Archive: Performing Arts
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Benjamin Harbert Establishes Multimedia Journal for Ethnomusicology
Co-founded by Benjamin Harbert, the Journal of Audiovisual Ethnomusicology is a peer-reviewed streaming journal, which combines the rich medium of film with the rigor of academic…
January 31, 2023
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Internationally Renowned Violinist Performs Concert on the Hilltop
David Kim is concertmaster of The Philadelphia Orchestra, a former child prodigy and one of the world’s greatest living…
December 5, 2022
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Did the Suffragist Movement Rely on Racism? New Play Explores Hidden History
“Bitter Flower,” an original play from award-winning novelist and playwright Jennifer Natalya Fink, opens November.…
November 4, 2022
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A Home for the Humanities on Campus
Professors Nicoletta Pireddu (Inaugural Director of the Georgetown Humanities Initiative), and Derek Goldman and Anthony R DelDonna (Department of Performing Arts) have been…
April 29, 2022
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Award-Winning Composer Honors 272 Enslaved People Through Hip Hop and Liturgical Work
Carlos Simon is an award-winning composer and musician. He’s the composer-in-residence at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and has written concert music and…
February 28, 2022
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Scoring an Internship: Hilltop Experiences Help Daelyn Waters (C’23) Work with Orioles & Wizards
A Maryland native, Daelyn Waters (C’23) completed an internship with the Baltimore Orioles this past summer, where she was able to apply skills she learned from her academics…
January 11, 2022
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Renowned Choreographer Begins Groundbreaking Residency in Disability Studies
In January 2022, the Program in Disability Studies will welcome renowned choreographer Jerron Herman as its Artist/Scholar/Activist-in.…
December 16, 2021
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Theatre and Performance Studies Alumni Reginald Douglas (C’09) and Alexandra Templer (C’15) Return to Campus Teach in Department
After graduating from Georgetown College, alumni Reginald Douglas (C’09) and Alexandra Templer (C’15) pursued their passions in directing and acting. Now they have returned…
September 30, 2021
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Alumna Finalist for Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for an Environmental Play
Theater and Performance Studies alumna Miranda Rose Hall (C’11) is a 2021 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize finalist for her work, A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction. One…
April 22, 2021
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Lorraine Hansberry Biography by Soyica Colbert Listed as a Must-Read in Oprah Magazine
Soyica Diggs Colbert, interim dean of the College and Idol Family Professor of African American Studies and Performing Arts, recently completed her latest book Radical Vision: A…
April 19, 2021