TSOA Roundup

Graduating Dancers to Perform Last Show

The M.F.A. in dance graduating students in the Tisch School of the Arts (TSOA) will present Last on the Continuum, which runs May 21-23. Performances will take place at TSOA’s Fifth Floor Theater, located at 111 Second Avenue. For reservations call
212-998-1982.

Two Kanbar Students Win Sloan Feature Film Award

Sasie Sealy (TSOA ’08) and thesis student Mark Heyman, both from the graduate film division of the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at the Tisch School of the Arts, recently  won the 2007 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Feature Film Production Fund Award. Their project, titled SarahN_12, is a feature-length film about a cyber terrorist who goes too far and realizes her second life has become her real life.

      The annual Sloan award of $100,000 goes to support filmmakers creating compelling narrative projects about science and technology. In 1996, the Sloan Foundation partnered with half a dozen of the nation’s top film schools to challenge existing stereotypes of scientists and engineers in commercial film and television. In 2002, Kanbar Institute filmmakers were the first recipients of the Sloan Foundation’s new Feature Film Production Award.

Stage and Film Designers Showcase Work

The works of 20 designers in set, costume, and film lighting from the Department of Design for Stage and Film at the Tisch School of the Arts are featured in an annual exhibition that attracts hundreds of producers, directors, designers, and other entertainment industry professionals. Entitled Creative Collection ’08, the exhibition is on view through May 15 at 721 Broadway, 3rd floor. For more information, call 212-998-1950 or visit www.tisch.design@nyu.edu.

Pictured, a scene from Gem of the Ocean by August Wilson; Jennifer Nweke, costume designer.

Interactive Telecommunications Holds Annual Spring Festival

Approximately 100 projects from 15 classes were featured in the spring show of the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), a graduate center for the design and study of new media forms and applications in the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at the Tisch School of the Arts. Works included examples of interactive installations, physical and virtual interaction design, projects in sustainability issues, assistive technologies, sound and video works, and screen-based models.

Correction

The names of Joel Coen (TSOA ’78) and Keir Pearson (TSOA ’97), were misspelled in the April 18 issue. NYU Today regrets the error.