What can the female body hold, take, embrace, defend, expunge, remember, forget, and assume? What do we project onto the female body, and how has the idea of "female" changed over time? Journey through history and memory to understand from where we came and to where we may go through this projection installation performance. Contains nudity.
What happens when the women behind the scenes of social justice movements make their way to the forefront? We Be Dat is an interactive theatre experience set in an underground community rally. Experience an up close and personal look at the women at the core of social justice movements. Participate as a concerned community member, an angry business owner or perhaps a reporter! You choose your role and see where it leads you. Will you stand on the sidelines and watch or will you be moved to take action?
Step inside The Portal Project’s gold shipping container of a traveling studio, and you’ll feel like you’re in the same room with artists, students and arts fans across the globe. Created using carefully positioned cameras and head-to-toe videoscreens, The Portal Project was developed by Shared_Studios, with the goal of creating social, artistic and individual relationships with cities around the world.
Experience a collection of work choreographed and danced by undergraduate and graduate students from the UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies. The program includes the premiere of a commissioned work by Sinclair Ogaga Emoghene, the recipient of this year’s NextNOW Fest Alumni Dance Commission.
This performance is a part of the NextNOW Fest Alumni Commissioning Project, which supports the creation of new work by alumni of the UMD School of Music and the UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies.
Named for the Latin word meaning whole, TOTUS allows UMD students to explore marginalized identities and silenced voices in and through poetry to spark dialogue and action around identity, social justice and lived experience. Hear the voices of TOTUS alumni as they perform original spoken word pieces. Presented in partnership with the UMD Office of Multicultural Involvement and Community Advocacy.
For more information about TOTUS, visit here.
UMD theatre alumni explore the possibilities of how identities manifest externally in short 15-minute plays that deliver a big impact. Led by rising D.C. playwrights Joe Graf, Sam Mauceri and Sisi Reid, these commissions are wholly written, directed, stage managed and acted by UMD alumni.
This performance is a part of the NextNOW Fest Alumni Commissioning Project, which supports the creation of new work by alumni of the UMD School of Music and the UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies.
Design and print your very own custom NextNOW Fest souvenir T-shirt on Soul & Ink’s four-color screen print press.
Ambient and borderline chillwave, Todo Mas combines sample-driven beats, synths and wall-of-sound production to create a unique sound. Presented in partnership with UMD’s Student Entertainment Events (SEE).
For more information about Todo Mas, visit www.todomasmusic.band.
Inventive, hyper contemporary and unique, the TEMPO 72-Hour Composition Project gives composition students from the UMD School of Music 72 hours to create new music. Hear the outcome of this composition challenge as the graduate student-run contemporary music ensemble TEMPO performs these pieces.
World-renowned balloon twister Addi Somekh transformsThe Clarice with his massive, innovative and joyous balloon creations. Look out for the giant balloon robot!
