The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/category/arts/artsevents/page/2/)
Preceded by a glorious, long-awaited, sixty-degree spring day, Big Thief took to the stage at the State Theater and kicked off their U.S. tour and our entrance into spring all at once
“The Pleasures of the Quarrel,” a mash-up of three operas from 1753, will debut at Bailey Hall on Sunday, March 27 at 3:00 p.m. The performance was curated by Prof Rebecca Harris-Warrick, music, who was intrigued by the quarrel and thought it would be “interesting to try to recreate the ambience of the time” by giving an example of each type of opera.
BreakFree is Cornell’s HipHop dance group founded in 2009 under the motto “Dance with Passion,” and passion is definitely what I saw on the stage. Every year, during the start of the spring semester, BreakFree holds an annual showcase, a culmination of all their efforts of the year.
This Saturday, March 12 at 3 p.m, Big Red Icon is giving Cornell music groups the chance to shine at Bailey Hall.
Statler Auditorium was packed on March 6 for the Cornell University Program Board’s comedy event starring Saturday Night Live repertory player, Chris Redd.
On Feb. 24, the Spring 2022 Barbara & David Zalaznick Reading Series kicked off with the Richard Cleaveland Memorial Reading, created in 2002 by friends and family of Richard Cleaveland ’74 to honor his memory. This semester’s Memorial Reading — the only one to include Cornell faculty — featured literatures in English Prof. J. Robert Lennon and Prof. Mukoma Wa Ngugi.
During my time at Cornell, I never imagined that I would utter the words, “There’s an indie rock concert at Bailey Hall.” This sentence also surprised a lot of my friends; after all, as we’ve learned, the stage should belong to Prof. Bruce Monger and his loving devotion to our climate. During my time at Cornell, I never imagined that I would utter the words, “There’s an indie rock concert at Bailey Hall.” This sentence also surprised a lot of my friends; after all, as we’ve learned, the stage should belong to Prof. Bruce Monger and his loving devotion to our climate.
Yeung’s work this fall is entitled “Event Horizon,” a name which came out of a conversation with one of the six dancers in the piece, an Astronomy major who shared that the term describes the edge of a black hole.
The documentary focuses on the case of Melissa Lucio, a woman convicted for the 2007 death of her two-year-old daughter Mariah. As of 2021, Melissa has been on death row for 13 years. Melissa suffered immense trauma in her life, including sexual assault beginning at age six. Melissa married at just 16 years old; she said in the film she wanted “to escape” her childhood.
Writer and director Cole Romero ’22 devised this original immersive story out of a desire to create something fresh and relatable, as well as to see whether they could manifest a vision of themself on stage. In an interview, they explained how it made sense that, as a nonbinary creator, their play should be about a nonbinary protagonist.