February 4, 2022, Brendle Hall A Creative Writing and Musical Performance Collaboration. Claire Chase presents “Grace.” Vocalizing texts written by her grandmother (edited in collaboration with Pauline Oliveros), Chase is joined by Levy Lorenzo controlling Oliveros’ Expanded Instrument System (EIS). Join students from Creative Writing […]
October 20, 2021, DeTamble Auditorium The Wake Forest University Classics Department brings musician and Classics B.A. Joe Goodkin to campus to perform his adaptation of Homer’s Iliad. Joe’s first-person songs capture the horror, grief, and love that permeate the Iliad and the combat experience. Sung […]
August 20, 2021 Music Carolina is bringing back another dance and live music event, in partnership with the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art. Featuring the choreographic work of Christina Soriano, Janice Lancaster and Monet Beatty (’20), audience members moved through three locations for a brief and […]
May 7, 2021 The students of WFU Choir Director and Music Department faculty Dr. Chris Gilliam spent the spring term learning works by all female-identifying composers. Gilliam organized a guest artist workshop and collaborative virtual performance featuring the work of (among others) Alysia Lee, Kennedy Center […]
May 7, 2021 “Say Her Name” is a 4-minute choral work by Alysia Lee. This performance was a collaboration between the Wake Forest Choir and the Winston-Salem State Singing Rams, supported by the WFU Interdisciplinary Arts Center and the Slavery, Race, and Memory Project. Additional support was […]
April 14-18, 2021 “Interstitial 3” was a weeklong rehearsal residency and video installation at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA). It was a collaboration between WFU staff member Steve Morrison (Communications Strategist for the Arts), Chris Yon/Taryn Griggs, a group of triad area dancers, […]
A lecture-workshop (mini-lecture about history and culture, experiential dance instruction, and Q&A) for MUS 134 Music of Asia relating to the music, the Bhangra dance form, and its practice in India-Pakistan and in the diaspora. Collaborators: WFU Department of Music, Learn Bhangra
The Search for Wachovia, a commissioned new play and recorded performance delivered during the Reynolda Conference “Becoming American: Moravians and their Neighbors, 1772-1822.” Collaborators: WFU Dept of Religion, WFU Dept of German, WFU Museum of Anthropology, Winston-Salem State University, Old Salem, Museum of Early […]