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Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation & Nietzsche Circle present

Nietzsche and Dance
An Affirmation of Life: Friedrich Nietzsche, Isadora Duncan, and the Making of Modern Dance

Nietzsche inspired many modern dancers, none more so than Isadora Duncan. With this event on Nietzsche and Duncan we bring dancers and thinkers together to explore the dynamic relationship between dancing and thinking.

Followed by a wine and cheese reception

Performances and lectures by
Lori Belilove
Geoffrey Gee
Krista Johansson
Kimerer LaMothe
Yunus Tuncel

The Nietzsche Circle Presents:

An Evening with Daniel Blue, to celebrate his new book published by Cambridge University Press:

The Making of Friedrich Nietzsche, The Quest for Identity 1844-1869

Introduction by David Kilpatrick

RSVP with Luke Trusso at trussol@nietzschecircle.com by September 30, 2016.

An Evening With Jared Russel to celebrate the publication of his book: Nietzsche and the Clinic

With introduction by Yunus Tuncel

Lawrence J. Hatab

Krista Johansson

David Kilpatrick

Yunus Tuncel

This is an RSVP only event and participants will be informed about the location prior to the event. Please RSVP by April 1st either with Luke Trusso at trussol@nietzschecircle.com or Yunus Tuncel at tuncely@nietzschecircle.com.

Nietzsche Circle Presents: An Evening with Music and Philosophy

Speakers:

• Michael Teinmann
• Yunus Tuncel

Pianist:

• Aysegul Durakoglu

RSVP required!

Refreshments will be served. If you like to attend, Please RSVP by sending email to Luke Trusso at trussol@nietzschecircle.com

Is Transhumanism a Dangerous Idea?

Book Launch Discussion

Moderated by Gregory Morgan

Speakers:

Babette Babich

Francesca Ferrando

Michael Steinmann

Yunus Tuncel

There is only a perspectival seeing, only a perspectival ‘knowing’; and the more affects we allow to speak about a matter, the more eyes, different eyes, we know how to bring to bear on one and the same matter, that much more complete will our ‘concept’ of this matter, our ‘objectivity’ be.

Thus wrote Friedrich Nietzsche, and we at the Gotham Philosophical Society agree. We believe that to make sense of something, we need to see it from as many sides as possible.

That is why we are launching a new discussion series with the aim of contributing to the pursuit of New York’s objectivity. We will be taking on all manner of ideas, issues, and topics of significance to New Yorkers, and approaching them from legal, artistic, and philosophical perspectives. We believe that a philosophical understanding cut-off from our legal reality is irrelevant, and that laws uninspired by our poetic imagination are without soul.

With Dr. Joseph S. Biehl (Gotham Philosophical Society), Jane LeCroy, Shahabuddeen Ally

So please join us as we kick-off this series with a look at the concept of truth, the concept that is central to human discourse. What is truth? How can we know it? And what can it mean to say, as so many have, that we are now living in a ‘post-truth’ world?  We’ll ask these questions and more, Monday, December 4, 2017, at Le Chélie NYC at 8pm.

Discussion with Seth Binsted, Michael Steinmann, and Yunus Tuncel. If you like to attend, Please RSVP by sending email to Luke Trusso at trussol@nietzschecircle.com

Professor Barbara Gail Montero is the director of (and a performer in) the upcoming multimedia, interdisciplinary event Curved Spacetimes: Where Friedrich Nietzsche Meets Virginia Woolf. Prof. Nickolas Pappas will also perform (reading spoken word as Friedrich Nietzsche), and Prof. Jonathan Gilmore is a member of the team that brought the project to fruition.

According to the American Society for Aesthetics (who partially funded this project with a $7,000 grant), Curved Spacetimes is “multisensory event focused on the Physics, Aesthetics, and Metaphysics of Time. . . .[T]he evening will commence with a Nietzsche-Woolf-curved-spacetime-inspired reception that will allow you to test your knowledge of our central figures. Following the reception, you will experience Nietzsche, Woolf and curved spacetime coming to life on the stage (through dance, live music and the spoken word), and then listen to a panel discussion that will take you more deeply into the ideas guiding the performance.”

When: Sunday, March 17, 2019: 6-9 pm

Where: The Tank, 312 W. 36th St. 1st floor, New York  City.

Schedule of Events

• 6 PM: Pre-performance catered reception—pass the Woolf/Nietzsche pre-test for a free drink!
• 7 PM: Performance
• 8 PM: Panel discussion on the physics, aesthetics, and metaphysics of time

Choreography: Logos Dance Collective (Barbara Gail Montero, Theresa Duhon, Patra Jongjitirat, and Gregory Kollarus)

Performers: Elise Crull, Theresa Duhon, Maxine Flasher-Duzgunes, Patra Jongjitirat, Gregory Kollarus, Barbara Gail Montero, and Nickolas Pappas

Music: Selections from Bach’s Cello Suites, performed live by cellist Ivan Luza

Text: excerpts from Thus Spoke Zarathustra, The Gay Science, Mrs. Dalloway, and The Diary of Virginia Woolf

Panelists for the after-performance discussion:

• Jeff Friedman, Associate Professor of Dance Rutgers University
• Kathleen Higgins, Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin
• Timothy Maudlin, Professor of Philosophy, New York University
• Heather Whitney, JD, Harvard Law School & PhD Candidate, New York University

Moderator: Rebecca Ariel Porte, Writer and member of the Core Faculty at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research.

Free tickets for students in philosophy, literature, dance and physics are supported by the ASA grant and are available from bmontero@gc.cuny.edu

For all others, tickets are on sale now on-line at The Tank

Project Team:

• Barbara Gail Montero (Project Director), Professor of Philosophy, CUNY and Founder and member of the Logos Dance Collective
• Jonathan Gilmore, Professor of Philosophy, CUNY
• Maxine Flasher-Duzgunes, BFA student in Dance at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and member of the Logos Dance Collective
• Cliff Mak, Assistant Professor of English, Queens College, CUNY