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The Sonic Life of a Giant Tortoise: Youth Is Not the Only Thing That’s Sonic

By Toshiki Okada, Translated by Aya Ogawa, Directed by Peter A. Campbell A man dreams his girlfriend is dead. A woman dreams she is riding the subway, forever. How do they end up at a party here? And where is here? And when is now? Contemporary Japanese playwright Toshiki Okada’s modern folktale explores the extraordinary […]

Japanese Noh Acting Demonstration

BC 141 Ramapo College of New Jersey; BC 141, Mahwah

This is a closed event. Noh performer Elizabeth Down of the Noh Training Project engages our students in observation and experiential activity of the art of Japanese Noh acting. Students will be able to watch an expert performer use her body and voice to perform the difficult, ancient art of Noh and then have opportunities […]

Music from China

Susan Cheng, Wang Guowei, and a third member of their ensemble Music from China will present traditional and contemporary compositions of Chinese "silk and bamboo" music. Similar to the group's workshop at Ramapo in Spring 2015, the workshop will focus on  he instruments, ensemble interaction, approaches to program music (instrumental music that portrays non-musical topics), […]