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Mind and Hand: A Pageant!

Engaging technology and the arts in the largest community gathering on campus since 1916, Killian Court hosted a multimedia celebration of MIT’s history with an entertaining look to the future. Is it mind or hand? The spirits of Mens and Manus came to life for a debate on the true essence of MIT.

Full-length Pageant video

Saturday, May 7, 2016

 

Pageant Highlight reel

Watch the highlight reel for the pageant of a century!

 

Pageant performers and creative collaborators

Infinite thanks to the production and creative team, the performers, and the community members who collaborated on Moving Day at MIT!

Rambax MIT (+), MIT's Senegalese drum ensemble

MIT’s Senegalese Drum Ensemble

Lamine Touré, Director
Patricia Tang, Faculty advisor
Shalom Abate
Deniz Aksel
Sarah Alexander
Monique Brewster
Otto Briner
Natalie Burgos
A. Awadagin Faulkner
Oliver Midy
Cheikh Ngom
Malick Ngom
Rachel Reed
Sophy Reyes-Hadsall
Robbie Romero
Babacar Seck
Sara Sinback
Heather Soukup
Lesley Wang

 

MIT Crew (+),

MIT Crew

Larkin Sayre    
Ellie Brewer    
Sarah M Coleman
Abbey Diener    
Ali Finkelstein
Nina Sara Fraticelli-Guzmán
Sophie Geoghan
Tal Gilad
Grace E Melcher
Francesca M Schembri (Frankie)
Jamie Voros
Carlos Torres
Alex Derry
Robert Hunt
Berk Ozturk
Jerey Stroming
Vincent Tjeng
Veronica Toro
 

 

 

Actors (+), leads, understudies, voices, and the robot

Actors

Lead actors

Manus: Georgia Lyman
Mens: Thomas Derrah (appearing through the courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States)

Understudies

Manus: Abra Shen
Mens: Garrett Schulte

Voices

Robot: Ray Magliozzi
Voice over: John Lisanti

Robot

Claudia Pérez D’Arpino & Optimus
Evie Kyritsis (assistant)
Benjamin Claman (assistant)

 

MIT Student voices (+),

MIT Student Voices

Marianne E Olsen
Ali S. Finkelstein
Nikhil Punwaney
Anne Marinan
Abra Shen
Alexandra Erixxon
Kimberly Villalobos Carballo
Samantha Fomon
Jakob Weisblat
Clarissa Towle                
John Bond
Caralyn Cutlip

 

MIT Bhangra (+), presenting folk dance from Punjab

MIT Bhangra

Nikita Kodali
Advaith Anand
Akshat Agarwal
Aneesh Anand
Ankita Reddy
Divya Goel
Kishan Bhakta
Maya Jay
Paulomi Bhattacharya
Preksha Bhagchandani
Raj Vatsa
Ramya Ramakrishnan
Sohini Sircar
Srilaya Bhavaraju
Taranjit Singh
Vinny Chakradhar
 

 

Mocha Moves (+), MIT's hip-hop dance team

Mocha Moves

Aaron Suarez
Nate Abebe
Nicci Cazares
Nisha Dalvie
Hugh Day-Williams
Langston Fitts
Alysse Hamm
Katy Hanling
Victoria Jones
Khanh Nguyen
Aaron Okello
David Onyemelukwe
Katherine Paseman
Claire Patterson
Narindra Peaks
Eduardo Valle
Kayla Young

 

 

Luminaries (+), the puppeteers

Puppeteers

Virginia Adams
Asra Ali
KC Chopra
Emerson Davis
Amanda Fike
Tori Finney
Katya Popova
Robert Rusch
Marwan Sarieddine
Hanna Tseng    
Vivian Zhang
Azaria Zornberg

 

 

Vocal performance (+), by the Chorallaries, Resonance, the Muses, and the Beatbox House

Chorallaries

Cailey Talbot
Izzy Lloyd
Molly Tracy
Kevin King
Natasha Batten
Radhika Bhatt
Divya Gopinath
Veronica Labelle
Preston Luthy
CK Ong
Dan Rigobon
Miguel Salinas
Katelyn Sweeney
Alasdair Unwin
Scott Viteri
Jen Vogan
David Wang

Resonance

Andrew Adams
Tomi Adelusi
Luther Banner III
Caterina Colon
Stephanie Guo
Alysse Hamm
Jen Hillibrand
Aishah Jones
Angus MacMullen
Logan Martin
Nischal Nadhamuni
Rianna Shah
Daly Wettermark
Justin Xiao
Jennifer Zhang

The Muses

Melanie Abrams
Lily Dove
Kimberly Feng
Emily Giurleo
Courtney Guo
Hanna Lee
Victoria (Missy) Lopez
Megan Mansfield
Moraa Marwanga
Sruthi Narayanan
Elise Newman
Annie Phan
Aisha Wang
Jessica Wu

The Beatbox House

Gene Shinozaki   
Neil Meadows
Kenny Urban

 

Finale dancers (+),

MIT Dancers

Camille Henrot
Katrina Mikofalvy
Rachel Gaither
Sabina Chen
Xinyi (Lucy) Chen
Langston Fitts
Michelle Huang
Annie Kuan
Maria Perry
Joshua Scherrer
Rachel Wang
Diane Zhou

Other community dancers

Lesley Bannatyne
Kathleen Bibalo
Cheryl Brown
Kaye Denney
Jill Geiger
Catherine Hersh
Shanfan Huang
Shannon Humphreys
Nicole Laliberte
Jewel Leuba
Jennifer Lin
Kaite Lovell
Rebecca McGowan
Taylor McMahon
Lynn Menegon
Christina Morrison
Jessie Sector
Janelle Abbott Staley
Anna Zembo  

 

Finale performance (+), Pilobolus, Eviyan Quartet, and MIT CSAIL

Pilobolus

Itamar Kubovy, Executive Producer
Matt Kent, Associate Artistic Director
Renee Jaworski, Associate Artistic Director
Emily Kent, Education and Community Engagement Manager
Diana Gonzalez, Assistant Producer

Eviyan Quartet

Professor Evan Ziporyn, clarinet
Iva Bittova, violin / voice
Gyan Riley, acoustic guitar
Tony Fajt, hang

MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

Professor Daniela Rus, LED Umbrella design

 

Production (+), Pageant and Crossing the Charles

Pageant production

Peter Agoos, Creative Director and Executive Producer
Andrew Zamore, Co-creative Director and Video Producer
David Gammons, Stage Director
Meg Bonanata, Production Manager
John Sullivan, Technical Director
Dan Murphy, Assistant Technical Director
Jim Cassidy, Script Writer
Alyson Schultz, Video Designer
Mark Herd, Video Editor
Peter Muste, Stage Manager
John Ingram, Lighting Designer
David Rees, Lighting Programmer
Sal Restuccia, Master Electrician
Tyler Trofatter, Assistant Electrician    
Catherine Philips, Assistant Electrician
Puppets by Penny Benson
Gail Buckley, Costume Designer
Ryan Goodwin, Costume Assistant
Ben Bloomberg, Soundscape Designer
David Remedios, Sound Designer
Alan Starr, Audio Engineer
Jeff Briggette, Comms
Stephanie Yackovetsky, Sound Assistant
Matt Shea, Atlas PyroVision Entertainment, Pyrotechnics and Fireworks Design
Jason Allen, Makeup
Rebecca Saenz, Makeup Assistant
Matt Geiser, Ice 9 Productions, Inc., Video Staging Production
Kyle Bjordahl, Lucid Creative LLC, Video Mapping & 3D Animation
Dustin Engelskind, Lucid Creative LLC, Video Mapping & 3D Animation
Wayne Strauss, Northeast Media Services, Inc., Audio Staging Production
Mark Marenghi, Mystic Scenic Studios, Inc., Scenic Fabrication
Costume Works, Costume Fabrication
Andrew Wilkinson, United Stage & Rigging, Staging Production Services
Upstage Video, LED screens

Pageant crew

Maria Black
Cat Cates
Jackie Herd
Mark Herd
Stephanie Hettrick
Pat Jaworski
June Lipton
Rich Lombardi
Lauren Mack
Cathy Rooney
Rob Stegman
Nick Tosches
Liz Wagner
Barbara White
Greg Williams

River Crossing production

Mike McNulty, Producer
Meg Bonanata, Associate Producer
Diane Fiedler, Challenge Coordinator
Fran Charles, MIT Sailing Master
Kevin Bergin, Signarama, Graphics Production

River Crossing crew

Jim Boyd
Fritz Ceriales
Steve Chiavaroli
Bobby Dreissig
Carter Nuttall
Cord Lambrecht
Jeanette Poillon
Mick Provencher
Bobbie Valente
Jason Masse

 

With special thanks (+), in the MIT community and beyond

John Ochsendorf, MIT2016 Steering Committee
Gayle M. Gallagher, MIT2016 Steering Committee
Ted Johnson, MIT2016 Steering Committee
Rebecca Tyler, MIT2016 Steering Committee
Michael Berry, MIT2016 Steering Committee
Rachael Weiner, MIT2016 Steering Committee
Joe Coen, Institute Events
Lee Corbett, Institute Events
Susan Wilson
Paul Murphy, MIT Facilities
Jennifer Combs, MIT Facilities
Norman Magnuson, MIT Facilities
Steve Gilligan, MIT Facilities
Tim Libby, MIT Facilities
Bill VanSchalkwyk, MIT Environment, Health, and Safety
Craig Breyer
Gary Tondorf-Dick, MIT Facilities
Freya Levett, MIT Museum
Debbie Douglas, MIT Museum
Nora Murphy, MIT Archives
Myles Crowley, MIT Archives
Peter Munstedt, Lewis Music Library
Christina Moore, Lewis Music Library
Joe Vella, MIT Facilities
Mike Giambrone,MIT Facilities
Paul Parravano, Government and Community Relations
John DiFava, MIT Police
Mary Beth Riley, MIT Police
Dave Green, WBUR
Dava Newman, MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and NASA
Rob Navia, NASA
Timothy Kopra, NASA
David Silberkleit
Janet Sonenberg, MIT Music and Theater Arts
Fred Harris, MIT Music and Theater Arts
Diane Betz Tavitian, MIT Community Services Office
Bill Litant, MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Bean Pot Region Antique Automobile Club of America

 

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  • Accessibility
  • Competition rules
  • Moving Day Photos
  • The Campus & Cambridge
    • An Evolving Frontier
    • Timeline
    • InfiniteMIT
    • Voices of Cambridge
    • Imagining New Technology: A celebration exhibition at the MIT Museum
    • The Great Stride: MIT Moves to Cambridge exhibit
    • Celebrating a century of employees in Cambridge
    • A Campus Built for Innovation exhibit
  • Events
    • Reception: Imagining New Technology at the MIT Museum
    • Symposia
    • Celebration Concert
    • Small Infinities, a play by Professor Alan Brody
    • MIT Day of Service
    • Open House
    • Moving Day at MIT
      • Crossing the Charles Parade and Competition
      • Mind and Hand: A Pageant!
        • Mind and Hand: A Pageant! Video
      • Let's Dance!
      • Parking
      • Street Closings and Restrictions
      • Accessibility
      • Competition rules
      • Moving Day Photos
    • Toast to Tech
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