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TDPS New Play Workshop Workshop Reading

This staged reading of new plays is the culmination of the weeklong TDPS New Play Workshop. Student playwrights at UMD were given the opportunity to develop a short play in a supportive environment. Each selected playwright works with a mentor—a professional dramatist living and working in the Baltimore-DC corridor. Mentors serve as guides through the process of rehearsing with a director and actors, filtering and implementing feedback, and revising.

The TDPS New Play Workshop is supported in part by the Dramatists Guild of America.

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Meaningful Connections Chamber Music Concert

Chamber music, poetry, spoken word and artwork portray the coming-of-age stories of renowned women composers from history and the present. The program includes works by Clara Schumann, Rebecca Clarke, Sofia Gubaidulina, Jennifer Higdon, Sanam Gharacheh and Shlamit Ran. 

Curated by and featuring School of Music students, this concert is the culminating project of the Meaningful Connections chamber music course, which teaches the process of creating socially relevant and artistically potent performances. 

Big Ten Bhangra

Big 10 Bhangra competition will be held on February 25, 2017! Bhangra is a traditional folk dance that originates from the Northern part of India, Punjab. Though Bhangra began as a way to celebrate harvests, it has evolved to being a way of celebrating many diverse occasions and festivities. In recent years, Bhangra has enjoyed a spike in popularity worldwide, and though it has come far from its initial humble beginnings, it has really left a mark on many Western countries, as they try to incorporate their own flavor to it.

Voices in the Dark

In 1936, 70 years after the legal end of slavery in the United States, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt approved a historical research project commissioned by the Library of Congress. The goal of this enormous project was to locate and interview African Americans who had been born into slavery during the early to mid-1800s.

Oscar Hawkins Ballet Arts Academy "NUTCRACKER" Ballet Winter Gala 2016

Oscar Hawkins Ballet Arts Academy's Nutcracker Winter Gala 2016 is a wonderful winter holiday ballet.

The ballet tells the story of the young Masha's love for her first Nutcracker doll, which was given to her as a gift at her family's annual Christmas party. After the party ends, Masha falls into a deep sleep, dreaming of scary little mice with their Mouse King, snowflakes falling, a Prince Cavalier (danced by Artistic Director Oscar Hawkins), a beautiful Sugar Plum Fairy and her beloved Nutcracker doll coming to life.

Mahler's Fourth Symphony

A frequent guest of the National Orchestral Institute + Festival, Asher Fisch returns to lead Bartók's tempestuous ballet score to The Miraculous Mandarin and Mahler's Fourth Symphony.  

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