THEATRE AND DANCE - SEPTEMBER 2009

 

DANCE UDT SHOUT OUT: University Dance Theater

Winter Faculty Dance Works/Alumni Concerts

Calling all UDT alumni! Come join us for a weekend of master-classes, performances, and celebration December 3, 4, and 5, 2009. Master-classes will be held Friday at 2:30 PM and Saturday at 10:00 AM in the Brophy Dance Studio. Performances will be held December 3, 4, 5 at 7:30 PM at Hainline Theater in Browne Hall. Complimentary tickets will be given out to all UDT alumni.

A reception will follow the Saturday performance in the Lamoine Room in the Student Union, full of fun, friends, and food. A Goodbye Breakfast will be held Sunday morning at a place and time to be announced at a later date. If you cannot make any of the festivities you can send a video greeting by October 20, 2009.

Alumni are invited to choreograph for this concert and can send in their submissions by October 3, 2009 and will be notified by October 17, 2009.

Alumni can search on Facebook under events for "University Dance Theater Winter Faculty DanceWorks/Alumni Concerts." You'll find more information about all of the events or who to contact.

The weekend is sponsored by UDT, the Department of Theater and Dance, and the College of Fine Arts and Communication.

For more information and submission forms, please contact Erin Rehberg at 630-715-7913 or e-mail her at rebe_30@hotmail.com, or Candace Winters-March at ca-winters-march@wiu.edu.
Download UDT forms here:

• UDT Reunion Invite
• UDT Reunion Hotel Information
• UDT Video Greeting Information
• UDT Choreography Submission form

 

STUDENT & ALUMNI NEWS

Drew Kopas (MFA 2008) will be touring Ireland mid-September through Mid-October in the Keegan Theatre's production of Of Mice And Men.

Christine Lorraine Jesse Klemstine, 1995 MFA, directed The Dixie Swim Club at Apple Hill Playhouse, Delmont, PA, in May.

The Dixie Swim Club has a theme reminiscent of Neil Simon's classic comedy, "Same Time, Next Year." They both involve occasional personal encounters — one among friends, one between lovers.

Director Christine Klemstine of Delmont says that in the case of "The Dixie Swim Club," the latest offering from contemporary playwrights Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten of New York City and Asheville, N.C., "It really is a study in friendship and the way it changes and grows."

Read the review in the Pittsburg Tribune.

For more info about the Apple Hill Playhouse.

 

Emily Cherry, MFA 2009, will head the development of the University of North Dakota's new music theatre degree. She’ll also direct its production next March of tick, tick BOOM!

FACULTY NEWS

Dr. Jeannie Woods was one of thirty stage directors from America, Canada and the UK, who were selected to participate in DirectorsLab Chicago 2009. The lab is an intense, 8-day program of workshops and sharing directing techniques and artistic process. The theme this year was the kinetics of directing. Guest artists from the Lookingglass Theatre, Storybox Theatre, and Second City instructed the directors in their specialized approach to devised scripts and storytelling through images.

In August, Dr. Woods attended the Leadership Institute of the ATHE (Association for Theatre in Higher Education) in New York City. Dr. Woods was invited to participate as a mentor in the program. She also gave two presentations at the 2009 ATHE annual conference. One presentation was an overview of ATHE documents on tenure and promotion -- Dr. Woods is a member of a national task force working on revising the ATHE guidelines in those areas. She also chaired the session entitled "Open Up Your World: Fulbrights in Theatre" and presented on her Fulbright experience in Taiwan.

 

 

Department of Theatre and Dance Website.