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Creative writing:

#0496 (John Jameson)

Students in Princeton's Atelier program, which brings guest artists to
campus to collaborate with students and faculty, directed and performed
"The Antient Concert," an original chamber opera written by Pulitzer
Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon and composer Daron Hagen. The
performance took place April 17, 2005, in the Berlind Theatre. Muldoon,
the Howard G.B. Clark '21 University Professor in the Humanities, is
co-director of the Atelier program and one of the world's most
celebrated poets. Hagen, his collaborator on "The Antient Concert," is a
concert pianist and composer whose works have been performed by
orchestras, opera companies and chamber ensembles including the New York
Philharmonic, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra and
American Composers Orchestra.

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Pas d'Acier:

#1180 and #0823 (Denise Applewhite)

"Le Pas d'Acier" ("The Steel Step"), one of the great lost ballets of
the 20th century, was performed April 7-9, 2005, at the Berlind Theatre.
Scholars from Princeton and other institutions painstakingly re-created
the choreography, costumes and elaborate mechanical set of the work by
legendary Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev. The production, which
featured 30 dancers and 60 musicians, was a cooperative venture of
students, faculty and staff from the Department of Music, Humanities
Council and Program in Theater and Dance.

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Thesis productions:

#2496: (John Jameson)

Theatre Intime presented "Wonderland Salvage," an original play written
and directed by junior J.D.M. Williams, in December 2005 in the
Hamilton-Murray Theater. Williams, a comparative literature major also
pursuing certificates in creative writing and African studies, has
produced several plays at theaters in Princeton and Andover, Mass. He
currently is making a documentary film about his experiences this past
summer in Kenya working on Swahili-language street theater for AIDS
education. "Wonderland Salvage" takes place during the Christmas holiday
after Sept. 11, 2001, in a pawn shop and salvage outfit in Revere, Mass.

#5562 (John Jameson)

Princeton students presented a fresh take on a classic Greek tragedy,
Euripides' "Hippolytos," Jan. 12-15, 2006, in the Matthews Acting Studio
at 185 Nassau St. Senior Zachary Woolfe directed a cast of students who
play multiple parts, as actors did in the original production of
"Hippolytos." The play is Woolfe's senior thesis production for the
Program in Theater and Dance. It is based on a new translation by
sophomore Lucas Barron, who worked with Woolfe and the actors over the
summer to craft a more contemporary version of the original play.

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Visual arts #2319 and #9244 (John Jameson)

Whether students are interested in a program of study leading to a
special major in studio arts or a certificate program -- or desire to
take just one or two courses -- Princeton's Program in Visual Arts
provides them with an atmosphere of serious intellectual inquiry and
excellent facilities. The program has a faculty of working artists of
established reputation and outstanding teaching ability who offer studio
courses in ceramics, digital photography, drawing, painting,
photography, printmaking, sculpture and video. They give seminars and
lectures in contemporary artistic practice and the history and theory of
film. The program's home is at 185 Nassau St., a lively center of
artistic life on campus that also houses the programs in theater and
dance and creative writing as well as the Fund for Irish Studies.

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