For the second consecutive year, the FEU is delighted to welcome two Contra Danse events. When English/French/Irish/Scottish set dancing crossed the Atlantic to New England, it evolved into a new style called contra dancing. Recently, this style has evolved further, picking up speedand taking elements from swing...
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The Fondation des Etats-Unis and the resident musicians and Harriet Hale Wolley scholars, have the pleasure to welcome two musicians from the Maison des étudiants suédois : Natalia Paunic (piano), Oscar Lindström (piano). Program: Quattro Pezzi - Antonio Fraioli Jenny Maclay, clarinette "Si mes vers avaient des ailes" - Reynaldo...
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Photography exhibition by Andrew Vox Operable Routines 125 is about the imbalance between distortion and control. The process of creating a photograph is built on chemical reactions. With chemistry and time, one could control and manipulate every aspect of an image. Alternately, the brain functions and...
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The Fondation des Etats-Unis welcomes you to a concert given by FEU resident musicians and Harriet Hale Woolley scholars. Program: François Rossé: Ximix Sean Xue and Alyssa Hoffert, saxophone Luciano Berio: Sequenza VIIb Alyssa Hoffert, saxophone Edward Yadzinski: Sirène Jenny Maclay, clarinette William Sharpe: Preludes VI and VII William Sharpe, piano Bellini: Oh Quante Volte...
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The Fondation des Etats-Unis is delighted to welcome you for a piano recital, performed by John Kamfonas, who is a Harriet Hale Woolley Scholar of the FEU. John Kamfonas is a pianist who has given performances around the world, from Italy to India, Beijing to New York, which have...
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The Sawmill Sessions offer a weekend of workshops on April 9 and 10 at the Fondation des Etats-Unis with instruments: Banjo (Cyril Petit), Chant (Claire Nivard), Dobro (Paolo Conti), Fiddle (Marius Pibarot), Guitar (Jimmy Josse) and Harmonica (David Chalumeau). The opportunity to discover or perfect your...
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The interpretation of Form: From Painting throught Dance to Photography This exhibition presents a collaboration between two American artists: painter Taylor Smith, and dancer/photographer Marva Dixon. The series consists of a sequence of events, beginning with a set of “wearable paintings” made by Taylor for Marva using...
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CHOPIN : A LETTER THROUGH THE PARISIAN YEARS is a reflexion on the absolute need to create in order to give meaning to one's life, an idea that Chopin so well illustrates. Each time a new piece is given birth to, it leaves the creator and inhabits...
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29The Fondation des Etats-Unis presents an Artist's Talk by Nicole Geary: Prints, Drawings, Sculpture In one of modern science’s landmark events, the Scottish geologist James Hutton interpreted the rocky formation at Scotland’s Siccar Point comprised of Old Red Sandstone accreted laterally atop vertical beds of Silurian greywacke...
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