Join us and hundreds of your newest friends for an inspiring experience that celebrates imagination, creativity, and community. By amplifying the voices of intriguing, inventive artists from around campus and the country, NextNOW Fest creates a forward-looking microcosm where art transforms and shapes our future — and you are at the heart of it all.
Join the artists for a conversation after the performance.
Company Wang Ramirez: Borderline
Sébastien Ramirez and Honji Wang’s expanded choreographic language explores the tension of physical forces and social boundaries that reflect the reality of being tethered together in complex communities. Attached to cables, yet with great fluidity, five virtuosic dancers thwart gravity through hip-hop, acrobatics, levitation and stunning visual poetry.
Join the artists for a conversation after the performance.
Join the artists for a conversation after the performance moderated by UMD faculty member Maura Keefe.
Join the artists for a conversation after the performance.
Silencio Blanco uses silence as the stage on which to project great emotion. Silent, colorless puppets capture humanity in its purest form in this one-of-a-kind dramatic experience. In Pescador, Silencio Blanco uses their craft to allow us to view the beauty and struggle of a fisherman’s labor, exploring those individuals faced with nature’s overwhelming magnificence while submerged in solitude.
Join the artists for a conversation after the performance.
Join the artists for a conversation after the performance moderated by UMD faculty member Maura Keefe.
Join the artists for a conversation after the performance.
Returning for its 17th season, the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols tells the Christmas story through lively readings and music that epitomizes hope, goodwill and joy. Program highlights include Alleluia, Rejoice (J. Edmund Hughes), Huron Carol (Andy Hillhouse) and See Amid the Winter Snow (Jocelyn Hagen) with guest performer SOM faculty cellist Eric Kutz. The audience will be invited to join in singing beloved David Willcocks Christmas carols.
On the day of the performance, tickets will be available only at Memorial Chapel beginning at 7PM.
