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October 17, 2006, Volume 53, No. 8

October AT PENN
Paul Taylor Dance Company

Philadelphia Premieres

The legendary Paul Taylor Dance Company kicks off Dance Celebration’s 25th Season—Dance Around The World, at Annenberg Center, October 19-21. Paul Taylor, artistic director and founder, created 124 dances in his 52 years of choreography. His dances have redefined modern dance in America, with its overarching architectural shapes and structures, sublime musicality and detailed subject matter that covers the gamut of human emotion and experience. The program includes two Philadelphia premieres, one features Michael Trusnovec, in Banquet of Vultures, below. Tickets or info., call (215) 898-3900, or visit www.pennpresents.org.

 

 

Films

25  Paradise Now; 9 p.m.; Heyer Sky Lounge, Harrison College House (Cinema Studies).

26  Underground; 5 p.m.; rm. 201, Fisher-Bennett Hall (Cinema Studies).

Fitness/Learning

26  Master in Public Health Information Session; 4:30-6 p.m.; auditorium, BRB II/III; register by October 21: (215) 573-0942 (Graduate Program in Public Health Studies).

28  Hindi-Urdu Workshop: The Poetry of Bhava; 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m.; Penn Humanities Forum, 3619 Locust Walk; RSVP by October 20: haimanti@sas.upenn.edu (South Asia Center).

Music

19  Tone Collector; jazz; 8 p.m.; The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St. (Ars Nova Workshop).

25  Mat Maneri’s Pentagon; jazz; 8 p.m.; rm. 419, Fisher-Bennett Hall (Ars Nova Workshop).

Reading/Signing

17  Edward O’Neil, Jr.—Awakening Hippocrates: A Primer on Health, Poverty, and Global Service and A Practical Guide to Global Health Service; 2 p.m.; Penn Bookstore (Bookstore).

Talks

23  A Tale of Two Paks; Jonathan Chernoff, Fox Chase Cancer Center; 2 p.m.; rm. 253, BRB II/III (Pennsylvania Muscle Institute).

25  Replication Initiation in Mammalian Cells and Checkpoint Control Pathways; Anindya Dutta, University of Virginia; 4 p.m.; Grossman Auditorium, Wistar Institute (Wistar).

 

Deadlines: The deadline for the weekly Update is every Monday, for the following Tuesday’s issue. The deadline for the November AT PENN calendar is Tuesday, October 17. For information see www.upenn.edu/almanac/calendar/caldead-real.html.
Almanac - October 17, 2006, Volume 53, No. 8