Winter quarter 2020 guest artists

Back to Back Theatre present the play The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes at Bing Studio Feb. 5-8. (Image credit: Stanford Live) The roster of winter quarter guest artists includes talent from around the globe. Melbourne Australia's Choir of Trinity College performs with the Stanford Chamber Chorale; Chinese dance legend and renowned choreographer Yang Liping presents her reimagined production of Rite of Spring to Memorial Auditorium; Maqueque, a collective of female artists from Cuba led by Canadian Jane Bunnett, performs in Bing Studio; the Hideaki Bunno Gagaku Ensemble performs classical music and dance of the Imperial Court of Japan; and the NFM Wroclaw Philharmonic from Poland, featuring South Korean guest violinist Bomsori Kim, performs in Bing Concert Hall. Among the national treasures are creative pioneer Laurie Anderson; Academy Award, Golden Globe, Emmy and Grammy-winning artist, actor and activist Common; multi-instrumentalist and musicologist Rhiannon Giddens; novelist and distinguished writer-in-residence at New York University Nathan Englander; and Pulitzer Prize-winner and former poet laureate Louise Glück. Alums returning to campus as guests are performance artist and LGBTQ rights activist ALOK, BA and MA '13; writer and director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop Lan Samantha Chang, Stegner Fellow '95; and comedian Omar Qureshi, JD '18. The full list of guest artists on campus this quarter for conversations, lectures, readings, performances and workshops follows.