UTeach Fine Arts presents a symposium celebrating Mexican American youth and fine arts education, with events taking place at the College of Fine Arts and various locations around Austin. Young artists from across Texas will be represented, including performers and visual artists from Austin ISD and Dell Valle ISD. Additionally, workshops and performances will be presented by UT Austin faculty, staff and students, as well as partner community organizations.
This is a free, ticketed event.
Please join us in honoring Professor Jim Glavan as we celebrate his work in the field of Costume Technology and commemorate his retirement from the Department of Theatre and Dance. This event will honor Professor Glavan’s amazing career as a teacher, an artist and mentor.
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 from the School of Design and Creative Technologies and composers from the Butler School of Music and throughout the University to create short dance works for the concert stage. This public showcase is presented in the B. Iden Payne Theatre each spring.
Showcase 2022 features works by UT Live Design and Production candidates (M.F.A. in Theatre) of the Department of Theatre and Dance at The University of Texas at Austin. Student designers and makers display their work from the past two years of study, showcasing talents from across disciplines, including: lighting design, integrated media for live performance, scenic design, production design and costume design and technology.
In celebration of their 20th anniversary in the year 2022, the Performance as Public Practice graduate area within the Department of Theatre and Dance is hosting a year-long celebration, starting with a speaker series in Spring 2022 and culminating in an in-person event in Fall 2022 featuring faculty, alumni and current students. Closing out their Fridays@2 Spring 2022 series is a talk with alumna Dr. Abimbola Adelakun (Ph.D. 2017), current Assistant Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies at The University of Texas at Austin.
In celebration of their 20th anniversary in the year 2022, the Performance as Public Practice graduate area within the Department of Theatre and Dance is hosting a year-long celebration, starting with a speaker series in Spring 2022 and culminating in an in-person event in Fall 2022 featuring faculty, alumni and current students. Next in their Fri@2 Spring 2022 series is a talk with alumna Dr. Christin Essin (Ph.D. 2006), current Associate Professor of Theatre History at Vanderbilt University.
Someone sneezes. Someone can’t get a signal. Someone won’t answer the door. Someone put an elephant on the stairs. Someone’s not ready to talk. Someone is her brother’s mother. Someone hates irrational numbers. Someone told the police. Someone got a message from the traffic light. Someone’s never felt like this before.
In this fast-moving kaleidoscope, more than 100 characters try to make sense of what they know.
The B.F.A. in Acting degree program provides an opportunity for senior acting students to spend their final semester in residence at our Los Angeles campus, otherwise known as The University of Texas Semester in Los Angeles Program (UTLA).
Dance Repertory Theatre returns in the spring with a series of new choreographic works that speak to our collective resilience, adaptability and lived experience. PIVOT features work by renowned faculty and student choreographers.
The Performance as Public Practice graduate area of the Department of Theatre and Dance celebrates its 20th anniversary with a year-long celebration of engaging the arts. Beginning this spring, Performance as Public Practice Fridays@2 speaker series will feature discussions from a number of alumni and arts leaders. The second in this series of virtual discussions will feature alum Dr. Jac I. Pryor (Ph.D. 2011), current Assistant Professor of Theater and Head of Theater and Performance Studies at Penn State Abington.