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DESCRIPTION:&lt;strong&gt;Carrie Preston&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp\;is an associate professor
  of English and director of the Women&amp;rsquo\;s\, Gender\, and Sexuality St
 udies Program at Boston University. Her first book\,&amp;nbsp\;&lt;em&gt;Modernism&amp;r
 squo\;s Mythic Pose: Gender\, Genre\, Solo Performance&amp;nbsp\;&lt;/em&gt;(2011) w
 as awarded the de la Torre Bueno Award for dance studies.&amp;nbsp\;&lt;em&gt;Learni
 ng to Kneel: Noh\, Modernism\, and Journeys in Teaching&lt;/em&gt;\, recently re
 leased by Columbia University Press\, focuses on the international circula
 tion of W. B. Yeats&#x27;&amp;nbsp\;&lt;em&gt;At the Hawk&amp;rsquo\;s Well&amp;nbsp\;&lt;/em&gt;(1916)
  to examine the influence of noh drama on modernist theater\, poetry\, and
  dance. Her research for the project was supported by a grant from the Jap
 an Society for the Promotion of Science and the Peter Paul Career Developm
 ent Professorship\, which enabled her to study noh dramaturgy and performa
 nce technique in Tokyo. For chapter summaries\, film clips\, pedagogical a
 ctivities\, and more please see:&lt;a href=&quot;http://sites.bu.edu/learningtokne
 el/&quot;&gt;http://sites.bu.edu/learningtokneel/&lt;/a&gt;\n&lt;strong&gt;\n&lt;/strong&gt;Part of 
 the&amp;nbsp\;&lt;strong&gt;Image-in-Focus&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp\;gallery talk series:\nSele
 ct Sundays at 2 PM\, through January 14\, 2017.&amp;nbsp\;\n&lt;strong&gt;October 16
 \, 2016&lt;/strong&gt;:&amp;nbsp\;&lt;strong&gt;Javier de Frutos&lt;/strong&gt;\, choreographer 
 of At&amp;nbsp\;&lt;em&gt;Twilight/The Hawk&#x27;s Dance\n&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;November 20\, 2016
 &lt;/strong&gt;:&amp;nbsp\;&lt;strong&gt;Tomoeda Akiyo&lt;/strong&gt;\, Living National Treasure
 \, Kita Noh Theater Company\nCap off your weekend at Japan Society Gallery
  with these energetic\, 20-minute conversations with leading curators\, wr
 iters\, artists and specialists of Japanese art. Drop by to hear their uni
 que perspectives on select highlights from Gallery&#x27;s fall exhibition\,&amp;nbs
 p\;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.japansociety.org/page/programs/gallery/simon-starli
 ng-at-twilight&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Simon Starling: At Twilight&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.
 &amp;nbsp\;\n&lt;em&gt;Free with admission to the exhibition. Groups are limited to 
 30\, first-come\, first-served basis.&lt;/em&gt;
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SUMMARY:Image-in-Focus: Carrie Preston
URL:/en/events/2016/12/04/image-in-focus-carrie-preston/
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