Performing Arts Series

Friday, January 30 and Saturday, January 31, 7:30 p.m. 
Edwin Barrett Theatre, limited seating, reservations suggested.
Winner of 2015 Henry Award for Outstanding New Play, The Rembrandt Room is a dark comedy featuring one woman standing next to one masterpiece for who knows how long. Don’t miss this mash-up of historical fact, Greek myth, and Buntport fiction.

Sunday, February 1, 3 p.m.
Staged reading, Edwin Barrett Theatre
A comedy about a very not non-atypical situation.

Eyes Up, Mouth Agape “celebrates” the 20 year anniversary of a strange pop culture event and is told through the lens of a fictional documentarian interviewing the key players and an innocent bystander, all of whom are large inanimate objects.  This play is created in collaboration with Emily K. Harrison and square product theatre.

Free admission.

Friday, February 6, 7:30 p.m.
Roomful of Teeth is a Grammy-winning vocal band dedicated to re-imagining the expressive potential of the human voice. By engaging collaboratively with artists, thinkers, and community leaders from around the world, the group seeks to uplift and amplify voices old and new while creating and performing meaningful and adventurous music.

Sunday, February 8, 2 pm

The 1925 silent film Sherlock Jr. starring Buster Keaton with the Society for New Music performing new film score by Nicolas Scherzinger conducted by Heather Buchman. Free Admission.

Sunday, February 15, 3 p.m.
The Syracuse Orchestra returns to Hamilton College with Jiebing Chen, erhu, performing The Butterfly Lovers Concerto, originally written for violin. The program finishes with Scheherazade by Rimsky-Korsakov.

Saturday, February 28, 7:30 p.m.

Native Intelligence/Innate Intelligence incorporates dance, Hawaiian chant & percussion, original compositions for cello, and multimedia scenic design to examine ancestry, home, and belonging. Collaborators explored the origins of instinct, nature vs. nurture, which aspects of our identities are shaped by our environment, and how our ancestry impacts our personalities and identities.

With live music by electric cellist Wytold and Hawaiian chanter/percussionist Patrick Makuakane, the work creates a comprehensive picture of the multiplicity of identities we all navigate, and invite audiences to reflect on their perception of Native people, their own identities, and instinct.

Saturday, March 7, 7:30 pm 

Total Response brings together sound and Simran—a focused practice of the mind rooted in contemporary Sikh philosophy—to upend traditional notions of performer and audience. Embracing Harmolodics—the free interplay of harmony, melody, and rhythm—a collective of six multi-instrumentalists and a Simran practitioner will foster the co-creation of music and sound with concert attendees. Together, we will build a resonant sonic structure that celebrates both individual expression and collective presence. By way of this shared experience, Total Response invites us to reawaken the mind’s resilience through pathways of compassion. Artists include Carlos Niño (also the concert’s music director), Surya Botofasina, Austin Williamson, and Michael Alvidrez, with Special Guests Ishmael Butler and Angel Bat Dawid, and “Koi” guiding and voicing Simran.

A recording of the concert will become the heartbeat of a sound installation in the forthcoming Wellin Museum exhibition Nirbhai (nep) Singh Sidhu and without SHAPE without FORM: Awakened by the Unstruck, opening Fall 2027.

Funding for this program has been provided by the Daniel W. Dietrich ’64 Arts Museum Programming Fund, Wellin Museum of Art; the Performing Arts Series at Wellin Hall Schambach Center; the Pellman Fund for the Arts; and the Fillius Jazz Archive.

Total Response is co-organized by the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Nep Sidhu, without SHAPE without FORM, and the Performing Arts Series at Hamilton College.

Admission is free, but tickets are required. Tickets are available in advance or at the door.  

Friday, April 3, 7:30 p.m.
andPlay is committed to expanding the existing violin/viola duo repertoire by commissioning new works and actively collaborating with living artists. The New York City-based duo of Maya Bennardo, violin, and Hannah Levinson, viola, first played to an eager crowd on Fire Island in the summer of 2012 and has since commissioned over forty-five works.

Friday, April 10, 7:30 p.m.

The Grammy Award winning “Queen of Bluegrass” and Grand Ole Opry member Rhonda Vincent is a firecracker of talent, powering one of the hottest bands in any genre of music today.