Past Events

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. Starting last spring and continuing into the fall, Performance as Public Practice Fridays@2 speaker series will feature discussions from a number of alumni and arts leaders. Join PPP's Fridays@2 speaker series on September 30 for a presentation by Ph.D. candidate Jeffrey Gan on his ongoing research surrounding time, food and the performance of nostalgia in the Indonesian diaspora.

Dance and percussion workshops featuring the talents of Freila Merencia and Miguel Bernal. This event is free and open to the public. 

Curated by siri gurudev, Ph.D. candidate from the Performance as Public Practice area, Compartimos Open Salon features nine participants that have been invited to share something (a song, a movement, their own or someone else's poems, a story, a reflection, photos, images) for nine minutes or less. Performers include students from Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, the Department of Mexican and Latina/o Studies, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Program in Comparative Literature, among others.

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. Starting last spring and continuing into the fall, Performance as Public Practice Fridays@2 speaker series will feature discussions from a number of alumni and arts leaders. PPP welcomes Ken Cerniglia, veteran dramaturg, writer, scholar and creative executive, as a guest speaker for their second Fridays@2 event this fall. 

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. Starting last spring and continuing into the fall, Performance as Public Practice Fridays@2 speaker series will feature discussions from a number of alumni and arts leaders. PPP will kick off its speaker series for the fall with a talk by Lisa Scheps, founder and co-artistic director of Ground Floor Theatre.

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.