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The Wall Street Journal

Suddenly Everyone Is Scared to Dance at Concerts and Clubs

“Dance like nobody’s watching” was always sound advice for anyone hesitant to let loose at a club, concert or wedding. But in a world where everyone has a camera in their pocket, it’s a tough sell. ⁠

The new rule: “Dance like anybody could be watching and that footage will follow you forever,” said Sydney Skybetter, a choreographer and associate professor at Brown University.⁠
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Art, Culture, and Technology at MIT

the sun has its own drum: Four Artists Listening Across Worlds

In the exhibition the sun has its own drum, currently on view at the Cohen Gallery, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts at Brown University in Providence, RI, sound becomes more than vibration, more than metaphor, more than a material that only one artist in the show physically uses.
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Surface Magazine

Artist Statement: Eric-Paul Riege

Within his solo exhibition at Brown University’s The Bell, Eric-Paul Riege’s Hólǫ́ [+\/\/o] stands as an embodiment of ancestral memory: an exploration of material, performance, and inheritance.
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