IAP 2014 Activities by Category - Theater and Dance

Kate Wymbs, Theater Arts Minor 2014, FILMIT Producer

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: None

Participate in FILMIT: Engineer your Entertainment, an IAP Film Festival!

Part 1: Create short films.

Films should be 7-15 minutes in length, created by students, faculty, and affiliates. For more details, check out the website:

https://sites.google.com/site/filmfestmit/

Part 2: Watch and Judge Short Films

The best films will be shown in 1-190 and 10-250 in the third week of IAP (January 23-24, respectively) and judged by the audience. (Audience please bring a phone for electronic voting. )

Contact: Kate Wymbs, (609) 661-0671, FILMIT@mit.edu

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FILMIT Film Viewings: Day 1

Jan/23

Thu

07:00PM-09:30PM

1-190

Depending on submission volume, either the first half of films will be shown on Day 1, or the films will be shown for the first time. An announcement will be made, closer to the date of premier. 

Kate Wymbs - Theater Arts Minor 2014, FILMIT Producer

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FILMIT Film Viewings Day 2

Jan/24

Fri

07:00PM-09:30PM

10-250

Depending on submission volume, either the second half of films will be shown on Day 2, or the films will be shown for the second time. An announcement will be made, closer to the date of premier. 

Kate Wymbs - Theater Arts Minor 2014, FILMIT Producer

Beth Cholst

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: None

We provide several levels of instruction ranging from basic stroking to more advanced jumps and spins. Improve your skating and learn new moves and jumps in a friendly and encouraging atmosphere - for free! Freestyle lessons are from 9:30 a.m. to 10 a.m., and Ice Dance lessons are from 10:15 a.m. to 10:45 a.m.  You don't need a partner and you don't need to know anything about ice dancing to take ice dance lessons. Beginners are welcome! There will also be a special group lesson for those who have never before skated from 10am - 10:45am.

This activity is open to members of the MIT community who are eligible to participate in club sports (see http://web.mit.edu/clubsports/athletes/eligibility.shtml) 

Lessons will start promptly at 9:30am.  You are welcome to come earlier to skate and warm up.  For those renting skates (available for a fee), you should plan to arrive no later than 9:15am.  Figure skates required.  Hockey skates not permitted.

Sponsor(s): Figure Skating Club
Contact: Beth Cholst, skating-officers@mit.edu

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Jan/11	Sat	09:30AM-10:45AM	Johnson Ice Rink
Jan/18	Sat	09:30AM-10:45AM	Johnson Ice Rink
Jan/25	Sat	09:30AM-10:45AM	Johnson Ice Rink

Beth Cholst

Susan Cohen, Director, Council for the Arts at MIT

Jan/22

Wed

01:00PM-02:00PM

E14-240

Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)
Limited to 20 participants

Informal discussion of the CAMIT Grants Program, including the application process and the types of projects eligible for funding.

Sponsor(s): Office of the Arts
Contact: Susan Cohen, E15-205, 617 253-4005, COHEN@MEDIA.MIT.EDU

Kristi Beck, Valarie Rosen

Jan/12	Sun	08:00PM-09:30PM	Student Center 491
Jan/19	Sun	08:00PM-09:30PM	Student Center 491
Jan/26	Sun	08:00PM-09:30PM	Student Center 491
Feb/02	Sun	08:00PM-09:30PM	Lobdell (W20 2nd fl)

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions

Learn to dance in time signatures you've never heard of! 

By the end of the first hour, you'll be dancing in rhythms such as 7/8, 5/4, 15/8, and more!  Our repertoire includes circle dances, and a few couple dances, from Eastern Europe (Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Serbia, Hungary) and around the world (Quebec, Sweden, China, South Africa, Scotland, and the U.S.)

No partner needed and absolutely no experience necessary. Come by yourself or bring friends. Beginners are encouraged to arrive on time for introductory teaching in each session.

These dances continue as a regular series on Sunday nights, so you can keep coming once you get hooked!

Sponsor(s): Folk Dance Club
Contact: MIT Folk Dance Club, fdc@mit.edu

Kristi Beck, Ann B. Cowan

Jan/07	Tue	08:00PM-10:30PM	Lobdell (W20 2nd fl), Live Irish music by J Cannon, C O'Shea, E Marshall
	Jan/21	Tue	08:00PM-10:30PM	(CANCELED)

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: none

Banjos + group theory + twirling your partner = FUN!

Contra dancing is a high-energy American folk dance, using easy walking steps, set to exciting, LIVE folk music from New England, Ireland, and Quebec. Dance with a partner and other couples, then change partners. A caller teaches the sequence of moves and prompts you during the dance, making it accessible to all. No experience necessary!

Free snacks will be provided. Come alone or bring friends! Website lists Tuesdays later in semester.

Sponsor(s): Folk Dance Club
Contact: MIT Folk Dance Club, fdc@mit.edu

David Goldfinger, Valarie Rosen

Jan/22	Wed	07:30PM-09:00PM	Lobdell (W20 2nd fl)
Jan/29	Wed	07:30PM-09:00PM	Lobdell (W20 2nd fl)

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions

Dance to music ranging from last week's Israeli pop hit to folk songs from the days of the pioneers. Come learn the newest, hottest dances in Israeli folk dancing.

Lots of teaching! Lots of fun! Beginners are most welcome! No partner needed and absolutely no experience necessary. Come by yourself or bring friends.

Beginner teaching until 9 pm, mixed-level dancing 9-11 pm. These dances continue as a regular series on Wednesday nights, so you can keep coming once you get hooked!

Sponsor(s): Folk Dance Club, Hillel
Contact: MIT Folk Dance Club, fdc@mit.edu

Dennis Wilson

Jan/28

Tue

08:00PM-10:15PM

Lobdell

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up

Come to the Tech Squares Beginner's Night and get a taste of Modern Western Square Dancing. At Tech Squares, the square and round dancing club at MIT, we dance fast, we dance smart, and we have lots of fun! No previous dance experience or knowledge necessary.

Sponsor(s): Tech Squares
Contact: Dennis Wilson, 434-214-0531, squares@mit.edu

Jocelyn Lu

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: None

Want to learn some Asian dance this IAP? Come to the MIT Asian Dance Team's IAP Workshops! We are hosting two separate workshops on Saturday, January 11th and Saturday, January 25th, from 3-4PM in McCormick Dance Studio. Each workshop will feature a different facet of Asian dance; check back for details! No dance experience required; participants are welcome to come to either or both workshops. 

Participants should come dressed in comfortable clothes.

Please visit our website for more news and updates! If you have any questions, please contact us at adt-exec@mit.edu.

Sponsor(s): Asian Dance Team
Contact: Ruobing Lu, 281.832.5316, RBINGLU@MIT.EDU

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ADT Workshop Session I: History

Jan/11

Sat

03:00PM-04:00PM

McCormick DS

Come and learn History, a super swag KPop dance by the popular group EXO-M!

Sally Lin, Minerva Zhou

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ADT Workshop Session II: Modern Fan

Jan/25

Sat

03:00PM-04:00PM

McCormick DS

Come and learn a powerful modern Chinese fan dance!

Jocelyn Lu

Amy Gao, Allison Chang

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Fee: $3.00 for guests (FREE for MIT students with valid ID)

Beginner lessons for three different ballroom dances. No experience or partner necessary. Lesson 7:30-8:30pm, Optional practice 8:30-9pm. Open only to MIT students plus one guest per student (MIT students must show a valid student ID in order to participate and may each bring one guest for a $3 fee).

Sponsor(s): Ballroom Dance Club
Contact: Allison Chang, bdc-info@mit.edu

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Waltz

Jan/06

Mon

07:30PM-09:00PM

W20 Sala

Beginner lesson in American Waltz.

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Cha-Cha

Jan/13

Mon

07:30PM-09:00PM

W20 Sala

Beginner lesson in International Cha-Cha.

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Hustle

Jan/20

Mon

07:30PM-09:00PM

W20 Room 491

Beginner lesson in Hustle.

Larry Pratt, Senior Scientist, WHOI, Mariah Steele, Founder and Artistic Director of Quicksilver Dance

Jan/14	Tue	04:00PM-07:00PM	bldg 50-Dance Studio
Jan/16	Thu	04:00PM-07:00PM	bldg 50-Dance Studio

Enrollment: Students should register with Larry Pratt: lpratt@whoi.edu
Limited to 20 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions

This class will use dance and dance making to explore the creative process in art and science.  By “dance” we do not mean the pursuit of technical virtuosity, but rather refer to strategies for creating, improvising and communicating through movement, informed by the philosophies and histories of modern/contemporary dance.  No prior dance training is necessary and we welcome participation from all levels of experience.

The workshops will be led by Mariah Steele and Larry Pratt. Mariah Stelle is the founder and artistic director of Quicksilver Dance, a company that rehearses at MIT and has performed up and down the East Coast.  She currently teaches Modern Dance and Dance History at Endicott College in Beverly. Larry Pratt is a senior scientist with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He is a MIT alum and has been teaching at fluid physics at MIT in the Woods Hole/MIT Joint Program since 1989.

Sponsor(s): Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
Contact: Larry Pratt, lpratt@whoi.edu

Ornella Iuorio

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Fee: $40.00 for Instructor fee and admission to Live music event on 24th

The folk dance has always been a moment of meeting, an important social moment that allow women and men to get together and young people to enter in a community. The folk dance has been developing around the world, no matter the place, since the agriculture time and has seen facing men and women, women and women or men and men.

"The South Italy folk dance lab" will provide an overview of the folk dance developed around into the Mediterraneum area, questioning the similarities of characters and movements among Italian, Greek and South Spanish dance, and in particular will focus on the dance from South Italy.

Dances from different Italian regions, such as Campania, Puglia and Calabria will be studied. Tammurriate, Pizziche and tarantelle will be showed.

The class will conclude with a dance event with live folk music. 

Please contact the instructor to participate.

Ornella Iuorio is an Architect with a big passion for dance. She earned a diploma in Classical Ballet and Contemporary Dance in 2002 in Italy and since then she has been teaching ballet and Italian folk dance. Dr. Iuorio has performed as Tanztheater artist in several festivals joining different companies.

 

Sponsor(s): SpousesandPartners@mit
Contact: Ornella Iuorio, ornella.iuorio@unina.it

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Jan/13	Mon	05:00PM-07:00PM	4-153
Jan/15	Wed	05:00PM-07:00PM	4-153
Jan/17	Fri	05:00PM-07:00PM	4-153
Jan/22	Wed	05:00PM-07:00PM	4-153
Jan/24	Fri	05:00PM-07:00PM	4-153

Covered in the cost of the class is the $10 admission to the live music event on January 24th.  

Ornella Iuorio

Matthew Pinson, Stage director

Jan/31	Fri	08:30PM-09:30PM	20 chimneys, W20-306
Feb/01	Sat	08:00PM-09:00PM	20 chimneys, W20-306
Feb/02	Sun	02:00PM-03:00PM	20 chimneys, W20-306

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Repeating event, particpants welcome at any session

The MIT Gilbert and Sullivan Players present the world premiere of The Forest of Eoren, a one act operetta written by MIT graduate student Matthew Pinson.

The dryads of Eoren have kept their forest closed to all invaders for centuries, so the arrival of a band of lumberjacks causes quite a stir. Will the dryads lose their home? Or their hearts?

Sponsor(s): Gilbert and Sullivan Players
Contact: Matthew Pinson, 617 388-4895, MPINSON@MIT.EDU