Congratulations to Cornish Design student Angeline Oey, winner of the Chinatown Film Festival 2007 Logo Contest. The Chinatown Film Festival (CFF), based in New York, launched an international contest in 2007 to select an official logo for the festival. Angeline's design was selected out of over 600 logos that were submitted from around the world. In addition to having her design featured as the official logo of the CFF, Angeline will also be awarded a $3000 scholarship.
The First Annual Chinatown Film Festival will be held in New York City's Chinatown, in October 2008. Films will be screened in the heart of the city's Chinatown, in Columbus Park. Over two hundred and fifty submissions are expected to originate from the five chosen Asian locations: Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia and Singapore. Only 25 films will be chosen, 5 in each of the categories of the festival. The festival will run for 5 days, and over 10,000 patrons are expected to be in attendance.
April 25, 8pm
April 26, 2pm & 8pm
Broadway Performance Hall
1625 Broadway
Tickets: $10 general, $5 students, alumni, and seniors.
Ticket purchase information is available here.
Cornish Dance Theater, the performing ensemble of the Dance Department at Cornish, is pleased to present their Spring 2008 Concert showcasing choreography by guest and faculty choreographers. This semester's performance will include five dances that showcase the work of guest choreographers Alex Little and Michael Rioux, in addition to Cornish faculty members Courtney Harris, Pat Hon and Wade Madsen.
Pat Hon's Five Etudes is a ballet on pointe set to music by Alexander Scriabin and Karol Szymanowski. First premiered in 1985, Etudes is a study of speed and romantic lines and features pas de deux and ensemble sections. Inspired by 60s and 70s funk, Wade Madsen's What is Hip? invites the audience to experience a dance party with fun music by Nina Simone, Sharon Jones, and Laura Nyro. Michael Rioux's piece - alone, in a room, together - is a modern dance piece set to original music by Mikhail Kaschock. Rioux's choreographic process is largely founded in collaboration and improvisation techniques. Courtney Harris' dance is about the life philosophies of Canadian pianist Glenn Gould. Harris uses four quotes by Gould to inspire this contemporary ballet. Set sometime between the 1940s and 1960s, Alex Little's jazz dance, with music by Charles Mingus, Duke Ellington, Paris Combo and Sonny Criss, follows a group of women through dating rituals at a night club as they spend an evening out on the town. The Cornish Dance Theater Spring 2008 Concert will take place at the Broadway Performance Hall on April 25 & 26.
Please note: the Saturday, April 26 matinee performance will be followed by an informal question and answer period.
