EMERGE: New Student Dance Works is the annual showcase of exciting new dance works by UofM dance program student choreographers. These new, bold, exciting, thought-provoking, and beautiful dance works are set on dance program student and other U of M students from across campus. This performance is executed in collaboration…
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University of Memphis Department of Theatre & Dance is proud to announce the next show of its 2021-2022 season: A Bright Room Called Day, a play by Tony Kushner. The show will feature a cast of actors who are safely distanced and wearing masks. From Tony and Pulitzer award-winning playwright…
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The Department of Theatre & Dance is thrilled to announce our guest speaker – Obi Ndefo, on January 27, 2022. A Conversation with Obi Ndefo will take place from 1-2:30pm and will include time for questions from the audience. We invite University of Memphis and the wider Memphis community to…
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Experience an unforgettable evening of uplifting and hopeful works as the University of Memphis Dance Faculty present an evening of gifts. From Me to You – Fall Dance Concert will welcome audiences back into the theatre with choreography in contemporary and jazz, performed by undergraduate students. Choreographers include Jill Guyton Nee, Michael…
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University of Memphis Department of Theatre & Dance is proud to announce the next show of its 2021-2022 season: R & J & Z, a play by Melody Bates. The show will feature a cast of actors who are safely distanced and wearing masks. What happens when you mix blood,…
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University of Memphis Department of Theatre & Dance is proud to announce the first show of our 2021-2022 season: Ordinary Days, a musical by Adam Gwon. The show will feature a cast of actor/singers who are vaccinated, safely distanced and wearing masks. 8.3 million individuals live in New York City,…
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Sarah Brown, associate professor in Theater & Dance at the University of Memphis, has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship to Romania where she will teach performance and direct acting students in a series of solo shows for NATO. The award runs from October 2021 through June 2022. Brown will be teaching solo…
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The University of Memphis Department of Theatre & Dance is proud to announce the musical Working, based on the book by Studs Terkel as the final show in the 2020-2021 Jubilee Season. The University of Memphis joins theaters nationwide in Jubilee: A year-long celebration of performances generated by individuals that…
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The University of Memphis Department of Theatre & Dance is proud to announce the next show in its Jubilee Season with 5×5, an outdoor performance senior showcase featuring the work of outstanding graduating dance students. 5×5 features work by five senior dance majors: Catherine Barkley, Victree Hayes, Aiyanna LaRue, Charlye…
“With a body she would have a coffin, or an urn, or a gravesite. A place to put her grief. But your wife has no such place. All she has is the sky where he vanished. The sky was not meant to be a burial ground. It’s too big and…
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