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Bio-Sensing technology stars in an interactive performance installation by AMPD Professors

A woman in a hallway wearing a geometric white deer head mask

School of the Arts, Media Performance & Design Professors Erika Batdorf (Theatre) and Mark-David Hosale (Computational Arts) team up with Kate Digby, a dance professor at Kansas State University, and Alan Macy, co-founder of BIOPAC Inc., in creating and presenting Search for Simurgh, an immersive, interactive performance installation workshop August 1-3 at the Toronto Media Arts …

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Toronto Star: Shakespeare in High Park creates ‘sense of community’ — and that includes the raccoons and squirrels

Liza Balkan, standing, and Severn Thompson have taken on a challenging job: cutting two Shakespeare plays down to 90 minutes and directing outdoors with all the contingencies that brings like weather, noise and wildlife. RENE JOHNSTON / TORONTO STAR

https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/stage/2019/07/10/shakespeare-in-high-park-creates-sense-of-community-and-that-includes-the-raccoons-and-squirrels.html

Theatre @ York 2019-20 season: Performing Gender

Theatre @ York is delighted to announce its 2019-20 season, built around the theme of performing gender. This year we will present Ann Marie MacDonald’s Good Night Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet), directed by Jennifer Tarver, and Timothy Findley’s Elizabeth Rex, directed by ted witzel, as well as a series of other studio shows and student-led …

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Students and new grads team up to remount Theatre@York’s rochdale at SummerWorks

Production photo from rochdale by Jeremy Mimnagh

For the first time ever, a Theatre@York production will be remounted in Toronto’s acclaimed SummerWorks Performance Festival, one of the most important platforms for launching new work in Canada. A whip-smart, funny and politically charged play, Rochdale was created specifically for the York University Acting Conservatory graduating class of 2019 with design and production support …

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Media Arts Prof Taien Ng-Chan receives City of Hamilton Arts Awards

Taien Ng-Chan receives a City of Hamilton Art Award

https://www.hamilton.ca/city-awards/art-awards/city-hamilton-arts-awards-recipients

Music PhD student will participate in the International Doctoral Workshop in Ethnomusicology

Indigenous filmmakers will screen their works on the walls of the historic Jacob Stong Barn, June 13

http://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2019/06/02/indigenous-filmmakers-will-screen-their-works-on-the-walls-of-the-historic-jacob-stong-barn-june-13

Dance Prof Patrick Alcedo’s film selected for Cannes

Professor Patrick Alcedo with 12-year-old Anah Ambuchi, director of Made in His Image, a powerful film about bullying. Ambuchi received the inaugural Rising Star Award

http://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2019/05/28/york-university-dance-professors-film-selected-in-cannes

Professor Lisette Canton to conduct choir at Carnegie Hall, May 25

http://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2019/05/21/york-music-professor-lisette-canton-to-conduct-choir-performing-at-carnegie-hall-may-25/

Brendan Fernandes returns to his alma mater as Louis Odette Sculptor-in-Residence

Chicago-based York U Visual Art alumnus Brendan Fernandes (BFA ‘02) is the 2019 Louis Odette Sculptor-in-Residence at York University. One of the five Ontario artists nominated for a Sobey Art Award, Fernandes works at the intersection of dance and visual arts. During his residency he is developing new work related to two of his recent exhibitions – …

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