Zeitgeist

NOUN, ZEITŸGEIST, ˈTSĪT-ˌGĪST

THE DEFINING SPIRIT OR MOOD OF A PARTICULAR PERIOD OF HISTORY AS SHOWN BY THE IDEAS AND BELIEFS OF THE TIME.

A student run interdisciplinary collective made up of musicians, dancers, and visual-artists, The Chautauqua Inter-Arts Collective, formed at the start of the summer to brainstorm what its concert would be about. The artists asked themselves what their theme should be: What does it mean to be at Chautauqua? What do we bring to Chautauqua that isn’t currently being done? The collective quickly realized that it was the need to express oneself that had brought them together; the desire to collaborate with other art-forms and muddle the boundaries between disciplines. These young artists hungered for an outlet totell their story, the zeitgeist of an artist in the 21st century.

Artistic Director: Julian Loida
Co-Directors: Kyle Johnson & Kevin Gupana
Dancers: Anthony Schweighardt, Jack Miller, Ashlan Zay
Poetry: Evan Zegiel
Reader: Phillip Stoddard
Visual Artists: Kate Plourde, Alex Myers, Gabriel Barrios, Rebecca Senn
Musicians: Kyle Johnson, Marisa Votapek, Grace Hartman, Joseph Bauer, Dorelle Sluchin, Amanda Lynn Bottoms, Aden Brooks, Carrie Davids, Julian Loida, Martin Jonsson, Abby Black, Jacy Ripley, Luke Schwalbach, Sarah Minneman, Matt Flanders, Brian Cannady, Cameron Leach, Alex Baker, Dudley Raine, Christian Howard, Philip Stoddard, Alyssa Campbell.

Verses Through Verses

NEC students present ‘VERSES THROUGH VERSUS’, an off-campus, off-script show on Friday, March 11 (2016) that tests the boundaries of artistic genre, style and form. Hosted at The Record Co., each piece on the program will present at least two opposing elements--Renaissance lute is thrust together with minimalist vocal loops, John Cage’s music unfolds on canvas and two dueling deities from the Santeria religion meet on stage to find common ground. 

In fall of 2015, a core group of five NEC students came together to design a performance project that would reflect the vast musical and cultural diversity at the school. Although NEC attracts students from every continent and encourages young artists to explore their cultural roots, there are still enduring divisions that exist between genres, student communities and artistic disciplines. Verses through Versuscreates a world in which these divisions do not exist, where music can truly bring people together and connect hundreds of years in the span of a few seconds.

Artistic Director: Julian Loida

Sam McReynolds and Julian Loida

Dancer + Percussionist