event was planned as a hybrid talk/workshop, beginning with 30 minutes of context and lecture, followed by 30 minutes of movement and writing exercises, and ending with 30 minutes of group participation and reflection.
(the event was cancelled due to poor weather)
Continue reading → - The Magical Kingdom (Performance)
February 6–7, 2016
Leeds Theatre
A part of Writing is Live 2016
Written by Maurice DeCaul ’18 MFA
Directed by Ashley Teague ’17 MFA
Continue reading →