Mostly Free, All Open To Public: Music, Dance, Film This Fall At Rutgers University-Newark
Photo: Axis Dance Company
Want to hear the music of Chad, Africa? How about a ballet version of Dracula? A screening of Birth of a Nation? You need travel no farther than Newark, N.J., to hear and see these performances and concerts, and you won’t break the bank either, since most are free.
Rutgers University-Newark announces its fall arts schedule of dance performances, film screenings, concerts and jazz talks. All are on either the campus, which is handicap-accessible, or at the Newark Museum or the New Jersey Performing Arts Center.
The Music and Life of John Hicks, Angel in a Briefcase : A Jazz Research Roundtable and live performance, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2015, 7 - 9 p.m.; the Dana Room, John Cotton Dana Library, 4th floor, 185 University Ave., Rutgers University – Newark. FREE ADMISSION.
The Institute of Jazz Studies’ first Jazz Research Roundtable of the fall season, this presentation by Elise Wood-Hicks will feature highlights of Hicks’s musical life as well musical analyses of selected compositions. There will also be a screening of a selection of the film Hick’s Time, and a live performance by Wood-Hicks on flute and Roni Ben-Hur on guitar.
H’sao: A Celebration of Music from Chad, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015, 7 p.m.; Bradley Hall Theater, 110 Warren St., Rutgers University – Newark; FREE ADMISSION
Presented by The Clement A. Price Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience
H’sao is a Montréal-based band from Chad, passionate about sharing its unique blend of modern sound and traditional African musical influences, including amazing a cappella singing. The concert will be followed by a lecture and a demonstration of Chadian culture and dance.
Dracula: by the Atlantic City Ballet, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015, 7:30 p.m.
Jim Wise Theater, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT); FREE ADMISSION
Presented by The Clement A. Price Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience in partnership with NJIT
A "Halloween special,” featuring the Atlantic City Ballet Company in a performance of highlights from its critically acclaimed Dracula ballet.
Symposium on Dance and Disability with AXIS Dance Company, performance on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2015, 7: 30 p.m., New Jersey Performing Arts Center, 1 Center St., Newark
Community Classes: Wednesday, Nov. 18, & Thursday, Nov. 19, 2015
Ticket info available on NJPAC.org, Student RUSH tickets available
The Birth of a Nation, film screening and discussion with Professor Miriam Petty, Northwestern University, Thursday, Dec. 10, 2015, Screening begins at 4 p.m., discussion at 7:30 p.m., reception to follow. Billy Johnson Auditorium, Newark Museum, 49 Washington St., Newark. FREE ADMISSION
The Clement A. Price Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience will host a special screening of The Birth of a Nation, on its 100th anniversary, to explore the film’s role in the history of American race relations and in the shaping of memory of the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Jim Crow.
Media contacts: Carla Capizzi, capizzi@rutgers.edu; Marissa Pierson, mpierson@newark.rutgers.edu
