The Tuesday Night Forum Series (TNFS) hosts lecture and performance events featuring a wide-range of guest speakers. Sponsored by the Department of Performance Studies in conjunction with other departments and programs at NYU, TNFS has hosted performers, academics, music industry professionals, dancers, etc.
TNFS events are held on Tuesdays, from 7-9 PM, in Studio Room 612, 721 Broadway, unless otherwise specified. Schedule is subject to change.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Arab Dance Traditions: A Roundtable Discussion with Demonstrations
April 22, 2008
7:00-9:00p.m.
An evening exploring Arab dance traditions, with primary emphasis on their performance in New York City presented by Kay Turner, who teaches in NYU’s Performance Studies Dept. and is also folklorist for the Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC). Turner just completed production of Brooklyn Maqam Arab Music Festival, a month-long celebration in March. For the Tuesday Night Series she and her festival co-producer Nicole Macotsis bring together scholars and practitioners of Arab dance including Deborah Kapchan on Moroccan gnawa, Mohamed Bechar, gnawa master, Najwa Adra on Yemen bara’a, Yasser Darwish describing and demonstrating Egyptian tannoura and saidi , Phyllis “Phaedra” Saretta on New York style Oriental dance of the 1970s and 80s, and Levantine debka traditions discussed and shown by Eman Hamad. The roundtable is presented in cooperation with Brooklyn Arts Council Folk Arts Program’s Folk Feet project, funded by Mertz-Gilmore Foundation, New York Community Trust, and Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
