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
- Ralph Lemon (Lecture-Performance)
October 6, 2015
Ashamu Dance Studio
Ralph Lemon presented his new and old work about the South, Ceremonies Out of the Air as part of the Mellon Dance Colloquium Series. Lemon’s long-standing exploration of the American South in his publications, performances and exhibitions uncovers the complexity of geography, history, memory and the body.
Continue reading →- Paul Taylor Creative Domain (Film Screening & Master Class)
October 3, 2015
Ashamu Dance Studio (master class) and Cable Car Cinema (screening)
Continue reading →- Michal Kobialka (Graduate Colloquium)
October 2, 2015
Lyman Hall, room 211
Materialism of the Encounter
The topic, “Performance Studies: Materialism of the Encounter” brought to mind a series of mnemonic responses: from the avant-garde desire to annex modernist reality or the singular modernity of Fredric Jameson to the postmodern condition of Jean-François Lyotard; from the cultural and linguistic turn of the 1970s and the 1980s to the performative and ontological turn of the 1990s; or from the reorientation of critical studies after the Fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989 to the global, anti-gravitational, imaginary.
Continue reading →- Michal Kobialka (Talk)
October 2, 2015
Granoff Center
Michal Kobialka, Professor of Theatre in the Department of Theatre Arts & Dance at the University of Minnesota, presented a talk on Kantor’s representational practices and today’s political theatre. Professor Kobialka has published over 75 articles, essays and reviews on medieval, eighteenth-century and contemporary European theatre, as well as the theatre Tadeusz Kantor.
Continue reading →- The Seagull (Performance)
October 1–11, 2015
Leeds Theatre
Written by Anton Chekhov. Directed by Laura Rikard.
Continue reading →- Farah Saleh (Residency)
September 23–November 6, 2015
Farah Saleh is a Palestinian Choreographer and dancer active in Palestine and Europe. She has studied languages in Italy and in parallel continued her studies in contemporary dance. Saleh was a Visiting Scholar in TAPS and at the Pembroke Center and was in residence at Brown during the fall of 2015, presenting a series of workshops and performances.
Continue reading →- Free Advice (Performance)
September 23, 2015
Granoff Center
An interactive dance piece on artists role in society and politics.
Farah Saleh is a Palestinian Choreographer and dancer active in Palestine and Europe. She has studied languages in Italy and in parallel continued her studies in contemporary dance. Saleh was a Visiting Scholar in TAPS, MES, and at the Pembroke Center and was in residence at Brown until Spring 2016. She presented a series of workshops and performances in the fall and taught a full course in the spring. This performance was sponsored by the Mellon Dance Studies Colloquium.
Continue reading → - Paul Taylor Creative Domain (Film Screening & Master Class)