Events
Fall 2024
December Dance Concert
Dec. 5-7, 2024 / Pickard Theater, Memorial Hall
Presenting their semesters' work, this fall's performing dance classes are:
Making Dances in the Digital Age
Introduction to Hip Hop
Introduction to Modern Dance
Modern II: Repertory and Performance
Afro-Modern II: Techniques and Histories
Advanced Modern Dance
Previous fall 2024 shows:
Liturgy|Order|Bridge by Scapegoat Garden
Nov. 15-16 /7:30 p.m. / Wish Theater, Memorial Hall
Liturgy|Order|Bridge is a participatory dance ritual that fuses sacred traditions and secular performance modalities to make porous the border between “audience” and “performance.”
Into the Woods
Nov. 7-9, 2024 / 7:30 p.m. / Pickard Theater, Memorial Hall
Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by James Lapine
Originally directed on Broadway by James Lapine
Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick
Directed by Davis Robinson
Music Director: Jeff Christmas / Conductor: Courtney Babbidge
Sponsored by the Alice Cooper Morse Fund for the Performing Arts. Into the Woods is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI .
Painting by Paul Klee, with poster art by Judy Gailen.
John Waters: Devil's Advocate
Sep. 19, 2024 / 7:30 p.m. / Pickard Theater, Memorial Hall
Sponsored by the Kenneth V. Santagata Memorial Fund.
John Waters. Is he a cautionary contrarian, a reactionary radical, or a true devil’s advocate? In this all-new, fast-moving, part-confessional, part-inquisitional comic spoken word show, the filth elder known for his “transgressive” films and his “subversive” books salutes the new gender-guerilla generation of today for doing the impossible – actually making him nervous.
Together, he demands, we must form a new rainbow of rancid colors and seize back the sexual revolution from the self-righteousness of the left and the intolerance of the right. A new middle-of-the-road madness that uses humor as terrorism, wit as ammunition. John Waters – he’s the Devil’s Advocate and his questions must be answered.
Co-hosted by the Departments of Cinema Studies and Theater and Dance.