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- No events scheduled for January 29, 2019.
Andrew Lázaro: Percussion of Puerto Rico, the Caribbean, and the USA
Watson Fine Arts - Experimental Theatre Norton- No events scheduled for January 31, 2019.
- No events scheduled for February 3, 2019.
Week of Events
Dance Company Auditions
Dance Company Auditions
Are you interested in jazz, ballet, and modern dance? Audition for the Wheaton College Dance Company. There will be a warmup with our modern teacher then you will be taught a combination. Please wear clothes that you are able to dance in. For more information about audition please contact Dance Company Captains Morgan Shields and Claire Young.
Andrew Lázaro: Percussion of Puerto Rico, the Caribbean, and the USA
Andrew Lázaro: Percussion of Puerto Rico, the Caribbean, and the USA
Professor Lazaro will give an evening performance on his major instruments, the marimba, and the vibraphone. He will also perform on the hand drums, giving an introduction to important rhythmical genres of the Caribbean and Latin American region, showing historical similarities and regional variations.
Gallery Exhibition—It’s Elemental: Fire
Gallery Exhibition—It’s Elemental: Fire
Second in a series of four biannual exhibitions curated by students enrolled in ARTH 335: Exhibition Design, It’s Elemental: Fire considers how fire—in all of its forms—affects our world. Using objects from the Gebbie Archives & Special Collections and the Permanent Collection, each exhibition will explore one of the four classical elements: water, air, earth, fire.
The Visiting Artist Program presents the Tyshawn Sorey Trio
The Visiting Artist Program presents the Tyshawn Sorey Trio
Composer, multi-instrumentalist, and scholar Tyshawn Sorey leads his highly lauded and category-defying trio of piano, bass, and drums. Sorey is a 2017 MacArthur fellow and has performed with musicians including Vijay Iyer, Steve Coleman, John Zorn and Anthony Braxton, as well as the International Contemporary Ensemble. “Here is an extraordinary talent who can see across the entire musical landscape.” —Alex Ross, The New Yorker. Sorey and Assistant Professor of Music, Will Mason will present a pre-concert talk at 6:00 p.m. in the same location.