Keep learning, keep teaching, and keep creating.
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Monday, April 20, 2020
Here at TDPS, we are continuing to teach, learn, and create! For more information, check out the resources online at
#KeepLearningUMD,
#KeepTeachingUMD, and
#KeepCreatingUMD. More details about how you can participate in #KeepCreatingUMD are below.
We also recognize that many of you are struggling. Please reach out to TDPS faculty or staff if you need support.
A few of our remaining Spring 2020 performances have moved online! Check out the details below about livestreamed presentations of
She Kills Monsters (May 7), First Fridays (May 1), and DCX's New Dances (April 23). Stay tuned to your email for updates on how to access the livestreams.
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In this newsletter:
- #KeepCreatingUMD
- Upcoming events
- Feature stories
- News
- Opportunities
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#KeepCreatingUMD
#KeepCreatingUMD
is an initiative that creates spaces for the University of Maryland’s artists and humanists to share their works so that anyone can experience UMD’s various cultural offerings from home.
We invite the TDPS community to join the movement to keep creating:
- Explore keepcreating.umd.edu for resources, virtual arts and humanities experiences and community engagement updates.
- Share your thoughts about activities you want to experience or host as you continue learning, teaching and working from home.
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DCX New Dances - ONLINE!
Thursday, April 23, 7:30PM
Online livestream
DCX is presenting New Dances online! New Dances is an opportunity for student dancers to choreograph original work to participate in a concert. These works represent many genres of movement and may be improvised or set, and unedited or fully finished.
The online viewing party/chat will be on April 23rd at 7:30PM. Stay tuned to your emails and social media for more details about how to participate.
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First Fridays - ONLINE!
Friday, May 1, 5:30PM
Online (Zoom)
First Fridays has moved online! Have a work in progress you’d like to share? Interested in participating? Reach out to Patrik Widrig at
widrig@umd.edu for more information.
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She Kills Monsters - ONLINE!
Thursday, May 7, 8PM
Online livestream
Due to the COVID-19 crisis, our production of
She Kills Monsters
is moving to an online performance. This innovative production will be performed once, on Thursday, May 7 at 8PM. Stay tuned to your emails and social media for more details about how to participate.
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Theater Community Pivots To Another Kind Of Mask
While the curtain has fallen on theater productions everywhere amid the COVID-19 outbreak, costume designers are hardly sitting idle. Instead, many are powering up their sewing machines to produce the protective face masks in such critical demand for medical and emergency workers.
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- PhD candidate Kelley Holley has been awarded a Graduate Student Summer Research Fellowship for Summer 2020 to work on her dissertation about dramaturgy and site-specific performance. Summer Research Fellowships provide support to doctoral students in the period shortly before or after advancement to candidacy. The fellowship enables doctoral students to devote a summer of focused work to prepare for or complete a benchmark in their program. Congrats, Kelley!
- MFA candidate Becky Hill was featured in Dance Magazine, "For Percussive Dancers, Dancing at Home is Easier Said Than Done." Congrats, Becky!
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- DUE TODAY! As part of the 2020-21 TDPS season, Fearless New Play Festival is accepting submissions of new in-progress plays from current students and alumni. FNPF is a three-week incubator to support the collaborative development of new plays, culminating in a final weekend of readings. For the festival in early March, we will be joined by a Keynote Playwright of national renown (to be announced), who will share their own new play-in-development. In this document, you will find a more detailed description of the full festival as well as guidelines for who is eligible to apply. This is an invaluable opportunity to partner with incredibly talented artists in order to develop your work. Click here to apply. If you have any questions, contact Jennifer Barclay, the festival director, at jbarclay@umd.edu or Jenn Schwartz jlschwar@umd.edu.
- Online dance classes! Follow @UMD_TDPS on Instagram to stay informed about all of the free virtual classes our MFA candidates and faculty are offering during this time. Highlights thus far include ballet, disco, tap, yoga, flatfooting, and many other dance forms taught by dance faculty and MFA dance candidates.
- NEW! Interested in online Pilates classes? MFA Dance candidate Renee Gerardo is teaching classes for Excel Pilates DC for Levels 1 and 2. Level 1 is for anyone with little to no experience and Level 2 is more advanced but accessible to anyone. More information at https://excelpilates.com/.
- NEW! Single Carrot Theatre is currently accepting applications for their 2020/2021 fellowship program. The fellowship program is designed to provide hands on experience to emerging theater artists, as well as an opportunity to have a working understanding of Baltimore’s premier ensemble theatre. The fellowship is a season-long program that includes administrative and artistic responsibilities. Single Carrot is dedicated to the growth of artists, and the fellowship has been created to introduce emerging theatre artists and administrators to the exciting and demanding world of ensemble theater. Check out their flyer for more info.
- Assistant professor Jared Mezzocchi is holding four weekly Friday Fireside chats for Andy's Summer Playhouse running from April 3 - 24th from 7-8pm EDT. Tune into Andy's Summer Playhouse on Facebook Live, or Instagram Live.
- Dance Place is offering a FREE Virtual Presentation Series. This series consists of performance events and conversations with artists in Dance Place’s 2019-2020 Presentation Series whose work has been postponed in response to COVID-19, many of these artists include TDPS faculty and alumni. All Zoom and Facebook Live links will be posted on Dance Place's website.
- The Martin E. Segal Center is offering Segal Talks, a daily live streaming conversation with U.S. and Global Theatre Artists on www.HowlRound.com. Starting Monday, March 30, 2020. Every Monday through Friday, 12PM EDT.
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