STUDENT PERFORMANCES


KAPUSTNIK

For their third and final oral exam, students in my Second-Year Russian course performed songs (Kino, Leningrad) and poems (Pasternak, Tsvetaeva, Blok, etc.) at an end-of-semester kapustnik.
University of Missouri-Columbia, Spring 2017


PLAY

For their final project, my students in Russian 3130 staged Aleksandr Vampilov's "История с метранпажем" (Incident with a Paginator). Another group performed selected scenes and Pushkin anecdotes from Daniil Kharms's Случаи (Incidences) cycle.
University of Missouri-Columbia, Fall 2016


MUSIC

My second-year intensive Russian students and I performed Дюна's "Если б было море пива" at our end-of-summer celebration.
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Summer 2016