Experience the soulful, syncopated sounds of jazz in this lively concert. Featuring classic tunes, plus original works by UMD alumni and current students. Attend both nights—each performance features a different program.

Under the baton of interim music director José-Luis Novo, the UMD Symphony Orchestra presents Mozart's Overture to The Abduction from the Seraglio, Gabriela Lena Frank's Three Latin American Dances and Strauss' Death and Transfiguration.

Encouraged to nurture their authentic artistic voices, undergraduate dance students from the UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies set new works of art into motion in this concert of original choreography. Paired with faculty and graduate student mentors and in collaboration with student designers, these short works span multiple dance styles and are as diverse as the students themselves.

Two of the world's leading dance companies, Dancenorth and Lucy Guerin Inc. collaborate with tour-de-force Indonesian music duo Senyawa in this cross-cultural event. Drawing influences from both Indonesian folk ritual idioms and western metal bands, Senyawa's unusual sound reinvents the Javanese spiritual tradition of entering trance through dance and music by fusing hand-made electric string instruments with operatic melodies, metal vocals and contemporary choreography.