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The Activities Board at Columbia (ABC) (All)
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/abc/index.html
The Activities Board at Columbia (ABC) currently governs 155 undergraduate student organizations at Columbia University.The membership of student clubs under the ABC generally consists of students from the four undergraduate schools at Columbia: Columbia College, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, the School of General Studies and Barnard College.
Arts Administration Program (Art, Dance, Music)
Affiliation: Teachers College
Phone: 212-678-3271
Contact: Joan Jeffri, Director
E-Mail: arad@columbia.edu
Website: http://www.tc.columbia.edu/academic/arad/
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The Arts Administration program reflects the conviction that the management of cultural institutions and arts organizations requires strategic planning, artistic creativity and social commitment. The arts managers capable of responding to the challenges and responsibilities of the arts must possess integrated management and financial skills, knowledge of the artistic process in which they are involved and sensitivity to the dynamics and educational needs of the communities they serve. The Program, which offers a Master of Arts degree, represents an alliance of four disciplines: arts, education, business, and law. It is designed to help professionals meet the challenges of the next decade. These challenges include questions about the long-term health of arts organizations; their missions, governance and management; sources of income, and tax regulations. Such issues as freedom of expression, First Amendment rights, censorship and government intervention in the arts have important implications for international, educational, and cultural policy, and are integral to the Program. Today, arts administration training in the United States is a model in the field that addresses worldwide concerns.
cuBHANGRA (Dance)
Contact: Hans Sahni, President
E-Mail: bhangra@columbia.edu
Website: http://cubhangra.tripod.com/index.html
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Established in 2002, cuBHANGRA is a Punjabi Folk dance team representing Columbia University. The team's dance is first and foremost inspired by a passion for Punjabi culture. cuBHANGRA prides itself in its high energy and creative dancing style. Most recently, they have placed 1st at Bhangra Blowout 13 and 3rd at Bhangra Blizzard 3. Forged in the heart of Punjab and brought together by the great city of New York, prepare yourself for the sensation that is cuBHANGRA.
Club Zamana (Dance, Music, Theatre)
Contact: Varun Gulati, President, vrg2104@columbia.edu
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/zamana
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Club Zamana is the largest undergraduate South Asian organization at Columbia University, and a functional umbrella for the South Asian groups on campus. We cater to over 800 general body members and strive to foster harmony, promote cultural awareness, and highlight the South Asian presence at Columbia. Throughout the year, we hold a wide range of events for our members and the community. These events range from political forums, movie nights, community service days, semi formals, career panels, and educational activities. In the spring semester, Zamana puts on a cultural show, Tamasha, featuring performances from all four South Asian dance troupes at Columbia, other student performances, and outside acts.
Columbia Ballet Collaborative (Dance)
Contacts: Lydia Walker (Artistic Director), lrw2105@columbia.edu, and Ashley Flood (Executive Director), aef2125@columbia.edu
Website: www.columbia.edu/cu/balletcollaborative
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Founded by professional ballet dancers who are students at Columbia University. Seeking to combine our movement vocabulary with the ideas we are coming into contact with on campus. Desiring to articulate the continued relevance of our art form. Inviting artists of other media in the university community to join with us in our artistic endeavors
Columbia Ballroom Dance Team (Dance)
Contact: Liza Volkova, President
E-Mail: ev2154@columbia.edu
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ballroomteam/
The Columbia University Ballroom Dance Team brings the beauty and excitement of ballroom to the University community. We are a competitive dance team that offers instruction in international Latin and standard with top coaches in New York City for those interested in competition, as well as classes in social dancing for those who just want to know a little something for parties and fun. In addition to classes and competitions, CUBDT co-sponsors one of the largest amateur competitions in the country, the Manhattan Amateur Classic, participates in a variety of University and city performances and events, and provides opportunities to pursue interest in ballroom through activities like ballroom social events and trips to amateur and professional performances. CUBDT is a great way to take your interest to ballroom dancing to any level you want - contact us if you want information on the team, or other ballroom resources. Happy Dancing!
Columbia Daily Spectator: Arts & Entertainment (Art, Dance, Literature and Writing, Media, Music, Theatre)
E-Mail: arts@columbiaspectator.com
Website: http://www.columbiaspectator.com/?q=section/3
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The Columbia Daily Spectator is the second-oldest college daily paper in the country and has been financially independent from the University since 1962. The newspaper is published five days a week during the academic year and weekly during the summer. The Columbia Daily Spectator is written and edited by Columbia University undergraduates. It serves the communities of Columbia University and Morningside Heights as a forum for the expression of diverse viewpoints, a top source for in-depth and comprehensive news and features, and a rewarding extracurricular opportunity for their staff. Serving a community of over 60,000 students, faculty, administrators, and Morningside Heights residents, the Columbia Daily Spectator is the most widely read newspaper in Morningside Heights and Harlem.
Columbia University Dance Team (Dance)
Contact: Alexandra Stylianos
E-Mail: columbiadanceteam@gmail.com
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/dance/
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The Columbia University Dance Team performs dance routines in hip-hop, jazz and pom styles. The Team competes both regionally and nationally, and performs campus-wide at events such as Midnight Mania and the home games of Columbia Men's Basketball team. The Team also performs throughout New York City, most recently at a Seventeen Magazine event. The Team's next performance will be at the 2005 ING New York City Marathon.
Columbia Raas Team (Dance)
Contact: Nausheen Hakim, President, raas@columbia.edu
Email: curaas@gmail.com
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Columbia Raas is Gujarati Folk dance team. The dance style is garba raas which comes from Western India. The team performs at events all along the East Coast, as well as many on-campus shows. Columbia Raas is all about providing entertainment, excitement, and of course fun while performing this high energy dance style that any audience member can enjoy.
CU Step (Dance)
E-Mail: custep@columbia.edu
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/stepteam/
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Columbia University Swing Dance Club (Dance)
(Formerly known as CU Swing)
Contact: Frank Nestor- fpn2102@columbia.edu
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/swing
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Columbia University Swing Dance club exists to unify the swing dance community of Columbia University. Strong ties with America's unique sub-culture of jazz music and movement allow us to promote the dance as an exciting social endeavor. The CU Swing Dance Club is dedicated to providing events and instruction in Lindy Hop, Balboa, and Charleston. Our members organize and attend events throughout New York City.
Department of Dance (Dance)
Affiliation: Barnard College
Phone: 212-854-2995
E-Mail: dance@barnard.edu
Website: http://www.barnard.edu/dance/
The Barnard College Department of Dance offers an exceptional dance program that is solidly based on the integration of dance as an art form within a liberal arts curriculum. Its core consists of courses designed to link the development of a dancer's artistic skills with techniques of analysis, problem solving, and critical thinking. The faculty, composed of artists and scholars, encourages a dual approach to the art of dance, promoting the development of artistry and personal style through the performance of historical and contemporary dance texts.
Heyman Center for the Humanities (Art, Dance, Literature and Writing, Media, Music, Theatre)
Affiliation: A&S
Location: East Campus, Morningside
Phone: 212-854-4270
Contact: Rebecca Hanger
E-Mail: mrh2101@columbia.edu
Website: http://www.heymancenter.org
The newly reconfigured Heyman Center is Columbia University's central site for the Humanities. It brings together the interests not only of the various departments in the Humanities but also the broad conceptual, methodological and value-laden issues that are of interest to the natural sciences and the professional schools of Law, Medicine, Journalism, Arts, and International Affairs. The Heyman Center presents several events on various themes in the Humanities throughout the Fall and Spring semesters each year, which are open not only to all at Columbia but to everyone in New York City and beyond. It also has eight post-doctoral fellows at any given time, each holding a two-year Mellon fellowship in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities. It plans to have various other levels of fellowship over the next few years for junior and senior faculty both at Columbia and from other universities, as well as some 'New York City Fellows' who are distinguished artists, writers, musicians, and journalists living in the city. Every week of each semester it has a lunch for a group of Columbia faculty fellows who present their work to each other for discussion. The Heyman Center also houses Columbia's Center for Comparative Literature and Society, the Human Rights Center, a group of Columbia's emeritus faculty known as the "Society of Senior Scholars," who teach in the Core Curriculum, and The Friends of the Heyman Center, all of which host seminars and colloquia of their own throughout the year. The Lionel Trilling Seminar (once a semester) and the Edward Said Memorial Lecture (once a year) are also based at the Heyman Center. Notices for these can be found in our Events section on our website.
Horace Mann Auditorium (Art, Dance, Literature and Writing, Media, Music, Theatre)
Affiliation: Teachers College
Location: Horace Mann Hall
Horace Mann Theatre (Art, Dance, Literature and Writing, Media, Music, Theatre)
Affiliation: Teachers College
Location: Horace Mann Hall
Miller Theatre (Art, Dance, Literature and Writing, Media, Music, Theatre)
Location: 116th & Broadway
Phone: 212-854-1488
E-Mail: cp2234@columbia.edu
Website: http://www.millertheatre.com
Miller Theatre, the performing arts center of Columbia University, is one of the country's leading innovators in performing arts presentation. Miller Theatre presents an annual season of international performers in music, dance, and opera, as well as public events that draw on the intellectual resources of Columbia University. Established in 1988 with funding from Brooke Astor, John Goelet, and the Kathryn Bache Miller Fund, Miller Theatre is a thriving urban arts presenter attracting over 30,000 audience members annually.
Orchesis (Dance)
E-Mail: orchesis@columbia.edu
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/orchesis/
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Orchesis is the one and only student-run dance organization here at Columbia University. We offer performing, non-performing and social opportunities alike. We host master classes, both by professional dance teachers and by our own dancers from the Columbia University community, plan affordable field trips to concerts in New York City such as Alvin Ailey, The New York City Ballet and The Donkey Show, and produce major dance concerts of our own every semester.
Raw Elementz (Dance)
Contact: Anna Ahn, President- aa2403@columbia.edu
E-Mail: rawelementz@columbia.edu
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/rawelementz/
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Raw Elementz burst into being in the spring of 2001, when former Culture Shock dancer and current slave to academia Kristin Liu decided to take matters into her own hands. In the beginning, there was Kant. On the weekends, there was more Kant, and sometimes Aristotle, or if you were lucky enough to go to Barnard you might get something interesting. Then Kristin said, Let there be hip-hop, and Raw Elementz was born. And it was good. As long-time big cheese in the satellite hip-hop interest group of the Chinese Students Club, Kristin made the move to expand her base of operations. She created an organization modeled loosely after Culture Shock, a professional dance troupe and outreach organization in cities around the world. She worked tirelessly to attain ABC and SGA recognition, hounded random students for signatures, and essentially stopped at nothing until her mission was completed. Of course, in the end it all paid off, and Raw Elementz has since grown into what it is now: An independent, diverse, awesome group of people who love to dance.
Roone Arledge Auditorium (Art, Dance, Literature and Writing, Media, Music, Theatre)
Affiliation: Lerner Hall
Location: Alfred Lerner Hall
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lernerhall/index.html
Sabor (Dance)
Contact: Sabilah Eboo, President
E-Mail: sabor_board@columbia.edu
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/sabor/
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Sabor Dance Team is one of the largest Latino-based organizations on Columbia's campus. In addition to Latin dance styles, Sabor also performs hip-hop, reggaeton, jazz, modern, Indian, Caribbean, and other styles of dance. Recognized by both Columbia University and Barnard College, Sabor holds multiple dance and culture-related activities on both campuses in addition to its regular biweekly team practices. Sabor prides itself on being more than just a dance team – our annual Fall Semester show attracts an audience of more than 400 members and strives to allow members of the Columbia and New York communities to experience and better understand Latino and Caribbean cultures through dance and other performing arts. Additionally, every Spring semester, Sabor hosts The Rélevé Program, a three-day program for underserved high school students who are involved in the performing arts and interested in attending college or university. We provide workshops in both the performing arts and college admissions for them and act as mentors in an effort to reach out to and encourage young performers to pursue higher education. Sabor, above all, provides a canvas for students to come together to explore and express Latin and Caribbean identities as they relate to the world at large and to youth culture today through the art of dance.
School of the Arts (Art, Dance, Literature and Writing, Media, Music, Theatre)
Location: 305 Dodge Hall
Phone: 212-854-2875
Website: http://arts.columbia.edu/
We are a community of artists inside a great university -- Columbia University -- in one of the greatest arts centers of the world --New York City. We take advantage of this fortunate location by connecting our students to the excitement and creativity of the arts in New York. At our doorstep are the resources and opportunities offered by hundreds of museums and galleries, theatres and theatre companies, publishing houses, reading spaces, and production companies. Equally important, within the walls of Columbia University are resources critical to the development of emerging artists, including libraries, performance spaces, and some of the best faculty -- in all disciplines -- in the world. The teaching and mentoring of our regular faculty is supplemented by a remarkable adjunct faculty, as well as by visiting artists and guest lecturers.
School of the Arts- Student Affairs
Website: http://wwwapp.cc.columbia.edu/art/app/arts/student_affairs/index.jsp
Whether you're a continuing student or new to the School of the Arts, the Office of Student Affairs is designed to make your time in the M.F.A. program easier and enrich your School of the Arts experience as whole. Aside from providing information to students regarding registration, financial aid, housing, student activities, general orientation and graduation (among others), we also serve as a bridge to the rest of Columbia University.
Southern Asian Institute (Media)
Location: International Affairs Building, 11th Floor
Phone: 212-854-3616
Contact: Vidya Dehejia- Director
E-Mail: southasia@columbia.edu
Website: http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/regional/sai/
The Southern Asian Institute coordinates the many activities at Columbia University that relate to Southern Asia -- mainly the countries of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and the Maldives. Its conferences, seminars, exhibits, films, and lecture series bring together faculty and students with widely varying interests and backgrounds. It works with many South Asia groups on campus and off. Because of its location in New York City, the Institute has lively ties with persons serving in the United Nations, the diplomatic community, and many international agencies. It is also in the midst of the largest South Asian ethnic community in North America, with all its cultural richness.
Student Development & Activities (Art, Dance, Literature and Writing, Media, Music, Theatre)
Phone: 212-854-3611
E-mail: activities@columbia.edu
Website: http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/sda/
Student Development and Activities (SDA) is committed to helping students enhance their leadership skills and explore the co-curricular opportunities available at Columbia. SDA forges a sense of community by providing opportunities for social interaction and student participation in community life and governance. Whether you are looking for advice in running your organization, planning an event, organizing your financial records, starting a group, or if you just want to brainstorm, the SDA staff is here to support you.
Taal (Dance)
E-Mail: taal@columbia.edu
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/taal/
Taal was founded in January 2001 at Columbia University. The fundamental intent of Taal is to promote awareness of South Asian dance, thereby promoting awareness of both Indian culture and the arts. It serves to establish a forum for South Asian dance, open to all members of the Barnard/Columbia community. It is a medium through which the many students who have studied South Asian dance may continue the art through choreography and performance, and provides those students who have an interest in South Asian dance and culture to explore one of its primary facets by attending performances, and attending or participating in practices or workshops.
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