A flurry of dance, music, drama performances, art, photography and tech exhibitions showcasing the talent, diversity and hard work of NYU Shanghai students closed out the Fall 2018 semester this week. Here, students perform a traditional Uighur dance, titled Heart Flutter, accompanied by the well-known Uighur folk song, Lifting Your Veil. On December 9, students from Ballet, Contemporary, Chinese Minority & Folk, and Choreography & Performance classes, led by Professor Aly Rose and Professor Tao Siye, shared their carefully choreographed final works. This semester’s Contemporary Dance performance, titled The Umbrella, was inspired by Shanghai’s marriage market at People’s Square Park. It tells the story of a girl forced to make a tormenting decision about whether or not to advertise her desire to find a husband. On December 1, the Thespian Society presented All in the Past, a thrilling murder mystery intertwined with a dramatic love story set in 1930s Shanghai. [Photo by Kyle Maloney ‘21] Lauren Benedict ‘21 directed a cast of 14. In this scene, Victor, played by Ethan Slater ‘22, explains to his girlfriend Mei, played by Ouyang Yifan ‘22, the significance of a necklace to the murder mystery. [Photo by Kyle Maloney ‘21] Lawyer Roger, played by John Dopp ‘21 (right), proclaiming his innocence. [Photo by Kyle Maloney ‘21] On December 6, students, faculty, and staff gathered at Art in Translation — an exhibition of works by students in Professor Barbara Edelstein and Professor Jian-Jun Zhang’s Projects in Studio Art and Introduction to Studio Art classes. Students presented contemporary experimental works in calligraphy, ink, and multimedia using traditional Chinese and other art methodologies. Worn Impressions, by Maike Prewett ‘19, is a multimedia project and installation documenting her physical and emotional landscape through cyanotypes, rust dyeing, textile printing, film, and projection mapping. It explores the ephemerality of not only contemporary Shanghai, but also the coming-of-age experience while living here: the heightened emotional intensity of an empty apartment, the constant stream of arrivals and departures, the formative memories displaced by construction, by changing storefronts and by streets rewriting themselves. Through the installation Behind the Wave, Milica Gligic ‘18 tried to capture the gentle and relaxed motion of open water and contrasted it with the vast amount of trash that lies below the surface. “The trash is present but abstracted when looking through the painting. When one walks around and faces it, specific objects are recognized. This is where we admit our contribution to the problem of marine pollution,” Gligic said. Share: Facebook Twitter Weibo All Years202420232022202120202019201820172016201520142013 Apply Intramural Badminton TournamentMar 13 2015 Harold Koh and Jeffrey Lehman Talk Life and LawMar 13 2015 Woody Wu Speaks at NYU ShanghaiMar 12 2015 'Women in Academia' Panel DiscussionMar 10 2015 Festival of the ArtsMar 9 2015 Holi CelebrationMar 6 2015 Lantern Festival CelebrationMar 6 2015 NYU Shanghai Forum on RacismMar 6 2015 Vice Mayor of Shanghai Tiehui Weng Visits NYU ShanghaiMar 5 2015 Chinese New Year CalligraphyFeb 14 2015 B1 Cafeteria Revamps MenuFeb 10 2015 Catharine MacKinnon Speaks at NYU ShanghaiFeb 6 2015 Sports FairFeb 4 2015 Super Bowl XLIX Viewing PartyFeb 3 2015 Chinese New Year Paper-CuttingFeb 2 2015 Pagination « First First page ‹ Previous Previous page … 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 … Next › Next page Last » Last page