A Few Scenes From Fall 2024: End-of-Semester Shows

Fall 2024 ended on a high note with a celebration of creativity and achievement! Across campus, students shared their talent and hard work through dynamic performances, exhibitions, and interactive projects, bringing the arts to life and demonstrating the unique spirit of our community. Pictured: the Dances of Northern China class performed a Chinese Korean double-hand fan dance titled “Wings of the Soul,” at the Fall Dance Concert, Sunday December 8.

Contemporary Dance class performing “Our bones that are here await yours” taught and choreographed by Assistant Arts Professor of Dance Zhao Yuting.

Dances of Northern China class performing a Mongolian dance titled “Windchaser” taught and choreographed by Associate Arts Professor of Dance Tao Siye.

“It is a privilege to observe their journey from the beginning of the semester to the day they shine on stage,” said Zhao. “Seeing them pushing beyond what they used to think is possible and building the connection with themselves and the outside world is truly rewarding.” Pictured: Choreography & Performance class performing “Echoes of Us.”

“I am very proud of my students,” said Tao. “Their effort, talent, and passion lit up the stage last Sunday, captivating our community. To me, they are a lot more than my students, they are dancers.” Pictured: Ballet class performing “Waltz of the Flowers” from Nutcracker.

In Printmaking in an Expanded Field, taught by Associate Arts Professor of Visual Arts Monika Lin, students contemplated how socially constructed ideas about race, ethnicity, gender, economics, and positionality are embedded in how they self-identify and created multi-layer wood block prints in response to related prompts.

“Very well I contradict myself” by Montana Lee, 2024

“Cabbage” by Xu Ran, 2024

In “Dancefloor,” Anastasia Thun-Hohenstein explores identity, connection, and liberation as expressed through the dancefloor as a “sacred space where individuality and community simultaneously thrive.”

Students taking Photography I taught by Clinical Assistant Professor of Visual Arts Ishraki Kazi, showed their works in the end-of-semester exhibition titled Sight Specific. Foreground book: “Unsought” by Ethan Allaway ’27. Background left: “Inkscape Metropolis” by Maple Ding ’25. Background Middle: “Read” by Richard Li ’25. Background Left: “Minds” by Shizi Chen ’26

Left: “Harvey Dent” by William Le ’26. Right: “Veins,” by Jacenia Li ’25

Left: “The Forgotten Places” by Tina Wei ’26. Right: “When one shot was not enough,” by Azaliia Abdullina ’27

The End of Semester Concert on December 9 included performances by NYU Shanghai Orchestra, NYU Shanghai Jazz Ensemble, FaSta (Faculty-Staff) Choir, and the NYU Shanghai Chorale. Pictured: The NYU Shanghai Orchestra

NYUSH Chorale and the Fasta Choir joined forces to perform “A Million Dreams” from The Greatest Showman.

Interactive Media Arts students presented an incredible range of creative projects showcasing their semester-long labors from these courses: Communications Lab, Creative Coding Lab, Interaction Lab, Digital Fabrication, Mixed Reality and Cultural Heritage, Soft Materials in Technology and Art, Field Reconstructions: Environmental Sampling with Unity, Machine Learning for Artists and Designers, Researching Worlds Through Moving Image Practices, Art and the Anthropocene: Material-Based Activism, Web Page to Web Space, Open Project, and Capstone.

At every end-of-semester IMA Show, community members and their families are invited to engage with students and their work. The lively studio spaces become a network of installations that showcase the skills students have gained over the semester, from creating virtual realms to bioplastics.