Posted in General on Jan 8th, 2010
It’s always hard to tell what a program will really be like; actually that’s part of the thrill of live performance. But here are my suggestions for those of you who aren’t quite sure what kind of package to put together.
If you like Spherus and juggling (Friday night State Theater) you’ll love:
Body and Soul-movement workshop [...]
Posted in General on Jan 25th, 2009
Much to my embarassment, I started weeping uncontrollably during PUSHing the Limits at the State Theatre. This exciting, creative, jaw-dropping and emotionally wrenching performance of physical theater was not only so much more than i ever expected; but it capped a weekend that has been a joy from beginning to…well, middle. As I write this [...]
Posted in General on Jan 10th, 2009
Somewhere between emailing a radio talk show host and faxing a contract to a fire-spinner, it occurred to me that LIW Fest is happening two weeks from today. HOLY (insert your own expletive here). Really, very exciting but at the same time kind-of horrifying. If you’ve ever directed or hosted a very large [...]
Posted in General on May 27th, 2008
SUNY Binghamton’s Evolutionary Biologist David Sloan Wilson, who captivated audiences last year in his performance on identity with Waterbear, is featured in a NY Times article today about a new curriculum linking art and science.
Jointly conceived by David Sloan Wilson, a professor of biology, and Leslie Heywood, a professor of English, the program is intended [...]
Posted in General on May 25th, 2008
I’m so excited to be going to Brian Greene’s World Science Festival in NYC next week. Brian is the author of the Elegant Universe and other books, essentially this generation’s Carl Sagan. Brian and I had talked during the early years of Light in Winter about his headlining a performance here with the Emerson Quartet, [...]
Posted in General on Jan 20th, 2008
As hard as it is to believe, the Light in Winter weekend has already drawn to a close, with an impressive finale: a performance by the full Ithaca College Symphony Orchestra, led by conductor Jeffery Meyer. They performed seven movements from a piece by composer Michael Gandolfi that was inspired by a garden in Scotland [...]
Posted in General on Jan 20th, 2008
The audience’s reaction to the “Who Are We?” talk and performance was overwhelming – everyone seemed to agree that it perfectly represented the spirit of “collaboration” between arts and science that Light in Winter is always striving to achieve.
Binghamton University biology professor David Sloan Wilson discussed examples from the animal world that illustrate that [...]
Posted in General on Jan 20th, 2008
Composer Bruce Adolphe’s suite of compositions inspired by the paintings of Paul Gauguin were beautifully performed by a sextet of local musicians on violin, cello, bass, flute, clarinet, and percussion. The pieces were interspersed with commentary by Adolphe – speaking on his own process of inspiration, and most interestingly, quotations from Gauguin’s own journals during [...]
Posted in General on Jan 20th, 2008
Last night, Hugh Masekela told the audience to cheer loudly, but not so loudly that they took the roof off of Bailey Hall. But in the end, it was Masekela and his Chissa All-Stars who ended up ripping the roof right off with their energetic and passionate music.
Masekela himself played the flugelhorn, sang, emoted (using [...]
Posted in General on Jan 19th, 2008
The afternoon at the Statler finished off with a collaborative talk called “What Do Robots Dream of?” Cornell engineering professor Hod Lipson talked about his research on robots and teaching them to “evolve” and function independently. His simulations and footage of actual experiments with robots was fascinating.
In one project he described, a robot had to [...]