Events

Friday, February 18, 2011 (7)

Feb 18, 2011
January 15, 2011
Saturday

  • This Fall: Focus on French Design

  • Jan 15, 2011 at 7:00pm to Feb 18, 2011 at 6:00pm
  • Location: Museum of Art & Design / Parson School of Design / Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
  • Description: COOPER-HEWITT NATIONAL DESIGN MUSEUM
    ONGOING EXHIBITION NATIONAL DESIGN TRIENNIAL WHY DESIGN NOW?
    May 14, 2010 - January 9, 2011
    MATERIAL USE
    A conversation with François Azambourg, Eben Bayer and other triennial participants about innovative materials designers are using in their work.
    Moderated by Andrew H. Dent, Vice President, Material Connexion
    Free for students
    NOVEMBER 16th at 6:30PM
    2 East 91st Street, NY 10128
    www.cooperhewitt.org/calendar

    PARSONS THE NEW SCHOOL FOR DESIGN
    QUOTIDIAN PRODUCT: PARIS/NEW YORK
    Panel discussion between two significant product design studios based in Paris (Normal Studio, François Azambourg) with New York City counterparts (Antenna Design, Jeff Miller). Moderated by Parsons Associate Professor Rama Chorpash.

    NOVEMBER 18th AT 6PM
    65 West 11th Street, NY 10011
    wollman Hall, Lang Building - Room B500 (enter at 66 West 12th Street)
    www.newschool.edu/parsons - Free event
  • Created by: Marion Brun
February 8, 2011
Tuesday
February 11, 2011
Friday

  • GINKGOA

  • Feb 11, 2011 at 3:00pm to Feb 27, 2011 at 6:00pm
  • Location: New York City
  • Description: Le Group GINKGOA jazzy bossanovienne arrive en New York de Paris pour seulement 2 semaines! Ne ratez pas leur concert!!
  • Created by: Nicolle Rochelle
 

  • Collective Identities: Policies and Poetics

  • Feb 18, 2011 from 5:00am to 12:00pm
  • Location: The Segal Theater at The Graduate Center
  • Description:

    Conference:  "Collective Identities:  Policies and Poetics"

    Keynote Speaker:  Professor Jeffrey Jerome Cohen from George Washington University.

    Presentation of papers by 10 young scholars

  • Created by: Carole Kulikowski
 

  • Aperghis, East Coast premiere of Sextuor: L'Origine des espèces

  • Feb 18, 2011 from 3:00pm to 5:00pm
  • Location: Wild Project
  • Description:
    Performed by the Hyoid Ensemble: Gelsey Bell, Christie Finn, Amirtha Kidambi, Megan Schubert, Fabienne Séveillac, and cellist Émilie Girard-Charest.

    Directed by Jeremy Bloom.

    Notes on Sextuor by Fabienne Séveillac

    Until now, George Aperghis’ Sextuor had not been premiered on the East Coast despite a growing knowledge in the U.S. of his vocal compositions (for instance, the famous Recitations for female voice written in 1978). Soprano Donatienne Michel-Dansac has been performing Aperghis’ music for more than twenty years and is one of the original performers of Sextuor. Having studied with her in the Acanthes academy in 2009, I was exposed to many of his works and, convinced of Sextuor’s extraordinary singularity, I decided that the work should be presented in New York.

    Last summer, two of the ensemble members and I had the chance to work with Michel-Dansac during the Darmstadt summer courses on sections from Sextuor. I also had the honor to sit down with Aperghis and discuss at length his
  • Created by: fabienneseveillac