A flurry of dance, music, drama performances, art, photography and tech exhibitions showcasing the talent, diversity and hard work of NYU Shanghai students closed out the Fall 2018 semester this week. Here, students perform a traditional Uighur dance, titled Heart Flutter, accompanied by the well-known Uighur folk song, Lifting Your Veil. On December 9, students from Ballet, Contemporary, Chinese Minority & Folk, and Choreography & Performance classes, led by Professor Aly Rose and Professor Tao Siye, shared their carefully choreographed final works. This semester’s Contemporary Dance performance, titled The Umbrella, was inspired by Shanghai’s marriage market at People’s Square Park. It tells the story of a girl forced to make a tormenting decision about whether or not to advertise her desire to find a husband. On December 1, the Thespian Society presented All in the Past, a thrilling murder mystery intertwined with a dramatic love story set in 1930s Shanghai. [Photo by Kyle Maloney ‘21] Lauren Benedict ‘21 directed a cast of 14. In this scene, Victor, played by Ethan Slater ‘22, explains to his girlfriend Mei, played by Ouyang Yifan ‘22, the significance of a necklace to the murder mystery. [Photo by Kyle Maloney ‘21] Lawyer Roger, played by John Dopp ‘21 (right), proclaiming his innocence. [Photo by Kyle Maloney ‘21] On December 6, students, faculty, and staff gathered at Art in Translation — an exhibition of works by students in Professor Barbara Edelstein and Professor Jian-Jun Zhang’s Projects in Studio Art and Introduction to Studio Art classes. Students presented contemporary experimental works in calligraphy, ink, and multimedia using traditional Chinese and other art methodologies. Worn Impressions, by Maike Prewett ‘19, is a multimedia project and installation documenting her physical and emotional landscape through cyanotypes, rust dyeing, textile printing, film, and projection mapping. It explores the ephemerality of not only contemporary Shanghai, but also the coming-of-age experience while living here: the heightened emotional intensity of an empty apartment, the constant stream of arrivals and departures, the formative memories displaced by construction, by changing storefronts and by streets rewriting themselves. Through the installation Behind the Wave, Milica Gligic ‘18 tried to capture the gentle and relaxed motion of open water and contrasted it with the vast amount of trash that lies below the surface. “The trash is present but abstracted when looking through the painting. When one walks around and faces it, specific objects are recognized. This is where we admit our contribution to the problem of marine pollution,” Gligic said. Share: Facebook Twitter Weibo All Years202420232022202120202019201820172016201520142013 Apply Lighting up the Pearl May 23 2018 Senior Awards 2018May 22 2018 NYU Congratulates the Class of 2018!May 17 2018 Women's Soccer Champions!May 11 2018 NYU Shanghai in NYC May 4 2018 FEST Music FestivalApr 3 2018 NYU Shanghai's Top Five on InstagramDec 20 2017 IMA End of Semester Show Fall 2017Dec 18 2017 Molecular Biology Lab Poster SymposiumDec 15 2017 UNLIKE ME --- Fall Dance ConcertDec 15 2017 End of Year Music Concert Dec 13 2017 The Map as ArtDec 11 2017 Ally Week: Show Your True GlowNov 28 2017 Day of ServiceNov 28 2017 Women's soccer team in the Shanghainese Collegiate LeagueNov 28 2017 Pagination « First First page ‹ Previous Previous page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 … Next › Next page Last » Last page