Stanford theater directors, computer scientists and electrical engineers created a new tool to help performers who are located in different spaces come together in online performances.
A strong collaboration motivated by the desire to address critical issues of the day compels Stanford’s professional theater company to mount its 21st summer festival.
Stanford’s iconic amphitheater reopens after extensive renovations and upgrades that make it one of the premiere music venues in the Bay Area and a place for university pomp and circumstance.
Students, faculty and staff collaborate on an exhibition and a grand opening that Leonardo would have appreciated. University photographer Linda A. Cicero captured some of the highlights of the opening reception.
The stellar line-up includes pianist Lang Lang, banjo and bluegrass virtuoso Rhiannon Giddens, acclaimed violinist Joshua Bell, Afro-Cuban jazz exponent Chucho Valdés and multimedia artist Laurie Anderson.
In Hecuba/Helen, Stanford Repertory Theater brings together two iconic heroines for the first time. Performances will be held at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, and at 2 p.m. on Sunday, through Aug. 19.
In anticipation of the Stanford Symphony Orchestra’s performance of Concerto for Violin and Orchestra: Eleven Eleven, students had the rare opportunity to work closely with its prominent composer, Danny Elfman.
Under the guest direction of Tony Award-winner Dominique Serrand, Stanford cast and crew explore age-old themes from a 17th-century Spanish play while incorporating modern questions of gender and ambiguity.
Stanford creates opportunities for meaningful engagement with the arts for students and the university community through an extensive guest artists program.
Stanford creates opportunities for meaningful engagement with the arts for students and the university community by inviting over 100 artists each year to campus to create, perform and discuss their work.
For their final project, Dance Improv Strategies Lab students chose any area in or around the Anderson Collection at Stanford University and created a performance to work in tandem with the modern art museum.
Alex Ketley's film documents his research about the role dance plays in rural life and challenges the "urban/rural prejudice" commonly found in urban environments.
Performances of the multimedia work The Colorado on April 21 and 22 conclude Stanford Live's Imagining the West series, which includes a conversation with National Geographic photographer Pete McBride.
A new exhibition at the Anderson Collection at Stanford University – Nick Cave – challenges the boundaries between multiple artistic and creative disciplines.
Four Stanford dance faculty members created four new dance works, showing how dance interacts and engages with space in different ways. The performances are slated for May 26-27 in Memorial Auditorium.
Through interviews coupled with archival research, Stanford’s Jindong Cai researched the history of Beethoven’s popularity in China in hopes of creating cultural connections between China and the West.
Vanessa Chang's research shows how interactions with objects are evolving amid technological change, revealing new gestures that are becoming a way of life in the contemporary world.
Stanford Classics in Theater has re-translated Aristophanes' nearly 2,500-year-old comedy The Wasps into a modern-day tale of American politics gone haywire.
