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Texas Theatre and Dance at The University of Texas at Austin presents del corazón nace el enjambre, a virtual retelling of the tale(s) of la cucaracha. Activating the cockroach as a time-traveling avatar, this newly-developed work interweaves stories of metamorphosis, resistance and revolution in order to explore how attuning to a theoretical brown commons might expand possibilities of freedom. This virtual work is the third installment of an ongoing project created by Erica Patricia Saucedo. In this iteration, the performance both lives inside of and creates a digital ofrenda which collects elements of dance, text, images and objects to bring forth a feminist, queer offering for the future.

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Faculty members Michelle Habeck and Nanette Acosta are among a group of artistic collaborators who have contributed to the film Citizens at Last, Texas Women Fight for the Right to Vote. Habeck's lighting design and Acosta's costume design can be seen in the film's first broadcast, taking place on March 19, 2021 at 9:00 p.m. on Austin PBS, KLRU-TV.

The inaugural Texas Performing Arts/Fusebox Festival residency program provides invaluable artistic resources to four local performance groups, all of which have ties to UT Theatre and Dance, including Charles O. Anderson's (Re)current Unrest and Gesel Mason's burst!.

Now that we've passed the year mark of our collective educational and artistic pivot due to the pandemic, the College of Fine Arts looks back at the ways that individual departments have continued to grow and thrive despite the challenges of remote and hybrid learning.

Alumna Courtney Sale (M.F.A. 2021), who was appointed as the first female artistic director of Merrimack Repertory Theatre, recently participated in a conversation with Actors' Theatre of Loiusville artistic director Robert Barry Fleming about the future of a more radically inclusive theatre and how diverse leadership can push it in the right direction.

A group of dance students created movement-based responses to Score for 7 Solos, an exhibition created by visual artist Madeline Hollander. Their responses to Hollander's unique artwork can be seen projected in the window overlooking the Visual Arts Center's south lawn every evening Wednesday through Saturday until March 27, 2021.

Faculty member Branden Jacobs-Jenkins will write co-executive produce and write the pilot for an upcoming adaptation of Octavia E. Butler's influential novel Kindred for FX. 

Alumnus Michael J. Love (M.F.A. 2020) was recently named on of three Princeton University Arts Fellows for 2021-2023. Selected from a pool of over 700 applicants, this prestigious honor gives Love the chance to become an active member of Princeton University's intellectual community by leading classes and choreographing work for undergraduate students.