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
- The Miracle Project: Professional Development Training Program (Workshops)
February 3–5, 2017
Ashamu Dance Studio
Produced by Julie Strandberg and Rachel Balaban, Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies.
Continue reading → - FirstWorks Artistic Icons Series: Paul Taylor Company (Performance)
February 3, 2017
The Vets Auditorium
1 Avenue of the Arts, Providence
World Premiere of The Open Door plus Taylor masterworks Esplanade and Airs!
Continue reading → - Paul Taylor’s America: Songs of Innocence and Experience (Lecture)
February 2, 2017
John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities
357 Benefit Street, Providence
Paul Taylor’s biographer Suzanne Carbonneau looked at how Taylor’s dances have chronicled both shining ideals and uncomfortable truths about America.
Continue reading → - Paul Taylor Dance Company (Residency)
February 1–4, 2017
Continue reading → - Hecuba (Performance)
December 1–4, 2016
Leeds Theatre
Written by Marina Carr. Directed by Sienna Vann ’17.
Continue reading → - Fall Dance Concert 2016 (Performance)
November 17–20, 2016
Ashamu Dance Studio
Co-produced by Michelle Bach-Coulibaly, Sydney Skybetter, Julie Adams Strandberg
Continue reading → - Monique Mojica (Residency)
November 11 & 18, 2016
Ashamu Dance Studio & Granoff Center
Renowned Toronto-based theatre artist and playwright Monique Mojica (Guna and Rappahannock Nations) was at Brown as a Lawton Wehle Fitt ’74 Artist-in-Residence across November 2016. Mojica facilitated a three-week workshop in Professor Patricia Ybarra’s Embodied Stories class, and worked with her artistic collaborators: poet—novelist and playwright LeAnne Howe, and director/choreographer and dance artist Jorge Luis Morejón—on their most recent work-in-progress, Side Show Freaks & Circus Injuns.
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