Past Events

The Performance as Public Practice Fridays@2 speaker series facilitates discussions about the creation and study of performance. PPP welcomes artists from within and beyond the Winship Drama Building, including current students, distinguished alumni and arts leaders from across the country, to share their research and methodology. Up next is a screening of the film Entre Puerto Rico y Richmond: Women in Resistance Shall Not Be Moved followed by a conversation with co-creator and dramaturg Dr. Patricia Herrera.

Evolution is a collaborative design laboratory facilitating interdisciplinary experimentation in dance performance. Choreographers from the Department of Theatre and Dance join with concert and event lighting designers and composers from the School of Design and Creative Technologies to create short dance works for the concert stage. This public showcase is presented in the B. Iden Payne Theatre each spring.

Following the 2024 Lozano Long Conference: Indigenous Lands, Resisting Sexualities in Abiayala, the Performance as Public Practice Fridays@2 community is hosting a discussion with poet, performance and visual artist Manu Tzoc Bucup about their work “Mobile Bodies: Object and Word/Language and Artifact." 

In the Summer of 2023, five teens from Austin came together to imagine a performance art festival in Austin created for teens and produced by teens. With the support of Deen Rawlins-Harris, current graduate student in the Drama and Theatre for Youth and Communities program at UT Austin, this incredible team of youth producers will host a Battle of the Bands inspired celebration featuring teen bands from all over Austin and jamming to all different styles of music that showcases the diversity and creativity of Gen Z here in Austin.

Presented by Deen Rawlins-Harris in partnership with Texas Theatre and Dance and Fusebox Festival

A bilingual adaptation of one of Shakespeare’s most cherished works, Romeo y Juliet recounts the tale of two star-crossed lovers, daughters from the feuding houses of Capulet and Montague, reimagined in Alta, California in the 1840’s prior to the annexation of California to the United States. Set in the limbo between Mexican rule and new statehood, this retelling shifts between English and Spanish, bringing new life to a well-loved tale of love, bloodshed, family and fate. 

Cavale has kidnapped Slim. Somewhere along the way, Slim has fallen deeply in love with her. Or, at the very least, he has a deep lust for her. Held captive by a .45 in a seedy motel and doped up on drugs, they converse, fight and love. As they rot away together in their equal misery and desire, they call up an illusive anthropomorphic Lobsterman to pass the time. 

Points of Intersection showcases the genre-bending versatility and technical prowess of the Department of Theatre and Dance’s resident dance company, Dance Repertory Theatre. These stunning new works have been created by guest artists from across the country and abroad, alongside the work of current M.F.A. in Dance candidates and the annual Haruka Weiser Memorial Commission. Points of Intersection will also feature the work of award-winning dance artist Claudia Lavista, artistic co-director of Delfos Danza Contemporanea.

The Performance as Public Practice Fridays@2 speaker series facilitates discussions about the creation and study of performance. PPP welcomes artists from within and beyond the Winship Drama Building, including current students, distinguished alumni and arts leaders from across the country, to share their research and methodology. Up next, PPP collaborates with Latinx Theatre Initiative to present three readings of plays by María Irene Fornés.

The Performance as Public Practice Fridays@2 speaker series facilitates discussions about the creation and study of performance. PPP welcomes artists from within and beyond the Winship Drama Building, including current students, distinguished alumni and arts leaders from across the country, to share their research and methodology. Up next is an artist talk with Eiko Otake about her current project, I Invited Myself. 

A theatre-making workshop with Kirk Lynn. Harness inspiration, direction, community and chaos through a deep engagement with the play spirit. We'll write and play games in the hope that we might lose ourselves and find some meaning.