MODFEST: Foreign Language Events
January 30, 2011 VASSAR MODFEST 2011
The Villard Room
3:00 PM
Part 1. Mahagonny Chorus
directed by Catherine O'Kelly '11
Spring Awakening (world premiere), by Sanger Clark '11
Spring Awakening
by Caitlyn Newby '13
Creamy daffodil light
came streaming through the windows,
memory turning the eyelet curtain
to a wisp of milky foam
on the winter whiskers
of the leafless jacaranda
outside my window.
That day you scooped me up
in a gust of cold, luminous air,
cupping me in your palms.
I was a soft, leggy girl
with apricot cheeks
and blonde locks of raw silk—
so sweet, so timid, so untried.
You were Adonis—
a figure in strawberry curls,
an alluring caramel grin,
a baby face to match my own.
Soprano
Karen Antczak '14
Naomi Dubin '12
Christina Koller '14
Morgen Warner '14
Alto
Kaylene George '14
Stephanie Goldberg '14
Sarah Goodell '11
Skyla Lowery '14
Tenor
Joseph Coniglio '12
Evan Herdrich '14
Ryan Herling '11
Michael Lueckheide '13
Bass
Patick Gardullo '14
Daniel Gordon '11
Christian Romero '14
Part 2. The Tower of Babel
presented by the Vassar College Language Fellows of '10-'11
Each year Vassar brings native speakers to enhance the study of foreign languages. These fellows participate in many departmental teaching activities, as well as taking courses at the college.
Snow White and the Seven Cardinal Sins
or
The Vassar Snow White
directed by Felix Dunker
Cast, Vassar College Language Fellows
Snow White - Francis Meyo [Swahili]
The Stepfather - Felix Dunker [German]
The Mirror - Giulia Petruzzelli [English]
Sloth - Jingjing Xu [Chinese]
Greed - Amira Hegazy [Arabic]
Envy - Marissa F. Mandel [Hebrew]
Wrath - Annalisa De Donatis [Italian]
Gluttony - Yulia Maltseva [Russian]
Vanity - Valery Gismondi Avendano [Spanish]
Lust - Angèle Giucharnaud [French]
The Prince - Hikaru Suzuki [Japanese]
[The Translator] - Ian Edwards
The Tower of Babel
Genesis 11 from the King James Version of 1769
1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top [may reach] unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people [is] one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Vassar MODFEST 2016
Translation as an Art
February 3, 2016
Villard Room, Main Building
5:15 PM
Spanish
Language Fellow: Carlos Lopez Gonzales
Julian Corbett ‘19, Ari Sacristan ‘18, Nicholas Lee ‘19, Joseph Niver ‘19.
Fernando de Rojas, Alvaro Tato: La tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea - The Calisto and Melibea Drama (1499/2014, modern adaptation)
Russian
Language Fellow: Yaroslava Abramova
Jason Storch ’17, Zachary Brashear ‘18, Michelle Morochnik ‘17, Max Fine ‘16, Matt Dubow ‘16.
Boris Fomin, Konstantin Podrevsky: Дорогой длинною - By the Long Road (1925)
Chinese
Language Fellow: Dan Jin
Amanda Su ’19, Emily Weiss ‘19, Fernando Braga ‘17, Jennie To ‘19, Kyungjae Lee ‘19, Louis Brown ‘19, Nikoloz Lashvile ‘18, Stephanie Seto ‘18, Wesley Lee ‘17, Annie Xu ‘19, Conor Chinitz ‘18, Evon Shay ‘19, Jaimeson Bukacek Frazier ‘19, Marian Lam ‘19, Matthew Rodman ‘18, Michelle Lam ‘19, Tung Vu ‘19, Zoe Wennerholm ‘19.
Haizi: 海子 面朝大海，春暖花开 - Facing the Sea with Spring Blossoms (1989)
Xu Zhimo: 徐志摩 再別康橋 - Farewell to Cambridge (1928)
Hebrew
Language Fellow: Ran Tzoref
Addie Kurchin ‘19, Haley Cubell ‘19, Ashley Hoyle ‘18, Aiden Lewy ‘18.
Shel Silversten: חֲבִיתִית נ', פַּנְקֵייְק ז' - Pancake (1979)
Italian
Language Fellow: Gabriella Rossi
Xiangyi Tan ‘17, Alexander Bashaw ‘18, Rhys Johnson ‘18, Marya Pasciuto ‘16, Angela Mentel ‘16, Roger Vera ‘18, Katherine Willard ‘19, Chiara Mannarino ’18.
Gianni Rodari: lI filobus numero 75 - Trolley number 75 (1960)
French
Language Fellow: Margaux Boyé
Allegra von Hirschberg ‘19, Baian Liu ‘19, Christine Lederer ‘19, Yina Wang ‘19, Darcy Bohlin ‘19.
Paul Eluard: Liberté - Liberty (1942)
Arabic
Language Fellow: Salah Ahmed
Henry Disney Hauser ‘18, Nicholas Robert Vargish ‘16, Jenna Nahid Amlani ‘16, Lennon Richard Jones ‘16, Jennifer Jean Williams ‘18, Kevin Hoang Pham ‘18, Rebecca Marie Pober ‘18.
Unknown: جحا وابنه والحمار - Goha, His Son, and the Donkey (unknown)
Japanese
Language Fellow: Yuki Shimizu
Maya Hawkins ’16, Jennifer Noval ’19, Hallie Ayres ’18, Sarah Hollis ’18, Elena Zeigler ’18, Kanako Kitano ’18.
Unknown: 桃太郎 - Momotaro, The Peach Boy (unknown)
German
Language Fellow: Lea Espinoza Garrido
Ashley LaMere ‘18 , Noah Papagani ‘19, Brianna Banks ‘18, Esther Kim ‘19, Alex Fan ‘17, Colin Edwards ‘16, Yizhou Jiang ‘17, Patrice Scott ‘19, Kristen Caccavale ‘16.
Julia Engelmann: Eines Tages - One Day (2013)
Finale
Idioms Quiz - presented by the Language Fellows