Creativity Conversations

Season 4, Spring Semester 2021 In 2010, Robert Spano and Rosemary Magee (then Vice President and Secretary) delved into Spano's musical background and metaphysical musings on music's power in our lives. Maestro Spano, music director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, is also the Emory University Distinguished Artist in Residence for a three-year term from spring 2010 through spring 2012. Watch the...

Season 4, Spring Semester 2021 On October 25, 2010, Margaret Atwood participated in a Creativity Conversation with students during her three-day visit as the presenter of the 2010 Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature . The conversation was moderated by Rosemary Magee, then Vice President and Secretary of Emory University. Watch the conversation here . This conversation is introduced by ho...

Season 4, Spring Semester 2021 Filmed October 2, 2012. Atlanta-based novelist and playwright Pearl Cleage joins writer Alice Walker for a conversation that focuses on their creative influences, the writers they read, and how they've been inspired by each other's work. The conversation, hosted by Rosemary Magee, is moderated by University of Georgia journalism professor and author Valerie Boyd . Wa...

In October 2018, Argentine tango musicians Sonia Possetti and Damián Bolotin visited Emory as artists in residence. During their visit, they sat down to talk about composition with student composers. This podcast features excerpts of that talk. Watch the original recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrBw-ozCmpo&list=PLCAC61A4AB786C00E&index=7&t=0s Follow us! Facebook Instagram

The Creativity Conversations podcast is back from its hiatus. The introduction to this episode was recorded in the spring of 2021. Amos P. Kennedy Jr. and Randall K. Burkett sit down in the Rose Library at Emory University for a lively conversation about Kennedy and his work. Kennedy, who left a corporate job more than 20 years ago to pursue his artistic passions full-time, uses an old-fashioned l...

This Creativity Conversation podcast audio is pulled and edited down from the live 2016 Rosemary Magee Creativity Conversation: The Political Body with Anat Grigorio and Hillel Kogan. Emory senior dance lecturer Greg Catellier moderates a conversation about the process of creating political art in a world of strident discourse between Israeli choreographer Anat Grigorio, Israeli choreographer Hill...

Danté Brown is a New York artist and Artistic Director of Warehouse Dance, a collaborative group that generates compelling thematic environments within a process of physical and theoretical inquiry. While Brown was in residence with the Emory Dance program in 2016, he sat down to talk about creativity with Blake Beckham, a choreographer, producer and dance educator in Atlanta. Brown began his...

This Creativity Conversation features a conversation on co-directing between Lydia Fort & Marguerite Hannah, co-directors for the spring 2023 Theater Emory production of Our Town (multilingual) by Thornton Wilder with translated passages by Nilo Cruz and Jeff Augustin. Additional passages translated to Mandarin by Yiyi Gu (Daisy), Yuyao Wang, Dorothy Shi. Performances: February 16 - February 2...