White Night, a film made by student Teresa Lee in the Tisch School of the Arts Open Arts Fundamentals of Filmmaking class, will be screened at the Asian American International Film Festival on Friday, July 16. Director Teresa Lee will be available for a Q & A after the screening.

Fundamentals of Filmmaking is taught by Rosanne Limoncelli, director of production for film and new media in the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film, Television, and New Media at Tisch School of the Arts.

Tisch School of the Arts Open Arts instructor Aida Shahghasemi will be lending her vocals to the presentation of Persian poets at Zoraspace on June 26.

Aida Shahghasemi recently moved to New York City. She is a traveler between Iran and the States in order to play with individuals and ensembles in Tehran, Minneapolis (where she resided prior to New York), and most recently, New York. She learned the Daf from Amir Samadi and has worked on the Persian Classical Vocal repertoire under the supervision of Parissa.

Aida Shahghasemi will be teaching Iran Arts Activism this fall as part of the Tisch School’s Open Arts curriculum. The course is open to all New York University undergraduate students.

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Open Arts ‘Acting for the Camera’ instructor Hannelore Williams will be featured on ABC’s One Life to Live beginning May 7th.

Visit the One Life to Live website for more information.

Alysia Livinston, Open Arts Studio, Spring at Tisch student, discusses her training as a actor at Tisch’s Open Arts Studio and life in New York City.

Students from across New York University joined the Tisch School of the Arts All School Choir. Here are a few photos from the Drama Cantorum under the direction of Ralph Affoumado.

Photo Credit: Marius Shanzer

Photo Credit: Marius Shanzer

Photo Credit: Marius Shanzer

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The Tisch All School Choir is a 2-point course offered through the Open Arts curriculum.

Hannelore Williams, instructor for the Tisch School of the Arts Open Arts Curriculum course Acting for the Camera, was recently cast in a guest starring role on the new television series Louie. The show stars the comedian Louis C.K. and will air on FX starting in March.

More details to come.

The New York Times today tells us about mask-changing, a Chinese opera tradition in the Sichuan province that dates back 300 years.

An image from a Chinese opera performance.

This art is truly unique, and so are the courses in Chinese art and culture New York University Tisch School of the Arts is offering in 2010: History of Dance and Performance in China, Steps, Rhythm and Movement of Chinese Dance, and Topics in Chinese Culture. Students may also study abroad in China for one semester and train in the Chinese acting program, East Acts West: An Eastern Approach to Western Performance. These courses introduce students to the artistic legacy of the Chinese culture, and the social and political movements that have influenced art in China.

Tisch School of the Arts Open Arts instructor Aly Rose jazzed things up at her audition in 1999 at the Beijing Dance Academy in China. Dancing to Peggy Lee’s “Fever” with a choreography that she says resembled cabaret, Aly was ambitious and daring.

Aly was accepted to the school but was warned she would not receive special treatment and must do things the “Chinese way.”

Today, she is still the only Westerner to graduate from the Academy. And her aerial art? Just as daring.

Read more about how east and west converge for choreographer and director Aly Rose in the latest issue of the Claremont McKenna College Magazine.

Aly Rose teaches History of Dance and Performance in China and Steps, Rhythm, and Movement of Chinese Dance at the Tisch School in New York City.