This week: NextNOW Fest at The Clarice + District Choreography Dance Festival |
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Monday, September 13, 2021
This week is NextNOW Fest at The Clarice! NextNOW Fest is an inspiring arts experience that celebrates imagination, creativity, and community. The festival is a signature event in University of Maryland's new Arts for All initiative, which leverages the combined power of the arts, technology, and social justice to address the grand challenges of our time. In addition to the traditional student, academic, and touring arts lineup this weekend at The Clarice, this year's festival is expanded to seven days at various sites on campus and in College Park, featuring student-led groups, academic departments, and community organizations. Check out more information about the festival below!
This Saturday, a number of TDPS faculty, students, and alumni will be performing as part of Dance Place's District Choreography Dance Festival on the National Mall. Check out the details below!
Please email tdpsmarketing@umd.edu if you have any events, news, or opportunities to share with our community. |
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The University of Maryland and the School of Music mourn the loss of beloved voice and opera professor, Carmen Balthrop, who passed away September 5 following a year-long battle with cancer. Although Carmen’s illustrious career path led her to many of the great opera houses and concert stages throughout the world, it was her love, devotion and passion for teaching that always took center stage. Those who worked with her, studied with her or were simply graced by her presence know the huge void that has befallen our community. A full In Memoriam article is coming soon. |
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In this newsletter:
- Upcoming events
- News
- Opportunities
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Fall 2021 Main Season and Experimental Performance Series |
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The 2021-22 season marks the official launch of Arts for All, an initiative announced in April by university President Darryll J. Pines. Representing a renewed commitment to the transformative role that the arts can play in the lives of students across campus and others in the greater UMD community, this program leverages the combined power of the arts, technology and social justice to address the grand challenges of our time. Read more. |
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Main Season
October 15-17
Featuring Risk of Play (tentative title) by Amber Daniels and Overscore by Christina Robson
October 28-31
Book by Allan Knee
Lyrics by Mindi Dickstein
Music by Jason Howland
Alvin Mayes and Scot Reese, directors
Marci Shegogue, musical director
November 13-21
By Lauren Yee
Nathaniel P. Claridad ’04, director
November 18-21
Kendra Portier, director
Featuring faculty and graduate student works
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Experimental Performance Series
October 29-31
Featuring The World is On Fire, but Here is a Dance choreographed by Maggie Laszewski, M.F.A. Dance ’23 and Chiffon written by Ayanna Hill, B.A. Theatre ’22
December 3 & 4
Featuring Crisscross choreographed by Paetyn Lewis, B.A. Dance ’22 and Strangers choreographed by Megan McDevitt, B.A. Dance ’22
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Check out the full calendar of events at The Clarice this fall. The Clarice is introducing a “pay what you wish” pricing structure this year to increase access to the arts, and TDPS community members get free tickets to all of our events. |
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September 13-19
The Clarice’s NextNOW Fest is an inspiring arts experience that celebrates imagination, creativity and community. By amplifying the voices of intriguing, inventive artists from around campus and our community, NextNOW Fest creates a forward-looking microcosm where art transforms our future and (re)connects us all.
NextNOW Fest is a signature event in University of Maryland's new Arts for All initiative, which leverages the combined power of the arts, technology and social justice to address the grand challenges of our time. In addition to our traditional student, academic and touring arts lineup at The Clarice on September 17 and 18, we’re thrilled to forge new partnerships with more student-led groups, academic departments and community organizations to expand the festival to seven days at sites throughout campus and into College Park!
Learn more about NextNOW Fest here. |
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Rebels and Revels: A Photo Exhibit of the Theatre of the Middle East |
Through September
Principal Investigator, Marjan Moosavi, Roshan Institute of Persian Studies at UMD
Co-curators, Kelley Holley and Q-Mars Haeri, TDPS
Rebels and Revels: A Photo Exhibit of the Theatre of the Middle East is now open!
Open August through September, the exhibit features 58 photos from six Middle Eastern countries, featuring theatre of the 1950s and '60s.
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Xing Dance Theater. Photo credit: Suze Creedon. |
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District Choreography (D.C.) Dance Festival |
Saturday, September 18, 12:30PM and 4PM
Sylvan Theater on the National Mall
As part of National Dance Day, Dance Place presents the District Choreography (D.C.) Dance Festival at the Sylvan Theater on the National Mall. Many TDPS dance faculty and alumni will be presenting work at the festival.
Sara Pearson and Patrik Widrig (PEARSONWIDRIG Dance Theater) will be performing an excerpt from their signature work “Ordinary Festivals.”
Kendra Portier (BANDportier) will be sharing "untitled vital glacier," a new work commissioned by Dance Place in the 2020-21 season. The work was made in collaboration with B.A. dance alumni Candace Scarborough '12 and Sydney Lemelin '20, current M.F.A. dance candidate Christina Robson '22, and composer and TDPS guest musician Adam Crawley.
M.F.A. dance alums Sarah Beth Oppenheim '17 (Heart Stück Bernie) and Allen Xing '18 (Xing Dance Theater) will also present work at the festival.
Learn more about the festival here and check out the flyer. |
Open rehearsal for Kendra Portier's "untitled vital glacier" |
Wednesday, September 15 6-8PM
Dance Studio 1
TDPS dance faculty Kendra Portier and her collaborators will be rehearsing their newest work, "untitled vital glacier," this week and they are opening up their rehearsal to UMD community members. The piece will be performed at the District Choreography Dance Festival this weekend (details above).
Come learn about the process of this collaborative devised work and help them "test" this research live!
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Spring 2022 theatre auditions |
Audition videos for TDPS Main Season productions Un Espectro Real, Fefu & Her Friends, and Stick Fly are due by Friday, September 17.
Please note that first round auditions will be through video submission, but callbacks will be in person. Callback dates and times are in the process of being finalized and will be shared soon. In an attempt to consolidate submissions, the monologue submitted for the spring main season auditions will also be used for Spring 2022 performance classes.
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Have an event you want to share?
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- On November 5, M.F.A. dance and design candidate Mary Kate Ford will be presenting choreography at the Cleveland Dance Festival. More information can be found here.
- This past summer, dance faculty Kendra Portier taught in-person at socially distanced Tisch Summer Dance (NYC) and Bates Dance Festival (Maine). Additionally, she was a guest speaker at Gibney Dance (NYC) and RDDI: New England Now’s Professional Development Lab with New England Foundation for the Arts, where she presented two research practices: Vital Studies and Geologic Body.
- M.F.A. design candidate Shartoya Jn.Baptiste won the Black Theatre Network's (BTN) Judy Dearing competition for scenic design this year. In addition to a cash prize, she will have the opportunity to present her designs at the next BTN conference. She also receives a one-year membership and mentoring with professionals affiliated with the organization. Congrats, Shartoya!
- A number of TDPS alumni are working on productions at Everyman Theatre this fall. Steel Magnolias, which just closed, included Heather Gibson (actor, B.A. theatre '16), Milagros Ponce de Leon (set design, M.F.A. design '02), and Harold Burgess (lighting design, M.F.A. design '03). Coming up in October, the team for Flyin' West includes Paige Hernandez (director, B.A. theatre '02), Andrew Cohen (set design, M.F.A. design '14), Harold Burgess (lighting design, M.F.A. design '03), and Veronica Lancaster (sound design, M.F.A. Design).
- M.F.A. dance candidate Gerson Lanza has been selected for the 2021-22 Strathmore Artist in Residence cohort. Find out more about the residency program here. Congrats, Gerson!
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Puppetry course with Yael Inbar
Puppets – Constructing, Manipulating, Directing
Mondays and Wednesdays, 3-4:50PM
The course is aimed at actors, directors, designers, and puppeteers of different levels. The class will explore the field of puppetry, in Israel and worldwide, and its potential to comment on human existence from a very radical point of view: that of a puppet.
Find more information here and sample work here.
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- The DC Collaborative is offering fall internship opportunities in school partnerships, education programming, program assessment, and membership and social media communications. Learn more about the internship program here.
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Imagination Stage is seeking a part-time patron services associate, who is responsible for providing the highest level of customer service to the patrons of Imagination Stage–including ticket buyers, students, teachers, and schools–in the box office and at the reception desk. Learn more about the position here. To apply, send a resumé to jobs@imaginationstage.org and use the subject line “Last Name, First Name: Patron Services Associate.”
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Dance Place is seeking a Junior Staff elective teacher to join their team. The Junior Staff program is a holistic art-based career preparedness program for teens between the ages of 13 and 19. The program offers life skills and hands-on job training in leadership, administration, theater craft and facility maintenance. For more information, contact krystalc@danceplace.org.
- UMD student organization Maryland Shakespeare Players is seeking stage managers and assistant stage managers for their fall production of Much Ado About Nothing. If you are hoping to gain SM/ASM experience and/or meet fellow Shakespeare enthusiasts (though no prior knowledge is required), please email md.shakespeare.players@gmail.com ASAP or DM @umd_shakespeare on Instagram. You can also let them know if you are interested in another position on their creative team or tech crew.
- UMD student organization Sketchup Comedy is seeking writers, performers/actors, and stage managers. Auditions are on September 24 & 25. Learn more on their flyer.
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