Arts & Culture

TROY offers public opportunity to hear piano duet performance

Submitted by JoBeth Davis, Community Web Producer

Monday, August 27th, 2012, 4:37pm

TROY offers public opportunity to hear piano duet performance

TROY -- A Troy University piano lecturer and a guest artist from Taiwan will provide a piano duet recited Thursday in the Hawkins-Adams-Long Hall of Honor.

Dr. Hui-Ting Yang, a lecturer in the John M. Long School of Music, will pair with Dr. Kuo-Liang Li at 7:30 p.m. in the recital that is free and open to the public to attend.

The program includes “Sonata” by Francis Poulenc; “Sonatina” by Gyorgy Ligeti; “Peer Gyny” suite No. 1 by Edvard Grieg; "Souvenirs," a ballet suite, by American composer Samuel Barber, and “Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2” by Liszt.

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Submissions sought for "The MLK Project"

Submitted by Donna Wallace-King, Community Web Producer

Friday, August 24th, 2012, 12:35pm

Submissions sought for "The MLK Project"

Red Mountain Theatre Company (Birmingham, AL) and its Executive Director Keith Cromwell, in collaboration with Lee Sentell (Alabama Tourism Director) and Dr. Lawrence J. Pijeaux (President and CEO of Birmingham Civil Rights Institute) are hosting a national search for a one-act written piece to be produced in honor of the 50th Anniversary commemoration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s historic “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.”

The one-act theatrical presentation (play, musical or spoken word) will become the second act of a fully-realized theatrical event that features a first-act dramatic reading of the “Letter to Martin Luther King” by a group of clergymen and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” written during his incarceration in 1963.

Submissions are due no later than September 1, 2012, and the winner will be announced on October 15, 2012.

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TROY dancers get ‘iLumnated’

Submitted by JoBeth Davis, Community Web Producer

Tuesday, July 24th, 2012, 4:36pm

TROY – Troy University’s Department of Theatre and Dance Summer Intensive focused its light on those dancing in the dark Tuesday.

The Troy Dance Repertory Ensemble’s annual training exercise is a week-long requirement for members where they learn new choreography, rehearse and train in various dance styles such as ballet, contemporary, pilates, musical theater, contemporary jazz, stretch-and-turn, hip hop and conditioning.

Tuesday’s work, however, focused on dance forms with which most TDRE dancers aren’t too familiar. The session was led by members of “i-Luminate,” the dance-in-the-dark show that placed third on last summer’s television competition series “America’s Got Talent.”

The group is performing through Aug. 12 at Six Flags Over Georgia near Atlanta and volunteered its day off to lead a workshop for the dance ensemble. TROY alumna and former TDRE dancer Adrienne Hicks is performing with the group at Six Flags.

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Submissions sought for "The MLK Project"

Submitted by Donna Wallace-King, Community Web Producer

Monday, July 16th, 2012, 12:35pm

Submissions are due no later than September 1, 2012, and the winner will be announced on October 15, 2012.

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Submissions sought for "The MLK Project"

Submitted by Donna Wallace-King, Community Web Producer

Friday, June 15th, 2012, 12:35pm

Submissions are due no later than September 1, 2012, and the winner will be announced on October 15, 2012.

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Charlotta Janssen exhibit "Threads of a Story" featured at Rosa Parks Museum

Submitted by Donna Wallace-King, Community Web Producer

Thursday, May 24th, 2012, 11:41am

Charlotta Janssen exhibit "Threads of a Story" featured at Rosa Parks Museum

Artist Charlotta Janssen, whose paintings pay tribute to the men and women who took part in the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Freedom Rides, will be featured in an exhibit at Troy University’s Rosa Parks Museum starting April 1st.

“Threads of a Story: History Inspiring Art” will be on display in the museum’s exhibit hall through May 28. The exhibit features paintings that recreate the mug shots of people arrested for their participation in the Bus Boycott and Freedom Rides.

Using oil, acrylics, rust and collage, Janssen re-imagines these arrest mug shots as a tribute to those who took part in the civil rights movement. “Threads of a Story” has been displayed at exhibits in New York and at the Nashville Public Library.

Janssen was born in Maine to German parents living in the U.S. under the Marshall plan. In 1973 the family moved to Iran, and later fled during the 1979 revolution.

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