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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 ReadingFaculty, students, and local Indigenous community come together for performances and conversation
Wed, 25 May 2022
Over four days in April, the University hosted “UR Remnants,” an interdisciplinary collaboration between faculty and members of the local indigenous and arts communities.
Continue ReadingDance concert showcases the interplay of lights, music, and action in a brand-new space
Wed, 17 Nov 2021
The Sloan Performing Arts Center serves as a new campus site for students, faculty, and guest artists to perform original choreography.
Continue ReadingUniversity takes the stage at 10th annual KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival
Mon, 13 Sep 2021
The recently opened Sloan Performing Arts Center on the River Campus gives Rochester’s arts community a new venue to shine.
Continue ReadingSloan Performing Arts Center opens on the River Campus
Tue, 31 Aug 2021
The 30,000-square-foot dedicated performing arts space had its soft opening at the end of August, adding a much-anticipated new building to the University of Rochester’s River Campus in time for the fall semester.
Continue ReadingRestaging of the ‘Blank Placard Dance’ at Rochester
Mon, 26 Apr 2021
Students from the Program of Movement and Dance will present a recreation of the iconic 1960s work in the city of Rochester to inspire thought about the pandemic and the power of protest.
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