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Disability arts ensemble Kinetic Light performs at the Sloan Performing Arts Center
Mon, 12 Sep 2022
The internationally recognized ensemble Kinetic Light performed at the Sloan Performing Arts Center as part of the group’s fall 2022 East Coast tour. Using art, technology, design, and dance, the artists create, perform, and teach at the intersections of access, queerness, disability, dance, and race.
Continue Reading‘ARTs + Change’ a formula for transformation
Wed, 26 May 2021
A virtual conference hosted by the University’s Institute for the Performing Arts brings together artists and educators to reimagine the arts.
Continue ReadingWith ‘Flight of Sites,’ students and faculty set choreography to campus architecture
Fri, 30 Oct 2020
Flight of Sites: Dances in Innovative Spaces, a two-day concert featuring student and faculty choreography, embraced both an outdoor and online audience experience.
Continue ReadingLove of the dance floor: 10 years of inspireDANCE
Thu, 13 Feb 2020
The inspireDANCE Festival—a signature event from the University’s Program of Dance and Movement—features nine days of more than 30 master classes, workshops, and performances on the River Campus.
Continue ReadingSpotlight on the performing arts: Visiting theater director opens 30th anniversary season
Wed, 09 Oct 2019
Kate Eminger—a director and filmmaker based in New York—is visiting guest director of the International Theatre Program's production of The Grown-Up, a play that, as she says, “captures this idea that there’s magic in everyday life.”
Continue ReadingSpotlight on the performing arts: Alumni on the Fringe
Mon, 16 Sep 2019
Siena Facciolo ’19 and Chris Palace ’18 worked together on musical projects while students at the University of Rochester, and as alumni that work continues at the Rochester Fringe Festival.
Continue ReadingUniversity on the Fringe
Fri, 06 Sep 2019
We ask a few University participants in this year’s KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival what draws them to the Fringe, and what—besides their own shows—they recommend attending.
Continue ReadingSpring weekend of shows explores dance, collaboration
Wed, 10 Apr 2019
Spring Explorations and Experimental Dances, or “S.E.E.D.,” features original work from student choreographers and composers, alongside renowned choreographer David Dorfman and performances from Rochester faculty.
Continue ReadingBe inspired to dance
Tue, 12 Feb 2019
The ninth annual inspireDance Festival features more than 30 events, performances, and master classes covering many dance styles, for newcomers and experienced dancers alike.
Continue Reading‘Working on small things’
Tue, 12 Feb 2019
Nigel Maister has a foothold in music, theater, writing, and visual arts. In the first of a series of interviews with performing arts leaders, the theater program director describes how curiosity keeps his work fresh.
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