Theatre and Dance
CU «Ƶ Theatre & Dance’s season closer offers adults a chance to embrace their inner creative child with performances of “Peter and the Starcatcher” by Rick Elice. The music-filled “Peter Pan” prequel that played on Broadway to wide acclaim is an extravaganza of play-acting, pirates, touching moments and humor for all ages.
At Ana Prada’s home on Costa Rica’s lush, sunny Nicoya Peninsula, the doors and windows are flung open to let in the ocean breeze and the sounds of chirping tropical birds. She spends hours each day suspended from fabric above the ground, practicing the craft of aerial dance.
‘Stand Up for Climate Change’ event on March 17 to fuse the sober topic of climate change with the unifying power of humor.
Ana Prada’s career has been up in the air for nearly two decades, and that’s just the way she wants it. She will be in residence at CU «Ƶ April 3-14.
Arneshia Williams, an MFA candidate in dance at CU «Ƶ, didn’t get any formal training in her craft until adulthood. Before that, she learned everything she knew about dance from services on Sunday mornings.
Dance pieces tackling both timeless and timely themes will be on display in "Catapult," a showcase of brand new works choreographed by graduating CU «Ƶ students. The show runs Feb. 10-12 in CU’s Charlotte York Irey Theatre.
CU «Ƶ’s 2016-17 theatre season continues with “Unspoken,” a 2016 work by New Play Festival winner and PhD candidate Kevin Crowe. The intimate portrait of six friends living in New York City runs Feb. 15-19 in CU’s Loft Theatre.
More than two decades after she had almost single-handedly established the first degree program in dance at the «Ƶ, Charlotte York Irey attended the dedication of the new theater named in her honor.
CU «Ƶ’s 2016-17 theatre season continues with a highly anticipated all-female production of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night.” Directed by renowned Los Angeles actor, director, teacher and producer Lisa Wolpe, the production runs Nov. 4-13 in the University Theatre.
Continuing the exciting 2016-17 dance season at CU «Ƶ is “Boneless,” a showcase of two works by MFA students intent on uncovering who we really are underneath our society’s thick layers of commercialism and social standards.