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Experience the ingenious work of UMD's School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies (TDPS) Masters in Fine Arts Design students as they display their theatrical creativity in costume, lighting and scenic design.
These talented students are part of a degree program in which they work with an award-winning faculty of professional designers and intern at professional theatres in Washington, Baltimore and New York.
By Emily Schweich, a sophomore Broadcast Journalism major
The University of Maryland Chamber Singers are one of only twenty choirs in the world that has been chosen to participate in the 10th World Symposium on Choral Music, held this August in Seoul, South Korea.
The UMD School of Music is pleased to announce that Craig Kier, Associate Conductor and Assistant Chorus Master with the Houston Grand Opera has been appointed Director of the Maryland Opera Studio (MOS). He will join the faculty in Fall of 2014.
Congratulations to the University of Maryland's School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies Professors, Part-time Instructional faculty and Alumni for their well earned 30th Annual Helen Hayes Awards!
Robert DiLutis and Linda Mabbs from the School of Music and Sharon Mansur of the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies were recently selected by the Maryland State Arts Council to be recipients of a 2014 Individual Artist Award (IIA).
MFA Stephanie Miracle has been selected as Fulbright Fellow to Germany for 2014/2015. With this research grant she will experience the rich lineage of German Tanztheater — including the work of dance icon Pina Bausch — through embodied practice, including intensive training in choreography and performance at the world-renowned Folkwang University in Essen. Both Stephanie and her husband Jimmy Miracle look forward to this exciting year overseas.
This post is by Lisa Driscoll, a Junior Vocal Performance and Broadcast Journalism double major. You can read more of her writing on her blog.
The clink of wine glasses and choruses of muffled chatter echoed throughout the Kogod Theatre as audience members mingled. Multi-colored lights revealed a stage bedecked with instruments and a single microphone waited patiently, front and center.
All the clinking and chattering was stifled when Somi began to sing into that microphone, filling the room with the richness of her voice.
As a music major and vocalist, I walked away from the performance feeling inspired to allow experiences to be more of the lifeline for the music I perform.
District5, UMD School of Music's Gradute Fellowship Woodwind Quintet, will be performing at Busboys & Poets Hyattsville on Sunday, April 6, 2014. Their performance, Throw Caution to the Wind, features some of the most colorful and virtuosic work for wind quintet, showing what it's like to simply let loose and perform.
Listen below for a playlist of music that inspires them to be fearless and "throw caution to the wind!"
This blog post is by Emily Schweich, a sophomore Broadcast Journalism major.
Spring Awakening photo by Blinkofaneye/BrightestYoungThings
Spring Awakening proves that the tumultuous experience of adolescence transcends place and time. Based on a 19th century play by Frank Wedekind, the rock musical follows a group of adolescents in a provincial village, balancing angst with optimism, and naiveté with curiosity, struggling to reconcile society’s agenda with nature’s desires. The UMD School of Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies’ production, directed by five-time Tony Award-winner Brian MacDevitt and acclaimed choreographers Sara Pearson and Patrik Widrig, explores this dichotomy between institution and nature.
Dressed in neutral-colored, flowing, loose dresses and tunics, their hair swept up into disheveled hairstyles, the Elementals were more than conventional backup dancers; they told the undercurrents of the story.