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Sneak Peek: Festival Symposium
November 5, 2009
Thursday 6:00-8:00pm
Presented by The Harriman Institute at Columbia University in association with the Polish Cultural Institute in New York, Romanian Cultural Institute in New York, and Austrian Cultural Forum
A gathering of intellectuals and artists about presenting the performing arts in the context of political change. This is a special pre-festival event and a preview of a larger symposium scheduled for February 2010.
The Harriman Institute, Columbia University
President's Room 1, Faculty House
64 Morningside Drive (at 116th Street)
FREE
Reservations: rsvp@harrimaninstitute.org
www.harrimaninstitute.org
Györ National Ballet from Hungary: Petrushka and the Fall of Communism
Lecture by Linda Szmyd Monich
Thursday, January 7, 2010, 6pm
Presented in collaboration with the Joyce Theatre.
Bruno Walter Auditorium, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, 111 Amsterdam Avenue (at 65th Street)
Admission is free and first-come, first-served
Information: 212-870-1700
www.nypl.org/research/lpa
Polish Dance in the 1980s: Silence or Revolution?
January 2010
Panel Dates and Times TBA
Etiuda b-moll (Etude b minor), Choreographed by Conrad Drzewiecki
Presented by Dance New Amsterdam
Dance New Amsterdam presents three panels intended to provoke discourse about Poland’s revolution in dance during the late 20th century. The first panel will focus solely on Poland, while the others will be a roundtable format with representatives from other Performing Revolution festival countries. With Roman Pawlowski (chief theater and dance critic for Gazeta Wyborcza), Roman Arndt (dance historian), Dr. Agnieszka Jelewska (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań), and Dr. Jacek Łuminski (Founder/Executive Director/Founder of Silesian Dance Theatre and Dean Dance-Theater Department State Drama School in Krakow), George Jackson (critic and dance historian), Prof. Anna Peterson Royce (Indiana University at Bloomington), and Prof. Alan Kucharski (Swarthmore College). The panels will be simulcast online with a live blog for offsite audience interaction.
Developed in conjunction with the 2009 Understanding Dance conference in Poland, and supported by the Trust for Mutual Understanding, American Express, Polish Cultural Institute in New York, and Silesian Dance Theatre.
Dance New Amsterdam
280 Broadway, 2nd Floor (enter on Chambers Street)
FREE
Information: 212-625-8369
www.dnadance.org
After Communism: Achievement and Disillusionment since 1989
February 26-27, 2010
Panel schedule: Friday at 2:00pm, 3:45pm, 5:30pm and 7:15pm | Saturday at 2:00pm, 3:45pm, 5:30pm
Presented by The Harriman Institute at Columbia University in association with the Polish Cultural Institute in New York, Romanian Cultural Institute in New York, and Austrian Cultural Forum.
This multi-day symposium brings together public intellectuals, policymakers, cultural figures, and academics from both sides of the Atlantic to assess the global meaning of the 1989 revolutions in East-Central Europe and their aftermaths. Speakers will discuss the changes in our understanding of the Communist system and the sources of its collapse, and the age of “post-communism,” a condition whose contours and duration remain unclear.
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The Harriman Institute, Columbia University
President's Room 1, Faculty House, 64 Morningside Drive (at 116th Street)
FREE
Reservations: rsvp@harrimaninstitute.org
www.harrimaninstitute.org
© The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations, 2009