The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

Travel Through Dance: Erin Crawley-Woods’ Site-Specific Visible Seams, October 9-16

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CONTACT: Sarah Snyder
ssnyder3@umd.edu
301.405.8151

College Park, MD— Choreographer Erin Crawley-Woods creates a tapestry of movement and sound in her site-specific work, Visible Seams, October 9-16 at 6:30 pm. Presented by the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, Visible Seams is Crawley-Woods’ MFA Dance Thesis Concert and will take place throughout the corridors, courtyards and staircases of the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at UMD. The piece features the talent of both undergraduate and graduate dancers.

Orpheus’ Son: Sidney Lanier and His Music of Language, September 27

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CONTACT: Missy McTamney
mmctam@umd.edu
301.405.8102

College Park, MD – The University of Maryland School of Music brings musician-poet, Sidney Clopton Lanier to life in a presentation that honors his creative legacy and artistic contribution to his adopted home, Baltimore, during the post-Civil War Reconstruction Era. Entitled Orpheus’ Son - The Life of Sidney Lanier and His Music of Language, the program tells Lanier’s poignant life story, interwoven with passages of period flute music, some composed by Lanier, and narrative readings of Lanier’s poetic musical expression.

If you could ask one person from the event one question, who and what would it be? September 14, 2013

Big Ten Conference Playwriting Initiative Brings New Works to UMD’s School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

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CONTACT: Missy McTamney
mmctam@umd.edu
301.405.8102

College Park, MD – The University of Maryland School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies (TDPS) announced it will partner with the theatre departments of the Big Ten Conference schools to create a new playwriting and performance initiative. The group, known as the Big Ten Theatre Chairs plans to commission, produce and publicize as many as five new plays in an effort to influence the national dialogue about women playwrights and the sorts of scripts needed by university theatre programs for performing arts education.