Music
RESISTENCIA: HIP HOP IN COLOMBIASpanish Language Music Latino Studies Dance Children & Young Adult
An unusual look at the current political and economic crisis in Colombia—including a decades-long civil war, a rampant drug trade, kidnapping for ransom, and financial scandal at the highest levels of the government—through the eyes of young Colombians, in particular the country’s finest rap musicians, DJs and breakdancers
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THE RISE AND FALL OF BLACK VELVET FLAGAmerican Studies Music Performing Arts
Between 1840 and 1870, over 250,000 Americans traveled west by covered wagon on the Oregon Trail. Some claimed land in Oregon; others headed for California gold country. Many went enthusiastically. Others reluctantly left homes, family and friends to face hardship and an uncertain future. Actress Amy Warner vividly presents the experiences and feelings of these pioneers in her one-woman performance based on entries from diaries, letters and memoirs of pioneer women and a young girl who trekked the Oregon Trail.
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PANOPTICONArchitecture Criminal & Law Music
In this offbeat mockumentary, Thompson Merrimack, Chairman of WorldWide Monitor, hosts a performance of the Surveillance Chamber Music Society in a celebration of Jeremy Bentham, whose architectural design of the Panopticon revolutionized systems of penal surveillance in the eighteenth century.
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THE SOUL OF THE ISLANDSLatino Studies Music Sociology Spanish Language
This poetic docu-drama about the pride and anguish of Haiti features the renowned Haitian singer Toto Bissainthe who recounts in song a fable that recreates Haiti's past and reveals its continuing tragedy.
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GHOSTMAKERS
Features conversations with Oscar and Grammy Award winning composer John Corigliano and Tony and Obie Award winning playwright and librettist William Hoffman, who discuss the challenges they faced in creating their first opera, The Ghosts of Versailles.
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THE BALLAD OF BERING STRAITMusic Russia Directed by Women
This cinéma-vérité documentary, shot in high definition video, follows seven Russian teenagers who came to America to become country music stars.
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SING! HEALING, COMMUNITY, CELEBRATION
This documentary profiles three women who are reviving a musical legacy, a birthright, which so many of have lost the simple act of singing.
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PUPPETRY: WORLDS OF IMAGINATIONPerforming Arts Music Dance Art History
This documentary surveys the revolutionary new developments in American puppet theater, profiling many of puppetry’s most imaginative contemporary artists.
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INDIANA ARIAPerforming Arts Education Music Directed by Women
Offers a behind-the-scenes glimpse into one of the country's top opera schools, Indiana University's School of Music, where young singers prepare for one of the world's riskiest careers.
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BALD SOPRANO, THE
The 1950 debut of Eugene Ionesco's The Bald Soprano, a "mixture of social satire, Alice in Wonderland-type logic, verbal delirium and surrealist farce," stirred a sensation in Paris. For the fiftieth anniversary of the Theater of the Absurd's founding work, the piece has been adapted by The Center for Contemporary
Opera into a delightful comic opera in English.
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I AM JUANA BACALLAOSpanish Language Latin-American Studies Music Directed by Women
A profile of the colorful singer who uses the street Spanish of Cuba to sing, swagger and
slang her way into the hearts of her audience.
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SONGOLOLO: VOICES OF CHANGESociology Music Literature Dance Cultural Studies African Studies Directed by Women
Examines the role of black resistance to apartheid in South
Africa through a look at two of the nation's leading cultural
activists and popular performers--poet Mzwakhe Mbuli and writer/
performer Gcina Mhlophe.
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