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 conversation with Kiki Katese, founder of Rwanda's first-ever female drumming ensemble. 

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 film screening of Undanced Dances Through Prison Walls During a Pandemic and a conversation with artists from Dancing Through Prison Walls. 

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. Their fall series kicks off with visiting artist Dahlia Bloomstone, a Puerto Rican video and performing artist.

Four trees in the north Maine woods communicate through an underground network of roots and fungi. Four women, each struggling to come into her own in a nearby rural logging town, pass each other gifts by way of the town’s one-car postal service. By blurring the boundary between human and tree, elizabeth is going into the ground contemplates the communities of our forests, weaving a tale of love, resilience and old growth.

In this contemporary/modern dance intensive, you'll further your dance technique, deepen your artistry and develop your collaborative skills in a community of passionate dancers.  Each day will include classes in contemporary/modern dance technique, phrase-work and collaborative choreographic methods.  

Exploring the Arts, Exploring the Self is a week-long day camp at the Department of Theatre and Dance at The University of Texas at Austin where youth going into grades 4-6 (approximately nine to 12-year-olds) will explore the self through art, music dance and theatre. 

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.

UT Live Design and Production Showcase 2023 presents work created for theatre, dance and other performance mediums by M.F.A. candidates in the UT Live Design and Production program as well as B.A. in Theatre and Dance undergraduate students pursuing an emphasis in design and technology at The University of Texas at Austin Department of Theatre and Dance. Areas of work include costume design and technology, lighting design, integrated media design and scenic design. Collectively, this work helps tell visual stories for live performance and reflects the collaborative nature of the theatrical process.

The Equitable Arts Infrastructure Research Group is made of artists-scholars from seven universities and includes UT faculty Dr. Charlotte Canning and Dr. Paul Bonin-Rodriguez. The group has committed to a multi-year, inter-campus, and cross-disciplinary effort to connect historical conditions of arts labor to the current call for more just and flexible support systems for arts and culture. Those interested in how artists are paid and supported within institutional and networked environments will find this conversation necessary and thought-provoking. 

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 conversation with artists from the Puerto Rican Arts Initiative.