Meanings of Shakespeare and Asia Today

In this illustrated presentation, Professor Huang explores the unique challenges and rewards of touring Shakespeare productions, drawing on several cases of Asian adaptations at the World Shakespeare Festival at the London Globe during the London Olympics in summer 2012.

Hasan Elahi, Storyteller

Hasan Elahi

HASAN ELAHI, Media Artist, UMD Professor of Digital Media

I work in a field where I don’t really know what field I work in. And I’m okay with that. I’m fascinated by work that challenges my ideas and my preconceived notions, things that really take me out of a comfort zone. I’m okay with just being an artist. It allows me to jump from place to place to place to place to place, or from content to content, without having to categorize what kind of response people should have to what it is that I do.

Hearing Kronos Quartet really made me rethink what music is.

David C. Driskell, Storyteller

David C. Driskell

DAVID C. DRISKELL, Artist and Art Historian

It was 1964 and, as a young professor at Howard University in the Department of Art, I had a grant to travel to Europe. It was my first visit to Europe; I started out in Greece. And I wanted to recount some of my classical education, specifically Greek theater, so I went to the amphitheater at the base of the Acropolis to see a performance of The Birds by Aristophanes.

…the arts are universal. 
They move beyond barriers…

Faedra Carpenter, Storyteller

Faedra Carpenter

FAEDRA CARPENTER, Dramaturg, UMD Assistant Professor, UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

In 1995 my dear friend and mentor took me to see the Off-Broadway production of Bring in ’da Noise, Bring in ’da Funk. It was early in my career as a professional dramaturg and my mentor thought this much-touted piece would help me gain a greater understanding of the possibilities of devised theatre.

This total merging of the sensory and the cerebral helped me realize, fully, the power of performance…

Bill Dorland, Storyteller

Bill Dorland

BILL DORLAND, UMD Professor of Physics, Honors College Director

I grew up in rural Arkansas trailer parks. Our house had wheels and we used them! By the time I was eight, we had lived in 16 different towns and probably because of this nomadic lifestyle, I had no connection to the performing arts.

I had never seen modern dance or heard music… Chills ran up and down my spine!

Sharon Mansur, Storyteller

Sharon Mansur

SHARON MANSUR, Dance Artist, UMD Assistant Professor, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

This is the moment when I knew I wanted to dance for the rest of my life: My high school boyfriend’s mother, Susan Dowling, was the executive producer for dance programming at public television station WGBH in Boston.

I wanted to … needed to … HAD to experience that intimate and compelling mingling of art and life.

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