Category: Behind the Scenes

On Friday, April 1, the exhibitions Crossings: Harriet Bart and Yu-Wen Wu and Passages: Walking in Contemporary Art opened at the Perlman Teaching Museum as part of the WALK! festival happening on- and off-campus this term.

Over Spring break, a team of artists led by director/video artist Mark deChiazza and composer Steve Mackey used the Weitz Center Theater as a laboratory for the creation of their multi-disciplinary new performance piece, ORPHEUS UNSUNG.  The artists share a work in progress showing of the work on Monday, March 28th at 7:30 p.m. at the Weitz.

On a Friday afternoon, a Carleton student joins Ayomi Yoshida and her assistants in tedious task of assembling over 100,000 cherry blossom cut-outs into a larger collage that will be a part of the upcoming installation show.

Chinese pipa player Gao Hong and klezmer violiinist Steven Greenman were unexpectedly asked to improvise together at a folk music festival. That sparked a musical collaboration that will be showcased this Friday, January 15 in the Carleton Concert Hall.

Japanese print and installation artist Ayomi Yoshida has begun the installation of her new exhibition, which opens January 22nd in the Perlman Teaching Museum.

This week at the Weitz, dance/theatre artists Sossy Mechanics and the award-winning choral ensemble Vocalessence offer glimpses into the process of artistic creation.

On Friday, May 29, two of Carleton’s student-run a cappella groups will hold their spring showcase in The Cave. The Accidentals, which is an all-female group, will be teaming up with Intertwining Melodies, one of Carleton’s co-ed groups, to present “Accidental Melodies”. The performance will begin at 8:00PM. Read this article for an interview with senior Intertwining Melodies member Jill Poskanzer ’15.

Before graduation, all students at Carleton are required to complete a Comprehensive Project, otherwise known as COMPS. As part of their COMPS projects, theater majors have the unique opportunity to direct and act in their own presentations of famous plays. An interview with Josh Davids ’15 details the hard work that senior theater majors put into their final projects. Josh will be performing An Iliad, a theatrical rendition of the Greek classic.

Nora Katz ’16 will be presenting a self-written musical play for her junior music recital on March 9–10 in the Weitz Center Theater. For the past two years, Katz has been working with her peers and mentors to prepare “Skylarks: The Jukebox Recital.” If you would like to learn more about what goes into writing and producing a play at Carleton, follow this article to read Nora’s first hand account of the play writing process.

The Knightingales, or the Gales for short, were the first all-female a cappella group to grace Carleton campus and have been a strong musical presence on campus for over three decades. On Saturday, March 7th, the Gales will be performing in the Cave. The performance starts at 10:30pm. To learn more about the Gales and what they do, follow this article to read an interview with Gracie McNeely ’16, one of the musical arrangers for the group.