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B.A. in Theatre and Dance student Madison Sheridan was among an interdisciplinary team of students to receive an honorable mention from the Texas Student Research Showdown for their project "Art Without a Frame," which utilizes digital storytelling to investigate our relationships with borders, both psychological and geographical.

The Cohen New Works Festival, presented by the Department of Theatre and Dance at The University of Texas at Austin, returns in a five-day virtual festival celebrating new, student-created work April 12-16, 2021. The largest collegiate festival of its kind, the 2021 Cohen New Works Festival presents 33 all-new works, including dance and movement performances, works of theatre, installations and site-specific programming. This biennial festival continues to foster the next generation of undergraduate and graduate artists by providing the space and support for the development of innovative ideas, open discussion and interdisciplinary collaboration with the support of faculty co-producers, guest artists and scholars. The Cohen New Works Festival continues to empower students to further their creative growth by encouraging new artistic partnerships and amplifying unique and diverse voices.

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We recently sat down with Erica Patricia Saucedo, creator of del corazón nace el enjambre, along with a few of her collaborators, to discuss the third installment of an exploration of brownness, metamorphosis, self-discovery and identity through movement.

Leading up to the virtual performances of Radiance as part of UTNT (UT New Theatre), playwright Gursimrat Kaur discusses the important themes in the script, as well as how the play has been transferred to an online setting.

Faculty members Leah Cox and Erica Gionfriddo will both serve as faculty for American Dance Festival's 2021 Online Summer Dance Intensive, along with Ph.D. candidate Eliot Gray Fisher. Through their dance company ARCOS Dance, Gionfriddo and Fisher will present the methodology behind In the Ether as part of this four-week long intensive, culminating in a performance in July 2021.

Addict Named Hal, a feature film by Lane Michael Stanley (M.F.A. 2020), will receive its world premiere in this year's Santa Barbara International Film Festival, running from March 31 to April 10, 2021. This personal and intimate film also features the design work of alumna Delena Bradley (M.F.A. 2020).

An inside look at what to expect from Texas Theatre and Dance’s presentation of Year of the Tiger, a newly-developed work that explores our shared reality of the past year. Director Khristián Méndez Aguirre discusses the process of pivoting to create a new, timely piece of theatre amidst a global pandemic.

Alumnus Andrew Hinderaker (M.F.A. 2013) will adapt a pilot script for Let the Right One In, based on the Swedish vampire novel and film of the same name. Hinderaker will serve as showrunner and co-executive producer for the Showtime pilot.

Charles O. Anderson's (Re)current Unrest will be included in The Utah Museum of Fine Arts at the University of Utah's upcoming exhibition Black Refractions. A screening of the performance will take place on March 25, 2021, followed by a workshop led by Anderson on March 27, 2021.

La Ruta by Isaac Gómez (B.A. 2013) was one of the Department of Theatre and Dance's first ventures into digital theatre-making. In an interview with the College of Fine Arts, fourth-year B.A. in Theatre and Dance major Emily Garcia discussed the rehearsal and performance process behind bringing this all-Latina story to life.