News by Topic: Performing Arts
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April 28, 2018
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Imagine RIT highlights academic, artistic creativity
Tens of thousands of visitors came to RIT to see the latest in technology, the arts and design. This year the festival featured a record 438 exhibits. -
March 19, 2018
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Pep band grows as school spirit swells
When the RIT men’s hockey team played during Brick City Homecoming & Family Weekend last October, 140 people were in the pep band cheering the team on, marking the largest attendance the modern pep band has ever seen since forming in 2006 with fewer than 20 members. -
February 22, 2018
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Student Spotlight: Game designer and vibraphone player
Meet Justin Levine, a third-year game design and development major who plays the vibraphone in RIT’s Jazz Ensemble. -
February 20, 2018
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Concert Band debuts compositions of Italian immigrant on Thursday
Compositions of Samuel J. Porcelli, an Italian immigrant who lived in the Rochester area, will be performed for the first time by the RIT Concert Band on March 1. -
February 15, 2018
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RIT Press receives award for innovative journal
An online journal published by RIT Press and focused on scholarship exploring the music of Haydn has been recognized for innovation in journal publishing in the humanities and social sciences with the PROSE Award from the Association of American Publishers. -
January 24, 2018
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The Wonderful World of Oz comes to RIT/NTID
The performing arts department at NTID presents The Wonderful World of Oz, April 19-22, with encore performances June 28-July 1 in celebration of NTID's 50th-anniversary reunion celebration. -
January 5, 2018
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RIT to digitize rare videos about ASL poetry and literature
NTID will digitize and make publicly accessible more than 60 videotapes held in the RIT/NTID Deaf Studies Archive that document the ASL poetry and literature movement in Rochester from 1970 through 2011. -
October 24, 2017
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NTID presents adaptation of The Story of Beauty and the Beast
The Performing Arts program at NTID will present a dance and music adaptation of The Story of Beauty and the Beast, conceived by Thomas Warfield, director of NTID's dance department. -
September 19, 2017
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Music, art and more continues at Fringe Festival
More than 1,600 people attended events by RIT students, faculty, staff and Osher members during the first weekend of the KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival. Events continue Friday and Saturday.
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September 11, 2017
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RIT talent on display at Fringe Festival, Sept. 14-23
The KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival, a 10-day event with more than 500 eclectic performances, begins Thursday in downtown Rochester, and several RIT students, faculty, staff and Osher members are participating with performances and exhibits.
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July 12, 2017
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RIT showcases talents at Fringe Festival
RIT students, faculty, staff and Osher members are part of a 10-day lineup of more than 500 eclectic performances in this year’s KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival, Sept. 14-23 in Rochester. -
March 29, 2017
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A bright new day for NTID's Sunshine 2.0
RIT/NTID alumnus Fred Michael Beam finds connections where others may not. As the coordinator of RIT/NTID’s traveling performance troupe Sunshine 2.0, Beam connects performing arts and science, technology, engineering and math—or STEM—themes, for deaf, hard-of-hearing and hearing children and adults around the country.
