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2024-25 Production Season: Theatre, Dance and Performance Technology Program
University of Dayton
2024-25 Production season for Theatre, Dance and Performance Technology Program.
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We S.O.A.R: Student Original Arts Repertory
University of Dayton
We SOAR was a collaboration between students from a variety of majors and programs and members of our own Dayton community. Each piece reflected the diverse perspectives and passions of our student artists, each contributing to a collective narrative that champions positive change and social impact.
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Program: The Moors
University of Dayton
The Moors is a contemporary feminist play by Jen Silverman that, like much of Silverman’s work, deals with themes of women pushing back against the circumstances they find themselves in. The Moors takes place loosely in the 1840s in a world inspired by Victorian England and the Brontë sisters.
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Program: Unearthly Shadows
University of Dayton
Unearthly Shadows is a unique dance theater experience that is more than just a performance; It is an immersive event meant to envelop you completely, transforming you from a passive observer into an active participant in the story.
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2023-24 Production Season: Theatre, Dance and Performance Technology Program
University of Dayton
2023-24 Production season for Theatre, Dance and Performance Technology Program.
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Program: Dido & Aeneas
University of Dayton
Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas dramatizes a tiny portion of Virgil’s epic poem, The Aeneid.
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Program: Memoirs
University of Dayton
Five performances featuring the UD Dance Ensemble, DCDC2 and other members of the University of Dayton Theatre, Dance and Performance Technology program.
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Program: Echoes Through Time
University of Dayton
Music by Caitlyn Hood
Dec. 2, 2022
Boll Theatre in Kennedy Union
Co-produced by the Theatre, Dance, and Performance Technology program and the Department of Music
We embarked on the Echoes Through Time journey with the intention to allow the student ensemble to learn about the life of Paul Laurence Dunbar through the creation of an original theatre performance with music selections. This show was devised from the students’ exploration of his life and legacy and the incorporation of music that put poetry to song. As directors, we were particularly taken with how the women in Dunbar’s life were compelling historical figures in their own right, and we wanted to shift focus to them. This show brings Matilda Burton Murphy Dunbar and Alice Dunbar-Nelson to the stage and out of Dunbar’s shadow. Additionally, the students were able to find intersections with the Dunbars’ life and legacy, and those points of connection have been incorporated as monologues and choreography, staged for you as embodied research. You will see scenic design featuring the artwork of Misty Thomas-Trout and her students in Typography II, who also created art inspired by Dunbar this semester, now on display at the Dayton Metro Library main location downtown in the Opportunity Space gallery through December 9. The Echoes Through Time project has showcased the creative research of theatre, music, and art and design students who have found enduring relevance, beauty, and inspiration in the lives of the Dunbars, and we hope you do too!
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Program: Simple Gifts
University of Dayton
The title Simple Gifts inspired our devising ensemble to get started putting together the play you will be experiencing tonight. We also took inspiration from the Medieval story surrounding you in the gallery. In the story, it is a simple gift that transcends. A juggler, instead of gifting an object, provides an experience. The juggler has a gift from God that cannot be given away, but only shared. A shared experience of wonder and joy is the guiding principle for tonight’s performance. Knowing the power experiences can bring to relationships and communities, we started from a foundation of engaging our senses. First, the five we are familiar with; sight, touch, smell, taste, and hearing, then moved to more abstract senses like the sense of freedom, a sense of humor, or a sense of self. The play that we made for you is a gift of imagination. Our play expands on what you may be expecting a play to be. You won’t be asked to your seat. You won’t be asked to stay quiet. Our play invites you to be playful with us. Together we will bring to life a Marianist clowning philosophy where we play for the common good and the delight of collective joy.
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2022-23 Production Season: Theatre, Dance and Performance Technology Program
University of Dayton
2022-23 Production season for Theatre, Dance and Performance Technology Program.
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Program: The Sound of Music
University of Dayton and Teejai Dorsey
Music by RICHARD RODGERS
Lyrics by OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II
Book by HOWARD LINDSAY and RUSSEL CROUSE
Suggested by "The Trapp Family Singers" by Maria Augusta Trapp
Music and Lyrics for "I Have Confidence" and "Something Good" by Richard Rodgers
April 8-9, 2022
Boll Theatre in Kennedy Union
Co-produced by the Theatre, Dance, and Performance Technology program and the Department of Music
Set in 1938 amidst the rise of nationalism, The Sound of Music is a story of being true to one’s authentic self in the face of social and religious division. Maria is a novitiate who struggles with the constriction of her religious order, and is sent to be a governess for the widowed Captain Von Trapp’s seven children. While the Captain faces growing pressure to ally himself with the Nazi party, Maria and the children bond through their shared love of music. The Captain and Maria, drawn together by circumstance, build a family and find the strength to forge a new path together.
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Program: Dancing in the Light
University of Dayton and Teejai Dorsey
March 10-11, 2022
Boll Theatre in Kennedy Union
Co-produced by the Theatre, Dance, and Performance Technology program and Dayton Contemporary Dance Company
A moving expression of the human spirit featuring UD Dance Ensemble and the pre-professional ensemble of the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company DCDC2, with guest artists from Onyx Contemporary Dance Company. Six diverse choreographers will offer a program of thought-provoking work that inspires and captures what it means to “Dance in the Light.”
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Program: Through the Looking Glass, and What You Found There
University of Dayton and Teejai Dorsey
Co-produced by the Theatre, Dance, and Performance Technology program and the Department of Music
What do you see when you look in the mirror? If you were on the other side looking back, in a land of opposites, how would your perception of reality be altered? Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There reflect the larger truths that underscore our social experience in this constantly changing nonsensical world. Journey with us through a wonderland of mystery and delight while exploring who we were, who we are, and who we are yet to become in this dramatic musical adaptation of the classic tale.
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Program: Laced
University of Dayton and Teejai Dorsey
by Sam Mueller
The Kilroys List 2020, selected play
October 20-23, 2021
Fitz Hall’s Black Box Theatre & Live-Streamed
The night after a queer bar outside of Tampa, Florida is vandalized, three twenty-something bartenders gather to grieve, rage, and above all, piece together the events of the night before. Fiery and poetic, Laced ferociously celebrates the spaces in which we find our truest selves. In a time of renewed culture wars against queer youth, this play centers the voices of those intersectional identities we should be listening to now.
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2019-20 Production Season: Theatre, Dance and Performance Technology Program
Theatre, Dance and Performance Technology Program, University of Dayton
2019-20 Production season for Theatre, Dance and Performance Technology Program.
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2018-19 Production Season: Theatre, Dance and Performance Technology Program
Theatre, Dance and Performance Technology Program, University of Dayton
2018-19 Production season for Theatre, Dance and Performance Technology Program.
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2017-18 Production Season: Theatre, Dance and Performance Technology Program
University of Dayton
2017-18 Production season for Theatre, Dance and Performance Technology Program.
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2016-17 Production Season: Theatre, Dance and Performance Technology Program
University of Dayton
2016-17 Production season for Theatre, Dance and Performance Technology Program.
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