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On Stage at MIT

Part 1: Music

Part 2: Theater

Part 3: Dance and Beyond

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Prof. Ellen Harris Head, Music and Theater Arts

Laura Harrington Playwright, lecturer in Theater Arts

Gus Solomons, jr, '61 Award-winning dancer, choreographer, and critic

Ryun Yu '93 Actor, graduate of London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts

Anand Sarwate '02 Winner of the 2001 Wiesner Student Art Award in music and theater

Jonathan Lee '02 Winner of the Emerson Music Scholarship and Fellowship

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Hyperinstrument opera, world drama, "Chance Dance" are alive on campus. Performing talent is abundant among the techno-savvy. The MIT Office for the Arts lists more than 50 music, theater, and dance groups. Half of MIT's undergraduates enroll in arts courses annually, many in the Music and Theater Arts section. Visiting artists join renowned faculty professionals to teach and engage the community in hundreds of classical and innovative music, theater, comedy, and dance performances.

"The arts provide a unique and critical addition to everything else MIT has to offer: the opportunity to rediscover your capacity to imagine and to express the deepest parts of your soul," says Alan Brody, Associate Provost of the Arts and Professor of Theater.

This month openDOOR explores performing arts on campus:

• Music: New opera syntheses from Tod Machover, Native American opera Coyote's Dinner, MIT Symphony Orchestra wows Europe, a capella wealth, music from around the globe.
• Theater: World theater reins, Shakespeare and Company and the Theater Offense teach, One Acts at Dramashop, community focus for Shakespeare Ensemble, The Crucible to Once Upon a Mattress on stage.
• Dance and Beyond: "Chance Dance," Afro-Brazilian work for body and voice debuts, Butoh dancer moves to Yes Yoko Ono, Plush Daddy Fly and Road Kill Buffet shake ribs, community dancers do square, modern, and ballroom.

This fall's 10th anniversary of MIT's Artist-in-Residence Program also brought to campus playwright-director Moisés Kaufman of the Tectonic Theater Project; New York-based musicians Bang on a Can All-Stars; and a Balinese puppet master I Wayan Wija.

Poll: If you could become a performer for a day, which would you choose to be? Ballet dancer Jazz saxophonist Opera singer Shakespearean actor/actress Rapper Classical violinist Soap opera actor/actress