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May 2021
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Dear Denisonian,Despite COVID-19, the arts are alive and well at Denison!While the pandemic created restrictions, it also helped spark innovations, some of which may be here to stay. For example, this past semester, the Bluegrass Ensemble launched an old-time American Roots Radio Hour podcast, and the Denison University Wind Ensemble recorded an LP, collaborating with art students on the cover design. The Cinema Department bought each student their own camera equipment so they could go on safely making films, culminating in the 45th annual Film Festival. The Theatre Department pivoted to video, creating the fully-staged filmed production of “The Revolutionists,” performed live for the camera in Sharon Martin Hall. Dozens of amazing artists — including ensembles-in-residence, ETHEL, and Third Coast Percussion — Zoomed into classes from around the country and the world.With the return of warmer weather in the spring, Singer’s Theatre Workshop mounted their second musical theatre show, “Rocks the Stadium” … on Deeds Field. Music lessons resumed beneath open-sided tents. The Dance Department performed “Moving Resiliency” for a limited in-person audience in Sharon Martin Hall. The Studio Art Senior Exhibition, “Flamin’ Estrogen: Reign of Fire,” returned to the Denison Museum. Overall, more than 50 performances — including Wind Ensemble, Orchestra, Jazz Ensemble, and Bluegrass Ensemble concerts, the Tiny Tutti Original Works Festival, a student composers concert (a video premiere), student and faculty recitals, and the third annual Theatre Department Fringe Festival — were held in the Michael D. Eisner Center for the Performing Arts, with small, socially distanced audiences wearing masks and the incomparable energy of a live audience palpable in the air.In short, despite the stress and hardships of this past year, the connections forged by art have brought us together in new, inspiring, and revitalizing ways. You can view several performances on the Arts@Denison YouTube Channel. To stay up to date, sign up to receive the Arts@Denison newsletter!
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Bluegrass and Wind EnsemblesThe Bluegrass ensemble hosted an old-time-style American Roots Radio Hour podcast, while the Denison wind ensemble created an original LP with student artwork on the album cover.
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45th annual Film FestivalThe Cinema department provided each major with their own camera equipment so they could continue safely making films. They showcased their work at the 45th annual Film Festival.
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Department of Theatre presents ‘The Revolutionists’
Following the success of the fall’s outdoor production, “So Full I Could Burst,” and made-for-video “Here Us,” the Theatre Department mounted a full-scale filmed stage production of “The Revolutionists,” performed for the camera in Sharon Martin Hall.
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Singer’s Theatre Workshop ‘Rocks the Stadium’The Singer’s Theatre Workshop returned to Deeds Field with “Rocks the Stadium,” a review of Broadway rock music performed in a safe, outdoor space.
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Moving Resiliency, Live PerformancesThe dance department screened the “Screendance Festival” performance of dances created for video in fall 2020, followed by live performances, “Moving Resiliency,” for an in-person audience in Sharon Martin Hall.
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Tiny Tutti Original Works FestivalThe Tiny Tutti Original Works Festival showcased collaborations between student composers and student and faculty musicians, as well as a live performance by violin professor Hanna Hurwitz set against a backdrop of handcrafted linoleum and woodcut prints created by Ron Abram, Professor of Studio Art.
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Third Annual Fringe FestivalThe third annual theatre department Fringe Festival featured three original performances created, directed, and acted in by Denison students. The shows were staged in the Hylbert Family Studio. They were presented to a limited audience of students, faculty, and staff members following mask and social distancing guidelines.
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Concerts and RecitalsThe bluegrass and jazz ensembles, the Denison orchestra, student composers, faculty pianist Sun Min Kim, and our senior and junior music performance majors gave concerts and recitals for limited in-person audiences in the Eisner Center’s Sharon Martin and Burke Halls.
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Public Art Project comes to DenisonThe Denison University Studio Art department, in partnership with the Greater Columbus Arts Council and Denison’s inaugural Columbus Creative in Residence, Marshall Shorts, brought a public art project featuring murals by Columbus artists featuring their responses to and desires for racial justice.
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Thank you to our ensembles-in-residence, ETHEL, and Third Coast Percussion, as well as a wide range of guest artists, who enriched the work of classes across the curriculum, joining via Zoom.
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