Dear Dudley Arts Members,
There are still a few tickets remaining for tomorrow's 2pm performance
of The Blue Flower at the American Repertory Theater. Consulting
producer Stephen Schwartz (composer and lyricist of Wicked, Godspell and
Pippin, among many others) calls the work "one of the most creative and
original pieces of musical theater I have ever encountered". Moving from
Belle Epoque Paris to the WWI battlefields, this play about four lovers
and friends finding their way through a world in pieces weaves lush
video art, inventive music, playful text, and evocative movement into a
visceral theatrical experience. $15 student tickets (discounted from
$35) are available from the Dudley House Office. Feel free to contact me
(marcrum@fas) for more information.
I hope to see you there!
Charlie Marcrum
Dudley House Arts Fellow
Hello Dudley art enthusiasts!
We hope you are enjoying the beginning of reading period! The Dudley arts
fellows would like to invite you to join us for the exciting events and
classes we have planned for December and January. A full list of our offerings
is included below; you can also visit our website for information about
classes and upcoming events at:
http://www.dudley.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k73092&tabgroupid=icb.tabg…
If you have suggestions for general arts programming, and for questions
regarding the Dudley art class, contact Ivanna Yi at: iyi(a)fas.harvard.edu .
To get in touch with ideas and questions regarding theater and related
outings, contact Cynthia Browne at: dudleyhouse.drama(a)gmail.com
For recommendations and questions about our film screenings series, contact
Charles Marcrum at marcrum(a)fas.harvard.edu
Hope to see you at some of our events!
Dudley arts fellows
Dudley Arts programming for December 2010 and January 2011
*Tango Lessons Coming to **Dudley**!*
Dudley House is excited to be offering a series of tango lessons this winter
semester led by fellow member Tom Wisniewski starting in February. Lessons
will last one hour, followed by an optional, open practica. All levels of
experience will be welcome, no partner necessary. Come shake off those
winter chills with your adornos, arrastres, boleos, caminitas, and giros.
Please email Cynthia at cbrowne82 (at) gmail.com to be placed on a waiting
list for priority registration. Space limited. More information regarding
cost and registration will be mailed out in January.
*Acrylics Art Class*
*The next session of the **Dudley** art class will focus on acrylics. The
class will meet on Saturdays, **2-4:30pm**, in the **Dudley** House Private
Dining Room*, *from January 29th-March 5th*. Class size is limited to 15
students. Open to Dudley House members; some drawing experience is
recommended. $30 plus cost of materials, approximately $50 for paints,
brushes, and canvas. Register at the Dudley House office with Chad or Susan
beginning Wednesday, December 8th at 9am. Contact Ivanna Yi (
iyi(a)fas.harvard.edu).
DECEMBER
*Friday, Dec. 3, **8pm**, the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra at Sanders Theatre
** *
Meet in the lobby of Memorial Hall at 7:40 pm to see the Harvard Radcliffe
Orchestra's performance of Anton Webern's Passacaglia and Gustav Mahler's
Symphony No 4. For tickets, please call the Harvard Box Office at (617)
496-2222 or purchase them online. The Box Office is open Wednesday through
Sunday from noon to 6 PM, and is located in the Holyoke Center Arcade at
1350 Massachusetts Avenue. On the day of the performance, tickets can also
be purchased at the Sanders Theatre Box Office. Contact Cynthia Browne at
cbrowne82(at) gmail.com for more info.
*Sat., Dec 4th, **2pm**, The Blue Flower at the American Repertory Theater*
Ride the twisted rails of history from Belle Epoque Paris to the WWI
battlefields in this musical play about four lovers and friends finding
their way through a world in pieces. The Blue Flower weaves lush video art,
inventive music, playful text, and evocative movement into a visceral
theatrical experience. Contact Charlie (marcrum@fas) for more information.
*Thursday, Dec. 9, **4:45pm**, **ICA** special tour with chief curator Helen
Molesworth*
Meet at 4:45 pm in the Dudley House lobby to head over to the ICA for a tour
of artist Mark Bradford's wide-ranging oeuvre with chief curator Helen
Molesworth. "Through his collaged paintings, sculptures, videos, and
installations, Mark Bradford explores issues of class, race, and gender in
American urban society. An archeologist of his own environment, Los Angeles,
Bradford uses found materials—peeling movie posters, hand-lettered “FOR
SALE” signs, endpapers used to perm black hair, salvaged plywood—which he
layers, embellishes, erodes, and reconstitutes into abstract compositions."
--Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston. Free with Harvard ID; please bring
T-fare. Email cbrowne82 (at) gmail.com for more information.
*
*
*Friday, Dec. 10th, **9pm**, Harvard Film Archive
*
Three from the Gas Station (1930). Like Hollywood’s Depression-era film
musicals, this Weimar-era film is based in the economic misery of the time
but proposes an escapist solution. The three men of the title gather what
little money they have to open a gas station. Each quickly falls in love
with their favorite customer, a beautiful female motorist. The score
contains songs that became popular standards, and the cast boasts a number
of the stars of early sound cinema in Germany, notably Lillian Harvey and
Willy Fritsch. Free with student ID. Contact Charlie (marcrum@fas) for more
information.
*Saturday, Dec. 11, **2pm**, “The Hand” in Italian Renaissance works at the
**Sackler** **Museum*
Join us for a viewing of selected Italian Renaissance works from 1300-1600
at the Sackler Museum, accompanied by a talk by Daniel Zolli, PhD candidate
in the History of Art and Architecture department at Harvard. The talk will
chart some of the complex meanings of “the hand” in Renaissance art, whether
at work (as the instrument of an artist’s style) or depicted in the work (as
a clue to narrative or symbolic meaning). The talk will also explore the
Harvard Art Museums’ rich history of connoisseurship, the method used to
identify an individual artist’s hand. Free and open to all. We will meet in
the lobby of the Sackler museum at 1:45pm. Contact Ivanna Yi (
iyi(a)fas.harvard.edu).
*
*
*Wednesday, December 15, **3pm**, “Ambient Reel Time” at the Woodberry
Poetry Room* (Lamont Library, Room 330)
Inaugurated by a 1930 recording of T. S. Eliot, the Woodberry’s
inimitable audio
archive<http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton/collections/poetry_room.cfm#audio…>has
grown into one of the most comprehensive recording collections of
poetry
in the country, second only to the Library of Congress. Join us for an
outing to the Poetry Room for a listening session of early recordings /
readings by poets from the Black Mountain School: Robert Creeley, Robert
Duncan, Denise Levertov, and Charles Olson. “Ambient Reel Time” is curated
by Chloe Garcia Roberts. Free and open to all. We will meet in the vestibule
of Lamont Library at 2:45. Contact Ivanna Yi (iyi(a)fas.harvard.edu).
JANUARY
*Saturday, Jan. 15th @ **7pm**, Iron Man and Iron Man 2 Screening in the
Graduate Student Lounge *
DUDLEY DOUBLE FEATURE!
Iron Man (@ 7pm): After escaping from kidnappers using makeshift power
armor, an ultrarich inventor and weapons maker (Robert Downey Jr.) turns his
creation into a force for good by using it to fight crime. But his skills
are stretched to the limit when he must face the evil Iron Monger. Gwyneth
Paltrow, Jeff Bridges and Terrence Howard also star in director Jon
Favreau's tongue-in-cheek superhero tale based on the popular Marvel comic.
Snacks provided. Contact Charlie (marcrum@fas) for more information.
Iron Man 2 (@ 9:15pm):Wealthy inventor Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) -- aka
Iron Man -- resists calls by the American government to hand over his
technology. Meanwhile, Ivan Vanko (Mickey Rourke) has constructed his own
miniaturized arc reactor, causing all kinds of problems for our superhero.
Sam Rockwell, Gwyneth Paltrow, Scarlett Johansson, Don Cheadle and Samuel L.
Jackson co-star in director Jon Favreau's sequel based on Marvel comic book
characters. Snacks provided. Contact Charlie (marcrum@fas) for more
information.
*Saturday, January 15, **2pm**, The Foster Prize show at the **ICA** *
If you missed the tour of the Institute for Contemporary Art in December,
join us for a trip to view the Foster Prize award show featuring Boston
artists. From large-scale photographs of the Peruvian Amazon to experimental
film to installations inspired by 17th-century frescoes, the artists
selected for the 2010 Foster Prize offer a wide-ranging view of the art
being created in the Boston area today. Free with Harvard ID; open to all.
We will meet on the Dudley steps at 2pm to head over. Contact Ivanna Yi (
iyi(a)fas.harvard.edu).
* *
*Thursday, January 20, **7pm**, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo screening,
Graduate Student Lounge*
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Michael
Nyqvist) and rebellious computer hacker Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) team
up to investigate the unsolved disappearance of wealthy Henrik Vanger's
(Sven-Bertil Taube) teen niece (Ewa Fröling), only to uncover dark secrets
about Vanger's powerful family. Niels Arden Oplev directs this Swedish
thriller based on the first novel from Stieg Larsson's best-selling trilogy.
Snacks provided. Contact Charlie (marcrum@fas) for more information.
* *
*Friday, January 21, **8pm**, Handel and Haydn Society at Jordan Hall*
Join us for an outing to the Handel and Haydn Society’s concert featuring
Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos, regarded by many as the finest compositions of
the baroque era. In addition to Concertos 3 and 4, a special highlight of
the program is Telemann’s Viola Concerto with soloist David Miller. Tickets
are $28, available to Dudley House members and their guests in December at
the Dudley office. We will meet on the Dudley steps at 7pm to take the bus
over to Jordan Hall. Contact Ivanna Yi (iyi(a)fas.harvard.edu).
* *
*Thursday, January 27, **8pm**, the Diotoma String Quartet at Paine Hall*
Join us for an outing to see the Diotoma String Quartet, which was founded
by graduates of the Paris and Lyon Conservatoires, and was awarded first
prize at the FNAPEC Competition, Paris in 1999, and the Contemporary Music
Prize at the London String Quartet Competition in 2000. For more
information, visit http://hgnm.org/2010/05/04/diotima-quartet/. Email
cbrowne82 {at} gmail.com for logistical questions. We will meet in the
lobby of Paine Hall at 7:45 pm.
*Friday, **January 28, 2011**, **3pm**, Millet exhibition at the **MFA*
Join us for a private tour of the MFA’s new American wing! Led by GSAS
student Katie Pfhol, a PhD candidate in History of Art and Architecture,
we'll explore the Millet exhibition, the Modern European galleries, and the
MFA's new American wing, focusing on changing depictions of and responses to
the natural world. We will leave Dudley House at 3pm; RSVP required to
Ivanna Yi (iyi(a)fas.harvard.edu).
*Friday, **January 28, 10**pm, Karaoke Extravaganza! Queen's Head Pub (in
the basement of Memorial Hall)*
Karaoke Extravaganza at the Queen's Head! Come try your hand at one (or
more) of 100,000 songs right in our own backyard or grab a snack and watch
your friends! No cover charge. Contact Charlie (marcrum@fas) for more
information.
