The Last exit: Theatre director GS Chani succumbs to Corona
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New Delhi, May 21 : Well-known theatre director from Chandigarh, GS Chani, known for his street plays, succumbed to Covid-19 on May 20. He was on ventilator for a while now.
Recipient of the Sangeet Natak Akademi honour and a Fulbright Scholar at Boston University College of Communication, he was the Director of Centre for Education & Voluntary Action (CEVA) in Chandigarh.
Also a filmmaker with more than 20 documentary films to his credit, the artist, a National School of Drama (NSD) graduate who went on to teach at the Film & Television Institute of India (FTII), Chani, who would always be seen in his trademark colourful pagdis was one of the few theatre artists in the region who never let go of his roots street theatre.
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Chandigarh, May 20
He had been on a ventilator for a while.
Director of Centre for Education & Voluntary Action (CEVA), Channi was a Fulbright Scholar at Boston University College of Communication. He is the recipient of the Sangeet Natak Academi Award for community theatre.
His clown act at the children s ward at hospitals brought smiles to many young patients.
Right from his first play, Dafa 144 , to the well-received Zindagi Retire Nahi Hoti to the latest Rocket ho ya Bomb, Pehno Condom , his has been a theatre of the people, for the people and by the people.
Channi has to his credit several telefilms, including the acclaimed Tuttu, and over two dozen documentaries.
Mechanical engineers have developed a unique way to use an ancient Japanese art form for a very 21st-century purpose.
Douglas Holmes, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at the Boston University College of Engineering, studies how materials change shape when they are bent or warped by external forces.
In a paper published this week in
Science Robotics, Holmes and PhD student Yi Yang demonstrate how kirigami, the traditional Japanese art of paper cutting (cousin of origami paper-folding art), inspired them to design soft robotic grippers.
By cutting sheets of plastic in specific shapes, and then bending them in a specific way, the plastic morphs into a gripper that can safely and securely pick up objects of various size, weight, shape, and fragility.
Painter and printmaker Peri Schwartz passes away at age 69
Peri Schwartzs early career concentrated on painting and drawing traditional self-portraits, portraits, and still lifes.
NEW YORK, NY
.- American painter and printmaker Peri Schwartz, whose work is collected in major museums worldwide, died in White Plains, NY on May 7, age 69, from pancreatic cancer. As a remarkably talented artist and dear friend to many, Peris death is a devastating and profound loss to both her family and to the art world that so valued her work. Her paintings, prints and drawings focused on composition and the interplay of color, light and space. Her work is spare but rich, recalled Page Bond, of the Page Bond Gallery in Richmond, Virginia who, with the Gallery Naga in Boston, represented Schwartz. Something about all the grid lines she left in each painting, not hiding them, made her work, thoughtful and smart.
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How Puppeteers Use Performance to Communicate Research
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Over the course of the semester, the puppetry students met five BU graduate researchers and learned about their dissertation work, on topics including civil forfeiture, anthropomorphism in 20th-century literature, protein folding and its relation to disease, American Sign Language learning for deaf and hard-of-hearing babies, and reentry employment counseli