ARTS GUIDE - Corcoran School of the Arts & Design

upcoming events and performances
         at the corcoran school of the arts
         and design

ARTS GUIDE
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                                  Photo by Harrison Jones, BFA, Photojournalism 2019;
                                                   April 2018 Corcoran Dance concert.

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 INTER | SECTIONALITY:                                                                                 NOVEMBER 14, 2019–MARCH 20, 2020
 DIASPORA ART FROM THE CREOLE CITY
 Opening Night: Thursday, Nov. 14, 2019, 6–9 p.m.
 Open Nov. 14, 2019–March 20, 2020,
 Tuesday–Friday 10 a.m.–6 p.m., weekends 1–6 p.m.
 The Atrium Galleries at the Flagg Building
 Corcoran School of the Arts and Design
 500 17th St., NW

 Inter | Sectionality: Diaspora Art from the Creole City is a bold, multiregional, multidisciplinary
 curatorial collaboration and exploration of the emergence of the “Creole City” as a local,
 regional and global phenomenon. Internationally recognized curators Sanjit Sethi, former
 director of the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, and Rosie Gordon-Wallace, founder,
 president and curator of DVCAI (Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator) have designed
 this collaboration to provide a lens through which communities and community leaders
 internationally can begin to better understand themselves, their diversities and their unlimited
 possibilities.
 Inter | Sectionality: Diaspora Art from the Creole City will be presented in our nation’s capital
 at a time when diaspora artists and voices are challenging social justice, celebrating identities
 and reactivating and bridging communities through contemporary art and scholarship. The
 complexities and diversities represented by this exhibit are emergent and, in many cases,
 ascendant across the world.
 Highlighting the work of 25 Miami-affiliated visual artists, along with two guest artists, the
 exhibit is grouped around themes that encompass diaspora and Creole City life stories,
 memory, politics, myth, religion and culture. Special performances and programs will be
 presented throughout the run, which will be from Nov. 14, 2019, through March 20, 2020.

 “PIXAR’S MEMORIES”:                                                                                   JANUARY 17
 A LECTURE BY PROFESSOR DANIEL GOLDMARK
 Friday, Jan. 17, 2020, 3:15–5 p.m.
 Room 226 in the Flagg Building (2nd floor)
 Corcoran School of the Arts and Design
 500 17th St., NW

 The ever-increasing popularity of Hollywood animation, driven in part by the dominance
 of Pixar, has come about not just through technological advances or the breaking down of
 decades-old biases about cartoons being just for kids, but also through the emotionally
 nuanced storytelling deployed recently by studios.
 Practically all of Pixar’s features are overrun with issues of nostalgia; their most recent films—
 Inside Out, Finding Dory, Cars 3—have gone further than simply reveling in the remembrance
 of times past (real or imagined), and have explored the creation of memory and the reasons
 why memories fade or endure. Sound and music have played key roles in the recollections
 and impressions of all these films, with 2017’s Coco breaking one of Pixar’s cardinal rules (no
 musicals!). In this presentation, Prof. Daniel Goldmark looks at some trends in scoring and
 sound design to show how the melodies of childhood—and adulthood—are being used to drive
 the stories of recent Hollywood animated features.
 Daniel Goldmark is Professor of Music and Director of the Center for Popular Music Studies at
 Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. He is the author of books on animation,
 music, and cinema, including Tunes for ‘Toons: Music and the Hollywood Cartoon (California,
 2005).
 Cosponsored by the GW Department of American Studies.
 This event is free and open to all GW students and the public.

The Corcoran invites you to major events and exhibitions, school celebrations,
lectures and workshops, theatre, dance and music performances.

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 INTERVIEW/TALK BACK                                                                                 JANUARY 22
 – MAIDA WITHERS WITH MIRTES CALHEIROS
 Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2020, 5–6 p.m.
 Building J Dance Studio
 2131 G St., NW (Rear)

 An interview and talk back with Mirtes Calheiros of Dance Theatre Company, Artesaos do
 Corpo (Brazil) and Dance Professor Maida Withers.
 This event is free and open to all GW students and alumni.

 SILVER-GARBURG PIANO DUO LECTURE,                                                                   JANUARY 22
 “SCHUBERT’S LAST SONATAS”
 Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2020, 5–7 p.m.
 Hammer Auditorium
 Corcoran School of the Arts and Design
 500 17th St., NW

 Join Music for the Sivan Silver and Gil Garburg’s lecture, “Schubert’s Last Sonatas.” The sonatas
 in C minor were all written in 1828 during the last months of Schubert’s life, when he knew he
 was dying. They are known for their sad beauty.
 This event is free and open to all GW students and the public.

 CORCORAN SCHOLARS’ FRIDAYS AT FIVE                                                                  JANUARY 24
 Friday, Jan. 24, 2020, 5–7 p.m.
 Phillips Hall, B-120
 801 22nd St., NW

 Fridays at Five is a relaxed environment where students can gain experience performing
 in front of their peers. This event features Corcoran Scholars, an exceptional group of
 undergraduate students. Learn more about Scholars at corcoran.gwu.edu/scholars.
 This event is free and open to all GW students.

The Corcoran invites you to major events and exhibitions, school celebrations,
lectures and workshops, theatre, dance and music performances.

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 LA RAMPA:                                                                                                     JANUARY 30
 A CONVERSATION WITH CHANTAL JAMES
 Thursday, January 30, 2020, 6–8 p.m.
 Hammer Auditorium in the Flagg Building
 Corcoran School of the Arts and Design
 500 17th St., NW

 This student engagement lecture with Chantal James includes discussion and a hands-on
 activity reacting to La Rampa magazine, her project on decolonization. Chantal James, of Rio
 de Janeiro, Brazil, is a Canadian of Guyanese and Welsh descent. A graduate of the Parsons
 School of Design, she is co-founder and editor of the three previous issues of La Rampa
 magazine and its current editor-in-chief.

 MUSIC FACULTY INCUBATOR SERIES:                                                                               FEBRUARY 7
 HEATHER STEBBINS AND DOUGLAS BOYCE
 Friday, Feb. 7, 2020, 7:30–9:30 p.m.
 Mount Vernon Campus, Post Hall
 2100 Foxhall Road, NW

 Join Music for the Music Faculty Incubator Series with Heather Stebbins and Douglas Boyce.
 This event is free and open to all GW students and the public.

         FEBRUARY 13-15
              WELL
              Thursday–Saturday, February 13–15, 2020, 7:30 p.m.
              Sunday, February 16, 2020, 2 p.m.
              Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre
              Marvin Center
              800 21st St., NW
              Students/Seniors: $10
              General Admission: $20
              Tickets are available online at corcoran.gwu.edu/mainstage, by calling 202-994-0551 or by visiting the box office on the first floor of the
              Marvin Center on the night of the performance.

              By Lisa Kron
              Directed by Jodi Kanter
              Well explores the dynamics of health, family and community with the story of a mother’s extraordinary ability to heal a changing
              neighborhood, despite her inability to heal herself.

The Corcoran invites you to major events and exhibitions, school celebrations,
lectures and workshops, theatre, dance and music performances.

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 FRIDAY MORNING MUSIC CLUB:                                                                          FEBRUARY 22
 CAVANI QUARTET
 Saturday, Feb. 22, 2020
 MASTER CLASS: morning at Phillips Hall, B-120 (email cmus@gwu.edu for details)
 PERFORMANCE: 3–5 p.m. at:
 Hammer Auditorium
 Corcoran School of the Arts and Design
 500 17th St., NW

 Join Music for a special performance of the Cavani Quartet, part of the Friday Morning
 Music Club.
 Founded in 1886 as a community of music lovers and musicians, the Friday Morning Music
 Club has promoted classical music in the Washington area for over 130 years. FMMC’s
 public concerts—now held throughout the week and no longer just on Friday mornings—
 provide performing members with a host of outlets for their talents and delight audiences
 in Washington D.C., Maryland, and Virginia. All concerts are free and performed as a public
 service.
 This event is free and open to all GW students and the public. Stay tuned for ticket
 information!

 THE MAJOR MINORITY:                                                                                 FEBRUARY 27
 AN EVENING WITH OCTAVIA YEARWOOD
 Thursday, February 27, 2020, 6–8 p.m.
 The Bridge (2nd Floor) in the Flagg Building
 Corcoran School of the Arts and Design
 500 17th St., NW

 The Major Minority is an interactive workshop that navigates how art practices participate
 in intersectionality with freedom, time and space as the focal point. Octavia Yearwood will
 engage participants in various activities anchored in performance, the literary arts and visual
 art as tools to embed the conversation in the body. Participants will engage in dialogue around
 the experiences thereafter as they relate to being black and/or overall marginalized. The goal is
 to have participants think about how their practice can speak in multiple tongues.

The Corcoran invites you to major events and exhibitions, school celebrations,
lectures and workshops, theatre, dance and music performances.

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 PLANTING PARADISE:                                                                                     MARCH 23
 LANDSCAPES OF LUXURY IN ANCIENT ROME
 Monday, March 23, 2020, 5–6:30 p.m.
 Smith Hall of Art, Room 114
 801 22nd St., NW

 Mention of ancient Roman gardens conjures images of lavish estates outfitted with sprawling
 gardens containing specimen plantings from around the world, aviaries and fishponds,
 pergolas for outdoor dining and sculpture-lined swimming pools such as those described
 by the younger Pliny in his letters or evidenced by the remains of Hadrian’s villa at Tivoli. This
 lecture, given by Annette Giesecke, Ph.D., examines the debt of such luxurious landscapes to
 the much older royal garden traditions of Persia, Mesopotamia and Egypt.
 The lecture is free and open to the public.
 Sponsored by Corcoran’s Art History Program.

 SARGENT AND SPAIN:                                                                                     MARCH 25
 THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN EXHIBITION
 VISITING ARTISTS AND SCHOLARS COMMITTEE
 (VASC) LECTURE
 Wednesday, March 25, 2020, 6:30-7:30 p.m.
 Smith Hall of Art, Room 114
 801 21st St., NW

 In this lecture, National Gallery of Art curator Sarah Cash will present her past and present work
 on the artist John Singer Sargent. In particular, she will discuss the evolution of her current
 exhibition project, Sargent and Spain, which she is developing with fellow Sargent scholars
 Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray.
 Sarah Cash is associate curator of American and British paintings at the National Gallery of Art,
 Washington, D.C. Previously she served as curator of American art at the Corcoran Gallery of
 Art, director of the Maier Museum of Art at Randolph-Macon Woman’s College and assistant
 curator at the Amon Carter Museum. She has also held positions at Yale University Art Gallery
 and the National Portrait Gallery, in addition to previous positions at the National Gallery of Art.
 Ms. Cash received a B.A. in art history from Smith College and an M.A. in the history of art
 from the Williams College Graduate Program. She is a 2014 fellow in the Center for Curatorial
 Leadership and a graduate of the Museum Management Institute in Berkeley, California. She
 serves on the national advisory board of Reynolda House Museum of American Art in Winston-
 Salem, North Carolina.
 This lecture is presented by the Visiting Artists and Scholars Committee and the Corcoran Art
 History Program.
 This lecture is free and open to the public.

The Corcoran invites you to major events and exhibitions, school celebrations,
lectures and workshops, theatre, dance and music performances.

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 EXHIBITION DESIGN LECTURE 2020:                                                                          MARCH 26
 PROBABLE CAUSE
 Thursday, March 26, 2020, 6:30–8 p.m.
 Hammer Auditorium
 Corcoran School of the Arts and Design
 500 17th St., NW

 How can the world of objects and spaces alternate between the functional and ordinary on one
 hand and the playful and poetic on the other? In this talk, SPORTS Collaborative will discuss
 their ambition to flexibly flicker between these states in their work and in doing so, embrace
 ideas of ambiguity, novelty and discovery.
 Organized by SPORTS Collaborative, the award-winning multidisciplinary architecture and
 design collaborative of designer and educator Molly Hunker and designer Greg Corso, based
 in Syracuse, New York. SPORTS approaches architecture in a playful way by balancing rigor
 and research with amusement and curiosity. Since forming in 2010, SPORTS has designed
 and constructed a number of large-scale architectural installations and pavilions around the
 country, and their work has been exhibited, reviewed and published widely.
                                                                                                            Hearts of Gold: Buttonwillow Rest Area, 2018

 GW BANDS SPRING CONCERT                                                                                  MARCH 28
 Saturday, March 28, 2020, 3–5 p.m.
 Lisner Auditorium
 730 21st St., NW

 Join the George Washington University Bands for our spring concert. The GW Bands consists
 of students dedicated to enriching the community through music. Members have the
 opportunity to perform in a variety of ensembles including Symphonic Band, Wind Ensemble
 and our renowned pep band, the Colonial Brass.
 This event is open to all GW students and the public.

 HEATHERS: THE MUSICAL                                                                                    APRIL 2-5
 Thursday–Saturday, April 2–4, 2020, 7:30 p.m.
 Sunday, April 5, 2020, 2 p.m.
 Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre
 Marvin Center
 800 21st St., NW
 Students/Seniors: $10
 General Admission: $20
 Tickets are available online at corcoran.gwu.edu/mainstage, by calling 202-994-0551 or by visiting the
 box office on the first floor of the Marvin Center on the night of the performance.

 By Laurence O’Keefe and Kevin Murphy
 There are three of them, and the three Heathers rule Westerburg! Veronica is torn—to be
 popular or to... well, to do what? Luckily, J.D. arrives with answers, but this Prince Charming has
 a deep, dark side. Based on the cult hit movie, this Off-Broadway musical is a co-production
 with the Program of Music. High school—it’s not for kids anymore! Be advised: As Heathers:
 The Musical is set in a high school, it contains strong language and addresses issues such as
 bullying, body image, school violence, suicidal ideation and...Slurpees.

The Corcoran invites you to major events and exhibitions, school celebrations,
lectures and workshops, theatre, dance and music performances.

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 SPRING DANCE CONCERT                                                                                     APRIL 16–18
 Thursday–Saturday, April 16–18, 2020, 7:30 p.m.
 Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre
 Marvin Center
 800 21st St., NW
 Students/Seniors: $10
 General Admission: $20
 Tickets are available online at corcoran.gwu.edu/mainstage, by calling 202-994-0551 or by visiting the
 box office on the first floor of the Marvin Center on the night of the performance.

 This concert will feature internationally acclaimed guest artists and faculty as well as student
 choreographers.

 GW ORCHESTRA SPRING CONCERT                                                                              APRIL 19
 Sunday, April 19, 2020, 3–5 p.m.
 Lisner Auditorium
 730 21st St., NW

 Join Music for the GW Orchestra Spring Concert. As GW’s largest symphonic ensemble, the
 orchestra strives to produce high quality music with an enjoyable and collaborative group.
 This event is open to all GW students and the public.

 DESIGN AND MANAGEMENT OF VISÕES                                                                          APRIL 21
 URBANAS INTERNATIONAL DANCE FESTIVAL
 Tuesday, April 21, 2020, 12:45–2 p.m.
 Building J Dance Studio (Up)
 2131 G St., NW (Rear)

 Learn about the Design and Management of Visões Urbanas International Dance Festival, Sao
 Paulo, Brazil with Ederson Lopes of internationally acclaimed Dance Company, Artesaos do
 Corpo from Sao Paulo, Brazil.
 This event is open to all GW students.

The Corcoran invites you to major events and exhibitions, school celebrations,
lectures and workshops, theatre, dance and music performances.

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 PIANO CAMERATA                                                                                  APRIL 21
 Tuesday, April 21, 2020, 7:30–9:30 p.m.
 Hammer Auditorium
 Corcoran School of the Arts and Design
 500 17th St., NW

 Curated student performances in a salon atmosphere presenting eclectic piano repertoire.
 This event is free and open to all GW students.

 NEXT 180                                                                                        APRIL 23
 Thursday, April 23, 2020
 5–6 p.m.
 Flagg Building
 500 17th St., NW
 Hammer Auditorium

 Before the festivities begin at 6 p.m. for the NEXT opening night party, join your classmates
 for NEXT 180! NEXT 180 features a series of rapid-fire creative presentations from graduating
 students throughout the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design. Each student has three
 minutes and nine slides (which automatically advance every 20 seconds) to enlighten, inspire
 and entertain. These presentations can be dance performances or talks about any topic.
 There will be voting and prizes. The event will be first-come, first-seated, with no RSVP
 necessary, so come early to cheer them on. Doors open at 4:45 p.m.
 To apply to present at NEXT 180, stay tuned for e-mails.

 NEXT CAPSTONE MUSIC RECITALS                                                                    APRIL 24–26
 Friday–Sunday, April 24–26, 2020
 Various locations, various times

 Join Music at the Corcoran for NEXT Capstone Music Recitals. Stay tuned for details!

                                                                                                   Photo credit: Nicole Kremin (B.A., ‘19) at her
                                                                                                   senior thesis recital, Renovations: “Investigating
                                                                                                   the Boundaries of Repertoire Ownership.”

The Corcoran invites you to major events and exhibitions, school celebrations,
lectures and workshops, theatre, dance and music performances.

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 NEXT EXHIBITION AND OPENING NIGHT                                                            APRIL 24–MAY 18
 Opening night party Thursday, April 23, 2020, 6–8 p.m.
 Open Tuesday–Friday, April 24–May 18, 2020, 10 a.m.–6 p.m., weekends 1–6 p.m.
 Flagg Building
 500 17th St., NW
 Atrium Galleries

 Held every spring, NEXT is a dynamic, interactive and innovative end-of-year show that
 gives D.C.’s visual and performing arts communities the opportunity to see the latest in
 contemporary art from fresh perspectives.

 CHAMBER CAMERATA                                                                             APRIL 27
 Monday, April 27, 2020, 7:30–9:30 p.m.
 Hammer Auditorium
 Corcoran School of the Arts and Design
 500 17th St., NW

 Curated student performances in a salon atmosphere presenting eclectic chamber repertoire.
 This event is free and open to the public.

 ELECTRONIC AND COMPUTER MUSIC                                                                MAY 7
 (ECM) CAMERATA
 Thursday, May 7, 2020, 7:30–9:30 p.m.
 Phillips Hall, B-120
 801 22nd St., NW

 Join Music for the Electronic and Computer Music (ECM) Camerata.
 This event is free and open to all GW students.

The Corcoran invites you to major events and exhibitions, school celebrations,
lectures and workshops, theatre, dance and music performances.

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 CORCORAN GRADUATION PARTY (2020)                                                                    MAY 15
 Friday, May 15, 2020, 5–7 p.m.
 The Atrium of the Flagg Building
 Corcoran School of the Arts and Design
 500 17th St., NW

 Graduating students will take the first step of their lifelong journey as GW Corcoran alumni by
 celebrating with their friends, family, professors and fellow students. Come raise a glass to the
 class of 2020! This event will have light appetizers and refreshments.

The Corcoran invites you to major events and exhibitions, school celebrations,
lectures and workshops, theatre, dance and music performances.